After busy with his miscellaneous endorsements and activities, Liu Ren can finally settle down and enjoy the All-Star Weekend games. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

First up is the Rookie Challenge on February 14th.

Liu Ren celebrated Valentine's Day for the first time, but he was holding a little Lori to watch the rookie game with his girlfriend, and he felt very sad and angry.

But Chen Hanni is a hardcore basketball fan, how can she miss such a grand event? As for Liu Ren, she completely threw it aside and watched the game intently.

However, Liu Ren looked at it and felt that this year's rookie game was also a lot more interesting.

This rookie challenge is different from the previous 10-year or so first-year and second-year games, which turned into a slam dunk show at the last moment.

Lillard, last season's rookie of the year, and this year's rookie favorite, McCarvey, can be described as Mars hitting the earth.

Lillard showed superstar ability in his sophomore year, with a variety of offensive skills at his fingertips, and a three-point breakaway.

McCarvey, on the other hand, is the ultimate in all-around, with quick first steps and a good big picture of the big picture.

Everyone else in the rookie challenge knows that this is a matchup between Lillard and McCarvey, and as you can tell from the lineup drafted, only Lillard and McCarvey have both scoring and playmaking skills.

The two teams battled fiercely until the final moments, and finally the Webb team relied on Lillard's wonderful performance of 44 points and 10 assists to defeat the Hill team led by McCarvey.

McCarvey's poor shooting ability limits his momentum of chasing points at the last moment, and Liu Ren also feels a little regretful that it became Lillard's individual show at the last moment, McCarvey has been declining year by year since the beginning of his rookie season, but he is not able to score, and it is no longer practical to be a pure point guard without scoring ability in this era.

Thackeray and Antetokounmpo played a few minutes as starters for both teams, Thackeray was a little better, the sophomore was a little older, got two passes from McCarvey and dunked two baskets, and Antetokounmpo, a playmaker who needs to hold the ball to play on the offensive end, didn't touch it twice.

However, McCollum, who had a good relationship with the Trail Blazers and Lillard, played well, and he and Lillard had a good cooperation, scoring 22 points and 3 assists.

The MVP of the All-Star Rookie Challenge certainly fell to Lillard.

Saturday, the second day of All-Star Weekend, is the day of eventing.

During the evening game, Monica and Big Lori took Little Lori to go shopping, and Chen Hanni continued to pull Liu Ren to watch the game.

There have also been some changes in eventing, from individual player events to East-West matches.

The Western roster for the Skill Challenge is: Trey Burke of the Jazz, Antetokounmpo of the Lakers, and Damian Lillard of the Trail Blazers.

The Eastern Conference roster is: McCarvey of the 76ers, Oladipo of the Magic, Irving of the Cavaliers.

Liu Ren was shocked when he saw that there was a kid Antetokounmpo in the competition list, this guy wants to touch everything!

The individual competition became a team competition, and the skills challenge, which was not a popular one, became more boring, and if it was an individual competition, everyone must have fought for the competition that they could write on their career honors, but it became a team competition, without that shiny individual trophy, both sides played casually, and finally the excellent performance of Owen won the championship of the skills challenge.

The next three-point contest and dunk contest are the same, originally the annual three-point contest is to select the three-point king and slam dunk king, but now it has become a team champion.

However, the fact that Lillard participated in all three events caused more discussion, and not many people cared about the bland dunk.

Lillard is really an iron man, not to mention that there is no shortage of games in the regular season, and he is unwilling to miss every event during the All-Star weekend.

In the next All-Star Game, Liu Ren saw Lillard again.

On Sunday morning on the 16th, Liu Ren and Thackeray went to the legendary roundtable with Kobe.

The roundtable was held on the grounds of the New Orleans arena and was the NBA's largest press conference of the year.

After the basketball hoop and surrounding seats were removed, the arena was able to accommodate nearly 1,000 people.

Liu Ren wanted to start early, and so did Thackeray, both of whom were very excited about competing in the All-Star Game for the first time, especially Thackeray, and maybe this was the only time in his career that he could match these superstars.

But Kobe, as the oldest All-Star, of course, had to be a bit of a swagger, and he set off half an hour later than the expected interview time.

Liu Ren and Thackeray saw that the boss didn't set off, so they could only wait.

They were supposed to arrive at the New Orleans Arena at ten o'clock, but Liu Ren and the others arrived at almost eleven o'clock.

"Wow, wow, Liu, Kobe, you're finally here, and our Thackeray superstar! You've made us wait so long! James saw Liu Ren and they came and shouted exaggeratedly.

"Hahaha, LeBron, what are you pretending, we just saw you stop up, didn't you arrive a few minutes before us?" Bryant laughed.

The two ignored the media and other players, who had been waiting for almost an hour, and joked loudly.

The three or four hundred reporters around did not complain too much, it was not easy to wait for the two of them, and sometimes the two of them did not necessarily arrive after waiting for an hour in vain.

Last year's All-Star Game Kobe Bryant made the media wait for an hour, and then directly made an excuse that he didn't come with a cold, and James did the same thing, because they are the two leading stars of Nike, and they have been very busy these days.

This time, both Kobe Bryant and James were present, and the media finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to interview the two.

Eighty percent of the reporters were surrounding Kobe and James, but the remaining 20 percent were dozens of them, so many people packed the huge stadium.

Unlike Kobe James, Anthony, Paul and other superstars who have been famous for many years have become accustomed to this kind of big scene, Liu Ren and Thackeray, who are also very popular, and Curry and Wall, who are also selected as All-Stars for the first time and have good popularity, are a little flustered to deal with media problems.

On the contrary, those powerful All-Stars who are not followed by fans are happy, and Millsap, Hibbert, and Noah, who are tough and unpleasant, have no reporters there, and the three are chatting.

Every year, there are so many strong All-Stars who are like going through the motions, and they are incompatible with the All-Stars in terms of personality and style of play.

And there are people with average strength but very suitable for All-Stars, and Thackeray is one of them.

In response to the reporter's question about stepping on shit luck, Thackeray replied with a smile: "Yes, I'm really lucky, I hope I can have that good luck next year, of course, someone in Houston will be even more angry in that case." (To be continued.) )