In 1951, the NBA, which was in its infancy, drew on the success of the National League of Professional Baseball to hold its first All-Star Game in Boston, which was a huge box office success, and in 60 years, George McCann, Bill Sharman, Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamber, Jerry West, Larry Bird, Elvin Johnson, Michael Jordan, Shaqui O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, ...... Generations of NBA superstars have passed down the torch and performed unworthy legends on the most dazzling stage of the All-Star, and the All-Star Weekend has also become an extremely important platform for the NBA to promote its image and entertain fans. The importance of superstars in the All-Star Game is discussed in his book by Chicago writer Bob Green, who had a personal acquaintance with Jordan and even lynched: "In a way, Jordan and Bird are like salesmen running with basketballs!" ”

This sentence is actually not wrong, every year the NBA All-Star Game is the grandest festival for fans.

However, this year's All-Star Game in Dallas may have some 'star' flavor, Kobe, Avelin, Yao Ming, Maddie, O'Neal, Paul, Roy, Ray Allen...... This long list is enough to reassemble a more mysterious All-Star team, especially before the All-Star Square, Kobe Bryant and Iverson both announced their retirement, and fans hope that these two 96 golden generation will reunite on the All-Star field, which can only be a good wish! The answer is to go home to take care of his sick daughter, and Kobe's fingers have been completely deformed, and now his fingers are not bandaged, and there is no way to stand upright, no ok, no AI, no Yao Mai...... Doomed, the ratings will not be too high.

But no matter what, this year's All-Star Game went ahead as scheduled, and more than 108,000 tickets were sold out at the huge rodeo stadium rented by Cuban, and all the fans were waiting for this year's All-Star Weekend.

In fact, it is said to be an all-star weekend, but in everyone's impression, it is actually only three days.

Friday night rookie challenge, then Saturday is the slam dunk contest, three-point contest, skill contest, and shooting star contest, and finally the highlight of the evening, the East and West All-Star Contest, and then it is over, with the domestic Spring Festival, which is the peak of ratings, but in fact, the all-star is not just a weekend, but a whole week.

Of course, the first four days were basically a carnival organized by the league to listen to fans or some other righteous activities.

The time of the main game is as follows, starting at 7 p.m. on February 12, the basketball carnival, and then at 7:30 p.m. on the 13th, it is the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, that is, those celebrities who like to play basketball are invited to play here, there are showbiz, retired superstars, and singing, etc., as long as celebrities who like to play basketball may be invited to participate.

Then there is the Rookie Challenge, the only game that Jiang Yang needs to participate in, and then the NBDL DreamWorks Skills Contest is interspersed in the middle of the challenge, and then on the 14th, starting at 2:15 p.m., the training of the Eastern All-Star players, since the Hurricane Dance incident last year, there will be a lot of fans coming to watch this All-Star Training Game, which is really interesting.

Then after 3:30 p.m., the Western Stars practice game, and then in the afternoon, the NBDL All-Star Game is arranged, which is also a chance for the NBDL stars to directly enter the audience and the team's field of vision, and then from 9 p.m., the NBA All-Star Saturday Night, the Shooting Star Contest, the Skills Challenge, the Three-Point Shooting Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest.

On the final day, there was only one game on the 15th, the 58th NBA All-Star East-West Matchup, and then it was over.

On February 11, US time, Jiang Yang and others came to Dallas, and just got off the plane at the airport, a voice stopped Jiang Yang.

"Hey, you're here, have you arranged a place to stay?" Looking at Zhou Lu, Jiang Yang also said with a smile.

"It's been arranged a long time ago!" Looking at the conversation between Zhou Lu and Jiang Yang, Garnett and the others next to him couldn't interject, they just pushed Jiang Yang with a smile, and then the three of them went back to the bus prepared by the NBA official for them to wait for Jiang Yang.

Hearing Zhou Lu's answer, Jiang Yang also nodded happily, now Liu Ya and the others are already in Dallas, yes, yes, yes, yes, they are too, but they are not here to watch the All-Star Game, anyway, there is nothing to do with Jiang Yang at the All-Star Game, mainly because they are here for the New Year! The most important festival of the year for Chinese is the Spring Festival!

Although as young people have become busier and busier recently, the pressure has become more and more intense, and the taste of the New Year has become weaker and weaker, coupled with the invasion of Western culture, in China, there are more and more young people celebrating Western festivals, but Jiang Yang is still relatively nostalgic.

Every year during the Chinese New Year, he would return to Harbin to visit the graves of his parents and then gather with his brothers.

But this year is obviously impossible, about sweeping the tomb, Jiang Yang asked Uncle Zhou to help take a look and send some tribute.

And parties and the like, Jiang Yang can't go back, after all, he still has a game to play here! In the summer, he has more time, and when the time comes, he has time to go back to Harbin to play with his buddies, but not now.

Although they can't go back to Harbin, Jiang Yang will still choose to celebrate the New Year, although Zhou Yun and Zhou Lu used to run around, but they didn't go abroad, so they are very used to the New Year, but Liu Ya is not too enthusiastic about the New Year.

But at Jiang Yang's insistence, the three of them still came to Dallas together, rented an apartment in the hotel where Jiang Yang and they lived, and prepared to celebrate the New Year in the United States! It is said that it is the 14th in China, but in foreign countries, it is noon on the 13th!

After returning to the hotel, Jiang Yang went to the suite where they lived, in the suite, Zhou Yun was watching TV there, but it was not an American TV station, but a Chinese one, through satellites, they could see several central stations, and at this time, these stations were reporting on the preparations for the Spring Festival Gala at noon tomorrow, and Liu Ya on the other side was calling her parents, she followed Jiang Yang in the United States, she was unfamiliar with life, alone in a foreign land, and it was inevitable that she was a little homesick.

Seeing that Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu were back, Liu Ya and Zhou Yun, who were originally still homesick, laughed.

There are more people, naturally that feeling is diluted a lot, there are three rooms in the suite, just one for each of the three of them, and Jiang Yang has a separate suite rented by the alliance, so Jiang Yang stayed here until the night and then left.

The next day, February 12th, Yanjing is February 13th, the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and tomorrow will be the thirtieth.

This year, the Zhou sisters and Liu Ya went out to buy things together, and the most important of them was to make dumplings and buy meat fillings and noodles.

There are also some things to eat, which are not as good as eating your own food, and the suites here also have a kitchenette.

Under Jiang Yang's negotiation, the hotel also agreed to let them cook here, but Jiang Yang did not follow them to buy things, because Jiang Yang had other things to do and had no time to go shopping with them, and even if he had time, he didn't want to go.

The NBA is a league of business surnames, and while doing business, they also have to have a good reputation, so they also do activities that benefit the surname! Its name is NBA Care Action, almost every time the NBA has time, or the team has time, it will organize the players to carry out care actions, just like in Boston they have organized the children of those fans to eat with the players, go out to play together, etc., basically every year the NBA will carry out about ten NBA care actions, visit the children in the orphanage and the elderly in the nursing home, help some affected places to rebuild, etc...... In general, the public welfare surname is very good.

It's not like some domestic leaders inspect, just make a show, and there are many stars in the NBA who are from poor backgrounds, so for this kind of caring action, it is also very good for these NBA stars.

Since 04, the NBA Care has extended to China, and its impact in China is also very huge.

Early the next morning, Jiang Yang followed Garnett and them to the bus prepared by the NBA official for them and went to Carbomer, Dallas.

After leaving the hotel, the NBA players in the car drove directly to the Dallas Vogel Child Care Center.

There are a lot of big names in the car, Uncle Mu, Brook Pepes, the local post-80s Shaolin abbot of the Mavericks, who is a player on this year's sophomore team, and Gorilla Patrick Ewing, Gerdai Quinn Cook, who came to participate in the three-point contest, and Zach Randolph, who joined the All-Stars this year, and Deron Williams, etc., are all big stars.

In the whole bus, Jiang Yang may be the least qualified, but Jiang Yang has received a lot of attention on the bus.

Because last night, there was a blizzard in Dallas, so that the streets of the entire Dallas are not only only those posters of all-star publicity, but also white snowflakes, according to the report of the United States, this heavy snowfall is the largest snowstorm that Dallas has encountered in the past 30 years, and the current snowstorm is not like before, it will kill people, but it still delays a lot of flights and trains, which makes Jiang Yang, who came here yesterday morning, secretly say that they are lucky, but even if it snows heavily, For Jiang Yang, a person who is used to freezing, it is not very cold, because the geographical location of Dallas is not a backrest.

Now the maximum temperature outside is still nine degrees, which is drizzling for Jiang Yang, who is accustomed to 20 or even 30 degrees below zero in Harbin winter, he can't feel cold in Boston, let alone in Dallas.

But because of the snow, so the car drove very slowly, it should have been about half an hour, but now it took an hour to walk to the flat, such a speed is really slow enough, but there is no way, today has been according to the radio said, there have been 172 traffic accidents, the driver of the bus also wants to be fast, but think about these people in their car.

In case, if there is an accident and one or two are injured, then you can't save your job, these guys are all treasures.

So it makes sense that he drove slowly, the car drove slowly, and everyone who originally thought that listening to songs or playing games could pass the time on the road couldn't help but be a little impatient, and the originally quiet car box slowly became noisy.

"Hey, brothers, it's boring!" Just when Jiang Yang also wanted to talk to someone he knew, a voice came from behind Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang remembered that Howard and Ewing were sitting there, and now Ewing is the assistant coach of the Magic team, in fact, he is the assistant coach, and he is mainly in charge of Howard alone, Ewing is the personal coach invited by the team to practice for Howard alone.

After getting in the car, the two of them are also inseparable, always behind, but now I see that the car is going too slowly, Howard, a guy who likes to play treasure, does not take the initiative to jump up, and now that O'Neal is old, Howard has become the boss of the league, and the superman returned last year and the year before that, so that he won a slam dunk contest championship At the same time, he also set the basis for the future of the dunk contest, mainly based on entertainment, entertainment elements, in the All-Star arena, more and more important.

"It's boring, big man!" Deron Williams, who was sitting in front, couldn't help but say when he saw Howard standing up.

Deron Williams is also a very playful player, and now he hears Howard's words and drinks along!

"Then let's put on a show!" Howard shouted, straight from the last row, in the air to the front.

In the aisle, his huge body was really a little immobile, which made Howard, who originally wanted to perform dancing, a little helpless, looking at everyone's eyes that looked at his jokes, Howard's eyes turned around, and when he saw Jiang Yang, he roared.

"Defense, damn it, how did you let a rookie give it over, Jameel! If you don't stop him, I'll let you go! Listening to Howard's words, Jiang Yang was stunned for a moment, and everyone else laughed, because now Howard is learning Stan Van Gundy's voice, I have to say, it's really similar, making Jiang Yang stunned, and this paragraph is exactly the time when Jiang Yang broke through Nelson a few days ago, Stan Van Gundy's words shouted, listening to Howard's voice, the whole car laughed, Jiang Yang also laughed, this big guy can really be funny, even their coach didn't let go.

The next one on the stage was Channing Fry, he sang a song, although I don't know what this one is singing, anyway, Jiang Yang has heard a lot of words like 'Fake' and 'Who is special' or 'Sangwa Fubi eats', it is probably a funny song!

Then there's Deron Williams, who came up and did a dance, and he's not very tall, and he's just right in the middle aisle.

The whole car was full of laughter, and finally it was the turn of the stone Buddha Duncan, who had been playing PSP there, and Duncan saw that everyone was pointing at him, and he was not too embarrassed not to perform, so he put away the game console, stood in front, and looked at everyone.

"I'll put on a show for everyone......" Duncan looked at everyone, that cold look, and immediately suppressed Jiang Yang's laughter that had been hooked up by other players, Howard who had just coaxed them all regretted it a little, in case Duncan smashed this show, the atmosphere in the car that had finally gotten up was about to be extinguished, but now that Duncan was standing there, they couldn't say anything, everyone stared at Duncan nervously to see what show he was going to perform.

"The show I'm giving you is called ...... The smile when he was sent off ......" Duncan squeezed out a smile after finishing speaking.

Seeing this smile, almost the whole car burst into laughter...... All the fans know that Duncan was once sent off by the referee because he was sitting on the court and showed a smile, and now Duncan has regained that smile...... Looking at the smile that the stone Buddha squeezed out, cheap, bitter, and scratching, and even more ugly than crying, Jiang Yang didn't hold back, and laughed directly, and Howard in the back laughed even more and fell into Ewing's arms.

The whole car burst out with the biggest laugh, and the driver in front of him wanted to look back, but now he didn't dare, he still had to concentrate on driving! I didn't expect that Duncan, who usually has no expression on his face even if the team is 20 points behind or 30 points ahead, is such a funny person, which is really surprising.

"Finally, Jiang's!" After watching a circle, almost everyone had already finished performing, Howard pointed the finger at Jiang Yang, listening to Howard's words, Jiang Yang was startled, and sure enough, after looking around, almost everyone had finished performing.

"Jiang! River! River! As Deron Williams began to coax, Jiang Yang stood up a little embarrassed.

"But I'm not very good at performing anything......" Jiang Yang touched the back of his head a little helplessly, and said to the other players, after listening to Jiang Yang's words, the players in the car began to make booing sounds, which made Jiang Yang quite embarrassed.

"It's really not good, just sing a song! English! Garnett thought for a while, smiled at Jiang Yang and said, after listening to Garnett's words, Jiang Yang thought about it, it seems that he can only have one English song...... Clearing his throat, Jiang Yang stood in the middle of the aisle.

"You forced me! Scared to death without compensation! Jiang Yang first warned them, and then took a deep breath.

"abcdefg, hijklmn, opqrst, uvwxyz, xyz, which is better c, we will all abc!"

"Go down, you call it an English song!" After Jiang Yang finished singing, there was already a riot below, and the bottle of Jiadela was thrown directly from the back row, but it was quickly dodged by Jiang Yang, looking at the heavy snow outside the window with a smile on his face, after this period of performance, the car had come to Carbomer in Dallas, and was parked in the parking lot outside the Vogel Child Care Center.

(To be continued)