Chapter 284: All-Star Game
After the first two days of the Los Angeles All-Star Weekend, the much-anticipated All-Star Game finally came, in the first two days of the Rookie Challenge, Skill Challenge, Three-Point Contest, and Slam Dunk Contest, Ye Hai performed outstandingly, won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, and defeated Zach LaVine, who had a high demand for the championship, with an almost perfect performance in the Slam Dunk Contest, and Ye Hai's teammate Chris Paul also broke the spell after participating in the Skills Challenge for the fifth time. and broke the record held by Deron Williams in a record-breaking Trick Challenge to win the title. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In the three-point contest, Ye Hai's Chinese teammate Liu Hao, who currently plays for the San Antonio Spurs, defeated Stephen Curry in the finals with his talent for three-point shooting and hard training with the Spurs to win the three-point contest.
In addition to Ye Hai and Liu Hao, Chinese player Che Yicheng who participated in the Skills Challenge only lost to Paul, who played amazingly, in the final, and was relegated to second place. And their performance also shocked American fans and gave them a new understanding of Chinese basketball.
Speaking of the All-Star Game, I have to mention that the way to choose an All-Star this year is still voted by the fans.
Ye Hai, a Chinese player who performed very well before the All-Star break and achieved both individual and team results, ranked less than 100,000 votes behind LeBron James, who is currently recognized as the first person in the league, in the Eastern All-Star voting rankings, and qualified to start in the East.
Starting this year, the NBA reinstated an All-Star starting lineup of 1 center, 2 forwards, and 2 guards, and selected the top two players to start at their respective positions according to the fans' choice.
Based on the results of the enthusiastic voting by fans, the list of players selected for All-Star and All-Star starters is as follows:
Western All-Star
Coach: Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors)
Starting:
Center: DeMarcus Cousins, (Satramento Kings)
Power Forward: Anthony Davis, (New Orleans Pelicans)
Small forward: Kevin Durant, (Golden State Warriors)
Shooting Guard: James Harden, (Houston Rockets)
Playmaking Guard: Stephen Curry, (Golden State Warriors)
Fill someone's shoes:
Russell Westbrook, (Oklahoma City Thunder)
Damian Lillard, (Portland Trail Blazers)
LaMarcus Aldridge, (San Antonio Spurs)
Klay Thompson, (Golden State Warriors)
Kawai Leonard, (San Antonio Spurs)
Blake Griffin, (Los Angeles Clippers)
Derk Nowitzki, (Dallas Mavericks)
Eastern All-Stars
Coach: Brad Stevens (Boston Celtics)
Starting:
Center: Dwight Howard, (Atlanta Hawks)
Power forward: LeBron James, (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Small forward: Ye Hai, (Boston Celtics)
Shooting Guard: Dwayne Wade, (Chicago Bulls)
Playmaking Guard: Chris Paul, (Boston Celtics)
Fill someone's shoes:
Carmelo Anthony, (New York Knicks)
Kyrie Irving, (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Kevin Love, (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Al Horford, (Boston Celtics)
Kyle Lowry, (Toronto Raptors)
DeMar Rozan, (Toronto Raptors)
Paul Millsap, (Atlanta Eagles)
Ye Hai once again replicated Yao Ming's feat of being selected as an All-Star starter in his rookie season, and still occupied the position of the vote king before the final 2 days of the voting period, who knew that James, who ranked second in the last 2 days, rose sharply and surpassed Ye Hai at the last moment.
In the cheers of the audience, the All-Star Game came out after a long time!
Howard took the lead in fighting for the ball for the East, Paul didn't look at it after receiving the ball, and threw it directly to the front court, Ye Hai had already appeared there, received Paul's pass, and easily slammed the dunk with one hand, scoring 2 points for the East.
Durant in the West quickly served and threw it directly to the frontcourt, and Curry, who was also in the Warriors, received Durant's long pass and turned around directly to shoot three points one step away from the three-point line, regardless of whether there was anyone around him or not, who was standing in front of him, he shot the ball quickly and hollowed it into the net!
Because it is an All-Star game, the performance nature is stronger, the two teams almost have no defense, Durant, Harden, Curry in the West seem to be playing a three-point game, almost all of them are outside the three-point line, and James, Yahai, Wade and Paul played a variety of empty dunk cooperation, the different styles of the two teams in the game sparked a wonderful and beautiful spark, attracting the screams and cheers of the audience wave after wave!
At the end of the first quarter, although the Western team's three-point musketeers often hit difficult and applaudable three-point shots, because the Eastern team scored almost 100% shooting dunks, so after the first quarter, the Eastern team led the Western team by 7 points at 39-32.
In the second quarter, both sides replaced all the starters, and the Western team began to counterattack after replacing the substitutes.
The backcourt of Lillard and Westbrook, combined with the outside trio of Leonard, did a good job of limiting the outside combination of Lowry, DeRozan and Anthony, who came off the bench in the East, and caught up with and overtook the score in the middle of the second quarter.
As the second quarter progressed, Nowitzki, who announced his retirement at the end of the season, replaced Griffin, and the fans stood up and cheered on the German, who had spent his entire career with the Mavericks.
Nowitzki's face-to-face Millsap didn't intend to defend at all after receiving the ball, and watched as Nowitzki threw his trademark jumper, the ball crossed the parabola very high and passed through the net, and Novitzki's mouth opened in joy after the goal, and it seemed that the veteran was already enjoying his final All-Star Game to the fullest.
At the end of the first half, the West relied on the impact of Lillard and Westbrook in the second quarter to lead the West to 67-61 and lead the East by 6 points and entered the halftime break.
After a short break, the second half of the game started again, this time Stevens arranged for Horford, Yahai, Paul's Celtics trident to play at the same time, plus Millsap and DeRozan, the cooperation of the five was very tacit, leading the East troops to overtake the West again, Paul gave 8 assists in a single quarter in this quarter, 4 of which gave Yahai and DeRozan the opportunity to perform a dunk!
At the end of the first three quarters, the Eastern Army led the West by a narrow margin of 97-95 and 2 points, and entered the fourth quarter of the final real gun!
In the fourth quarter, the Western Army replaced James Harden with Westbrook, and the other four remained the same, which made the bearded man a little unhappy, sitting away from Kerr with a blank face.
Stevens also didn't let Horford and Yahai out of the fourth quarter, and Yahai, who started the game, was replaced by Anthony.
Because he had said hello in advance, Ye Hai didn't have any opinions, because Stevens told him before the game that he would only let him play two quarters, so Ye Hai, who had already played in the first and third quarters, had completed his mission, shooting 7 of 9 from the field, including 1 of 3 from 3-point shots, no free throws, and scored 15 points, plus 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal.
James, Anthony, Wade, Paul, these four good friends off the court finally teamed up on the same team, such a lineup made them very excited to play with each other, and Westbrook, who performed well in the West, seemed to disrupt Curry and Durant's shooting rhythm, although Westbrook performed well, but Durant and Curry's offensive effectiveness was greatly reduced, in this case, the East team relied on Paul's excellent organization and the good play of the whole team to win the game! The score was 134-122, and the Eastern Army won by 12 points!
After the game, Chris Paul, who had 21 points and 20 assists in the game, won the MVP of the game! This is also Paul's second All-Star Game MVP trophy after the 2013 Houston All-Star Game!
In this All-Star Game, the Celtics' Paul and Yahi won almost all the awards, which made Danny Aangie overjoyed, because it showed that the core players in the team were in the best condition!
After the All-Star break, the regular season is about to start again, and the morale of the Celtics is high, and almost the whole team believes that this year's championship will be the only goal of the team this season! (To be continued.) )