Chapter 193: All-Star Weekend
Orlando is located in the middle of Florida and is one of the best leisure cities in the world.
The most famous is Disneyland in Orlando, which is on a par with Los Angeles Disneyland and is known as the largest in the world. In addition, there are also the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando's SeaWorld, theme parks for all ages, and so on.
With All-Star Weekend just around the corner, and a tourist-friendly March approaching, there are plenty of tourists heading to Orlando.
Iguodala was named to the Eastern Conference All-Star bench and was mediocre in his stats, but his energy on the defensive end impressed the coaches. This season, the 76ers' record is soaring, and everyone thinks that in addition to the violent Tang Wenlong, Iguodala's credit is also very large.
This is also the first time Iguodala has been selected as an All-Star in his career, and the old boy was so happy that when he flew over on the same flight as Tang Wenlong, he couldn't stop talking excitedly.
"Do you think I'm going to make more passes, or do I perform a few more dunks?"
"Do you think I'm going to talk to Coach Doug and ask him to give me a few more minutes? After all, it's our own head coach! ”
"I don't think you're excited at all, aren't you happy, All-Star Game!"
Tang Wenlong: "......"
76ers head coach Doug Collins became the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star, and Scott Brooks, the head coach of the Thunder, became the head coach of the Western Conference All-Star.
Tang Wenlong is not not excited, but he can't raise his interest, he has already participated in such a competition that has no confrontation and victory significance last year. At first, I was a little bit looking forward to it. Wait until you go through the motions. It turns out that there is really no fun, he is not a player who deliberately pursues honors, and the All-Star MVP is not as good as winning a few more Player of the Week for him.
On the 25th, the league's rookie challenge officially began.
Tang Wenlong, as a second-year player, was invited to participate. In addition to him, there are Griffin, Wall, Cousins, Paul George, Hayward, Monroe, and Turner. Later, because of Lin Madness who hung up this month, after the alliance discussed it, he gave Jeremy Lin a fire line. So one more Jeremy Lin temporarily joined the war.
First-year players include Irving, Rubio, Marshon Brooks, Brandon Knight, Leonard, Markieff Morris, Tristan Thompson, Camba Walker, Derrick Williams and the Heat's Norris Kerr. Among them, Spurs' Leonard is out due to injury.
Griffin and Tang Wenlong are the two players who have been selected as All-Stars among so many people, and they are the envy of everyone, and last year, it was the same.
Tang Wenlong found Jeremy Lin, who only spoke one or two sentences of Mandarin, and the two still communicated in English.
"You've all chased up to seventh place, I thought the Knicks would have a hard time even making the playoffs this season, and you're playing really well."
Jeremy Lin was not shy at all and smiled happily. He also frowns when he speaks, "Coach D'Antoni gave me a lot of freedom on the ball. I like to play under his system, it's very comfortable. ”
Tang Wenlong nodded, "That's good, there is a coach who appreciates you, at least he will know how to play your best strengths, but Carmelo Anthony will come back after the All-Star break, right?" ”
"Yes." Jeremy Lin nodded and said excitedly: "When Cameron returns, our squad will be even stronger, and we may have a chance to hit the top five in the league." ”
Tang Wenlong pursed his mouth, thinking in his heart that if Anthony comes back, you still have a chance to control the ball, if you play without the ball, this shooting level is estimated to be unqualified, right?
The two were chatting on the sidelines, and an ESPN reporter on the side took a photo of the two of them, named "The Only Two Yellow Skins Left in the NBA".
The rules of this year's Rookie Challenge are different, and instead of the traditional first-year vs. second-year, Shaq and Barkley will each select players from among the selected players to form a team to compete against each other.
So it's a hybrid confrontation, there's no difference between first and second grades, it's all up to these two guys to choose.
Shaq chose first, undoubtedly picked Tang Wenlong, and then Barkley immediately selected Griffin away, and then Shaq used the No. 2 pick to pick Jeremy Lin away, which met the taste of Chinese fans, two yellow-skinned players teamed up, full of gimmicks.
But Tang Wenlong has no interest in serious confrontation, and the same is true for Griffin, the two of them played on the court for 10 minutes and 8 minutes respectively, and Griffin also dunked four or five times in the air, Tang Wenlong was simple, after rushing in and dunking twice, he shot three three-pointers directly outside and scored one.
In the end, the Barkley team won the rookie challenge 146-133, and Kyrie Irving, the top pick in the 11th world, won the MVP of the rookie game, he scored 34 points and 9 assists, and won full applause for several shaking breakaways.
On the evening of the 26th, the league held a Saturday night.
Including the Shooting Star, Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest, Tang Wenlong did not participate in any event, and among the players of the 76ers, there were no players who signed up to participate, so when he arrived on the court on this day, he could only be regarded as playing soy sauce.
Iguodala wears a shiny black leather wallet, casual pointy shoes, and a white and gold necklace around her neck. Tang Wenlong almost didn't squirt out a mouthful of water when he saw Iguodala's outfit.
"What's wrong? Hip-hop with a bit of formality, isn't it trendy? Iguodala turned around and looked at it, and thought it was good!
Tang Wenlong's stomach hurt when he smiled, he took out his mobile phone and found a staff member on the side to take a photo of the two of them.
As soon as the photos were lined up, Tang Wenlong uploaded them to his Weibo, and he looked more like a rap star in a simple black down jacket with jeans and casual sneakers.
The two of them walked into the field and sat in the front row of NBA stars, James, Wade and others had already arrived, Tang Wenlong looked at it, James, Wade and Anthony wore a pair of black-framed glasses together, and they didn't know where the wind became popular, and it looked weird.
New York won the shooting star championship, and under the leadership of mid-range shooting king Alan Houston, it took only 34.3 seconds to complete the task, which seemed very easy. Tony Parker unexpectedly defeated Rondo and Delon in the final to become the winner of the '12 All-Star Game Skills Challenge.
followed by the three-point contest, which was the tallest in history to participate in the three-point contest Like Kevin Loew, Ryan Anderson and Kevin Durant are both nearly 2.10 meters tall, and all three of them are accurate. In the end, it was Durant and Loew who entered the finals, Durant was mentally disordered in the final, and only scored 14 points, and Loew easily won the three-point crown with 17 points, becoming the highest and widest three-point king in history.
The three-point contest was quite lively to watch, but the finale of the slam dunk contest was a bit boring.
Last year, Tang Wenlong relied on unimaginable flexibility and bounce power to complete many difficult movements, correcting the trend of winning the championship with gimmicks in the slam dunk contest. As a result, he didn't participate this year, and he returned to the way he was.
Battinger, Paul George, Jimmy Evans and Derrick Williams are foursome, all kinds of flying obstacles, either flying people or flying motorcycles or something, and then they turn off the lights and dunk, dress to pay tribute to legendary stars, there are many tricks, but the excitement is very average.
In the end, the championship of the slam dunk contest was won by Jimmy Evans of the Jazz, who was also a fringe figure in the Jazz, averaging a few points per game, and his body was too thin to complete NBA-level confrontations.
With the title of NBA slam dunk king, the value has risen a lot, and under the exposure of the All-Star Weekend, even if you can't get along in the NBA in the future, there will definitely be people who want to participate in commercial performances and other leagues, which is a successful self-promotion, proving that you can eat in the basketball world. (To be continued.) )