The 1997 All-Star Weekend began on Feb. 8 and ended Feb. 10, with a rookie challenge, a three-point contest, a dunk contest and an All-Star Game. ¤

The Magic only had two players in the Rookie Challenge, and Marcus Camby, who joined the Magic after the New Year, averaged 12.5 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game, and was finally selected for the Rookie Challenge, and the other was Jonny. In the two games on the second day, only Jonny participated in the three-point contest, and as for the All-Star game, Jonny was the starter of the Eastern team, while Anfernee Hardaway was the substitute.

And because last season's Bulls were the first in the East, and Phil Jackson became the head coach of the All-Star East Team last season, so although the Bulls are still the first in the East this season, the head coach of the East Team can only be taken over by the Magic, who is second in the East, so what is surprising is that the Magic, who was still struggling at the beginning of the season, actually went all the way up to become the second in the East, and the acting head coach Ricky Adubatu actually became the head coach of the All-Star East Team! This is a real history-making experience, and perhaps the only acting head coach in the history of Ricky Aduba to become the head coach of an All-Star team.

The other starting guard in the East is Michael Jordan, the only one with more than 200w votes, the forward is Michael Jordan's teammate Scott Pippen, the other forward is Grant Hill, the center should have been Patrick Ewing, but Ewing is absent due to injury, and Deacon Mutombo will start in place of Ewing. In the West, the two starting guards are Gary Payton and John Stockton, the two forwards are Sean Kemp and Karl Malone, and the center is Hakeem Olajuwon.

The first is the Rookie Challenge, which is divided into East and West confrontations, Jonny is the starting point guard of the East Rookie team, and the other players are as follows: starting point guard Allen Iverson, starting small forward is Jonny's old enemy Anthony Walker, starting power forward is Marcus Camby, and starting center is Eric Dampier. As for the Western Rookie team, the starting point guard is Derrick Fisher, the starting point guard is Kobe Bryant, and the West team is a three-guard lineup, the other guard is called Matt Maloney, the power forward is Sharif Abdul Rahim, and the center is Travis Knight.

Before the Rookie Challenge, Jonny finally saw his own exclusive sneakers, in a stadium in Cleveland, Jonny carried out advertising shooting, and the launch of new sneakers, and got his first sneaker, Jonny still had some emotion.

The color of the sneakers is naturally the blue and white color scheme of magic, the ankle is high up, there is a round opening, the sneakers appear very light, and the hollow design concept pioneered by Nike makes this sneaker look different from other sneakers, and the bottom of this pair of sneakers also adds the word legendary-lee, Nike's hook-shaped logo is blue, which looks very domineering. (This sneaker refers to 2K4.) ）

The first time Jonny saw this pair of sneakers, he liked it, and in the face of the many media in front of him, Jonny smiled slightly: "This is my first sneaker, legendary-lee!" Legendary Lee! As soon as Jonny finished speaking, the audience heard the constant click of the camera, if nothing else, these sneakers are so beautiful.

In fact, it is true, 2K4 early interview, it should be said that this is a variable in this era, Jonny's arrival is like a little butterfly after all, causing a butterfly effect, it should have almost become Kobe's first Nike signature sneaker 2K4, turned around and became Jonny's exclusive signature sneaker Legendary-Lee generation, and the original 2K4 in the previous life triggered a craze for people to use, many NBA stars wore 2K4 before they got their own shoes, even Kobe Bryant later asked Nike to make a replica of this sneaker because of his love for this sneaker.

But now everything has changed, and the 2K4 has become Jonny's first sneaker, and the still dazzling appearance and good performance have destined this sneaker to drive people crazy.

And Jonny's advertising shooting is also very simple, he did a few actions on the court, a dunk, a dribble, and a shot, the focus of the three actions is, of course, Jonny's footsteps, and the legendary generation of sneakers in several shots are given close-ups, and later Nike will combine these shots together to form a short advertisement, the focus is to reflect the beauty of sneakers at all angles on the court, the beauty of strength, the beauty of bending, etc., etc.!

Although the advertisement is simple, it is full of creativity, and according to the director, a sentence will be added at the end of the film: legendary! Created by you! And so on.

After the commercial was filmed, Jonny went to the arena to prepare for the afternoon game.

The afternoon game is the rookie challenge, because the legendary-lee generation just released, there are suddenly a lot of reporters behind Jonny, and this group of reporters is very interested in this very innovative sneaker, and then thinking that the debut of this sneaker will be an all-star arena, it is naturally full of gimmicks.

The reporters followed Jonny into the arena, and when a person walked in with a crowd, it naturally attracted a lot of attention, and now in the Cleveland arena, the NBA players who will participate in the Rookie Challenge are practicing here before the game, and when Jonny walked in, everyone looked at him.

"Oh, it's this guy, who am I!" Seeing Jonny walk in, Marcus Camby smiled, in his opinion, Jonny can be followed by so many reporters, this is not surprising at all, you must know that the current Jonny is still the first in the league's average points per game, such a player, with a large number of media reporters behind him, how can it be strange?

But even so, there are still people who are not convinced, Kobe Bryant is very unconvinced, and when he saw Jonny walking in, he said in a weird way: "What's the matter, it's not that I've blown it up." "Obviously he's referring to the Chicago training camp thing.

And Jonny, who had already walked to the center of the court, naturally heard this, he smiled, he couldn't beat Kobe in the past, it was because he was too weak at the time, but now it's different, the current Jonny is equivalent to adding a revenge spear to the top of the Infinite Sword Saint, and a quarter of the Picheng policewoman, and Jonny, who has a large number of props, can be said to be a hundred times stronger than Jonny at that time, especially on the offensive end, the previous Kobe couldn't prevent him, and the current Kobe Bryant must still be the same.

"You're going to be beaten by me in this game!" Jonny pointed at Kobe Bryant and said a little arrogantly, while the reporters behind him were excited, and as soon as they came to the stadium, there was big news, which was obviously beyond their expectations.

And Kobe Bryant just responded: "Then come on!" I'll wait! ”

This rookie challenge began quickly, because the lineup was arranged before the game, and the tactics were not well arranged, so the coach of this game was more like a decoration, sending the players on the court and ignoring them.

And the ball on the side of the Eastern rookie team was mastered by Allen Iverson, but Kobe Bryant can get the ball of the Western rookie team, in fact, counting the real strength, the eastern team is going to throw off the western troops, and the starters of the western team are all pieced together, such as center Travis Knight, the third guard Matt Malone, and Kobe is considered to be the strongest in the western army, and if you count the fame, the most famous in the western army is Rahim, but he is only an inside line, and the ball is still in Kobe's hands.

And the West Army got the ball, and their first ball was handed over to Kobe, and now the spear of revenge used by Jonny does not have a defensive skill, but even so, Jonny still has some confidence in defending Kobe, his current strength has reached full value, and with the bonus of equipment, the strength has reached a state of terror beyond it, and in this game Jonny is ready to let Kobe try his freshly baked strength defense.

Jonny looked at Kobe intently, and when Kobe got the ball, Jonny instantly posted it. But what Jonny didn't expect was that his defensive move fell into the eyes of several NBA All-Star players watching the game on the sidelines, and the audience began to laugh incessantly.

"Haha, this guy is exactly the same as rumored, he can't defend!"

"That's right! Where is Kobe Bryant defending like this, and won't Kobe Bryant break through if he sticks to the defense? Gary Payton said with a smile, and when he finished the last word, Kobe Bryant really chose to break through.

Kobe Bryant saw Jonny defending, his choice was naturally to break through, such a good opportunity Kobe Bryant could not give up, but Jonny's choice was a little surprising, he took a step directly and moved in front of Kobe, Kobe suddenly felt a huge force coming, and the whole person was a little unstable, let alone breaking through.

It turned out that in this game, Jonny spent a little energy point and enabled the R skill of the spear of revenge, and the physical fitness, speed and acceleration of the start of the whole person instantly became very fast, Kobe's breakthrough, Jonny rushed to Kobe Bryant almost instantly, it should be said that Jonny's big move in this game played a very important role.

And when Jonny quickly blocked Kobe's breakthrough route and pushed Kobe back, an exclamation could be clearly heard on the sidelines.

"What? This guy actually blocked Kobe!? This is Gary Payton's voice, obviously he still doesn't believe it, Jonny actually blocked Kobe Bryant with his explosiveness, and now Kobe Bryant is even a little unstable, and the ball is about to be lost.

And Kobe Bryant in the center of the court was also embarrassed, originally he thought that he would make a breakthrough nine out of ten, but he was blocked by Jonny, and Kobe, who has never been a very good shooting choice, actually chose to shoot directly, he chose a backward jumper with a very high arc.

"Wow! Michael, look, this is a step-back jumper, and yours really looks like yours! The All-Star players on the sidelines immediately discussed it, but Kobe's shot was not well timed, and Jonny kept an eye on him and kept clinging to him, so the shot was missed.

However, the players watching the game from the sidelines were already discussing Kobe's step-back jumper that looked like Michael Jordan.

"Hey, Amal, do you think Jonny fought Michael Jordan in advance this time? In other words, this Lakers guard really plays like Jordan! ”