And just when Jonny felt this kind of national discussion of himself and the whole people adoring himself, the All-Star Game also began, last season's All-Star Game, Jonny won the All-Star MVP, but this season is not Jony's turn, because this season may be Michael Jordan's last season, this All-Star MVP, no matter how the game is played, will be Michael Jordan's.

What's more, the East Army will not let Jonny come out to stir up the game, they have already set the strategy of letting Michael Jordan play in this All-Star Game, so on February 8, after the All-Star Game began, Jonny played quite boring, basically no one passed the ball to him, and after the normal game, Michael Jordan got 23 points, 6 boards and 8 assists, and finally won the All-Star MVP.

And Jonny, who didn't want to play this game, directly played in the first quarter, and then applied to the head coach of the East Army, that is, Rick Pitino, to get off the court and no longer play, and Rick Pitino is also very happy to see Jonny rest, after all, the most brutal second half of the schedule is about to begin, Jonny's role in the Celtics is undoubted, take a break from the All-Star Game, and after the second half of the game begins, Jonny's physical strength will not be affected by the All-Star Game.

The All-Star ended quickly, and Jonny's harvest was generally very good, he got the most golden-bearing dunk king in history, although he didn't win the All-Star MVP again, but Jonny was still very satisfied with the harvest this time.

Back in Boston, Jonny places the slam dunk trophy he just received in the honor room. Five trophies, plus some medals and champagne from other honors, there is still a lot of stuff in the whole honor room. However, the gold content is slightly worse.

Jonny looked at a few trophies, and he knew he was missing a trophy that really had a lot of value, like the regular season MVP, like the championship

After the All-Star break, teams across the league were given a day off, and on Feb. 10, the NBA rekindled. The Celtics traveled to the Denver Plateau to face the Denver Nuggets, a bad team in the league. And the Bulls will also face another league bad team, the Raptors, at home. The second half of the season is about to begin, and the battle between the Celtics and Bulls for the first place in the East is about to enter the hottest period.

The original chasers Pacers, Heat, Hornets and other teams have gradually fallen behind, and now these original chasers are two or three wins away from the Celtics and Bulls, so it can be said that as long as the Celtics and the Bulls do not make any serious mistakes in the second half of the season. It will be difficult for the pursuers behind to catch up.

Especially in this game after the All-Star break, the Celtics' opponent is a bad team, the Bulls' opponent is also a bad team, and the Pacers have to fight with the Knicks, and the Heat has to fight with the Hornets, and the worst of these teams is the Hornets, they have to face the Bulls the next day after fighting with the Heat, it can be said that the Hornets will be the first team in the first echelon of the East to completely fall behind.

There was nothing noteworthy about the game against the Nuggets. The Nuggets don't even have a player who can average 15 points per game, and in the face of this kind of opponent, the Celtics almost killed the Nuggets like cutting melons and vegetables. After the All-Star break, Jonny scored 35 points in the third quarter, which also showed his very hot form, which made the Celtics more confident in the next game.

So far this season, the Celtics have only lost 12 games, halfway through. The Celtics are even on track to pick up a 60-win record, which was unthinkable at the start of the season. Of course, the arrival of Derrick Coleman in the middle helped the Celtics in a big way, but overall, it was Jonny's ability to lead the team that was vividly reflected.

After the game with the Nuggets, the Celtics rushed to Utah non-stop, and they also had a terrifying back-to-back away game to play, this time their opponent was the Jazz, the Jazz is currently ranked first in the West, and it is also the first in the league, the combination of the Utah two old has remained unchanged for a thousand years, and the past few years are the peak of the Jazz, in the face of such a strong opponent, the Celtics are not the slightest recognise.

After all, in terms of physical fitness, the Celtics still have an advantage, they don't have much of a role in the All-Star Game, only Jonny consumes some energy to participate in the slam dunk contest, and the rest has nothing to consume, and the last game was also a bad team like the Nuggets, which didn't consume much energy. Although the Jazz's opponent in the last game was also a bad team of the Clippers, in the All-Star Game, John Stockton participated in the three-point contest, and the Utah duo also participated in the All-Star Game, so it can be said that they consumed a lot of energy.

For Jonny, this game is about to meet Brian Russell, a defensive stalwart who had a lot of verbal battles with him last season, which is a challenge, but this season Jonny has no outside helper around him, and the opponent's outside defenders are directly opposite Jonny, and he has faced too many outside single defense players.

Like Doug Christie for the Magic, Scott Pippen and Michael Jordan for the Bulls, or John Starks for the Knicks. Relatively speaking, maybe Bryan Russell's single defense is slightly better than these guys, but Jonny still doesn't have much pressure.

After the game started, Jonny and Brian Russell were together, and the two of them trash talked endlessly, but it was still no pressure on Jonny, on the contrary, for Jonny, the Jazz's big elbow was what he needed to pay attention to.

In the first quarter, the Celtics established an 8-point lead, but in the second quarter, Derrick Coleman began to dumb down under the huge pressure of Karl Malone, and the Utah twins began to exert their power at this time, in the second quarter, Jonny felt what it means to be unable to fight against a team on his own, but what puzzled Jonny the most was that Derrick Coleman was known as Little Malone, and he wilted when he met the real Malone, which was what puzzled Jonny.

Jonny still had a little energy left, and he used it directly, in order to save the game.

And from the third quarter, Jonny also began to switch to John Stockton, after all, the Jazz played at this time, relying on John Stockton and Karl Malone to constantly block and dismantle, and of course, with Hornacek's blocking and dismantling, in the second quarter, they relied on Karl Malone's continuous inside singles and Hornacek's continuous three-point shooting to complete the overtake of the Celtics.

After Jonny switched to John Stockton, the scene suddenly turned around, and the Jazz had to start to change their way of blocking, and they had to try the pick-and-roll between Hornacek and Karl Malone, but the success rate of this pick-and-roll was relatively low.

Celtic slowly stabilized the situation. (To be continued)