Chapter 44: All-Star Weekend

Then interviewed Huang Jun and James, both of whom were very supportive of coach Mike Brown. Claiming that the reason why the Cavaliers have such a record, Brown is undoubtedly the biggest credit, for which Huang Jun and James said exactly the same.

Brown smiled happily at his players for being so supportive, not every coach gets such praise from his players. What he heard from James Huang Jun's tone was full of sincerity, which was not hypocritical. A lot of people will say something hypocritical in front of the coach, but he can still hear the hypocrisy and sincerity.

That's why Brown's face was full of joy, otherwise how could it be.

In the days that followed, the Cavaliers went into All-Star Weekend with a 44-13 record and the top spot in the league.

The reason why they were able to shoot the top position is entirely because the Spurs lost a game, which was another loss after losing to the Cavaliers, so the top position in the league naturally came to the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers took it directly with both hands without any politeness, and for the Cavaliers, they will prepare for the playoffs after the All-Star.

When it comes to All-Star Weekend, everyone who likes basketball must be no stranger, but how did All-Star Weekend come about?

In fact, the reason why the NBA had an All-Star Weekend was mainly because of the head of the public relations department of the NBA headquarters at the time, Haske? Cohen's idea, and the idea was inspired by the All-Star Game of the National Major League Baseball. The baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to be held in the middle of each season, so the NBA All-Star Game follows this habit.

In the early fifties of the last century, the professional basketball league was far less popular than it is now. Cohen's original idea was nothing more than to further promote the NBA. Cohen's suggestion was quickly approved by then-NBA commissioner Rudolph. The NBA All-Star Game was finalized and planned to be held once a year.

Now the NBA's All-Star Game is played in a different venue every year, last year it was the home of the New Orleans Hornets, and this year's All-Star Game is played at the home of the Phoenix Suns, but where did the venue come about?

Portland Trail Blazers owner Walter? Brown was the first to step up and express his strong support for the creation of the All-Star Game. Brown also announced that the venue for the "nascent" event, Boston Garden, will be provided free of charge.

On March 2, 1951, the venue of the first All-Star Game was held in Boston Garden, and Boston Garden hosted two consecutive All-Star Games, and it was also the first two All-Star Games.

In 1953, the third All-Star Game was finally moved to Ford Wayne.

And that's just the origin of the All-Star Game, the All-Star Weekend is completely different from the All-Star Game, the All-Star Game is just a game, and the All-Star Weekend is not a game.

If 1951 is the year of the birth of the NBA All-Star Game; Then 1984 can definitely be regarded as a major turning point in the history of All-Star development. Before 1984, all the content of the NBA All-Star Game was just a star-to-star game between East and West. But after 1984, the All-Star Game took a qualitative leap, and the concept of All-Star Weekend was developed from this.

The 1984 NBA All-Star Game was held in Denver. The exciting slam dunk contest was also the first time in history that it entered the ranks of the NBA All-Star Game, and the results were well received. So the NBA decided to permanently include the Slam Dunk Game in the All-Star Game and expand the All-Star Game into an All-Star Weekend. Two years later in Dallas, the NBA All-Star Weekend had one more thing to offer: the three-point shootout.

In the past decade, the NBA All-Star Weekend has developed more and more scale, gradually introducing more programs and content: such as the rookie game, which began in 1994, by the first-year rookie team against the second-year star team; In 1998, the "Two-Ball Game" was launched, in which an NBA star was paired with a WNBA star to play.

After decades of All-Star, many classic shots have been recorded in the history of the NBA, and the kiss goodbye of "Magic" Johnson in 1992 and the tears of "Flyer" Jordan in 2003, like many precious old photos, have become an indispensable page in the NBA history books.

And now the All-Star has undoubtedly become an honor, an honor recognized by the fans, to know how difficult it is to get a person's recognition, there is a sentence that doesn't say: the eyes of the audience are always bright, who performs well, whose performance is very rubbish, all of this can not escape the eyes of the fans and the audience.

Although Yao Ming is Chinese, and China's population is the most populous country in the world, so many people think that Yao Ming's entry into the All-Star Game is very normal, after all, with such a large population, one person and one vote, the voting system is estimated to be paralyzed. However, if Yao Ming's performance in the NBA was very rubbish and did not give Chinese fans a long face, then there are still so many fans voting for him, so the audience's eyes are bright, and a person may not vote for his precious vote because of his bright eyes. But countless people voted for him, isn't it snowy?

Therefore, if a person is recognized, it is the most joyful thing, so many excellent players now will be very unhappy to see that they are not selected for the All-Star. So now many players want to be selected as an All-Star, which has led to the increasingly fierce competition for All-Star spots, because some players must have more than 24 players, and only 24 have been selected.

Therefore, the competition for places in the All-Star Game is very fierce, and it is really not easy for Huang Jun to be selected for the All-Star Game, you must know that Wade's strength is very strong, and Huang Jun, who has just entered the league, squeezed Wade from the All-Star starter position, although the two are very good friends in private, but this matter will still produce a little mustard.

However, at the moment when he was selected as an All-Star starter, Huang Jun had already called Wade, although he could clearly feel from the phone that the other party's mood was not high, but Huang Jun still said what he had to say, he didn't want to make it difficult for the relationship between the two to get back together because of the All-Star starter, and it would be worth the loss.

The all-star starter is very important to Huang Jun, but the most important thing in his heart is friendship, and compared with friendship, there is no hesitation to choose the latter.

After these words, Wade began to look at Huang Jun again, and from Huang Jun's tone, he knew that he was not just talking, but very sincere. That's why Wade started to look at Huang Jun again, and after joining the NBA for so many years, Wade is the first time he has seen such a figure.

Despite this, Wade's interest is still not happy, you must know that when Huang Jun did not come here, he was an All-Star starter, but the other party just came here and grabbed the starting position that belonged to him, this is his rookie season, so Wade still wants to be selected as a starter? That's a lot of difficulty.

Huang Jun knew that Wade couldn't recover so quickly, so he didn't say anything more, everything was as fate would have been, if the relationship between the two changed from friends to enemies because of this, then he would admit it, and he wouldn't do anything to keep it.

If he hadn't been selected as an All-Star, he would have flown back to China, going back to see his parents, brothers and girlfriends who he hadn't seen for a long time, and how could he still be here stupidly waiting for the All-Star Game to start.

Originally, the league also invited Huang Jun to participate in the All-Star Skills Competition, but he was politely refused, because in addition to the All-Star Game, he also had to participate in the rookie competition, so for the sake of physical fitness, Huang Jun refused without any hesitation, and his attitude was very resolute.

Now he is worried about how much playing time the All-Star coach will give him, you must know that the playoffs start in less than two months, at this time the Cavaliers have begun to think about the team's main team, can miss the training, absolutely do not let the main players participate, give them more time to rest, this is what the Cavaliers need to do at the moment.

Because of this year's hard work, for the playoffs, and the playoffs are a part of the road to the championship must be crossed, only after successfully walking this road, at the end can you see the trophy, can you lift it with both hands. Although there are many difficulties on the way, this year's knights are very confident in this, and there is no reason not to believe that they cannot win the championship.

This is not to say that the Cavaliers' players are arrogant, but the current Cavaliers have this capital, for the Cavaliers who have the top five guards in the league, Huang Jun and the strongest small forward in the league, LeBron James, they do have this capital, and no team in the league dares to say that the current Cavaliers do not have the strength to compete for the championship, no, absolutely not.

If it weren't for Huang Jun being injured in the middle, then the Cavaliers' record would be very terrifying now, and they would never lose so many of the thirteen games, five to seven of the thirteen defeats were because they didn't have enough backup strength to eventually lose the game, and in the five Qi games, most of them were because of Huang Jun's injury and failed to bring enough firepower to the Knights, so they would eventually lose the game.

Many fans know how important Huang Jun is to the current Cavaliers through this period of play, because the team is now used to him, if there is no Huang Jun suddenly, then the Cavaliers' offense will have no engine, and they can't get used to it at all, let alone maintain efficient efficiency.