The NBA announced all 12 players participating in this year's slam dunk contest on Feb. 1, and after announcing the full roster, the league also announced a revised slam dunk contest rule. The update is the fastest and the fastest to the eye

This unprecedented 12-person slam dunk contest will be divided into three rounds, with each person dunking two balls in the first round, and the six people with the highest total score will advance to the semifinals; In the semi-finals, it will also be two goals per person, and the three people with the highest total score will advance to the finals; In the finals, the winner will be decided by one dunk, and if there are two people with the same score, a dunk will be added in the form of an extra game to determine the winner.

This kind of competition system has obviously extended the duration of the slam dunk contest, greatly increased the number of dunks, and made it more enjoyable and competitive, and it was more exciting.

In addition to the slam dunk contest, the all-star ballot has also closed, and the league is nervously counting the votes.

Finally, in the afternoon, the NBA officially announced the final ballot results.

In the Celtics training hall, the Celtics players were training nervously, and the team's general manager Carl walked in, with irrepressible joy on his face.

"Rick, stop the boys! There is good news. Karl grinned as he walked over to Rick Pitino, who was organizing the players to practice.

Rick Pitino glanced at Carl and asked curiously, "What's the good news?" ”

Karl smiled mysteriously, urging Rick Pitino to gather the players.

As the Celtics lined up in the center of the court, Karl smiled and began to announce: "Now I'm going to tell you the good news, the All-Star Weekend ballot results are in, Michael Jordan got 1,028,000 votes, and Jonny's vote was 1,029,000!" surpassed Michael Jordan's 1,000 votes and became the all-star vote king of the year! ”

As soon as Karl finished speaking, there was a cheer in the Celtics training hall, and Jonny smiled, knowing that he could surpass Michael Jordan in early January when he saw that his vote was very close to that of Michael Jordan. Then Jonny went to do a canvassing campaign. Obviously, now this canvassing campaign has been successful.

Michael Jordan has been crowned a god, and he will not let down his body and canvass for votes in order to compete with Jonny. So Jonny's canvassing has invisibly accumulated an advantage for himself. In the end, Jonny also surpassed Michael Jordan by 1,000 votes!

And now the outside world has been discussing the matter of Jonny surpassing Michael Jordan in the All-Star vote. Yahoo Sports' Wojnarowski said Jonny's leap would be a historic moment.

And in fact, now the outside world treats this transcendence. For the most part, Joni's All-Star vote over Michael Jordan was considered by almost everyone to be a historic one.

When Michael Jordan was about to retire, Jonny surpassed Michael Jordan in the All-Star game, which seemed to give people the idea that it would be Jonny Lee, who surpassed Michael Jordan this time to succeed Michael Jordan and become the leader of the league.

On Feb. 3, the Celtics challenged the Charlotte Hornets away, and the headlines of all the basketball newspapers and magazines that day were about Jonny Lee surpassing Michael Jordan in the All-Star vote, but the Celtics' enthusiasm for the matter has declined. Although such discussions can still be heard in the dressing room, they are not as hot as before, and at most they are only a few words.

But when it came to the game against the Hornets and meeting other people, Jonny heard a lot of congratulations.

Before the start of the game, Jonny was first stopped by NBC commentator Kevin Harlan on the technical table on the sidelines, and accepted a congratulation from Kevin Harlan and his partner Craig Sager, and then was stopped by the Hornets' star Glen Les, who accepted a sour compliment from Glen Les. For the sour Glen Les, Jonny didn't care either. It is not surprising to him that Glen Les was a rising star in the league at the beginning, and it can be said that Glen Les had ambitions in his own right.

But over the past few seasons, there has been an influx of young players. Especially the players of the 96 generation, a large number of them began to play famous, and Glen Les gradually fell behind among these many young stars, especially compared with Jonny, Glen Les has become an ordinary star.

The game against the Hornets began quickly, and the excited Celtics settled the opponent in the third quarter. Jonny scored 40 points in the game, and several violent dunks deducted in the game also made Charlotte's away fans very excited. Charlotte has a nickname, called the City of Noise, and the basketball atmosphere here is very strong, but the ball market was not very good at that time.

So when Jonny showed off his slam dunk stunt, the hustle and bustle of the city rebelled, and they began to cheer for Jonny's dunk, especially the few fans in the back row, when Jonny jumped up and down to the basket, these fans would make a huge noise, making the whole arena very hot.

And Jonny ended the game in this double excitement.

And two days later, the Celtics suffered a bad team at home, the Dallas Mavericks, before the All-Star weekend, Rick Pitino chose to let the all-Star weekend heavy task Jonny rest half time, but the Celtics almost lost the game because of this, but fortunately, Jonny returned to the court at the end of the quarter, cut 22 points, and led the Celtics to overtake in the final quarter and win!

Then, it's All-Star Weekend.

The 1998 All-Star Game was the 48th All-Star Game, and the venue for this All-Star Game was the Madison Square Garden Arena.

At the All-Star Game, the Celtics' participation was not high, and Jonny participated in the All-Star Game and the Slam Dunk Contest, and Chauncey Billups participated in the Rookie Challenge, and the rest was nothing about the Celtics, but the Celtics still attached great importance to the All-Star Game, after all, Jonny made history and won the honor of the All-Star Ticket King, and Jonny also participated in the slam dunk contest known as the strongest in the history of the league.

In order to reflect Jonny's status with the Celtics, in this All-Star Game, the Celtics not only accompanied Jonny to New York by Carl and other executives, but the owner of the team also met with Jonny for the first time.

The first game of the All-Star Game was the Rookie Challenge on the first day, and Celtics owner Vic Grossbeck secured one of the best private rooms at Madison Square Garden and brought in Jonny, as well as some other team owners and stars, and it was obviously a kind of high-level meeting.

And in this private room, Jonny met with Lakers owner Jerry Buss and Lakers logo Magic Johnson, obviously, although the Celtics and Lakers are bitter rivals in the game, the relationship between the two owners is still good. In fact, the biggest reason why these NBA owners buy an NBA team is that they want to use this team to break into the aristocracy, so for them, the team is just a tool for them to socialize.

Of course, there are also owners who love basketball, such as Celtics owner Vic Grossbeck and Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who may be the most basketball-loving owners in the league, so they have a very common language. (To be continued.) )xh118