Chapter 912: David Stern's Promise

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The Los Angeles Lakers ended all of their All-Star games this season after beating the Jazz on Feb. 15, and the team has been playing on the road in recent times, albeit against not very strong teams.

But there is no doubt that this is also an extremely tiring thing, but fortunately, after the game against the Jazz, the Lakers can also rest for a while, and this year's All-Star only starts on February 18, even the players who participate in the All-Star Weekend are not in such a hurry.

This year's Lakers are the big All-Stars, there is no doubt about this, this team even has four All-Star starters, and in the All-Star bench list announced not long ago, the Lakers' league three-point leader, Szczebiak is also on the list.

The Lakers have five All-Star selections on this year's All-Star line-up, which is also a record in the NBA, of course, in addition to the Lakers' five starters all being selected as All-Stars, the most selected team in the West is the Timberwolves who beat the Lakers not long ago.

The team had three players selected, Garnett, Pierce and Wang Zhizhi all came off the bench, while the final three benches in the West were Spurs point guard Kidd, Raptors star Anthony, and host Nuggets star guard Arenas.

And in the East, in addition to the five starters of Yao Ming, Maddy, Carter, Iverson and Nash, the Celtics O'Neal Jr., the New York Knicks' O'Neal and Marbury, the Hawks' James, and the Grizzlies' Artest. The Wizards' Stoudemire and the Bulls' Wade were named to the bench.

Of course. For the Lakers. In addition to the five players in the All-Star Game, All-Star rookie Game Paul also participated, and the Lakers' rookie point guard not only participated in the rookie game, but also signed up for the skills contest and the three-point shooting contest.

Obviously, James was selected for the All-Star Game this year and he was not selected, which made the Lakers guard a little over-energetic, but at present, Paul wants to be selected as an All-Star in the West, whether it is enough data or qualifications, and the competition in the West this year is extremely fierce.

Of course, in addition to Paul's selection for the All-Star Rookie Game, the Lakers' other rookie, Josh Smith, was also selected for the Rookie Game. And unlike Paul's participation in the All-Star Skills Contest, Josh Smith also participated in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest. So judging from the current registration of Lakers players in the All-Star, this team will be very active in this year's All-Star.

This year, the Lakers' performance in the regular season is very good, and it can even be said that it is against the sky, and this is also the foundation for the Lakers' activity in this year's All-Star, this team will definitely be the focus of the All-Star, whether it is what many fans are looking forward to recently, what will happen to the Lakers' five starters on the All-Star at the same time? And what kind of record will the Lakers' five starters play in the All-Star? Can the East defeat these five with the power of the entire East?

Many, many conjectures have made the Lakers the focus of everyone before the All-Star break has even begun, and of course, others expect the Lakers to be active. And the Lakers players themselves are preparing to make a big splash at the All-Star this year.

Even Szebiak, the three-point king who announced his retirement from the All-Star Three-Point Contest at the Los Angeles All-Star last year, announced that he would play in the Three-Point Contest again this year, and the Lakers' three-point shooter explained it. He wants to dedicate this trophy to Zhuang Fei, because of Zhuang Fei's existence, these Lakers players are far more active than many others guess.

Of course, the activity of the Lakers players will make many fans very happy, after all, they are willing to see this team perform differently in the All-Star, but it is not good for Zhuang Fei and the Lakers, after all, this is not too beneficial to this team.

But no matter what, when the All-Star weekend came, the Lakers team led by Zhuang Fei became the object of everyone's pursuit when they appeared in Denver, and even Zhuang Fei and the Lakers players were blocked by reporters from all over the world as soon as they got off the plane, and the Lakers finally squeezed into the bus, and these people were also a little apprehensive.

"Coach, the NBA All-Star is really terrible" Paul, who has been sitting next to Zhuang Fei, said with some amazement after calming down his mood a little, he is not the most popular player of the Lakers, at least not now, but just now, even Paul is surrounded by reporters no less than two circles, obviously, this is the first time the young point guard has encountered such a battle, and he will not have such a madness when he participated in the McDonald's All-Star Game for high school students.

"The more terrifying is still to come," Zhuang Fei looked at the Lakers' young point guard and said with a smile, and some other Lakers players with All-Star experience also nodded their heads after Zhuang Fei finished speaking, which also surprised Paul and Josh Smith, the two first brothers on the All-Star.

This year's All-Star started on February 18, and the Lakers team also came to Denver from Los Angeles on February 18, although Zhuang Fei deliberately did not come here in advance to avoid trouble, but even if Zhuang Fei wanted to avoid trouble, David Stern would not give him this opportunity, and these Lakers players in the NBA should have promotion activities must also participate.

Even Zhuang Fei, the head coach, needs to participate in some promotional activities specially prepared for him by David Stern, as one of the cash cows of the NBA, David Stern cannot let Zhuang Fei go, in this case, perhaps a reporter with a heart can see that the president of the NBA has been following a very impatient Chinese on the first day of commercial promotion of the All-Star.

"Zhuang, I thought you should have been used to this kind of thing for a long time, but now it seems that I think too much about myself" Looking at the Lakers head coach next to him, who has always been a little irritable, David Stern also said with a smile, and at this time, hearing David Stern's words, Zhuang Fei shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"You should know that I'm from the NCAA, and I don't want to work for you" After glancing at the NBA president in front of him, Zhuang Fei also said helplessly, he didn't want to work for David Stern, but there was no way.

"Zhuang. It seems that you still think that the Celtics were angry with me about last summer" looked at Zhuang Fei, who was a little dissatisfied. David Stern also said with a sigh. And after David Stern finished speaking, Zhuang Fei did not deny it, but at this time, David Stern glanced at Zhuang Fei and then said: "This year's NBA can develop more rapidly than before, which has a lot to do with you and the Lakers, but in my opinion, the NBA environment is better than ever, although we have not put an end to NBA gambling in Las Vegas, but this year's NBA betting market has dropped by more than 70% compared with the past, and the Boston Celtics have disappeared from the gambling board." And that's what makes a lot of other fans who don't believe in the NBA want to focus more on it."

"Although what happened last summer is a pity for you and the Celtics, it is a good thing for the NBA," the NBA president finally glanced at Zhuang Fei and said helplessly.

At this time, Zhuang Fei fell into deep thought, in his opinion, it was a very wrong thing for Stern to introduce Adelson into the NBA, but from now on, he is still too naïve, Adelson did not enter the NBA, David Stern can't control him, when he enters the NBA, some things can't help him, unless he doesn't want to stay in this place.

Obviously. From David Stern's mouth, the NBA's shrinking betting is the result of his pressure on Adelson, in the NBA's three-acre or where Stern absolutely controls. Anyone who enters here has to accept the rule of the NBA president, he decides everything in this ecosystem, and Zhuang Fei sighed a little helplessly when he thought of this.

"Mr. Stern, I understand, but you also said that you betrayed the interests of the Celtics and me for the benefit of the NBA, so I want to get a promise from you now, if I have a promise in the future that you must do your best to help, of course, if you can't do it with all your might, this thing should not have happened" Zhuang Fei finally looked at David Stern deeply and said, and at this time Zhuang Fei's words made David Stern a little surprised. But after thinking about it for a while, the NBA president nodded slightly.

"There is no problem with this," David Stern finally smiled firmly and said, and Zhuang Fei, who had received David Stern's promise, also looked a lot better at this time.

You know, in the NBA, there are not many people who can negotiate conditions with David Stern, or who are considered by David Stern.

Of course, since David Stern is showing favor to Zhuang Fei, then Zhuang Fei naturally has no need to put on a stinky face by David Stern's side all the time, so in the next commercial promotion, the efficiency of Zhuang Fei and David Stern has obviously increased a lot.

After the first day of commercial promotion activities, David Stern actually invited Zhuang Fei to watch today's All-Star Rookie Game, David Stern appeared in the All-Star Rookie Game is not very common, and what surprised Zhuang Fei even more was that the NBA president actually sat with Zhuang Fei in the Pepsi Center Arena for a whole game.

This year's NBA All-Star Rookie Game is a game for players at the level of 03 and 04, but because James, Anthony and Wade were all selected for the All-Star Game, and these three defeated the second class with the first grade last year, so in today's game, these three people did not play much time as the backbone players of the second grade, which also made the 03 generation, which was originally superior, lose its strength advantage.

It's just that even if these three people don't participate too much, the 03 generation has lost some advantages, but the two sides of this game are still inseparable, the 03 generation played extremely well under the leadership of the new leader of the Heat, Josh Howard, and with the advantage of experience, this team can still suppress this year's first-year team.

Of course, although the 04 generation is a rookie, the strength of this team is not much worse at all, at least compared to the absence of the three leaders of the 03 generation, the strength of this team is even stronger than the second-year team, and after the second half, such an advantage is also revealed.

After the first-year head coach sent out a purely athletic lineup of Paul, Ben Gordon, Iguodala, Josh Smith and Howard in the second half, the team was like the Lakers, almost like it was always in the air, and in the end, the first-year team toppled its predecessors like last year's Generation 03. And the final score of this game is also 110-98, the score is not high, but this is also because of the real fight.

And the final MVP of this game was also won by the Lakers' All-Star rookie Chris Paul, this time the first-year rookie scored 28 points and 15 assists, which can be said to dominate the game.

And at the awards ceremony after the game, what was surprising was that the All-Star rookie MVP was actually presented to NBA president David Stern and Lakers head coach Zhuang Fei, the two most popular in the NBA to present an award to a rookie, which is not a common thing. This can even be said to be a jealous thing, at least when he saw that the award presenter of this year's rookie MVP was Zhuang Fei, Wade regretted it very much, in his opinion, if he played this game, there would be nothing to do with Paul.

It's just envy to envy, there is no possibility of this thing changing, who made David Stern feel good today and tamper with the NBA All-Star process casually?

Of course, for Paul, it was indeed a very unexpected surprise for Paul to win the MVP at the All-Star Rookie Game and to be presented to him by his esteemed head coach, which is also a great joy for the young rookie of the Los Angeles Lakers.

However, for Paul, winning the MVP of the All-Star Game in this year's All-Star Game was not the end of his glory, and the Lakers' young guard once again showed his amazing quality in the second day's Skills Challenge.

As an emerging All-Star game, the All-Star Skills Challenge has slowly become the stage of the NBA's top point guard competition in recent years, and this year, several of the NBA's major point guards Kidd, Nash, Billups and White Chocolate are participating in this competition, and Paul is naturally extremely eye-catching as the only rookie point guard, especially this strong rookie has just defeated the second-year team with the first-year team in the Rookie Challenge. In this case, the rookie point guard was also listed by many as the league's first-line point guard, and in the end, this game became a game of five first-line point guards in the league.

It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that Paul, the new first-line point guard, actually defeated Nash in a counterattack to win this year's Skills Challenge, and the final championship time was a terrifying 25 seconds. (To be continued.) )