Chapter 416: All-Star Weekend (1)
Before Sessions' injury, in the period after Tony Allen's injury, the world's long-awaited All-Star break began.
This year's All-Star Game once again let Americans know that they are extraordinarily powerful, and Chen Jiyuan was elected the vote king here. And he is also the only player in the league who has more than 300,000 votes, whether it is the eastern or western players, Chen Jiyuan is the only one who has more than 300,000 votes.
Dwight Howard was the backup center here. This year's Howard still needs an All-Star bench, which is quite a kind of rush that is both born and bright. Because as long as Chen Jiyuan is still in the East, then the All-Star starting center in the East must be Chen Jiyuan, unless Chen Jiyuan's number is really bad to a certain point. Even if Chen Jiyuan is inferior to Howard in terms of numbers, the strength of the Chinese market can still guarantee Chen Jiyuan's start. That's where Howard can't compare. At the point of all-star, Chen Jiyuan was able to hold down Howard to the death, relying on his yellow skin.
The Eastern starters in this year's All-Star Game are Chen Jiyuan, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Garnett, and Allen Iverson. As long as Iverson is still playing, then he will definitely be able to occupy the starting defender position, because Iverson's popularity is too high.
The East bench includes Dwight Howard, a sad kid. and Paul Pierce and Ray Allen from the same team. Once again, this year's Celtic Big Three stood on top of the game at the same time. Other inductees include the Orlando Magic's Rashard Lewis, the Cleveland Cavaliers' Morris Williams and the New Jersey Nets' Devin Harris. Danny Granger of the Indiana Pacers, Joe Johnson of the Atlanta Hawks.
The head coach of the East is the head coach of the Cavaliers, Mike Brown. is also Chen Jiyuan's former head coach.
The starting lineup for the West is Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, Tim Duncan, Yao Ming, and Amare Stoudemire.
The backup in the West is Shaquay O'Neal for the Phoenix Suns. Brandon Roy of the Portland Trail Blazers. Parker of the San Antonio Spurs. Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers, Deke Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks. David West of the New Orleans Hornets. Chauncey Billups of the Denver Nuggets.
The head coach of the West is Phil Jackson. The Los Angeles Lakers are a title contender this season. Last season's defeat made them more stable and effective this season.
To be honest, in this year's All-Star Game, Chen Jiyuan really has no interest at all, Tony Allen has just been injured, Chen Jiyuan's heart is cold, what can I do now? Tony Allen is an important perimeter defender for the team, and it's up to him to make the playoffs. Now that I'm injured, what if I can't get back into form when I come back to the playoffs?
Originally, Chen Jiyuan was not very interested in the All-Star Game, and he was no longer like the previous two years, Chen Jiyuan had just entered the league at that time and felt that the All-Star Game was particularly interesting, but after two years, his mind had changed. However, although it is boring to say, Chen Jiyuan is not bold enough not to dare not to participate in the All-Star Game.
If there's one highlight of this year's All-Star Game, it's the fact that Durant broke the scoring record in his rookie game. The sophomore team won the 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge with a 122-116 win over the first-year rookie team at the American Airlines Center in Phoenix, marking the seven-year winless streak. Since 2000, when the rookie game was restructured into a first- and second-year match, the first-year game was 2-8. But also, the difference between a person who has played in the league for a year and a rookie who has entered the NBA seems to be only one year, but the difference between this is indescribable, this year, a player can grow a lot, and a player can change from college-level strength to NBA-level strength.
Howard and Wade were assistant coaches on both teams, and Oden retired due to a knee injury. James and Pau Gasol also featured on TNT for both halves. Durant scored 46 points on 17-of-25 shooting, surpassing the 36 points of the 2004 rookie game MVP Xiao Si, setting a record for the highest scoring in the tournament and becoming the MVP of this year's rookie game.
If anything, it's news. And it's also good news. This is Durant's second season, and he has already shown his scoring prowess. It seems that the future superstar seedlings have begun to show their edge.
However, Durant's scoring ability is really not bragging, as a four-time scoring champion in later generations, how can he be a three-time scoring champion without any strength.
After the rookie game, there was a three-point contest and a mixed shooting contest.
First up was the Shooting Stars Mixed Shooting Tournament, which featured four teams from Detroit, Los Angeles, San Antonio and Phoenix. The mixed shooting team requires 1 active NBA player, a retired NBA star and a WNBA player, and each team will complete five shooting points on the court in turn, after which they will shoot at the sixth shooting point located in the half, and they will try to finish the game in less time within the 2-minute time limit, and in the preliminary round, the two teams with the shortest time will advance to the finals, and the team with the shortest time in the finals will win the championship.
Detroit was followed by Los Angeles, which consisted of Fisher, Cooper and Leslie, who won the championship in 2004. In the first few points, Leslie and Fisher and others all shot better, and Cooper shot a little worse at the top of the circle, but the Los Angeles team ran into big trouble when shooting in the center circle, and the three missed shots in a row, and finally it took more than 1 minute and 16 seconds for Cooper to shoot the ball in the middle circle before finishing the game.
The third team to take the court was the Phoenix team, the Phoenix team was the champion in 2005, they sent Barbossa, Majle and Smith, the Brazilian lightning Barbossa made five three-point shots, but the whole team shot relatively smoothly, with 53.3 seconds to temporarily rank first.
The fourth team to take the field was San Antonio, which is made up of Duncan, Robinson and Harmon, who were last year's champions. In the end, the San Antonio team was hit by Harmon in the middle circle, and it took 1:06 to complete the game. In this way, the defending champions San Antonio and Los Angeles are out, and Phoenix and Detroit are in the decision.
In the finals, Detroit took 58.4 seconds to complete the game after Smith hit the center circle.
Next up was the Phoenix team, Barbossa shot very accurately, it only took them more than 10 seconds to get to the center circle shooting point, but they ran into big trouble near the center circle point, three players threw the ball to the basket one after another, and after Majler shot, it took them 1 minute and 15 seconds to finish the game. In this way, the Detroit team won this year's mixed shooting championship.
And there was a bit of an accident in the three-point contest. Among the players participating in this year's NBA All-Star Three-Point Contest are Capono of the Raptors, Bibby of the Hawks, Cook of the Heat, Granger of the Pacers, Lewis of the Magic and Mason of the Spurs. Originally, Kapono was a big hit. Capono has won two consecutive All-Star Three-Point Contests and is looking to become only the third player in NBA history to win the All-Star Three-Point Contest three times.
Lewis was the first to play in the preliminaries, he only hit one ball in the first point, and it was only in the third point that Lewis got better, and Lewis hit all the balls in the third point, and Lewis maintained good form after that, Lewis finally scored 17 points.
The second to play was Bibi, who hit three shots in the first point, but missed the ball, and in the second point, Bibby also hit a cricket kick, Bibby also made five shots in the front point, and Bibby didn't shoot very well in the last two points, and finally scored 14 points.
The third player was Cook, who scored three points in the first point, Cook hit the ball again in the second, and Cook also played well in the third point and hit the ball. The fourth point Cook didn't shoot very well, but he still hit the color ball, and by the last point the table was not very good, and Cook ended up scoring 18 points.
The fourth to take the court was Danny Granger of the Pacers. Granger was very lucky to hit the ball in the first spot, only two shots in the second point, and four shots in front of the three-point point, but the ball didn't go in, and the ball didn't go in, and the ball didn't go in, and the goal was not scored at the right 45-degree angle, and Granger only scored 13 points.
The fifth player was Roger Mason from the Spurs, who hit the last shot in the first point, the second and third points were also not very good, the fourth point Mason did not improve significantly, and the fifth point, although he shot well, only scored 13 points in total.
The last to take the court was defending champion Capono from the Raptors. He scored four points on the first point, Carpono shot poorly on the second point, hitting only one ball, and shot all the third points to the basket, and on the fourth point Capono continued to play well, and the last point was not very good, and finally Capono scored 16 points. In this way, the trio of Capono, Lewis and Cook reached the final.
In the final of the three-point contest, because Capono scored the lowest score among the three players in the final, Capono was the first to play, and in the first four points Capono only scored one color ball, and finally Capono scored only 14 points in the final. Lewis, who came out in the second game, scored only two points in the first two points, and Lewis made four shots in the third, but the overall score was still not ideal, only 6 points, Lewis scored 10 points after the first four points, and the last point was also good, Lewis finally scored 15 points. The last one to come out was Cook, Cook only shot one ball in the first point, and the second point was not good, the third point Cook found a little touch, the fourth point Cook was in a slump again, and the last point Cook played well, hitting one ball in five balls, and finally Cook also scored 15 points. In this way, Cook and Lewis played in the playoffs, Lewis played first, Lewis shot worse and worse, the first two points did not score a point, the third point was a draw, the fourth point did not feel good, and the last point Lewis did not improve much, and finally only scored 7 points. The second player in the playoffs was Cook, who scored 3 points on the first point, Cook continued to have a stable table in the second point, and scored 8 points after the second point was thrown, and won the championship. In the end, Cook scored 19 points and won the All-Star Three-Point Contest.
Unfortunately, Capono did not win the three-point contest. In a few years, Chen Jiyuan knows that Lefu will become the protagonist in the three-point competition. Lefu will also become the king of three points.
Chen Jiyuan felt that he should let Lefu learn the three-point ability. Wouldn't that be better for the team? That's a problem.