Chapter 355 All-Stars have begun, Gu Fei who is going to the slam dunk contest
As Gu Fei said, the end of the thirty-three consecutive wins has helped the Clippers to unload a huge burden, although there are many veterans in the team from time to time to help young players relieve pressure, but the negative impact of the continuous winning streak is still obvious, enjoying the honor of the winning streak while also suffering from the test of inner pride and pride, when the winning streak was ended by the Celtics, everyone's hearts were like a big stone.
The Clippers' performance did not disappoint supporters, and despite two defeats in January, the Clippers continued to play at their own pace, as long as the opponent was dragged into the rhythm of the Clippers and waited for the opponent, and the two losses were one to the Golden State Warriors, who were not very strong on the inside, in early January, and the other was to the Denver Nuggets, a powerhouse in the West, at the end of January.
The strength of the first game is completely due to the fact that the Warriors are completely crazy, no matter how many people defend can send the ball to the basket, the Warriors made 54 crazy three-point shots to reach half of the total number of shots, such madness can be imagined, plus the goddess of luck was lying on the Warriors' bed that night to enjoy, the Warriors made 28 three-pointers in the whole game to break the league's all-time team single-game three-point record, and the Clippers unfortunately became the background.
The second defeat is almost the same as the first, but the difference is that the Warriors rely on the overall madness while the Nuggets rely on the madness of Melon Anthony and Flounder Billups, Anthony scored 48 points with 38 shots, the third highest score of his career, and Billups also contributed 32 points, and the two combined to contribute a terrifying 80 points, Anthony completed a three-point counter-lore in the last second before the end of the game, making Gu Fei's two-point quasi-lore one second ago useless.
And for more than a month, Gu Fei has continued his stable performance, contributing triple-doubles from time to time, so that he has always pressed James on the triple-double list.
In the regular season Most Valuable Player list also firmly occupies the first place, although James has been eyeing but failed to catch Gu Fei off the media rankings can only be relegated to the second place for a month, Gu Fei also won the Most Valuable Player of the Month in November and December twice in a row and then won the Most Valuable Player of the Month in January, becoming a rare Player of the Month three consecutive championships, according to this momentum Gu Fei is likely to get the first regular season Most Valuable Player award in his career, And if Gu Fei wins this season's MVP after the end of the season, Gu Fei, who was born on December 25, 1987, will break the record of the youngest MVP in NBA history at the age of less than 22 years and 6 months.
26.5 points (5th in the league), 6.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 2.3 steals (3rd in the league), 1.4 blocks (1st guard), 1.8 turnovers, shooting 60.8% (3rd in the league, the top two are Gu Fei's teammates Tyson Chandler 68.8% and Shaquille O'Neal 67.9%), three-point shooting 56.6% (first in the league, Behind Gu Fei is Steve Novak, who joined the Suns with the Clippers last season (48.7%), and the free throw shooting rate is 97.5% (the second, the first is also a former teammate Novak) This is Gu Fei's average data of 47 appearances as of early February, compared with the first month, Gu Fei's various statistics have improved significantly, especially rebounds and assists, and the increase in turnovers is also due to Gu Fei's excessive ball-holding passes.
This kind of data is unthinkable to most people, a rookie who can only shoot basketballs has grown to his current state in less than three years, and even Kobe, who is most familiar with Gu Fei, is also amazed by Gu Fei's progress.
In terms of scoring, although Gu Fei is only ranked fifth in the league and only averages 26.5 points per game, no one dares to deny Gu Fei's scoring ability, after all, the Clippers have many players who can score, so it is natural that Gu Fei's scoring data is not high, when people discuss the league's scorers, Gu Fei has never fallen into the top three.
People have become accustomed to Gu Fei's headlines in magazines, and now they are more discussing Gu Fei's future, and the American media is looking at Gu Fei's future more rationally, thinking that Gu Fei can definitely improve his historical status to the top ten scoring guards in history if he maintains such a state, after all, Gu Fei now has too many powerful teammates, and although Gu Fei personally leads the team, although his personal data is excellent, the team's best record is to stop in the Western Conference semifinals, so this recognition has been recognized by many people.
On the contrary, the **** sports media on the other side of the ocean are advocating that Gu Fei is approaching the first person in history to be the king of the flyers, and even cites the reason that Gu Fei's three-point shot is better than Jordan to explain Gu Fei's status.
Gu Fei naturally ignored these praises, and still maintained a normal heart and took his daily training seriously.
After the fourth round of voting for the upcoming 2010 Dallas All-Star Game ended, Gu Fei has approached the new All-Star voting record he set last year, and no one questions Gu Fei's personal All-Star Game vote record again, although many people will sneer and say that there are many Chinese, but more people see Gu Fei's influence.
Compared with last season, Gu Fei also instructed his agent to accept a lot of sponsorship, and this season Gu Fei also relaxed this requirement The reason is that in addition to being able to better maintain a stable mentality under the media publicity, more importantly, the contract given by the merchant is getting bigger and bigger, and no one will refuse to send money.
Volkswagen, the company's company of Bugatti-Veyron, the world's most expensive luxury car, signed a super big contract with Gu Fei that everyone envies, this contract will bring Gu Fei $100 million in revenue within five years, and Gu Fei will get a Bugatti for free from the time he signed the contract. Veyron custom sports car, and as long as Bugatti Veyron comes out with a new Gu Fei, it will be given away for free, but the contract also stipulates that once the gift is accepted, the last additional car will be repossessed by Volkswagen.
The signing of this eye-catching contract was held on February 13, the most traditional festival in China, the Spring Festival, when Gu Fei was sitting in the latest Bugatti. The Weilong UltimateAerrott sports car came to the signing ceremony, of course, this was arranged by Volkswagen, and Gu Fei attracted the attention of all the media as soon as he got out of the car.
This car is also the first sports car endorsed by Gu Fei for Bugatti-Veyron.
Powered by a 6.35-liter V8 engine, the Ultimate MateAerrott set a speed record of 256 mph, and Volkswagen's advertising slogan for the world's fastest sports car was speed.
At the time of the signing, the world premiere of only 99 Ultimate MateAerott sports cars, priced at $108,800,0, was booked out in one day, which satisfied Volkswagen, and of the 99 orders, 22 were from China and 18 were from Gu Fei's main battlefield in Los Angeles.
Volkswagen is very satisfied with this result, and they have been shipping the second batch of UltimateAerott for the world half a month later, and Gu Fei's advertisement for UltimateAerott was also released for the first time on the day of the signing ceremony.
When Gu Fei passed one player after another at a fast speed on the court, Gu Fei suddenly became an ultimateaerott, passed one obstacle after another at lightning speed, and finally passed the road on the cliff with a non-deceleration at the moment of sprinting, and when he reached the top of the mountain, ultimateaerott became a picture of Gu Fei dunking the ball into the basket, and the whole advertisement looked very rhythmic, so that the audience couldn't help but be brought into it to feel the extreme sense of speed.
In addition to Volkswagen, Gu Fei has five contracts with an annual salary of 10 million, and nine contracts above 5 million, and the advertising endorsement fee alone has made Gu Fei's annual income reach 100 million, becoming another player with more than 100 million advertising endorsements after Tiger Woods, Gu Fei ranks first on the Forbes most valuable list, which shows the horror of Gu Fei's commercial value.
The performance of the Clippers in February was still stable, and Gu Fei was successfully selected for the Western Conference All-Star starting lineup, and successfully broke the All-Star voting record he set last season.
And Gu Fei was shortlisted for the three-point shooting contest for the third consecutive year, but Gu Fei politely refused the skills contest, he didn't want to be so busy that he vomited blood like last year, and he didn't even have time to rest.
However, many fans feel very sorry, thinking that Gu Fei does not participate in many things that are not good-looking, in the ESPN initiated how many all-star activities do you think Gu Fei should participate in, the all-star slam dunk contest has always been the most, the proportion is as high as 44.2%, but most people have a playful mentality for this option, although Gu Fei has also contributed some wonderful or unforgettable dunks in the game, but Gu Fei gives the impression that it is still far from the dunk contest, But there are some people who have the idea in their hearts, like David Stern.
"Knight, what do you think of arranging for Gu to replace the injured Shannon Brown in the slam dunk contest?" David Stern tapped his fingers on his desk, his eyes behind his glasses glinting with money, and the computer screen in front of him was playing Gu Fei's dunk highlights cut out by league officials.
"Mr. President, I think Gu's influence can greatly improve the ratings of the slam dunk contest, but to be honest, I have the impression that Gu is not good at dunking." David Stern's assistant Knight replied honestly.
"I also think he's not good at dunking, but it turns out that Gu is not bad at it, this is the dunk highlights I just cut, I'm going to push it to the official website to warm up first, after all, people's impression of Gu is similar to ours, if we push it out directly, those damn media will definitely say that we squeeze Gu's value as much as possible." David Stern said as he linked his computer to the projector in his office.
Knight turned to look at the video on the projector, which quickly played Gu Fei's dunk highlights, starting with the beginning of his rookie season, Yan dunk Timberwolves center Ratliffe, Wakovia Center's free-throw line one-step tomahawk dunk, Stephen Jackson's dunk, the first gliding dunk in Dallas, and David's dunk in Staples. Plum...... To the recent dunk Anthony, every dunk shot brought a huge impact to Knight.
If you just look at this highlights, Knight will definitely think that Gu Fei is a dunk strongman, but in fact, Gu Fei is not like this in the game.
"How does it feel? In addition to this, I have recently arranged for the editing team to screen Gu Fei's top ten dunks and top ten violent dunks, and I am ready to launch them one after another. David Stern had a smile on his lips.
"Very good video, I thought Gu was a buckle general after watching it." Knight spoke out about her feelings.
"So what's not to do? What's more, Shannon's injury just gave us a chance, didn't it? ”
"Gu, I'll tell you a piece of news." On the other end of the line, the voice of his agent came.
Listening to Bill Duffy's voice sounding very good, Gu Fei couldn't help but smile and said, "Is there another big contract sent to the door?" ”
"Gu, have you fallen into the eyes of money? You've made a lot of money this year, not a contract but a piece of news, but it's not yet confirmed, and it's said that you might replace Shannon in the slam dunk contest. ”
"Slam Dunk Contest? Am I sure my ears are okay? Gu Fei's suspicious tone penetrated into Duffy's ears.
"Your ears are fine, but it's not determined yet, it's just that the meaning of the people involved is David Stern who personally benefited, hehe." Bill Duffy's voice is very deceitful, because David Stern's care means that Gu Fei has a lot of money in the future.
"Well, it's a joke to let me go to the slam dunk contest." Gu Fei is not confident in his dunks.
Hung up the phone, Gu Fei clicked on the webpage with his surname.
The first video column on the homepage of the NBA's official website is "Gu Fei's Rage Highlights".
Gu Fei subconsciously clicked in, and after buffering, the video appeared in front of Gu Fei soon.
"Can I deduct this?" Gu Fei himself had doubts about himself.
The launch of this Gu Fei dunk video was quickly reprinted by netizens frantically on demand.
"The Oppressivism of the NBA" - Los Angeles Times column.
As a supporter of the Los Angeles Clippers, Mark Ribaud got this article from the NBA's video of Gu Fei unveiling before the All-Star Break, and the article bluntly said that David Stern did everything possible to squeeze Gu Fei's value.
Soon, relevant sources revealed the news that Gu Fei would replace Shannon Brown in the slam dunk contest.
"He's supposed to be just having fun, right?" Nate Robinson, who participated in the slam dunk contest for the fourth time, commented on Gu Fei's possible participation in the slam dunk contest in front of the media.
On February 10, three days before the Dallas All-Star Weekend, the league officially announced that Gu Fei would replace Shannon Brown in the slam dunk contest.
The official announcement of this news completely pushed Gu Fei into the spotlight.
On this day, the Clippers defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves by 22 points, and Gu Fei staged six dunks in the game, which was the first time in nearly three years that he dunked more than three times in a game, and three dunks were difficult, which seemed to prove to everyone that he was not unable to dunk.
On the evening of February 11, Gu Fei arrived in Dallas, this time Gu Fei's trip to Dallas was very lonely and he was alone, and the people of Dallas had a strong sense of rejection of Gu Fei, because since Gu Fei joined the alliance, he had hurt them more than once, and he had hurt them again and again.
Although Gu Fei needs to participate in the three-point contest, slam dunk contest and all-star game, in addition to the league care activities, this is much easier than last year, when Gu Fei got off the plane, a large group of reporters surrounded him.
"Gu, do you have any thoughts on this all-star trip to Dallas?"
Gu Fei looked at the group of reporters in front of him, including Robert John, a reporter from the Dallas Morning News that he was familiar with, a smile flashed on the corner of Gu Fei's mouth, "Dallas is a charming city that has left me with a lot of good memories, and I am in a good mood when I come to Dallas, and having fun is the biggest idea." ”
Gu Fei's words undoubtedly stimulated local reporters in Dallas, and Gu Fei took the memories that stung Dallas people as good memories, which was to rub salt in their wounds.
"Is there anything you'd like to say about the slam dunk contest? Wouldn't it be a little embarrassing if you were eliminated in the first round, after all, your qualification for the slam dunk contest has been questioned by many people. Robert John put the microphone to Gu Fei's mouth, and the Chinese reporter on the side glanced at Robert with disdain.
Gu Fei shrugged, "Is there anything you want to say?" Why don't I think that someone will always be eliminated in the first round, and it will be embarrassing to be eliminated in the first round? I don't think it's because my IQ is not enough to answer your question, and I'm sorry for my IQ. ”
Robert John's face immediately turned cold, and the ridicule of his peers around him clearly penetrated into his ears, and all of this was due to Gu Fei.
The All-Star Weekend schedule is on schedule, with the first game being the Rookie Showdown on Feb. 13.
Two hours later, the first-graders beat the second-graders 140-128.
The second-year team humiliated the defeat, the Kings' No. 4 pick has the guard version of James Tyrek Evans scored 26 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists for the first-year team, while the Bucks' Blanton Jennings scored 22 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds, the Thunder's scout James Harden also scored 22 points, and DeJuan Blair, a mini interior who was traded from the Clippers to Phoenix, scored a super double-double of 22 points and 23 rebounds. James Harden's Thunder teammate, Russell Westbrook, the hot boy, scored a game-high 40 points for the sophomore team, but a standout performance on one hand couldn't save the team's overall weakness.
In the end, Evans and Blair shared the MVP of the rookie game.
The first-year upset gave the Dallas All-Stars a decent start. (To be continued.) )