Whether it is the conservative Kidd or the forced adventurous Nash, the first of the three major skills competition in 2004 is a good start for this year's All-Star skills competition, after all, for a new competition, in just one year, these two have raised the level of this competition more than a notch, last season's champion 36s, this season's players are only these two players who finally entered the final with a score of less than 30s, and in the final, both of them entered the 25s, It's perfect.

And for the two No. 1 players who may be the best in the league at the moment, it is extremely normal to be able to play like this in this game that tests the internal strength of the No. 1 player. Of course, no matter what, after the perfect start of the skills contest mobilized the enthusiasm of the Los Angeles fans, then there was some pressure on the three-point contest that took over later, don't know, in previous years, especially when Szzczebiak participated in the three-point contest, the three-point contest has been putting pressure on the later slam dunk contest.

Of course, this year's three-point contest is also better than last year, originally in 2000 to 2002 after winning three consecutive three-point contest championships announced that he would permanently withdraw from the game Szzerbiak in this year's All-Star three-point contest is a return, he is currently the Los Angeles Lakers' three leaders, and this year's All-Star is held in Los Angeles, for the current Lakers team that is only in the formation of F6 urgently needs to prove itself, this team is almost not even an All-Star achievement will not let go. In fact, the current Lakers are like a gluttonous who constantly devours the honor of the Champions, such as Payton, who participated in the All-Star Skills Contest before, Szczebiak, who participated in the current three-point contest, and Kobe Bryant, who re-participated in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest.

It can be said that this Laker really wants to keep all the honors that can be obtained in Los Angeles from now on, but it is a pity that in the skills competition, Payton lost to Nash and Kidd. And in the three-point contest, this is considered by almost all Lakers fans to be in the bag now, so in the part of introducing the players in the game before the three-point contest begins. When the host introduced Szczebiak, almost all the Lakers fans were shouting for the championship, which almost made the defending champion Pierce on the side not know how embarrassing it should be, the champion of last season's three-point contest, after this year's Szczebiak game, his odds to win the championship have never been higher than one to five, and in fact, even the odds of one to five are already in second place, and the odds of Szzambiak in first place are 1 to 1.1.

Such odds already indicate the likely outcome of this match, for many bookmakers. There was no suspense at all in this game. Even if the six people who participated in the three-point contest in addition to Pierce and Szzczebiak, there are Korver, Ray Allen, Nash and Reed, almost all of these people are a group of absolutely powerful shooters, even the Celtics' rookie Korver is a player who has a three-point shooting rate of up to 45% this season, but no matter what, in the field of three-point shooting, no matter how strong these players are, as long as Szczebiak is standing on the court. Basically, it's very likely that all of these people are supporting roles, after all, the Lakers' three-star performance is too dominant when he won the three-point contest for three consecutive years.

"Zhuang, these people are waiting for a person who has already determined the result, right? How can you still be so excited? At this time, Jordan, who had been watching the court from the sidelines with Zhuang Fei, was also a little speechless when he heard the crazy shouts of Szczerbiak at Szappiak Arena, although his teammate and his good partner Nash also participated in the game this year, but obviously, in the heart of this basketball god, Nash's is almost not very big, and in fact, all those who have defended the title of Szczebiak for three consecutive years know that as long as everything is normal, no one can snatch the championship from Szczebiak, even if everything is not normal, No one can snatch it away, didn't Anthony Walker's 27 points also fail at the beginning? It's just a little surprising for the great god that Lakers fans are now giving this kind of enthusiasm for a game that already knows the outcome, and in his opinion, this year's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest is more interesting and more able to get these fans to give this enthusiasm.

"Maybe this is more interesting for these fans" Zhuang Fei replied to the god next to him with a smile, knowing the result of the game is not necessarily a good game, especially for these fans, this result is still what they want to see, and just when Zhuang Fei and Jordan were talking, Szebiak also ended his preliminaries, obviously, for the comeback after a year, the rhythm of the Lakers' three leaders has not been adjusted to the best.

But even so, the player who is not in the best condition at the moment also scored 24 points out of 30 in the preliminaries, ranking first among the six players in all the preliminaries, and the second is Rookie Korver's 22 points, and the third is the defending champion Pierce's 20 points, and in the end, these three entered the finals, and in this final, the last Szzebiak once again scored 25 points, and won the championship of this year's three-point contest in one fell swoop, and just like Zhuang Fei imagined, When the Lakers three masters lifted the trophy in their hands, all the fans in the audience shouted wildly.

These people don't care if they can already guess the outcome in advance. Of course, with Szczerbiak's fourth championship this year, it also puts the Lakers player ahead of Larry Bird and Bulls legend Craig. Hodges has become the player with the most three-point tournaments in NBA history, and if this player is in shape, he can even set an unsurpassed record if he wants to, of course, if he wants to, it's just obvious that for him, it's likely that this is his last time playing, maybe it's a happy thing for fans to let them watch their favorite star abuse vegetables, but it's not so good for the people who abuse vegetables.

Of course, the three-point contest is now very recognized by fans, or this year's three-point contest is very recognized by Lakers fans, because Szebiak's strength in three-point shooting allows them to think of their team's strength, which makes sense, and compared with the three-point family, this year's slam dunk contest is much more intense, defending champion Pierce, former champion Kobe, fierce Francis, super rookie James, these four people are all famous dunks in the league, of course, For the NBA, it would be better if Carter could come to participate at this time, but it is clear that Carter rarely uses dunks as his logo now, and for players of his level, the label of dunk to him no longer has any meaning.

And for this slam dunk contest, perhaps it is precisely because Carter was not able to participate in the competition, which makes this game more interesting, if that guy participates, then this year's slam dunk contest is likely to be the same as the three-point contest, and the result was booked early.

"Michael, how's that, kid number 23"

The main focus of this year's slam dunk contest is on the newcomer James and the returning 'veteran' Kobe Bryant, because for the dunk project, which is in urgent need of talent, players like Pierce are naturally weak, if it weren't for the low level of players who participated in the competition last season, the Timberwolves' leading player will definitely not be able to win the three-point contest, of course, in addition to Pierce, maybe Francis can also fight.

But obviously, after the end of the preliminaries of the slam dunk contest, there was no name of the Rockets among the players who entered the finals, and Kobe Bryant and James actually advanced with high scores in the qualifiers, both of them scored 96 points, which is much higher than the 90 points of the third Francis, and what is even more surprising is that James's two actions in the qualifiers are all Jordan's classic actions, one is the ball-holding split dunk on the left bottom line of the basket, and the other is the two-handed reverse dunk under the crotch of both hands in the air, obviously, The rookie who wore the No. 23 Jordan jersey today is paying tribute to the god of Jordan, but James's tribute is not recognized by the god.

"My dunk back then was much more elegant than him," Zhuang Fei joked, the god also pouted a little and said, and at this time, Kobe Bryant and James on the court had already begun to compete for the finals.

In the finals, the first dunk used by James was Jordan's most famous action in the 1987 slam dunk contest "kissing the hoop", in fact, for the current development of basketball, although some of Jordan's dunk actions at that time were still very shocking, but at present, the physical fitness of NBA players will no longer give people such a stunning feeling, so for many of Jordan's actions back then, such as this kissing hoop, such a dunk is not difficult for current players, the same, Such an unoriginal action is also not amazing, but even so, James scored 49 points out of 50, and the judges' minds are already clear, and Kobe, who appeared in the second game, even staged a super difficult one-handed backdunk of 360 degrees from the left baseline dribbling to the crotch and only scored 48 points, and when the two sides played for the second time, when James jumped directly from the free throw line, basically the champion of this year's slam dunk contest was determined.

In fact, the final winner of the slam dunk contest was James, this year's rookie overwhelmed Kobe Bryant's 96 points with a high score of 99 points in the finals of the slam dunk contest, and the No. 23 rookie's tribute to Jordan this year may also become an eternal part of NBA history. Similarly, this still slightly immature back of No. 23 will become another memorable moment in NBA history. (To be continued.) )