Chapter 363: All-stars still have to look at Wang Feng

"Wang Feng appeared at Mamba Academy to watch the basketball game of Kobe's second daughter Gianna."

"Wang Feng and Kobe Bryant had a very happy conversation and had a good relationship."

The next day, the local media in Los Angeles reported in detail the news that Wang Feng and Kobe Bryant watched Kobe's daughter.

This is a good sign, Wang Feng has a very good personal relationship with the Lakers legend Kobe, which is equivalent to passing a message in the eyes of Lakers fans, at this time Wang Feng and the Lakers are in the honeymoon period, and both parties are quite satisfied with the current situation.

After all, as the most representative star of the Lakers in recent decades, Kobe's influence on the Lakers is even higher than that of Magic Johnson.

At the same time, some entertainment media also broke a big news.

Wang Feng, who flies to various parts of the country every day to play games, is actually afraid of heights, especially helicopters.

On that day, Kobe Bryant was going to take a private helicopter to fly to the destination with Wang Feng and the coach of Mamba Academy and other ten people.

However, Wang Feng was reluctant to take the helicopter, and the weather was not very good that day, the fog was heavy, and the helicopter pilot also had reservations about taking off, so after comprehensive consideration, or out of respect for Wang Feng, Kobe Bryant finally rented a bus and pulled everyone to the destination.

No one knew that Wang Feng's helicopter phobia was a temporary symptom for a limited time.

Of course, no one knows what kind of major accident this helicopter would have suffered without Wang Feng.

Anyway, Wang Feng's goal was achieved, and at the same time, the star of the Lakers personally watched his daughter's basketball game, which also made Kobe earn enough face and everyone was happy.

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On Feb. 1, the Lakers defeated the Kings 129-113 on the road and the Spurs 125-102 at home on Feb. 4.

Only then on February 6, in the home game against the Rockets, the Lakers lost the game 111-121.

The Lakers lost to the Rockets not because of their strength.

I have to say that the combination of Harden + Westbrook is much worse than the light bulb combination in the previous two seasons.

Paul is clearly a better fit for the Rockets than Westbrook, and the Rockets' recruitment last summer has fallen short.

What's even more ironic is that Paul, who was traded to the Thunder as an outcast, led the Thunder, who had almost no stars, all the way through the thorns, and the current record is still above the Rockets.

The main reason why the Lakers did not win against the Rockets was that Wang Feng did not play.

After the outbreak of the Mogou incident, the alliance chose to treat it coldly, and due to the pressure of the Mi government, it publicly expressed its support for Morey's personal freedom of speech.

Wang Feng exerted the subjective initiative of a keyboard warrior in the public media at that time, sprayed Morey with blood, and made it clear that he would refuse to participate in all regular season games related to the Rockets in the new season.

Wang Feng did what he said, so he directly chose to rest in rotation and handed over to Butler and Ingram to play.

Without Wang Feng, the Lakers immediately fell from the top team in the league to the level of an ordinary team, although the combination of Butler + Ingram is also quite good, but Harden and Westbrook are obviously better in strength and coffee position.

What's more, the Lakers have now begun to gradually adapt to and familiarize themselves with the style of play with Wang Feng as a point guard and always grasp the rhythm of the court.

Losing in this situation is a matter of course.

Some people may say that Wang Feng is obviously disgusting Mogou, but he refuses to play in the game against the Rockets, and lets the Rockets win, doesn't it make the other party happy?

Of course, Wang Feng couldn't let the other party go so easily.

Although he didn't play, Wang Feng still appeared on the court and made a temporary cameo appearance as a live DJ for the Lakers at halftime.

Wang Feng, who was holding the microphone, was full of firepower, and once again dragged Mo Gou out to whip the corpse, and the fierceness of his words and tone caused the fans to cheer loudly and celebrate.

The fans don't really support Wang Feng, in fact, as a Mi countryman, the vast majority of fans don't care about this kind of thing.

But eating melons and watching the excitement are all links that people all over the world like, hello, hello, everyone, what's the point? It's just to look at the right line, and it's interesting to see the hardness just now.

Of course, Wang Feng unilaterally grabbed Mo Gou and sprayed it, but he still paid some price.

Two days later, the alliance issued an announcement that because Wang Feng had violated the rules of the alliance, it was decided that Wang Feng would be fined $100,000 and given a warning.

In the period after the Mogou incident, in order to stabilize the situation and prevent further deterioration, the league has urgently notified all teams to prohibit talking about Mogou-related topics, which is a good interpretation of what is freedom of speech under the double standard of the United States.

100,000 US dollars, converted into Chinese currency, is close to 700,000, which is a huge amount of money.

But for a top superstar like Wang Feng, who earns more than $60 million a year when he counts commercial endorsements, it doesn't hurt at all.

If he can come to the Houston Rockets' home court, he will be happy to double the fine or even add a zero.

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When the time comes to February, it's time for the all-star weekend.

At the end of January, the All-Star voting was over, and Wang Feng and Antetokounmpo were once again elected as the vote kings of the East and West.

In addition to Wang Feng on the Western side, the All-Star starter was also selected by the Clippers' LeBron. James, Pelicans, Davis, Warriors. Curry and the Mavericks' Luka. Doncic.

The five All-Star starters in the East include ticket king Antetokounmpo, 76ers Joel. Embiid, the Nets' Kevin. Durant, the Celtics' Kemba. Walker and the Hawks' Tray. Poplar.

It is worth mentioning that Rockets star James . Harden was not selected as an All-Star starter this year, and as a guard, he received fewer votes than Curry and Doncic, and it was the first time Harden had not been selected as an All-Star starter since the 16-17 season.

The Mogou incident obviously still had a certain impact on him.

Harden was actually quite unlucky.

The first time after the incident, Harden stood up and apologized to the Chinese fans, but this attitude caused dissatisfaction among the local fans in the United States, and then under pressure, Harden then changed his tone, saying that he supported the right to freedom of speech, and then turned around and offended the Chinese fans and became not human inside and out.

But this can't be helped, who made him unlucky and put a pig teammate like Mo Gou?

On Feb. 7, the league livestreamed the all-star selection of Wang Feng and Antetokounmpo.

After some superficial "intrigue", Wang Feng chose Curry, James, Davis and Doncic.

Antetokounmpo chose Embiid, Durant, Walker and Trey. Poplar.

Does this starting line-up sound familiar?

That's right, Wang Feng and Brother Alphabet both chose the original starters of the East and West.

This was certainly not their intention, but according to the script demanded by the League.

All-Star Weekend is an show in itself, and while the process and outcome of the game is dominated by the players on the court, the pre-game gimmicks and anticipation need to be laid out by the league's script.

Even if this foreshadowing looks a little fake and embarrassing, but the long-lost confrontation between the East and West All-Stars can indeed arouse the interest of many fans, especially after Durant and George joined the Eastern team, the overall strength of the Eastern stars has also been qualitatively improved, and the gap with the West is not particularly large.

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When it comes to the All-Star Weekend, in addition to the most watched All-Star Game, the most eye-catching thing is really Wang Feng.

"All-Star Weekend is here again! Wang Feng, who has signed up for all the events in the previous All-Star Weekends, will he continue to sign up for all the All-Star Games this time? ”

There was not much suspense about this question at all, and soon the league officially announced the list of participants for the Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest, and Wang Feng's name was impressively listed.

No matter what the outside world says, Wang Feng still resolutely participated in the three solo events.

This is a matter of course, and the rewards after winning these solo events are more fragrant than false fame such as fame.

Especially the three-point shot, which has reached 97 ability points, and winning the next three-point contest championship trophy can be increased to 98 points, which is only one step away from the full value of 99.

As for the skill challenge and slam dunk contest, for Wang Feng, it is a side reward.

Wang Feng's current dunk ability value is 92, even if he wins the championship and is rewarded with 1 point, reaching 93 will not be of much obvious help to the improvement of strength.

The rewards of the skill challenge are even more complicated, and Wang Feng mainly participates with an attitude that is stronger than nothing.

Seeing that Wang Feng continued to participate in the three singles events, the fans were satisfied, and there is one thing to say, in recent years, the program effect of the singles event has become more and more lackluster, and there is nothing to see at all.

The appearance of Wang Feng can be regarded as sending some fresh blood to the solo project, at least making many people slightly interested in these single projects.

Just like this time in the Skills Challenge, Wang Feng, Doncic, Trae Young, and Embiid are four All-Star starters participating in the competition, which is a good point to watch.

In the three-point challenge, Curry and Thompson, who were unwilling to always lose to Wang Feng, both participated, and were bound to break Wang Feng's monopoly in the three-point competition.

Even in the slam dunk contest, there is a slam dunk expert who announced his participation this year, that is, Magic forward Aaron Murphy, who contributed the best showdown scene in the history of the slam dunk contest with LaVine in 16 years. Gordon.

Gordon and LaVine, with the slam dunk contest in recent years, have faintly become a legend of the league, after all, the slam dunk contest gave people a really good impression, after a few years of poor quality slam dunk contest, fans will miss the original dunk duel even more.

Although Wang Feng has won two championships in the slam dunk contest, in the eyes of most people, Wang Feng can win the championship, at most, there is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king.

Wang Feng's actual dunk ability is very strong, and he can often contribute wonderful slam dunks on the court, but there are still some differences between the dunk contest and the actual dunk, and he pays more attention to creativity, at least the two times Wang Feng won the championship, the creativity of the dunk is very average, and the ability to win the championship is to rely on more stretched movements and success rates than other players.

The Skills Challenge features Doncic, Trey. Poplar.

The three-point contest has Curry, Thompson.

The slam dunk contest has Aaron. Gordon.

As a result, Wang Feng is likely to lose the three singles events of the All-Star Weekend, and it will naturally become full of highlights.

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If he could, Wang Feng naturally didn't want too many strong opponents in these games, and he was more willing to lie down and easily win the championship and reap the system rewards than the exciting and fierce competitions.

The most pitiful thing is that it took a long time to fail to win the game, wasting strength in vain, thankless, and losing people.

For this reason, Wang Feng also had to spare some energy and add some exercises in the skill challenge and slam dunk contest to his daily training to ensure that he could win the championship smoothly.

During this period, the regular season continued, and the Lakers, under the leadership of Wang Feng, continued to make great progress.

On February 8, the Lakers defeated the Warriors 125-120 away, Wang Feng and Curry staged a scoring battle, Curry scored 38 points in the game, and Wang Feng scored 41 points.

The butterfly effect can be regarded as indirectly helping the Warriors, the current fully healthy Warriors have gradually suppressed Jokic's Nuggets, and the record ranks third in the West, and the strength of the trio of Curry + Thompson + Green is definitely the top level in the league.

On February 10, the Lakers defeated the Phoenix Suns 122-100 at home.

On February 12, the Lakers faced the Denver Nuggets, who had the fourth record in the Upper West, although Jokic dominated the interior, scoring 33 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists, but he still lost to Wang Feng's 37 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists.

The Lakers ended all the games leading up to All-Star Weekend with a small winning streak.

On February 14, the All-Star Weekend in Chicago arrived.