All-Star Weekend begins on Feb. 14, and before that, the Magic have six games left in February, including three games on the road against the Celtics on Feb. 7 and another on the road against the Cavaliers on Feb. 11.

The Green Army's January schedule was not good, with the winning percentage dropping sharply as they continued to lose games, and by the time of the trilogy against the Magic, the record was 32-16, and the winning percentage had slipped to 67%, and the Cavaliers were overtaken and fell to third in the East.

The decline in Celtic's record is mainly related to the team's frequent rotation.

Green Army head coach Doug. Rivers has been cautious in his use of the Celtics Big Three, after all, this is the third year of the Big Three, and if they don't win another championship, I'm afraid the team will soon fall apart.

Therefore, Rivers is ready to strategically abandon the regular season rankings, give the Big Three more rest time as much as possible, and focus all his energy on preparing for the playoffs.

And in this trilogy game at their home court, Pierce chose to take a break on the Celtics' side, and the results are self-evident, the Magic defeated the Celtics 96-89 and killed the Celtics three times in the regular season.

Unlike the Celtics, the Cavaliers did not perform well at the beginning of the season, which was quite disappointing, but as the schedule progressed, the Cavaliers began to gradually improve, and the record began to climb, especially in January, when the Cavaliers won a wave of 13 consecutive wins, and the record rose instantly.

By the time they played the Magic on Feb. 11, the Cavaliers had a 41-12 record, and the Magic, who were close to 44-9, were in second place in the East.

The Cavaliers' record rebounded mainly because of James' outburst.

In January, James averaged 30.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 8.5 assists per game, and finally won the honor of Eastern Conference Player of the Month from Wang Chao.

The stats are impeccable, but the Cavaliers Big Three are quite disappointing.

Carter's state is still declining as in history, and the Cavaliers are not the same as the Magic, James's ball possession is among the top in the league, and the team also has a point guard nicknamed Mo Bu Pass, which makes Carter's average shots per game plummet from 16.8 last season to 12.3, and his average points per game have also dropped from 20+ to 15 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.

Another giant, the old shark O'Neal, is in an even worse situation, averaging 9 shots per game, only 13.4 points and 7.2 rebounds, how can this be a little bit of a giant?

Cleveland fans were disappointed, but they didn't expect that the Big Three they put together at great cost would actually look like this, and it turned out that James was carrying the whole team alone.

This game with the Magic team is still a one-man show for James.

In the whole game, James smashed a quasi-triple-double of 32 points, 8 rebounds and 13 assists, and Wang Chao, who had 35 points and 6 assists, and Howard, who had 19 points and 11 rebounds, were finally defeated.

O'Neal had 10 points and 6 rebounds, and Carter had 11 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists. Williams.

The Cavaliers fans who lost the game can only look forward to the playoffs when O'Neal and Carter can show their individual ability and rich game experience to help the Cavaliers win, just like the Celtics fans who also lost to the Magic not long ago.

But no matter what, it's an indisputable fact that they lost the game against the Magic, the strongest opponent in the East in the playoffs.

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After the game with the Cavaliers, the Magic's schedule ended briefly, from February 12 to February 17, these five days are the time of the All-Star Weekend, for most ordinary players, this is a rare break during the regular season, and the Magic's Wang Chao and Howard left for Dallas to participate in the All-Star Weekend.

Participating in all-star activities for several years in a row has made Wang Chao not have much interest in All-Star Weekend, which is a stage for showmanship, using the popularity of football stars to attract audiences and stimulate consumption.

Not to mention some of the fan interactions that lead up to All-Star Weekend.

On Feb. 13, the Rookie Challenge was a star-studded rookie with Rose, Westbrook, Love and others on the second-year rookie lineup, while the first-year rookie was led by Terek. Evans led the way, with Harden, Curry, DeRozan and others all on the court.

The result of the game was that Evans scored 26 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists to lead the first grade to a 140-128 victory over the second graders.

This is the first time in recent years that a second-year rookie has lost to a first-year rookie in the Rookie Challenge, but it's not surprising.

The iconic figure of the sophomore rookie, Derek. Because Rose was also selected for the All-Star Game, the Rookie Challenge didn't last long, but only played a few minutes symbolically.

Besides, these first-year rookies are really a bit tough.

Tyrek. Evans may not be well-known in the future, but he was a big name in the league during his rookie season.

In the 09-10 season, Evans had 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in the regular season, becoming the fourth player in NBA history to achieve such statistics in his rookie season. Robertson, "God of Basketball" Michael. Jordan and LeBron. James.

Evans, who is 1.98 meters tall, weighs 100 kilograms, is physically strong and has a strong impact, and was successfully elected as the best rookie after reaching the same level as Jordan James in the first season of his career, and is also expected by the league.

But alas, he was just a flash in the pan.

Evans, who is seriously lacking in mid-to-long-range shooting ability, has been thoroughly studied by other teams in the league in his second season, and Evans, who has been unable to develop long-range shooting ability, does not have the ability to connect the whole team like Rondo, and his speed and explosiveness are not up to the unstoppable level of Westbrook's peak.

In the future, Evans was eventually banned from the league for violating anti-drug regulations and disappeared from the league completely.

Of course, what the future holds is a matter for later, at least for now, and the vast majority of people are surprised by Evans' impressive rookie season.

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After the Rookie Challenge, the next day, February 14, the first day of the Chinese New Year.

Today's All-Star Weekend brings the competition of the singles event, which is the Skills Challenge, the Three-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest.

In this year's Skills Challenge, the four players who participated were Nash and Delon. Williams, Russell. Westbrook and Brandon. Jennings.

Ginger was still old and spicy, and in the end, Nash defeated Delon in the final and lifted the Skill Challenge title.

Then the second game is the three-point contest.

The ratings of the original three-point contest were not high, and they were not comparable to the slam dunk contest.

However, in recent years, the attention of the three-point contest has been rising, mainly because of the existence of Wang Chao.

For Chinese fans, it is definitely quite comfortable to watch Wang Chao educate other shooters in the league at the three-point contest, so in addition to the All-Star Game, the three-point contest has become the favorite all-star event of Chinese fans.

Of the six players who participated in the three-point contest this year, except for Wang Chao, the remaining five were Qian Ning, who was on the same team as Wang Chao. Frye, Chauncey of the Nuggets. Billups, Celtic Paul. Pierce, Warriors rookie Stephen. Curry and the New York Knicks' Danilo Brown. Gallinari.

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"Audience friends, this is the scene of the NBA All-Star Weekend Three-Point Contest, I wish you a happy new year before commenting on the game......

In China, the voice of guidance sounded on the television set of every household.

"Back to the game, you can see that among the six players, Wang Chao seems to have a lot of aura, but this is not surprising, since the NBA league has had the All-Star Three-Point Contest this event, there has never been a player like Wang Chao who has such dominance in the field of three-point shooting, before participating in this three-point contest, Wang Chao has achieved four consecutive three-point contest championships, is the first player in the NBA to win four three-point contest championships, and if this three-point contest wins the championship again, he can improve this record to five consecutive championships!"

"Wang Chao's expression looks very relaxed, there is no pressure at all, maybe in his eyes, the other contestants are just challengers, right?"

On the field, the live DJ has already begun to introduce the contestants, Wang Chao is the last player to appear in the finale, and when his name is introduced, the fans in the stands have already let out a wave of cheers.

Pierce, who was standing on the side not far from Wang Chao, pouted a little unpleasantly.

As one of the Big Three of the Green Army, Pierce has never had a good impression of Wang Chao, and the two sides have also had fierce clashes on the field.

This time, he signed up for the three-point contest just to try to defeat Wang Chao and break his dream of winning five consecutive championships in the three-point contest.

This is one of the reasons why he is even more unhappy, because in the Celtics, the strongest three-point shot is Ray. Aaron instead of him.

When Pierce signed up, he also encouraged Ray to sign up. Allen participated, but the latter directly refused, in fact, in the previous three-point contest, Ray . Aaron also didn't participate much.

In Pierce's view, Ray. Allen is afraid of losing to Wang Chao in terms of three-point shooting. Allen is already a universally recognized fact, and if he loses to Wang Chao many times on the stage of the three-point contest, then he will have no place in the three-point field.

"Hmph, you're afraid of this guy, I'm not afraid! Today I'm going to beat him in front of everyone in what he does best! ”

Pierce, who is rich in mental activities, has a solemn expression and looks very serious, which is in stark contrast to the relaxed Wang Chao.

After the introduction of the players, the three-point contest officially began, Pierce was the first to appear, he was a little slow at first, and missed a lot of shots, but with a big heart, the follow-up shots gradually stabilized, but even so Pierce's final score in the preliminaries was only 17 points.

Billups, who appeared in the second game, also scored 17 points, which is definitely not high in the preliminary stage, and is on the verge of promotion and elimination.

Wang Chao sat on the sidelines and watched Billups shoot, and then found that Curry, who was sitting next to him, was quite nervous.

Curry, who has just joined the league, is actually not young, Curry, who was born in March 1988, is more than 6 months older than Durant, who participated in the draft in 07, but Curry himself has a baby face and looks very immature.

Wang Chao thought for a while, and then said softly: "Don't be nervous, once this kind of game is too nervous, the impact on the opponent's feeling is very great, I have watched your game, your three-point shot is very good, I am afraid that it is second only to me among all the participating players, as long as you play normally, you will definitely be able to enter the finals." ”

Curry was stunned, obviously not expecting Wang Chao to take the initiative to talk to him.

You must know that Wang Chao is now the hottest star in the league, and he is also the goal of all outside shooters to learn and work hard.

Before Curry joined the league, he watched Wang Chao's game videos countless times, especially Wang Chao in the no-ball running stage of the Suns.

Of course, with his small physique, it is difficult to imitate Wang Chao's running around the court, but Wang Chao's shooting movements, the choice of running positions and landing points, and the elevator door tactics when he was in the Magic team have brought him a lot of inspiration.

If Curry knew that these things of Wang Chao were basically plagiarized from him, the future Ku Ritian deity, I don't know how to feel?

But Curry, who doesn't know this, admires Wang Chao beyond measure, after all, Wang Chao has opened up a bright road for him that a three-point shooter can take, which gives him a certain confidence in his future in the NBA league!

"Well, I'll do my best, thank you, Wang!"

Curry said gratefully to Wang Chao, and then after the Billups game ended, Curry followed suit, and he was the third player to appear.

Wang Chaomu watched Curry walk onto the court wearing the No. 30 Warriors jersey, thoughtful.

Curry is a typical late-bloomer who is despised where he enters the league, and his contract extension with the Warriors after his rookie contract is only a 4-year, 44 million contract, but when this guy really starts to take off, it is really unstoppable!

In Curry's peak years, even James avoided his edge, and he was a man who really single-handedly changed the direction of tactical play in the entire league.

As an iconic figure in the three-point shooting field, Curry's performance in the three-point contest was not too good.

He has participated in 7 three-point competitions and only won 2 three-point competitions, which is very different from his status as the three-point king in history.

Regardless, Curry's ability to shoot three-pointers is unquestionable, and even though he is a first-year rookie in the league, he averages 43.7 percent three-point shooting per game in the regular season, ranking fifth in the league.

When he first appeared on the stage, Curry was still a little nervous, hitting only one shot from the first shooting point, but then he began to adjust his condition, stabilized his shooting percentage, and finally scored 18 points, surpassing Pierce and Billups to temporarily rank first.

Channing, who appeared next. Frye and Gallinari were completely here to play soy sauce, and both scored 15 points and announced their early exit from the preliminaries.

Wang Chao was the last player to make his debut, and when he got up and came to the field, everyone's eyes were focused on him.

"Currently qualified to enter the finals, is Curry with 18 points and Pierce and Billups with 17 points, as long as Wang Chao can score 18 points to ensure that he enters the finals, according to the previous Wang Chao three-point contest scores, this is not difficult for him, the first four three-point contests, Wang Chao has never been less than 20 points, three-point shooting fast and accurate has always been synonymous with him."

Before the start of the game, Director Zhang did not forget to tell the audience the results of the first four three-point competitions.

And as the tournament officially began, it didn't take long for the Chinese audience to realize that they didn't need to worry at all.

Wang Chao is too stable.

The first two shots were all on target, and it wasn't until the third point that they missed a shot.

After three rounds, Wang Chao's score has come to 17 points, and the last two points have a high probability of advancing to the finals even if they are thrown blindly with their eyes closed.

And Wang Chao didn't have any idea of releasing water.

The reason why he will continue to participate in the three-point contest is to complete the task of the system, and the three-point contest will be crowned five times in a row to upgrade the sharpshooter talent.

After the completion of this task, Wang Chao probably won't continue to sign up for the three-point competition, because it's really a bit boring to abuse vegetables, and it's better to have this time to relax comfortably off the court.

Since it is the last three-point contest, Wang Chao also hopes to use a shocking result to create a legendary existence.

Therefore, in the last two shooting points, Wang Chao also went all out, and in the end he only missed one goal each, and all the suited balls were hit.

"It's hot! Wang Chao made 22 of 25 shots, only conceded 3 shots, and scored 27 points! Yu Gui's voice was raised twice. Wang Chao broke his previous three-point contest record of 26 points and improved this record to 27 points! It seems that even if he enters the finals, there is a chance that Wang Chao will be able to win the three-point contest and achieve five consecutive championships. ”

In this case, Wang Chao and Curry will take the lead in the finals with 27 and 18 points, and the remaining one finals spot will be born between Pierce and Billups, who both scored 17 points, and the two will play an extra game to determine the players who will eventually enter the finals.

After a round of play-offs, it was Pierce who came out on top.

But in fact, at this time, it doesn't matter who wins or loses, neither the contestants nor the audience think that there will be any suspense in the finals.

Wang Chao broke the record in the preliminaries, scoring an all-time high of 27 points, will Pierce or Curry have a chance in the finals?

And so it is.

In the finals, Pierce was the first to appear, and the extra round of play-offs was like a warm-up in a sense, which made Pierce feel better, and finally threw 22 points, which is already a good high score, and it is completely possible to win the championship in previous years.

But even with such a high score, Pierce didn't have any smile on his face.

Curry, who appeared in the second game, obviously broke the Dao heart in front of Wang Chao's jade beads, and his state was even worse than in the first round, and he only scored 14 points in the end.

When it was Wang Chao's turn to appear at the end, everyone was speculating how many points Wang Chao would get in the final? Is it to break the record again and score 28 points or even higher? Or a sudden upset, only scoring less than 20 points, and being robbed of the championship by Pierce?

But no one could have dreamed that the end result would be like this.

"Brush-brush-brush-"

The crisp sound of brushing the net continued to sound on the field, and the mouths of the spectators opened wider and wider as the game progressed.

There was no sound of iron, not even the sound of a shot of iron!

As Wang Chao threw the last ball into the basket, the audience resounded with deafening cheers.

Hit all 25 shots! The first perfect score in the history of the NBA Three-Point Contest was born!

(End of chapter)