Chapter 495: Three consecutive victories in the East

The events on the second day are the major individual competitions, including various team competitions and three individual competitions.

This year's three-point contest and dunk contest are both mediocre, with the three-point contest winning being taken by Irving, and the dunk king belonging to Trentros.

Before the All-Star Game, the league also contacted Li Kaiming to ask if he was interested in participating in the three-point contest or the dunk contest, after all, as long as Li Kaiming's name appeared in the entry list, the game would immediately become full of highlights.

But Li Kaiming still politely refused the invitation of the league, and participated in the three-point contest and slam dunk contest at the beginning, largely because he needed to be famous at that time, just like Kobe Bryant at the beginning, using the title of slam dunk king to become famous.

However, now he no longer needs the dunk king to add his aura and fame, on the contrary, he is participating in or even increasing the popularity of the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest, so there is no need to participate.

Besides, there have been no high-level challengers in the three-point contest and slam dunk contest in recent years......

All in all, whatever coffee position does, this kind of individual competition is already a bit of a decline for Li Kaiming......

Therefore, this three-point contest and slam dunk contest Li Kaiming also served as a spectator again, standing at the front of the audience with his teammates, holding his mobile phone to record his favorite moment.

The All-Star Game on the last day is when Li Kaiming will be the protagonist.

Because last year's Eastern All-Star coach was not Sanders, this year's Wizards have the No. 1 record in the East, and the All-Star Eastern Conference coach's seat belongs to Sanders again.

Sanders also sighed in his heart, when he was in the Timberwolves before, he wanted to be an All-Star head coach, but now he is annoyed locally, a little Versailles!

At seven o'clock in the evening on February 19th, at the Toyota Center in Houston, the lineups of both sides of the All-Star Game have appeared!

Eastern Stars: Point guard Rajon Rondo, point guard Dwayne Wade, small forward LeBron James, power forward Kaiming Lee, center Kevin Garnett.

That's right, because Howard traveled west to the Lakers, the aging Garnett actually became the starting center in the East, which is somewhat tragic.

Western Stars: Point guard Chris Paul, point guard Kobe Bryant, small forward Kevin Durant, power forward Blake Griffin, center Dwight Howard.

In the Western All-Star team, except for Durant, the remaining four are all from Los Angeles, which shows how strong the influence and appeal of the metropolis is for fans!

Tonight's commentator is still tNt, with a combination of Mav Albert plus Reggie Miller and Steve Cole.

In the jump ball session, Howard, the jumping man, easily defeated the aging Garnett and helped the Western team win the opening ball.

Paul dribbled across half court, played with Howard in the front court, and then gave a high drop to the basket.

At this time, after the cover, Howard turned around and went down, and then caught the ball in the air and dunked with both hands!

Because this was the first goal of the opening game, Li Kaiming did not have a strong will to defend this ball.

The Eastern baseline serves, giving Rondo a dribble over the half.

Rondo didn't call Garnett, who was most familiar with him, to come over to block the demolition, but reached out to say hello to Li Kaiming.

Of course, Li Kaiming is also very cooperative, in the past, a cover stuck the 58 guns tightly, and Rondo used the cover to break through to the inner line.

Because Rondo is not a threat from the outside, the players in the West have chosen to shrink inside.

Rondo broke through to the free throw line and then looked back at the moon and gave the ball to Li Kaiming on the outside.

At this time, the closest Western player to Li Kaiming is Chris Paul, who is 183 tall, and in the face of this short but tough defender, Li Kaiming decided to give him enough respect and directly pull out a three-point shot on the spot!

Chris Paul, who was standing on the ground, looked up at Li Kaiming's shot height, and instantly he didn't even have the desire to jump, and Li Kaiming entered the net with three points!

3 to 2!

The West served to Durant for a single, who faced James with a drag step to change direction, broke through to the mid-range and then made a stop-and-go jumper, James's defense was in place, Durant missed the shot, and Li Kaiming picked up the rebound and passed it to Rondo.

The east began to launch a fast attack, Li Kaiming and Rondo ran in the front, Rondo hesitated when he reached the free throw line, and then a push changed direction and rushed in, Howard, who was following behind, saw this, and rushed over with three steps and two steps to get a pegboard hat!

Unexpectedly, Rondo was a chicken thief, and he had already seen Howard behind him with his peripheral vision, so he deliberately jumped high in the arc, and a strong high hit the board bounced the ball back!

At this time, Howard, who couldn't be blocked, wondered in his heart, even if he was afraid of being blocked, he wouldn't throw it like this......

However, less than a second after his idea appeared, Li Kaiming, who was running behind, stepped directly on the floor and took off, and then grabbed Rondo's board assist in the air, and then slammed it with one hand!

5 to 2!

After landing, Li Kaiming felt an inexplicable coolness, this is a kind of coolness that never needs to use brains to play, he only needs to be responsible for running in place, and then catch the ball or jump with all his strength to dunk the ball into the basket, and don't care about the rest!

Is that what it's like to be teammates with a top point guard?

In the first quarter of the game, because of the presence of Li Kaiming on the eastern side, it was basically to play the blocking and dismantling cooperation of Rondo and Li Kaiming, plus Li Kaiming also had the ability to deal with the ball for the second time after the next pass, so it quickly helped the eastern troops to open up the difference!

At the end of the first quarter, the Eastern Army led the Western Army by 5 points 39-34, Li Kaiming scored 11 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in a single quarter, and Rondo, the best player with him, got 6 assists in a single quarter!

In the second quarter, it was the turn of the substitute All-Stars to come out, with James leading the team on the East side and Willis and Harden on the West side.

In the first quarter, James didn't dominate the offense much on his own, so after the second quarter, Sanders simply let James directly become the point forward of the Eastern team, and the guard dribbled and handed the ball to James after half court.

In this case, James faced those young stars in the West, and naturally gave everything he wanted, and his physical fitness was indeed terrifying, and the difference in points was stretched to double digits in just half a quarter!

Western head coach Popovich saw that the situation was not good, and quickly brought back the starting Kobe and Durant to help the Western team stabilize the situation.

The All-Star Game is not a regular season, the league has spent a lot of effort to hold it, there are so many celebrities and celebrities on the scene, fans have paid a lot of money to buy tickets to come in, if the game loses suspense early, no one will do it!

Even the broadcaster will be dissatisfied, labor and management spend money to buy your broadcast rights, and as a result, you will play this?

It's the same for the players, the ones who can make it to the All-Star are some big-name players, and the big-name players are arrogant in their hearts, and they don't want to lose, let alone lose in this kind of public, so they have to play the game back.

Therefore, making the game look good is the common point of everyone's interests, so after Kobe Bryant and Durant of the Western team returned, the Western team quickly stabilized the situation, and after a few rounds Howard also returned, James's breakthrough was immediately a little difficult.

The score difference was chased by the Western troops to within 5 points, and Sanders also used an official timeout to replace Li Kaiming and others.

Popovich began to use local packs to limit the double cooperation of Li Kaiming and Rondo, at this time Li Kaiming received the ball and received the bag, and when the ball was distributed to the outside, it was James and Wade who received the ball, neither of whom were good at receiving the ball and shooting three-pointers, so the East troops played extremely awkward during this time.

Before the end of the second quarter, Durant on the Western team suddenly broke out and hit two three-pointers in a row to help the West overtake the score.

At this time, Li Kaiming suddenly missed his teammates on the Wizards team, although Zhan Wei's strength must be much stronger than the Wizards' players, but it was really uncomfortable to let these two shooters on the outside.

So after coming back in the third quarter, Li Kaiming took the initiative to make adjustments, and the guard in the East was replaced by Kyrie Irving, and Li Kaiming became Bosh promAx, helping James and Wade open up space, and Garnett and Garnett to do a good job of interior defense.

With such cooperation, this set of tactics soon played a powerful role, Wade and James are the most violent breakthrough combination in the league, their breakthrough threat and Li Kaiming's space on the outside line, soon let the Western troops take care of one or the other, and the East once again took back the lead.

Until the last five minutes of the game, the Eastern Army still held a six-point lead at this time.

At this time, the court was the starting match between the two sides, and the West Force served Paul over the half, and the latter held the ball with a blocking tactic to the mid-range and hit the shot!

131 to 127!

The East sent the ball to Rondo, who passed the ball to James to the frontcourt, James singled out Durant to break through, and attracted Howard's defense under the basket, James threw a high toss, ready to cooperate with Garnett for an empty catch, but he didn't think that the ball was not caught after the latter came up at an age, and his hand slipped and was stealed.

The West converted to the front court, and the ball was given to Kobe, who turned to the mid-range and hit a shot!

131 to 129!

The Eastern stars pressed the rhythm, the ball was given to Rondo to command the offense, the East ran a simple blocking and dismantling tactic, James went to the basket, Li Kaiming popped up, Rondo passed the ball to Li Kaiming without looking at people, and the latter received the ball and hit a three-point shot!

134 to 129!

It's Li Kaiming who stabilized the score difference again!

The offense in the West gave Durant a single miss, James grabbed the rebound and broke fast, rushed to the inside and encountered the bag and split the ball to Li Kaiming on the outside, who already had a defender in front of him when he received the ball, but he still hit Griffin with a three-point shot!

137 to 129!

Li Kaiming received two consecutive three-pointers and directly stopped the Western Army!

With less than three minutes left, Durant scored a solo shot at 137-131 after the timeout.

The east chose to press the rhythm and play slowly, Li Kaiming came to the waist position, stuck Griffin and seemed to want to have a back to ask for the ball, Griffin struggled to go around the front defense, but Li Kaiming suddenly turned around to clean him, and then pointed his hand to the basket!

Rondo, who was on the outside, understood it, and a straight pass was made to the top of the basket, Li Kaiming jumped up and received the basketball, but Howard appeared in front of him to make up the protective frame.

If it was Li Kaiming who held the ball and dunked even Howard, but the ball was an empty catch, and the height did not depend on him, so he made a smart move in the air and passed the ball behind to Garnett behind Howard, who received the ball and scored a civilian layup!

139 to 131!

Seeing that there was not much time in the game in the West, Kobe Bryant went to the front court to catch the ball and shoot a three-pointer, but unfortunately he didn't shoot, Li Kaiming protected the backcourt rebound, and a long pass was given to James, who received the ball and made a layup and caused a foul!

Walked to the free throw line, James hit both free throws, 141-131, and there were 2 minutes left in the game!

The East chose not to give a three-point shot, Durant scored two points, the West frontcourt pressed, the East sent the ball out, Rondo passed to Li Kaiming, who slowly dribbled through the half, Griffin and Durant were sandwiched, Li Kaiming passed the ball to James, who received the ball and hit an empty three-point shot!

144 to 133! This ball kills the game directly!

In the following game, the West also tried to turn the tables, but the East side did not make a mistake, and in the end, the East defeated the West 148-137 and won the All-Star Game for three consecutive years!