On his first day in Los Angeles, Woody took part in various business activities from the moment he got off the plane to the hotel, and continued until the evening when he had time to rest.

At the end of a busy day, Woody had a feeling:

Tired!

No wonder Yao Ming said that when he participated in All-Star Weekend for the first time, he was more tired than playing "back-to-back".

All-Star Weekend is a "show" that David Stern uses to give back to his fans.

Therefore, in terms of publicity, it can be described as a "super double"!

Especially Woody, a "super hot star", can't be pushed off an event.

It's not just David Stern, it's also the brand behind Woody.

How can this "zero-distance" opportunity to contact potential consumers be shirked?

Originally, Woody had made an appointment with Scarlett to meet, but when he returned to the hotel that night, he fell asleep, and the next morning he was waiting for Scarlett with twelve missed calls. He was just about to make a phone call and explain that Johnson was already knocking on the door. He could only send a text message in a hurry:

By all means next time!

The first day of All-Star Weekend is the Rookie Challenge.

First-year rookies form a team to challenge second-year rookies.

The attention of this show mainly depends on whether there are "super newcomers".

Last year, there was not much attention from the previous one, because these two were both draft years.

This year, there have been fans looking forward to it since a long time ago.

No way, the popularity of the "03 Golden Generation" is too high!

The St. Mary's Twins will be teammates again on this stage, which is also a very gimmicky attraction.

A reporter asked LeBron James about his expectations before the rookie challenge.

He just stole the limelight by Woody once, and he hasn't fully recovered, he didn't expect that from Akron to Los Angeles, the city has changed, and the topic around him has not changed:

Woody!

Woody!

It's Woody!

You want to know so much, why don't you ask Woody what to expect from the upcoming LeBron James team-up?

In fact, a reporter asked Woody about this question.

But in the process of questioning, the reporter's questions to Woody were:

How it was like for him to participate in All-Star Weekend for the first time.

Preparation for the upcoming All-Star Game.

Then there's the feeling of playing alongside LeBron James again.

On LeBron James's side, the "St. Mary's Twins" teaming up at the Rookie Challenge was the first question a reporter asked......

Clearly, the less important issues in Woody were the areas where the reporters were most interested in him.

I, the dignified ESPN "Ah King" actually accompanied to such a point!

This......

But even with so much dissatisfaction in his heart, when answering this question, LeBron James still had to squeeze out a smile of memory: "I can't wait to play alongside Woody again, I think this must be a cool thing!" ”

There's no way, the character of "brotherly love" has been played, he can't lift a stone to shoot himself in the foot, right?

However, he has already made up his mind in his heart, no matter what, he must not be Woody's foil this time!

On the first-year team, in addition to Woody and LeBron, there are Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, TJ Ford, Hayes, Hinrich, Josh Howard, and Chris Carman.

Wade missed the All-Star Rookie Challenge due to injury, and his spot was taken by Barbossa.

In terms of squad composition, except for Chris Carman and Barbossa, everyone else is the starting and even core players of their respective teams, and the "three talents" are the cornerstone of the team.

Although it is only the first grade, the strength of the lineup is much stronger than the first-year lineup of previous years.

Compared to them, 02 was originally a draft year.

Yao Ming and Xiao Si are the leaders of this sophomore team, but Yao Ming has already determined that he will not play too long in the Rookie Challenge because he is going to play the All-Star Game.

In addition to Yao Ming, the only team that can handle this team is Manu Ginobili, the "sixth man" of the Spurs.

Others, such as Dunleavy and others, can only be regarded as decent main players, and the competitiveness is similar to that of Josh Howard and others.

This team lacks a core defender who can organize.

So before the game, most of the media were more optimistic about the first-year team.

Of course, the optimism of this group of media, sometimes, is really not a good thing, LeBron is also afraid of "poisoned milk", and before the game, he specially gathered everyone and said impassionedly:

"Guys, we're called the 'Golden Generation' and this challenge is a race for us to prove to everyone why we're the 'Golden Generation', guys, let's fight!"

These words are very middle-class, but they are also in line with this age.

Their group of rookies who have just entered the league are also proud of the "03 Golden Generation", and LeBron James's words can be regarded as speaking to their hearts. One by one, they are eager to try.

Seeing everyone's positive response, LeBron James feels that his prestige is still enough!

A little more smile on his face.

This should be the happiest time he has had in recent days.

But the joy didn't last long, and when the rookie challenge began, when he saw the apparently largest number of Woody posters in the audience, and when all the reporters pointed their cameras at Woody for the first time, he felt that he was stealing the limelight again.

Woody just stood there, doing nothing, and was already shining brighter than him!

This feeling made him very uncomfortable.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that Woody made the fans on the scene happy from the beginning today, and specially did the action of "throwing magnesium powder" that he had not done for a long time.

This action made the audience scream again and again, which made LeBron James's eyes hot.

God knows how excited he was when he saw it from the team.

While practicing this move, he really felt like he had become a "King......

“emperor！”

“emperor！”

“emperor！”

……

The unified "emperor" voice sounded at the scene.

Adidas's overwhelming publicity has already had an effect, and now fans who follow the NBA know Woody's intention to choose the No. 95 jersey.

The shouts of "Emperor" Woody also began to spread from the mouths of every Woody fan.

LeBron James listened to these shouts and also remembered in hindsight that his team wouldn't let him call himself "King" anymore.

Because "King" is just a king, "emperor" is an emperor!

There is a great distance between the king and the emperor in terms of force......

They don't want to see LeBron James pressing as well as Woody.

However, he has always dreamed of wearing a crown on his head and practicing in front of the mirror. He is really unwilling to let him use the title "King" now...... This made him secretly say again in his heart:

This time, you must not be Woody's foil!

Wait, when this game is over, the name in these mouths will change to another name......

LeBron made up his mind.

So much so that at the beginning of the game, he was very motivated.

came up with his signature "Tank Charge", but at this time, Yao Ming was still on the field, and he directly slapped him down.

Woody followed closely and just took the ball, Yao Ming just straightened his arm to cover LeBron, and at this time, in the face of the menacing Woody, he couldn't block Woody in time.

As for the exciting "Huaxia inside collision" with Woody in the air, Yao Ming's answer is:

No！

"Phew!"

As soon as he got out of the way, Woody smashed the ball into the basket as well.

The first goal of the '04 All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge came from Woody's trademark follow-up dunk and a second offense.

Seeing Woody score, the first-year team head coach on the sidelines, Shaq O'Neal, rushed towards Woody at that time, wanting to give the "Big Shark" kiss, but Woody reacted in time.

Ugly rejection!

"Dude, just fight like this, don't worry about me behind you!"

Woody landed, caught up with LeBron, and patted him on the shoulder.

A "I knew you were going to be covered" tone.

LeBron James barely managed to squeeze out a smile and responded to Woody's pat on the shoulder.

This special thing is said to be not a foil, why did he become a foil again as soon as he came up?

Bill Wharton said: "It seems that Woody is still so familiar with LeBron James, and we have reason to believe that this has happened many times at St. Mary's High School!" ”

Otherwise, how could you be so familiar with the road?

Especially the action of patting the shoulder after the dunk is really a "stroke of genius".

I haven't played once, so it's really impossible to have such a knee-jerk reaction.

is from the perspective of physiognomy, LeBron should be the big brother!

The sophomore team countered with Manu Ginobili facing Josh Howard on the flank, and it was also the signature skill "Serpentine Break" that easily got rid of the latter.

That is, this guy is a player under his own hands, otherwise the head coach of the sophomore team, Barkley, may have to send a sentence:

"This is the most twisted I have ever seen, even more twisted than the most expensive girl I ordered!"

But the problem is that on the first-year team, from LeBron in the No. 1 position, to Woody in the No. 4 position, and Chris Bosh in the No. 5 position, these are all very defense-conscious players, no matter how much he can twist, he can only take two steps after taking the ball.

After the fight, Ginobili recalled his performance in the rookie challenge and had this to say: "When I jumped, I felt like the whole top of my head was palms ......"

Airless!

"Smack!"

I don't know which hand covered his ball, but his ball was covered anyway.

LeBron rushed towards the ball as soon as he landed, but it was Woody who controlled the ball first.

In terms of physical coordination and flexibility, LeBron really can't compare with Woody.

"Ball!"

LeBron subconsciously asked for the ball.

He didn't want to be Woody's foil in this game, so his plan was to keep the ball firmly in his hands from the start and then ......

Grab the ball and attack!

As long as he has the highest scoring stats on the first-year team, as long as the team wins, then he is the ultimate "Rookie Challenge MVP".

If he loses, that's fine, as long as Woody doesn't win the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, he'll accept it!

But at this moment, Woody took the ball in his hand, and the memory in his memory came flooding back:

In the high school league, after this guy grabbed the ball, he always carried the ball from the back court to the front court.

This guy can control the ball!

However, the sophomore team was quick to defend back, and Woody advanced quickly with the ball, and there was no chance to break quickly until the frontcourt.

LeBron James immediately breathed a sigh of relief, now he has to give me the ball after all, right?

Unexpectedly, Woody didn't give him the ball very much, but dribbled to the flank to face Xiao Si who was defending on the opposite side, and then kept raising his hand to heat up the atmosphere of the scene.

As the cheers grew louder, Woody also started his "dribble show"!

After loading Barkley's template, Woody's dribbling potential came to 90 points. During this time, with his continuous practice, his dribbling ability has also come to 73 points, although it has not yet reached the level of the main NBA players.

In the regular season, he also doesn't take the initiative to dribble and attack.

But this dribbling ability is enough for him to show off a "continuous crotch dribble" on a stage like the Rookie Challenge.

His style of play, which is diametrically opposed to usual, made the whole atmosphere of the scene suddenly high.

Shaq O'Neill also laughed out loud next to him.

In his opinion, Woody was paying homage to his funny time at All-Star Weekend!

The child can be taught!

Drexler, who was in the commentary seat, looked at Woody's sudden move and said with a smile on his face: "It can be seen that Woody knows how to express himself on this stage!" ”

LeBron James crossed his waist and watched from the side.

He......

Dumbfounded!

As for Xiao Si, who was defending Woody, he looked at Woody who finished showing off his "crotch" with a serious expression, waiting very seriously for the moment when he broke through.

Woody had been watching his movements, and knew very well that this guy was very serious.

Although Xiao Si is only an inside lineman, his mobility ability is not inferior to that of ordinary forward players, and with his ability to break through with the ball, it may be very difficult to force a breakthrough through Xiao Si. There has to be some change of direction.

But in terms of Woody's ability to change direction......

I was afraid that I didn't shake Xiao Si away, and shook the ball out of my hand first.

You have to be surprised!

His peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of Maddie in the audience on the sidelines.

This "man who can't wake up" also came.

Pregnant!

A certain picture appeared in Woody's mind, and when he immediately broke through with the ball and stepped on the three-point line, Xiao Si was already completely stopped in front of him, Woody forcibly took another step inside, holding the ball with both hands to make a shooting action, and successfully deceived Xiao Si to jump up and smash the ball towards the rebound.

Suddenly, very vigorously, the ball hit the rebound, made a "bang" sound, and bounced straight back, and when the ball bounced straight back, there was a burst of exclamations in the audience.

A figure wearing the number 95 jersey was already flying in the air, holding the bounced ball in his hand and smashing it straight into the basket.

"Phew!"

One-handed clasp after gliding!

The scene suddenly boiled.

(End of chapter)