"Brother, what's the show today?"

"Are you going to sea again?"

At 1 p.m. on Feb. 13, Doon met again with Anthony and Wade.

"I'll take you to a massage later."

Doon explained the arrangements for the afternoon to Anthony and Wade.

Wade smiled when he heard this: "Is it serious? ”

"Hey, hey, absolutely serious!" Doon smiled crookedly.

Anthony also showed the iconic, sunny and cheerful big boy's bright smile.

It didn't take long for Anthony and Wade, who were enjoying the massage, to scream "ah, ah, ah".

"Brother, I'm Fak you!"

"Dwan, didn't you say it would be comfortable?"

Faced with Anthony and Wade's questioning, Doon said disapprerovantly: "Just ask you, are you comfortable?" Serious or not? ”

When Anthony and Wade heard this, they could only say without a fuck.

"Forgot what you learned in rookie camp?

We should get the ball right now and don't worry too much about other things.

There's also a Rookie Festival in the evening! You don't want to lose to the second graders, do you? ”

As the head snake in Los Angeles, if Doon wants to continue to arrange a Haitian feast for Anthony and Wade, it is naturally not difficult, and at the same time, Doon is not short of money.

The problem is, Doon needs the Rookie Challenge MVP, and Doon needs to use the power of Anthony and Wade to help him win the next Rookie Challenge.

Usually Rookie Challenge is won by the more experienced sophomore team.

And the MVP of the Rookie Challenge will only be selected from the winning team.

Doon checked in advance, starting with the Rookie Challenge in '94 and ending with last year's All-Star Weekend, a total of 9 Rookie Challenge MVPs were born.

They are Anfernee Hardaway, Eddie Jones, Damon Stoudemire, Aaron Iverson, Zaid Lunas Ilguskas, Elton Brand, Wally Szzebiak, Jason Richardson, Gilbert Arenas.

In other words, once Doon wins the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, the ceiling is a supergiant like Iverson, and the lower limit is a flying squirrel or a quasi-All-Star like Richardson who averages 20+ per game at his peak.

It is also because the vast majority of Rookie Challenge MVPs are All-Star players, which means that the Rookie Challenge MVP template is no different from the All-Star template.

The Rookie Challenge is about to start, and Doon has Anthony and Wade to help him, so Doon naturally won't miss a good opportunity to get the MVP template of the Rookie Challenge.

"Doon, you're right, let's all three of us win the rookie challenge that night!

But you'll have to treat us well tomorrow, and don't make any more excuses!

We came to Los Angeles to have fun. ”

After going out to sea yesterday afternoon, Anthony also began to liberate his nature, and his personality became lively and cheerful.

In the past, Anthony was more sullen, and even between men and women, it was his girlfriend who took the initiative to attack him, which forced him to comply.

Just like yesterday when he went to sea, Anthony is like an old scumbag, not taking the initiative, not refusing, not being responsible. But when it's time to do the right thing, I work harder than anyone else.

It was also yesterday that Wade invited Doon to go on an expedition in Miami, and Anthony realized that he could still play like this.

Now that everyone has no girlfriend around, they are naturally more open.

"Don't worry, even if there is a slam dunk contest to participate in tomorrow, I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman, and I will definitely make you happy!"

Doon made a promise, and Anthony and Wade had no other opinions.

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the three of Doon arrived at the Staples Center together to start warming up and practicing.

The Rookie Challenge starts a little earlier than the regular game, at half-past five.

However, the Rookie Challenge is usually not watched by many people, and the 20,000-person arena is certainly not satisfied.

Sometimes, they are even arranged to play in a university arena with only four or five thousand seats.

Of course, as players from both sides, I still took this game very seriously, and came to the Staples Center early to start warming up early.

When the Doon trio arrived at the arena, Sinrich, Bosh, Kaman and others had already arrived, and the necklines of most of the first-year rookie training uniforms were already wet.

And here, Doon met Yao Ming again.

Originally, it was just a simple greeting to go up, but the members of Yao's team entangled again, and it didn't take long for domestic reporters to want to interview Doon.

Doon could only delay the warm-up time a little and deal with one or two.

Fortunately, there was no too much entanglement, and after a few minutes of a brief interview, Doon participated in the group warm-up with the first-year rookie. 、

In other words, this year's Eastern and Western All-Star head coaches are Carlisle of the Pacers and Sanders of the Timberwolves.

The Western Conference All-Star head coach was supposed to be a Zen master, after all, the Lakers are the No. 1 team in the West.

However, the Zen master refused on the grounds of ill health, but in fact he did not want to work overtime on the All-Star Weekend, but wanted to go on vacation with Jenny.

And Rick Adelman, the head coach of the second Kings in the West, was the head coach of the Western Conference All-Star last year, so this year's Western Conference All-Star head coach fell directly to Sanders, the third in the West.

This means that the coaches of the first-year team and the second-year team are assistant coaches for the Pacers and Timberwolves, respectively.

The coach of the Rookie Challenge, although usually a decoration, does not call a timeout.

However, there are also coaches who have the role of being able to decide which five people are playing on the field.

It is also because Doon has a good relationship with Reggie Miller, and Pacers assistant coach Mike Brown also has a good attitude towards Doane.

That's right, it's the only bread that has coached Kobe, James, and Curry in the future!

Mike Brown received a championship ring with the Spurs last season as Popovich's assistant coach and then jumped to the Pacers with Carlisle.

Also because of his background in the Spurs system, Mike Brown is currently better at building a defensive system and of course knows a little bit about the tactics of handing the ball to Duncan.

If it takes another dozen years, Mike Brown's tactics can be expanded to give the ball to James, the ball to Kobe, and the ball to Curry......

In short, Mike Brown, who also wants to help the first-year team win the rookie challenge, knows how to use the resources of the first-year rookie to match the roster reasonably and build a better defensive system.

Wade, Hinrich, Doon, Anthony, Bosh, that's the starting lineup that Mike Brown picked.

In fact, Hinrich is more suitable to play point guard and Wade is more suitable to play point guard, but in the Heat and Bulls, Wade plays point guard and Hinrich plays point guard.

As for Bosh, even O'Neill has topped it, playing a rookie challenge, what happened to Yao Ming? Try and you won't die.

At the moment, although the starting lineup is relatively small, Doon is still very satisfied.

The Rookie Challenge is similar to the All-Star Game, and the first three quarters (the first 30 minutes) are not guarded against.

Therefore, it is usually a fast break, constantly turning back and running, and hitting the basket.

It doesn't matter if the starting lineup is small, it's useless to send out the five dead ones anyway, they are all undefended, so it's better to speed up the five dead ones!

Besides, in the starting lineup, Wade and Anthony are both Doon's brothers.

Wade plays point guard, isn't that what he is here to dribble to Doon?

Doon is naturally very satisfied with this lineup that is more suitable for playing.

As for who is not satisfied? Naturally, James will not be satisfied.

"Obviously I'm the champion!"

James played as a substitute for Doon in the Rookie Challenge, and with a look of grievance and dissatisfaction, he took the initiative to find Mike Brown to ask for an explanation.

Mike Brown didn't pay much attention to James's vexatiousness, but just asked James: "Can you replace Doon, or are you willing to replace Cameron in the No. 4 position?" ”

In order to better adapt to the rhythm of the NBA game and give full play to his strengths, James played the No. 1 position in the Cavaliers.

Now if you want him to go to the fourth position to do dirty work and tiring work, isn't that more uncomfortable than killing him?

Although James would love to replace Doane, after all, this starting lineup is also very suitable for him to play.

But the problem is that the ability that Doon showed in the regular season, whether it is all aspects of statistics, or team results, or counterpoint performance, makes him speechless.

Now that the only rookie with a dissenting opinion has shut up, the starting lineup for the first-year team has been decided.

In the blink of an eye, it was half past five in the evening, and most of the seats in the Staples Center were already filled with audiences.

Although it didn't fill the entire arena, it was already quite remarkable compared to previous rookie challenges.

"Doon, do you want to jump the ball?"

Before the jump ball begins, Bosh offers to show goodwill to Doon.

The starting center of the second-grade team was Yao Ming, and the jump ball should have been Bosh and Yao Ming.

However, considering that Doon and Yao Ming are from the same country, Bosh gave the jump ball to Doon.

When Doon heard this, he also nodded and thanked him: "Thank you, Chris, I'll pass you the ball later." ”

"Hey, that's it! I know your passing is great and Shaq often praises you in the media! ”

It seems that Bosh has also been paying attention to Doon for a long time and wants to play brother basketball together in the future.

"Da Yao, I'll dance with you."

"Okay, hahaha!"

Yao Ming also smiled with a trademark smile when he saw Doon come to him.

Soon, the referee threw the ball into the air, maybe Yao Ming didn't take it seriously at all, didn't jump, just stood in place and stretched out.

Dunn was serious, and he really riveted himself to get the ball from Yao Ming's hand, so he jumped violently.

When Doon flew into the air, he found that Yao Ming hadn't jumped yet.

"Da Yao, don't release the water, it's boring to release the water."

Doon racketed the ball back to the backcourt, said a word to Yao Ming, and walked to the frontcourt.

Soon, Wade dribbled the ball across the half court, and Doon didn't even say he wanted the ball, so Wade put the ball in Doon's hands with understanding, and then played without the ball, got rid of Ginobili's defense, and went around the empty basket.

Seeing this, Doon feigned and raised his hand to attract the defense.

I don't take my guard seriously in the first 30 minutes of the Rookie Challenge, but I will stretch out my hand and step my legs, just pretending.

Doon is the most famous one in the first grade, and Doon pretends to raise his hand, and the second-year outside line will naturally pounce on Doon's side, pretending to interfere.

No, Doon's move was a fake shot, and with lightning speed, he passed the ball to Wade under the basket.

Wade's speed was too fast, and when Wade burst to the basket, Yao Ming was still outside the restricted area.

At this time, Wade got the ball, and Yao Ming wanted to defend Wade, so he needed to take another step into the penalty area.

is also because Yao Ming is more honest in defense, and noticed that Wade was taking the ball under the basket, so he took a step into the penalty area seriously, and then saw the power of Wade's fall.

"Brother, you're working too hard, this is the Rookie Challenge, there's no need to fight like this."

Seeing Wade score two plus one, Doon immediately stepped forward to help Wade up.

At the same time, Anthony also walked towards Wade.

Wade also knew that Doon and Anthony would come over to help him, so he didn't rush to get up from the ground, but just stretched out his hands to Doon and Anthony.

"Did you two secretly practice behind my back? Why is the cooperation so tacit? ”

Anthony first put on a posture that I came first, and then said with a smile: "I like this tacit cooperation between brothers. ”

Soon, Wade was pulled up from the ground by Doon and Anthony, and then stood on the free throw line and high-fived Doon and other starters one after another.

Brush –

The penalty was added and the first-graders took a three-point lead.