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Chapter 364 All Stars Still Depends on Wang Feng
"Wang Feng appeared at the Mamba Academy to watch Kobe's second daughter Gianna's basketball game live."

"Wang Feng and Kobe had a very happy conversation and have a harmonious relationship."

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

This is a good sign. Wang Feng has a very good personal relationship with the famous Lakers Kobe Bryant. In the eyes of the Lakers fans, it is equivalent to sending a message. At this time, Wang Feng and the Lakers are in the honeymoon period. for satisfaction.

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. Although he does not hold any position in the team, only Kobe himself and Bass The family relationship can often influence some things on the team.

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

Wang Feng, who flies to all over the United States every day to play games, is actually afraid of heights, especially afraid of taking helicopters.

On that day, Kobe was planning to fly to the destination with ten people including Wang Feng and the coach of the Mamba Academy in a private helicopter.

However, Wang Feng was unwilling to take the helicopter, and the weather was not very good that day, and the helicopter pilot had reservations about taking off. Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, or out of respect for Wang Feng, Kobe finally rented a helicopter A bus took everyone to their destination.

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

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

No matter what, Wang Feng's goal was achieved. At the same time, the star of the Lakers watched his daughter's basketball game in person, which also made Kobe a lot of face, and everyone was happy.

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2月1日，湖人队客场129：113战胜国王队，2月4日主场125：102大胜马刺。

Only then on February 2, in the home game against the Rockets, the Lakers lost the game 6:111.

The reason why the Lakers lost to the Rockets was not because the opponent was strong.

It has to be said that the combination of Harden + Westbrook is much worse than the light bulb combination of the previous two seasons in terms of strength.

Paul is obviously more suitable for the Rockets than Westbrook. The Rockets' signings last summer have failed.

What's even more ironic is that Paul, who was traded to the Thunder as an abandoned son, led the Thunder with almost no stars all the way, and the current record is still higher than the Rockets.

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

After the Mog incident broke out, the league chose to deal with it coldly, and due to pressure from the US government, it publicly expressed support for Morey's personal freedom of speech.

At that time, Wang Feng showed the subjective initiative of the keyboard man in the public media, sprayed Morey bloody, and made it clear that he would refuse to participate in all the regular season events related to the Rockets in the new season.

Wang Feng did what he said, so he directly chose to take a rotation in this game and handed it over to Butler, Ingram and others.

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 quite strong, Harden and Westbrook are obviously both in terms of strength and status. Even better.

More importantly, the Lakers have now begun to gradually adapt and become familiar with the style of playing with Wang Feng as the point guard and always mastering the rhythm of the game. When Wang Feng is not on the court, whether it is Butler, Ingram or other players, it is indispensable. It is inevitable to fall into a solo fight, and there is not much teamwork.

Losing in this situation is a matter of course.

Some people may say that Wang Feng refused to play against the Rockets for the sake of disgusting Mo Gou. Wouldn't it make the Rockets happy instead if they let the Rockets win?

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

Although he didn't play in the game, Wang Feng still appeared on the court and made a guest appearance as a DJ for the Lakers during the intermission.

With the microphone in his hand, Wang Feng fully fired, and dragged Mo Gou out again to whip his corpse. His words and tone were so fierce that all the fans cheered and celebrated loudly.

The fans don't really support Wang Feng's spraying Mogou. In fact, as Americans, the vast majority of fans don't care about this kind of thing.

But eating melons and watching the fun is something that people all over the world like. What's the point of hello, me, hello everyone?It just depends on the alignment, it's interesting just to watch the toughness.

Of course, Wang Feng unilaterally yelled at Mo Gou, which made him feel better, but he still paid a price.

Two days later, the alliance announced that because Wang Feng violated the alliance regulations, after discussion, it was decided that Wang Feng would be fined US$[-] and given a warning.

For a period of time after the Mogou incident, in order to stabilize the situation from further deterioration, the league has urgently notified all teams to prohibit talking about Mogou related topics, which is a good explanation of what is freedom of speech under the double standards of the United States.

One hundred thousand U.S. dollars, converted into Huaguo currency, is close to 70 U.S. dollars, which is a huge sum of money.

But for Wang Feng, a top superstar whose annual income exceeds 6000 million US dollars including commercial endorsements, it is completely indifferent.

If he could go to the home court of the Houston Rockets to do the same, he would be happy to double the fine or even add a zero.

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When the time came to February, it was time for the popular All-Star Weekend.

At the end of January, the All-Star voting was over, and Wang Feng and Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo were again elected as the top voters in the East and West respectively.

In addition to Wang Feng in the West, LeBron James of the Clippers, Davis of the Pelicans, Stephen Curry of the Warriors and Luka Doncic of the Mavericks were selected as the All-Star starters.

The five All-Star starters in the Eastern Conference include Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid of the 76ers, Kevin Durant of the Nets, Kemba Walker of the Celtics and the Eagles Team's Trey Young.

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

The Mogou incident obviously had a certain impact on him.

Harden is actually quite unlucky.

In the Mogou incident, he was shot while lying down. Immediately after the incident, Harden stood up and apologized to the fans in China. As a result, this attitude caused dissatisfaction among the fans in the United States. Later, under pressure, Harden then changed his tone, saying that he supported the right to freedom of speech, and then turned his head and offended the fans of Huaguo, becoming a person inside and out.

But there is no way, who made him unlucky to have a pig teammate like Mo Gou?
On February 2, the league broadcast live the All-Star selection session between Wang Feng and Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo.

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

Antetokounmpo chose Embiid, Durant, Walker and Trey Young.

Does this starting lineup look familiar?

That's right, both Wang Feng and Antetokounmpo chose the original starting players from the East and West.

This is of course not their intention, but in accordance with the playbook required by the league.

The All-Star Weekend itself is a performance show. Although the process and results of the game are dominated by the players on the field, the various gimmicks and expectations before the game need the league's script to pave the way.

Even if this foreshadowing seems a little fake and embarrassing, the long-lost East and West All-Star confrontation can indeed arouse the interest of many fans, especially after Durant and George joined the Eastern Conference. The overall strength has also improved qualitatively, and the gap with the West is not particularly big.

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

"The 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 events this time?"

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

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

This is a matter of course. Compared with fame and other false names, the rewards after winning these single events are more fragrant.

Especially the three-pointer, which has reached 97 ability points. If you win the next three-point contest championship trophy, you can raise it to 98 points, which is only one step away from the full value of 99.

As for the Skills Challenge and Slam Dunk Contest, for Wang Feng, they are incidental rewards.

Wang Feng's current dunk ability value is 92. Even if he wins the championship and rewards him with 1 point, reaching 93 will not help the improvement of his strength.

The rewards for the Skills Challenge are even more mixed, and Wang Feng mainly participates with an attitude of being better than nothing.

Seeing that Wang Feng continued to participate in three individual events, the fans were satisfied. One thing to say, in recent years, the performance of individual events has become more and more lackluster, and there is nothing to watch at all.

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

Just like this skill challenge, Wang Feng, Doncic, Tre Young, and Embiid, four All-Star starters, participated in the competition, which is very interesting.

As for 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 contest.

Even in the slam dunk contest, there is a slam dunk master who announced his participation this year, and that is Magic forward Aaron Gordon, who contributed the most exciting duel scene in the history of the slam dunk contest with LaVine in 16.

Gordon and LaVine, with the slam dunk contest in recent years, have faintly become legends of the league. After all, the slam dunk contest gave people a really good impression. After the slam dunk contest, fans missed the original slam dunk showdown even more.

Although Wang Feng has won two slam dunk contest championships, in the eyes of most people, the reason why Wang Feng can win the championship is that there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys are kings.

Wang Feng is very capable of dunking in actual combat. He often contributes wonderful dunks in the field. However, there are still some differences between dunk contests and dunks in actual combat. They pay more attention to creativity. At least in the two times when Wang Feng won the championship, the creativity of dunks was very average. , To win the championship is to rely on more stretched movements and success rates than other players.

There are Doncic and Trey Young in the Skills Challenge.

There are Curry and Thompson in the three-point contest.

The dunk contest has Aaron Gordon.

In this way, Wang Feng may lose the three individual events of the All-Star Weekend, which naturally becomes full of attention.

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If possible, Wang Feng naturally doesn't want too many strong opponents in these competitions. Compared with exciting and fierce competitions, he is more willing to lie down and easily win the championship and reap the rewards of the system.

The most embarrassing thing is that after a long time of hard work, I failed to win the game, wasting my energy in vain, not to mention thankless, and even losing.

For this reason, Wang Feng also had to spare some energy and added some practice 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 was still going on, and the Lakers, led by Wang Feng, continued to make great strides.

On February 2, the Lakers beat the Warriors 8:125 in an away game. Wang Feng and Curry staged a soaring point battle. Curry scored 120 points and Wang Feng scored 38 points.

The butterfly effect can also be regarded as indirectly helping the Warriors. At present, the healthy Warriors have gradually suppressed Jokic's Nuggets, and their record ranks third in the Western Conference. The trio of Curry + Thompson + Green is absolutely powerful. Is the league's top level.

On February 2, the Lakers beat the Phoenix Suns 10:122 at home.

2月12日，湖人对上西部战绩第四的丹佛掘金，约基奇虽然统治了内线，砍下33分12篮板6助攻，但是对上王峰的37分11篮板13助攻还是败下阵来。

The Lakers ended all games before the All-Star break with a wave of small winning streaks.

On February 2th, the All-Star Weekend in Chicago arrived.

(End of this chapter)