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Chapter 350 The All-Star Game Without Li Ran 4K
With the end of this match, the name of Li Ran's tainted milk quickly spread throughout the country.

At this time, Huang Xudong was not yet famous, and Li Ran became China's first generation of poisonous milk, known as poisonous milk ran.

After all, it was quite unexpected that Li Ran could lose a game that was a sure win.

Closer to home, Li Ran called Kirilenko and found that Kirilenko's injury was worse than expected.

Even if there is no operation, he will have to rest for at least two months.

If you have an operation, you will be reimbursed for the season.

For a veteran in his 30s, such an injury, even if Kirilenko recovers from his injury, will undoubtedly affect his next competitive state.

This means that last season's super Grizzlies with full offensive and defensive dominance will never reappear in the future.

Not to mention Li Ran, even if Pickled Pepper can fill Kirilenko's vacancy when he grows up, Duncan is also one year older, and his defense ability will only get worse and worse.

Sure enough, without Li Ran and Kirilenko, the two perimeter defensive gates, the Grizzlies' defense fell sharply in the next game.

In this case, Curry stood up.

He and Paojiao performed extremely well on the offensive end, making up for their deficiencies in defense with offense.

Only in this way, the Grizzlies looked a little strange.

The Grizzlies suddenly went from a dominant team with balanced offense and defense to a team that played fast and small.

Fortunately, Calipari does this in his own job, and this tactic unexpectedly fits the changed Grizzlies.

After communicating with Li Ran, Calipari decided to make big changes in the team's tactics.

The DDM tactics that once won the NCAA championship came back.

In the following period of time, the data of Curry and Pickled Pepper rose rapidly.

Curry averaged 25.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 6.6 assists per game, and Pickle's scoring average reached 20 for the first time.
Li Ran suddenly discovered that the current Grizzly's perimeter configuration was similar to that of the Warrior in another time and space.

The trio with strong outside offensive power is paired with the inside line who concentrates on organization and defense.

But Li Ran's departure brought more changes to the NBA this season than that.

The pattern of the West has changed from one superpower to many powerhouses to a duo competing for hegemony.

The first super is of course the Grizzlies, and the strongest are the Lakers, Nuggets, Spurs, Mavericks and other teams.

And this season, the West has completely become a show for the Lakers and Grizzlies.

The two teams chased after each other, and there was a significant gap between them and the teams behind.

As for the east, there is one more spoiler.

Outside of the Heat and Bulls, the Knicks led by Anthony have become a team not to be underestimated.

Through trades and signings this season, they got the "Roaring God" Rasheed Wallace, Jason Kidd, whose contract with the Mavericks expired, and the perimeter player Iman Shumpert, who they selected themselves, He has also gradually grown into a perimeter defensive leader, more precisely, an elite 3D player.

Without Li Ran's NBA, although many stories are missing, it is still exciting enough.

It was the end of the year in a blink of an eye, and Li Ran and Taylor spent a serious Spring Festival in China.

Christmas or something is really not to Li Ran's liking.

Seeing Taylor wearing scarf gloves and smiling like a child in the heavy snow, coupled with the sound of crackling firecrackers around, Li Ran felt that the happiest thing in life was nothing more than that.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Ran watched this year's All-Star Game on the sofa at home.

He didn't go to Tianchao TV to explain the game, nor did he go to the United States with the film crew, but chose to take a good rest at home.

Of course, during the time at home, Li Ran was not idle.

He converted himself a huge study at home with several cabinets.

However, there are not books in this cabinet, but reels of video tapes.

Inside is that he can collect almost all NBA game videos.

Whenever he had time, Li Ran would go into his study and watch for an entire afternoon. Sometimes he could watch a game for several hours, writing and drawing on paper while watching.

This is Li Ran's attempt at his future career after gradually breaking away from the help of the system.

As for the result, even Li Ran didn't know.

This year's All-Star, Kobe finally broke free from the shadow of Li Ran for four years, and successfully became the All-Star vote leader.

However, his number of votes was more than 100 million less than last year's Li Ran.

Following Kobe is James, who has 10,000+ votes less than Kobe.

Fans are looking forward to whether Kobe can lead the Lakers to win his fourth championship ring without Li Ran.

Even Li Ran, who is a traverser, doesn't know about this.

Because this time-space is completely different from another time-space.

This year's All-Star Game has made some changes in the rules, mainly in terms of position.

They finally canceled the center position, so that the center position is no longer exclusive to certain players.

球迷只需要选出2个后场球员和3个前场球员担任先发。东西部各有60名球员进入全明星赛票选的候选名单，总人数为120人；后场球员48名，前场球员（包括前锋和中锋）60名。有24名球员参加，东西部各12人，其中5名首发球员、7名替补。

This change was made a full year earlier, and many people believed that it was to limit Lakers center Yao Ming.

However, Yao Ming still became the starter in the Western Conference with the support of Huaxia fans. . .

Western starters are: Paul, Kobe, Durant, Griffin, Yao Ming.

Eastern starters are: Rose, Wade, Anthony, James, Bosh.

This year, Rose's data is even more explosive.

However, Rose, who is still healthy, handed in a perfect score.

28.7分6.1篮板7.8助攻1.8抢断，命中率48.7%，三分球命中率38.8%。

This was a height that Ross in his previous life had never reached.

And, it seems, Rose hasn't really reached his peak yet.

This year's Rookie Challenge is finally no longer a monotonous confrontation between the first-year team and the second-year team. Perhaps the league also believes that such a confrontation lacks suspense.

So, a week ago, the NBA officially announced that this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge will be held in a completely different format from the past.

The 2012 Rookie Challenge will feature mixed teams of freshmen and sophomores.

According to the arrangement, the shortlist for the 2012 Rookie Challenge is selected by the assistant coaches of the NBA teams.

Charles Barkley and "Shark" O'Neal, who are TNT TV commentators, will serve as the general managers of the two teams respectively. They will each select 2 candidates from the list of candidates through the draft on February 16, local time. players.

Rookie Challenge contestants are voted on by assistant coaches of NBA teams.

The quality of NBA drafts in recent years has been extremely high. This year's No. [-] pick should have belonged to the Hornets. King's hand.

Unsurprisingly, the Kings chose Anthony Davis, a super rookie who graduated from the University of Kentucky, known as Big Eyebrow.

In another time and space, it will take several years for the super twin towers of Anthony Davis and Cousins ​​​​to gather in the Pelicans. This life will directly reappear in the Kings.

I don't know what kind of sparks can be created by the two people who have been partners since their rookie period.

The No. [-] pick is still the long and strange Michael Gilchrist, who was selected by the Bobcats.

Mr. Joe's vision of selecting candidates is as accurate and vicious as ever. With Bill, Lillard, Barnes, Drummond and others behind him, Mr. Joe still chooses the player with only 8+5 in his career without hesitation. Makiji.

It is worth mentioning that the Grizzlies used their unshakable first-round No. 30 pick in the past two years to choose a short insider who graduated from Michigan State University.

He has neither three-pointers, breakthroughs, or post-up ability inside. He only has a tough defensive attitude, pay attention, it is an attitude.

The rest, gone.

The player's name is Draymond Green.

well, let's get back to business.

Shaq O'Neal selected Jeremy Lin and Blake Griffin with the first two picks in the ensuing NBA rookie draft.Another rookie team manager, Charles Barkley, took No. [-] pick Kyrie Irving into his account.

After a series of tacit sharing of spoils, the two finally selected their favorite ten players.

"Shaq" O'Neal (TEAM SHAQ)'s ten-man roster is as follows: Lillard (Blazers), Kyrie Irving (Cavaliers), Nicholson (Magic), Klay Thompson (Hornets), Harrison Bahn Ruth (Warriors), Parsons (Rockets), Waiters (Cavaliers), Gilchrist (Bobcats), Zeller (Cavaliers), Kemba Walker (Bobcats)
Head Coaches: Ron Adams, Steve Kerr.General Manager: Shaquille O'Neal.

The [-]-man roster for TEAM CHUCK is as follows: Anthony Davis (Kings), Faried (Nuggets), Leonard (Red Bulls), Beal (Wizards), Rubio (Timberwolves) ), Tristan Thompson (Cavaliers), Vucevic (Magic), Knight (Pistons), Isaiah Thomas (Kings), Sheved (Timberwolves)

Head Coaches: Maurice Cheeks, Mike Fratello.General Manager: Charles Barkley.

In the end, Barkley's Chuck team had the last laugh.

On February 2013, 2, in the All-Star Rookie Game, Team Barkley beat Team O'Neal 16-163 for the second consecutive year.The Barkley team broke the rookie game single-game scoring record. Irving scored 135 points, Nuggets giant Faried had 32 points and 40 rebounds, and Parsons had 10 points.

Nuggets beast Faried made 22 of 18 shots and grabbed 40 points and 10 rebounds, winning the MVP.

This guy is also a typical top talent below the neck, but unfortunately, like his nickname Orc, he only brought his body and forgot his brain at home.

This year's skill challenge was won by Duncan's old teammate, French sports car Tony Parker.

He defeated future super point guards such as John Wall, Curry, Westbrook, Irving, etc., and won this gold-rich championship.

Speaking of Westbrook, in the last game before the All-Star Game, together with Durant, he set a moderate record.

在主场118-129击败掘金的比赛中，杜兰特全场28投19中，狂砍51分8篮板4助攻4抢断。

Westbrook, on the other hand, output crazily under his big brother's crotch. He made 29 of 16 shots and scored 40 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists.

This is the first time in the NBA that another player on the same team scored 50 points in a game where a player scored 40+ points.

The talent of Thunder Third Young Master is really visible to the blind.

Harden has also grown into a super sixth man player this season. He averaged 16.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.7 steals per game. He is the most powerful contender for the best sixth man this season.

However, Harden's true strength on the offensive end still has to leave Oklahoma to show it to everyone in the world.

In the three-point contest, the new core of the bitter cold Minnesota Timberwolves, the league's new double-double machine Kevin Love defeated Durant, who replaced the injured Joe Johnson, and won the championship.

However, because Curry did not participate in this year's three-point contest, this championship seems somewhat insufficient. . .

This year's slam dunk contest, Pickle enthusiastically signed up to participate, and he competed on the same stage with Mosaic's Zeiss Budinger, Jazz's Jeremy Evans and Timberwolves' rookie Derek Williams .

This year's slam dunk contest also adopted a new competition system.

Compared with before, the new competition system only includes one round of competition, and each player has three dunk opportunities.After each player completes his first dunk, fans can start voting.

In the previous slam dunk contest, there were two rounds of competition, and the winner of the first round was decided by the referee.

The referee sitting on the sidelines has also changed from the key to determining the outcome of the game to a dispensable mascot.

Budinger was the first to play, and his first action was very brilliant, jumping over the head of the assister, and the first dunk was successful.

Evans made his second appearance. He hung on the rim for a long time after dunking, and Iguodala even gave 0 points on the sidelines.However, this scoring is invalid because there are no judges today. . . .

Pickle's first move was to fly over the two dunks, but his teammate Xiaojia was too high, and he failed twice in a row.Finally, after Hibbert bowed his head slightly for the third time, Pickled Pepper pressed his shoulder, made a successful leap and dunked.

The most able to play tricks has to be Timberwolves' rookie Derek Williams, who appeared directly on a motorcycle.

And his action is to leap over the motorcycle and then slam dunk with his arms. He tried three times and finally succeeded.

Budinger's second action was simple and rough, he jumped up in the air and swung his arms, and finally dunked with one hand.

Evans is more creative.He jumped over the head of the assister sitting under the basket, caught two passes in the air, and dunked two shots with both hands. He succeeded on the second attempt and was applauded.

Pickled Pepper also had a whole job in the second round. After he played, all the lights on the field suddenly went out.

The figure of Pickled Pepper could be vaguely seen from the fluorescent light on the scene. In the complete darkness, he turned around and dunked 360 degrees successfully.

Williams' second dunk was coordinated by teammate Ricky Rubio.

Rubio ran with the ball in front and threw the ball up at the same time. Williams followed behind and dunked the ball in an alley-oop.

Budinger's third action is a blindfolded dunk.This action is more dangerous, but Budinger succeeded in the second try.He walked slowly at first, then suddenly accelerated, rushed to the basket and took off, turned around and hit a backhand dunk.

Evans' third dunk should be dedicated to Karl Malone.A man acting as a courier sent him a Malone jersey. After putting it on, Evans imitated Malone's movements and jumped over the "deliverer" to dunk.

George also paid tribute to the seniors.His action was to jump up in the air, put a photo of Larry Bird on the backboard, then slip under the backboard and successfully dunk with a backhand.Unlike the previous life where it took three times to succeed, this time, pickled peppers succeeded for the first time.

Williams still cooperated with Rubio in the last action, but failed, so he had to change the action, but still failed to complete it. In the end, he could only end with a simple dunk with both hands after catching the rebound ball. Compared with his previous two The wonderful performance in the first round, the third round can only be said to be anticlimactic.

In the end, Pickled Pepper won 33% of the fans' votes, beating Evans with 29% support, and won this year's slam dunk contest.

(End of this chapter)