The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 316
The current All-Star Game is jointly hosted by the Knicks and the Nets.

The All-Star Game will be held at Madison Square Garden, home of the Knicks, and the rest of the games will be held at Barclays Center, home of the Nets.

Therefore, the Rookie Challenge on the first day of the All-Star Weekend was arranged at the Barclays Center.

In order to save the ratings, this year's rookie challenge has changed the rules again.

This year is no longer a competition between the first and second grades, or a competition for celebrity selection, but has been changed to the ugly country team and the world team.

Although doing so is still showing the basketball strength of the ugly country, it has to be said that this is also a proof of the rise of the world's basketball strength (well, except for a certain country).

After all, the Ugly National Team back then beat the whole world!

Among them, the list of the ugly country team: McAway, Oladipo, Burke, Pope, LaVine, Muhammad, Noel, Plumlee, Cody Taylor, Payton.

International Team: Wiggins, Antetokounmpo, Jokic, Bogdanovic, Dieng, Exum, Mirotic, Gobert, Olynik, Schroeder.

However, due to injury problems, McAway, Olynyk and Adams were all absent due to injuries and had to be replaced by Covington, Papanicolaou and Dellavedova.

As a result, the Kings have three players selected for the Rookie Challenge this time!

On the day of the game, Li Pu also came to the scene to cheer for his teammates.

"Prince, which team do you support?"

"Beauty, are you doing something? I have teammates on both sides. Children only do multiple-choice questions. Of course, adults want them all. I support both teams!"

Facing the reporter's interview, Li Pu laughed deliberately.

In fact, what Li Pu said is correct. The International team has Jokic and Giannis, and the Ugly National team has Covington. The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. How could he only support the first team?
All three are getting a lot of attention now that they're important rotations for the hottest Kings.

However, in tonight's game, the protagonists are destined not to be them.

Neither Giannis nor Jokic took this game seriously.

As for Covington, sorry, he doesn't have that strength yet.

In the end, the international team defeated the ugly country team 121-112.

The combined score of the two teams created the lowest record since 2006.

It can be seen how fierce the game is tonight, but the rules have been corrected.

In the end, the MVP of the rookie game was won by Andrew Wiggins, the core of the international team.

他全场出战23分钟，11投8中，拿到22分6篮板4助攻1抢断1封盖。

After the rookie challenge was over, the individual competitions on the second day were also in full swing.

The first is the shooting star game, a total of four teams participating, namely: Bosh team, Curry team, Davis team and Westbrook team.

Needless to say, the champion of this game, of course, the Bosh team won!

Bosh's dominance in this project is the first level in history, and the Curry family is useless!

Of course, Curry and his father Dell Curry did not perform very well either. The 47 seconds in the first round was not as good as Westbrook's 35.2 seconds, and they didn't even make it to the finals!
Then there was the skills challenge, all eight contestants were defenders, including Lip's right-hand man Jimmy Butler.

However, it is a pity that Butler was eliminated by Lowry in the first round.

However, the final championship was unexpected, and was actually won by "Mad Dog" Beverly.

It's ironic that the champion of the skills challenge was won by someone who is not famous for his skills.

Then came the highlight of today's game day, the three-point contest.

This year's three-point shooting contest has far more attention than other projects.

There is no other reason, because this year's event has the most star flavor.

There are five all-stars among the eight contestants, and there is no such grand event in other competitions.

Among them, Curry is the focus of attention.

This is the fourth time that Curry has participated in the three-point contest, but before that, he has never won the three-pointer, although he is now the veritable three-pointer in the NBA!
Therefore, before this grand game tonight, everyone is waiting for him to be crowned the three-pointer king!
Curry scored 23 points in the first round, second only to Thompson's 24 points, and joined hands with Irving to enter the finals.

It is worth mentioning that Harden also participated in this game and only scored 15 points, the lowest score among the eight players.

When he finished shooting, Li Pu and Westbrook off the court almost laughed into emoticons!

Angrily, Harden ran over and punched the two of them in the chest with his small fists.

The lively scene made people seem familiar, but they couldn't help but feel embarrassed, especially the Thunder fans. I don't know whose youth was poked?

After entering the finals, both Irving and Thompson were off-point, but Curry's shots became more and more accurate, especially when he hit 13 goals in a row, which made the fans faint with excitement.

In the end, Curry scored 27 points, breaking the record of 1986 points set by Craig Hodges for the Bulls in 2008 and Jason Kapono for the Raptors in 25.

Although the total score at that time was 30 points, the total score is now 34 points.

But this does not affect Curry's greatness at all!
In the end, Curry held up the trophy that symbolized the three-pointer, and he was truly crowned the three-pointer!

Compared with the star-studded three-point contest, the slam dunk contest as the finale seems a bit dim.

At first, people didn't want to watch it. After all, the combined popularity of the four participating players is not as high as Irving's, let alone Curry and Harden.

However, in such a seemingly cannon fodder game, one person turned out to save the slam dunk contest that was about to be thrown into the trash can.

This person is Minnesota Curry... oh no, Zach LaVine of the Minnesota Timberwolves!

With four perfect dunks, he overwhelmed many opponents, and finally won the trophy representing the dunk king without any suspense.

Compared to this year's surprisingly good-looking single event, the All-Star Game on the third day was not as popular as this year's three-point contest and slam dunk contest.

As Li Pu, who has been selected as an All-Star for five consecutive years, and won the AMVP again, he feels like coming home to the All-Star Game. Not only is he not excited, he even feels a little dull.

Therefore, on the court, he played very lazily. Except for a few shots by himself, the rest were all played by his teammates.

Coach Brown, the coach of the western team, naturally saw that Li Pu didn't want to play, so he was only allowed to play for 18 minutes, and the rest of the time was handed over to other teammates.

However, what people did not expect was that as a substitute, Westbrook played very actively tonight. In the end, he made 28 of 16 goals and scored 41 points. Won the AMVP trophy.

And he also became the third player among the Thunder's three young players to win the trophy!

(End of this chapter)