At the beginning of the death entanglement, Curry followed me to slam dunk

Chapter 241 Return to Los Angeles, All-Star Weekend begins

LeBron James's continued poor performance has made the situation on the court continue to deteriorate.

However, Du Zhe was not too anxious.

The reason is simple. He is far from using his full strength now.

But even under such circumstances, the Warriors can barely fight the Heat.

More importantly, this is just a regular season game, and the outcome is not that important to Du Zhe.

As for the winning streak, Du Zhe no longer values ​​such illusory things.

And based on his understanding of James in his previous life, Du Zhe felt that it was completely normal for him to be in this situation.

In other words, it could be said that James started acting like a monster after playing for nearly half a season, which was a bit beyond Du Zhe's expectations.

Now he is trying to lure the snake out of the hole and see what James wants to do.

As a result, the entire game proceeded in an extremely strange atmosphere.

Du Zhe was calm and calm, playing steadily on the court.

Although other Warriors players are anxious, they can only act in a hurry due to their own strength.

Instead, James directly transformed into an undercover player on the court, too lazy to stretch his hand on defense, extremely eager to attack, and would make a few buzzer-beating passes from time to time.

Du Zhe was not surprised by James's abnormal behavior.

Obviously, James is repeating his old tricks and wants to compete for the team boss position in the Warriors.

"LeBron, cheer up, this game is a critical moment, and the team cannot do without your performance!"

Even though he knew what Xiao Jiujiu was trying to do with James, Du Zhe still tried to persuade him.

Not giving up on every teammate easily is his responsibility as a team leader.

But James only responded with a spread of his hands.

The meaning is obvious, that is, I have tried my best, you can do whatever you like.

Good words can't persuade a damn ghost, so Du Zhe could only sigh helplessly in his heart when he saw this.

Thanks to James' "efforts", at the end of the fourth quarter, the Warriors unsurprisingly lost to their opponents with a two-point disadvantage. .

This is the first time since the start of the game.

In past games, no matter how strong their opponents are, the Warriors have always been able to suppress their opponents and steadily control the rhythm of the game.

No one expected that Du Zhe would be defeated by the Heat today.

When the Warriors faced headwinds, those American fans who were dissatisfied with Du Zhe jumped out one after another.

"It seems that Wade's strength is still good. It's time for Kobe to give up his position as the league's number one shooting guard. He is the future of the NBA."

"Wade's strength is really good. He didn't suffer much from Du Zhe when we played against each other last season."

"Johnson's performance today was really good. He beat James to the punch."

"Also, if James had played normally today, the Warriors wouldn't have had such a difficult time."

"Ha, Du Zhe really can't do it without James. In the end, we have to rely on our teammates to be strong!"

"Indeed, I feel that Du Zhe's teammates when he won the championship last year are really not weak. Curry, Maggette and Ellis are all All-Stars, and there are experienced players like Finley on the bench. Even if a superstar is in the lineup, my grandma can win the championship."

In order to suppress Du Zhe, these American fans have ignored the facts.

Even Maggette and Ellis, who had never been in the All-Star Game, and Curry, who just entered the league last season, were promoted to All-Star level players.

But this group of American fans are also very helpless. They are extremely unhappy watching Du Zhe dominate the NBA, but they have no choice but to use this method to vent their frustration.

…………

Losing the game would be fine.

The key is that the Warriors were just one step away from tying or even breaking their regular season winning streak, only to fall before the finish line.

This is undoubtedly a huge blow to the team's morale.

Fortunately, Du Zhe and Nelson, the two core players of the team, continued to do psychological work for the team members, and the team's morale was restored again.

After James got over this incident, he returned to normal and did not continue to deliberately mess up or do anything else.

Almost everyone on the team believed that James was just in bad shape in the battle with the Heat.

After all, people make mistakes and horses make mistakes. Even for a player like James, it is normal for him to be in poor condition and not perform well.

It is impossible for everyone to be like Du Zhe, who can maintain a high level of performance day after day.

Just like that, everything seemed to be calm again, the Warriors were back on the winning streak mode, and the invincible Warrior seemed to be back.

But has everything really returned to peace?
At least not for James.

After the battle with the Heat, he has been planning to make a big move.

To be honest, although he was beaten by Wade at the beginning of that game, he really didn't give his best.

Especially after switching to guard Johnson, he has been letting off steam.

And through this battle, he also determined that as long as he lets go, other teams will at least have a chance to defeat the Warriors.

After confirming this, James temporarily restrained his temper and prepared to wait for the opportunity.

For him, good steel should be used on the blade. Since this trick is effective, it must be used at critical moments. If it is exposed too early in normal times, it will be meaningless.

In this way, for more than a month, the Warriors were calm.

After the winning streak was interrupted, the Warriors put down their burdens and went into battle lightly. For the sake of the team's health, Nelson also began to take appropriate breaks.

In the following 20 or so games, the Warriors had wins and losses, but they always won more and lost less.

In this way, time came to February unknowingly, and the annual NBA All-Star Weekend began again.

In the last All-Star Game, Du Zhe won multiple awards and left a deep impression on many fans, but in any case, at that time, he was only a supporting role during the All-Star Weekend.

But this time the situation is different. Even a handful of American fans are extremely dissatisfied with Du Zhe's dominance of the American basketball world.

But there are also many fans who like Du Zhe.

Especially the fans around the San Francisco Bay Area have all become Du Zhe's die-hard fans.

Under this circumstance, Du Zhe not only entered the All-Stars, but also became the starter at the small forward position of the Western Conference All-Stars as the vote leader.

His teammate James' popularity suffered a bit after leaving the Cavaliers, and with the pressure of Du Zhe, he could only join the Western All-Star team as Du Zhe's substitute.

In fact, this is not easy.

This season, the Western Conference has further deepened its involution.Each team continues to strengthen, and it is common for the team to have a winning rate of more than [-]% and fail to enter the playoffs.

And because players at the small forward and power forward positions are voted together, this has also led to extremely fierce competition for the Western Conference forward All-Star position.

Du Zhe, James, Anthony, Durant.

Duncan, Nowitzki, Stoudemire, Gasol, Griffin.

These stars are basically guaranteed to be All-Stars in the Eastern Conference, but in the Western Conference they have to earn a fortune for two starters and two substitutes.

As for second-tier stars such as Love, Gay, and Odom, they are not qualified to participate in the competition at all.

This shows how difficult it is for Du Zhe to win the votes in the Western Conference where competition is becoming fierce.

But what makes the league a little embarrassed is that the All-Star Weekend will be held in Los Angeles in advance.

And this year’s vote king, Du Zhe, doesn’t seem to be very popular in this city…

But these are no big deal for this annual event.

Even if the Los Angeles fans don't welcome Du Zhe, there are dozens of other stars coming to compete, and they can't shut them all out.

What's more, even if Los Angeles fans don't want to come because of Du Zhe, All-Star tickets have long been hard to find in the United States, so they don't have to worry about selling them.

This All-Star Weekend, the first thing to be held is the rookie competition.

In this year's rookie competition, the Warriors' Stephen Curry was selected into the starting lineup of the second-year team.

For Curry, who has already participated in a rookie competition, he is naturally familiar with the game.

What really makes Curry excited is this year's All-Star. He was also successfully selected as a substitute.

Due to Kobe Bryant's retirement, there is a vacancy on the guard line of the Western Conference All-Stars.

The Warriors have a stellar record, and Curry's own statistics are not bad. It is only normal for him to be selected as this year's All-Star as a rising star in the league.

In this way, the Warriors now have three active All-Stars in Du Zhe, Curry and James, which can be regarded as a Big Three.

Still the same as last year, before the main course, the Eastern and Western All-Stars, various less important games were held first.

The first thing to do is naturally the rookie competition.

As the MVP of the previous session, Du Zhe was naturally invited to attend.

Last year he was still a contestant, but this year he transformed into a special guest. His progress was so fast that it was staggering.

In the subsequent three-point contest and slam dunk contest, Du Zhe, as the previous double champion, did not participate again.

After all, I have already received the rewards, so there is no point in participating anymore.

Unless... someone can break the record he set in the three-point contest, Du Zhe will be interested in making another appearance.

But there is no doubt that Du Zhe, as the double champion, was also invited to watch the game.

After two months, Du Zhe set foot at Staples Stadium again, and a sense of unreality arose spontaneously.

Every time he came here before, he was greeted with endless boos and curses, but when he returned to his hometown today, the situation was completely different.

League officials, Lakers boss Buss and others responded with smiles and welcomed Du Zhe's arrival.

Among the fans at the scene, although many Los Angeles fans were very unhappy with Du Zhe, they could only hold back their anger and dared not speak out.

And more fans are rejoicing for the arrival of Du Zhe, the legend at the time.

This is the gold content of being No. 1 in the league. Even if others see you unhappy, they can only swallow their anger and even have to smile.

After chatting with several league executives who came to greet him, Du Zhe went to his seat under the guidance of the staff.

It's not that Du Zhe can't go by himself, but Lakers boss Buss has repeatedly insisted on sending three staff members to take him there.

The guest did as he pleased, and Du Zhe no longer insisted.

And Du Zhe estimated that the reason why Old Bass did this was not without a hint of protection.

After all, no one knows what outrageous things the radical fans will do, and Old Bass doesn't want Du Zhe, the league's No. 1, to have trouble on his territory.

Sure enough, when Du Zhe passed the auditorium on the road, he encountered several fans who glared at him.

However, when several people saw that Du Zhe was surrounded by several rich and powerful staff, they did not dare to make any mistakes.

Under the guidance of the staff, Du Zhe quickly found his location.

The seat is very forward and the surrounding area is very spacious. Apart from being relatively close to a group of reporters, there is nothing major wrong with it.

"Sorry to trouble you all." Du Zhe nodded and thanked the staff who "escorted" him, and then strolled to his seat.

After sitting down, Du Zhe looked around and found that there were also some NBA stars around him.

Although Du Zhe is not familiar with these people, he has played in the NBA for almost two or three seasons, so he is more or less familiar with them.

After greeting several stars around him, Du Zhe turned his attention to the court.

According to the schedule, the first thing to be played is the shooting star game.

For Du Zhe, the shooting star game is really boring. Even as a fan in his previous life, he rarely paid attention to this kind of game.

There are four teams participating in this year’s Shooting Stars.

Among them, the Atlanta team is led by Al Jefferson, the Texas team is led by Dirk Nowitzki, and the Chicago team is led by Ty Gibson.

Of course, Los Angeles, the venue for this year's All-Star Weekend, will also send a team. Du Zhe raised his eyes and saw that the leader of the Los Angeles team this time was Gasol, the current star of the Lakers.

At this time, several teammates of Gasol's temporary team were making preparations on the sidelines.

Gasol himself was quite relaxed, chatting with a man and a woman on the sidelines.

Du Zhe took a quick look and recognized the identities of the two people chatting with Gasol from their backs.

It was none other than Kobe and his wife Vanessa.

Seeing Kobe coming here, Du Zhe's eyelids couldn't help but twitch, feeling that something was about to happen.

But it is absolutely normal for Kobe Bryant to appear in today's event.

First of all, the All-Star Weekend is being held in Los Angeles. As the most popular superstar in Los Angeles, Kobe has to make an appearance as a guest even if he is unable to play due to injury.

Secondly, there is a game with Kobe's good friend Gasol today, and he will come to the scene to cheer.

Soon, tonight's first game, the Shooting Star Contest, will begin, and people on the field who have nothing to do with the game will also leave the field, and Kobe and Vanessa are no exception.

At this time, Du Zhe raised his head and looked at the two empty seats beside him, feeling an ominous premonition rising in his heart.

These two seats must belong to Kobe and Vanessa!

(End of this chapter)