legendary point guard

No matter what the outside world thinks, Lin Sen, the person involved, is unmoved. First, under the official arrangement of the nba, he went to participate in the nba competition with Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Arenas, and Tony Parker. nba cares action organized in las vegas.

Then Lin Sen participated in the fan interaction activities organized by Adidas with Tracy McGrady, Dwight Howard, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Billups and Arenas.

After the event, Adidas held a media meeting for the seven of them, and for the first time unveiled the seven All-Star customized sneakers together.

From the release on the afternoon of February 2th to 15:2 pm on February 17th, Adidas launched Central America, Latin America, European Union countries in Europe and China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Macau after the original United States and Canada. After the pre-orders of the all-star customized version and limited orders in exclusive stores in seven countries and regions including China, Taiwan, and the Philippines, the sales of Linsen's legendary generation showed explosive growth.

In just 33 hours, the spot and pre-order sales directly exceeded 1000 million US dollars.

The horrible sales further strengthened Adidas' hope of keeping Lin Sen. On the morning of February 2, the president of Adidas contacted David Falk to try to revise Lin Sen's original 17-year contract of 5 million US dollars.

However, David Falk did not directly agree. David Falk did not expect Linsen’s first generation of sneakers to be such a hit. Just before the president of Adidas contacted him, Nike also contacted him. .

David Falk vaguely hinted that the liquidated damages that Adidas gave Linsen was not very high, which aroused the interest of Nike executives.

Just as David Falk was planning Lin Sen's bright future in Adidas, the All-Star Weekend officially kicked off.

The Mandela Bay Hotel, located at the eastern end of the bustling Las Vegas Boulevard, is the place where NBA players stay.

The Mandela Bay Hotel is also the venue for this year's "Carnival" for NBA fans. Lin Sen looked at the European-style main entrance of the hotel, with Chinese Spring Festival couplets in gold letters on a red background pasted on the door.

"The sound of firecrackers removes the old year, and the peach talisman renews the year for thousands of households", "The world is full of happiness, and the sky increases the years and people's life".

Walking into the magnificent lobby, lanterns of different shapes are written with blessings such as "Happy New Year" and "Gong Xi Fa Cai" in Chinese.

"It's really good!" Lin Sen didn't expect to feel such a strong Spring Festival atmosphere in Las Vegas, which made Lin Sen feel warm.

"Hey, Wood, you're finally back, it's time for us to go." Dwight Howard said with his arms around Lin Sen.

"Wood, are you going to watch your teammates get slaughtered by us tonight?" Deron Williams said with a smile.

"What are you talking about? Do you expect Wood to change the situation where they were slaughtered by us tonight? Wood, as a buddy, I still advise you not to go, so as not to embarrass you. Of course, if you are willing to invite me If you have fun for a few days, I will consider relaxing a little bit for you rookies." Chris Paul looked smug.

"Go away, it's just you guys!" Lin Sen glared at Deron and Paul, but he knew in his heart that the strength of the first-year team was indeed far inferior to that of the second-year team.

Although there were him and Brandon Roy in the 2006 draft, it was still recognized by the media as the draft with the worst quality in recent years. In the 2005 draft, Deron, Paul, and Felton were the three point guards. There are also centers with full potential like Andrew Bogut and Andrew Byram.

"If Wood Lin really doesn't play, then I really can't find where is the hope for the first grade?" ESPN expert Hollinger said on his Twitter.

As Hollinger said, the first- and second-year challenge was judged by the media as a doomed tedious massacre long before the game.

Mike O'Collen, Wizards head coach Eddie Jordan's chief assistant, coaches the first-year team tonight.

Marc Aivaroni, head assistant to Suns head coach D'Antoni, is the head coach of the sophomore team tonight.

Before the game, the two sides did not have a joint practice, so two hours before the game, both sides took the bus to the Thomas Mack Center, the venue where the All-Star Weekend game was held.

The Thomas & Mack Center is the sports core of the entertainment city of Las Vegas. When the first and second grade players came to the venue, there were already many fans in the auditorium of the Thomas & Mack Center. There are still two full hours to start.

The first-year locker room is in the visiting team locker room, and the second-year locker room is in the home team locker room.

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Mike Collen, who pushed away from the locker room, clapped his hands: "Rookies, let me see if you are all here."

"Very well, everyone is here, first-year rookies, you have two hours to usher in your all-star weekend off the court, enjoy it, I have nothing else to arrange, of course If Bryant doesn't have one either."

As soon as Collen finished speaking, Kobe Bryant walked in, and there was a sound of surprise in the locker room. Although they all knew that there was an assistant coach in the first and second grades, and the assistant coach was usually a superstar, but before that, everyone I didn't even know that this person would be Kobe Bryant.

"It seems that you are very surprised. To be honest, I hated my luck at first, because I got you rookies." Kobe's eyes swept over everyone in the locker room, and finally stopped at Brandon who was sitting together. On Roy and Lin Sen.

Kobe's words made people in the locker room a little depressed, but everyone had to admit that what Kobe said was a fact.

"But I don't think so now. Maybe you can surprise me. I don't like failure, and it's the same when I'm a coach. But considering your strength, all I want is to do my best." Kobe clapped his hands, "In addition Don't forget to enjoy your moments."

The second-year assistant coach is the general Arenas, and Arenas is joking with the second-year players. No one thinks that the second-year will lose to the first-year rookie.

"Wood, are you not going to play tonight?" Kobe walked up to Lin Sen.

"According to the plan." Lin Sen said, meeting Kobe's gaze.

Kobe laughed: "Then you mean tonight can not follow the plan?"

Lin Sen shrugged: "It can be understood in this way."

"May I know what changed your plans?"

"I don't like losing either!"

"Very well, but I won't put you on the court at first."

"No problem." Lin Sen nodded. Before that, David Falk had reached an agreement with him that he would not play tonight's rookie game, and announced it early. This reason led to a lot of early bookings. of fans chose to sell their tickets.

"First of all, let me declare that I don't discriminate against the rookie game, and then I want to say why we can't beat TNT to grab the live broadcast right of the main game? Although it feels good to be a spectator, that's not what I want." Bill Wharton A complaining face appeared in front of the TV.

"Hey, Bill, you can be content, we are lucky enough to finally come to Las Vegas, and the little ones in the first and second grades are going to play." Hoffman said with a smile.

Brandon Roy was ranked first in the first grade, while Lin Sen was placed last in the team by Kobe.

Amidst the hoarse shouts of the live DJ, the first-year players took the lead one by one.

"Let's welcome with crazy applause and cheers, super...super...rookie, tomorrow's superstar...Wood...Lin...Lin..."

Hearing the voice of the live DJ, Lin Sen trotted out, and the cheers at the Thomas & Mack Center reached their peak.

Even the cheers from the second-year players were far inferior to that of Lin Sen. Paul stabbed Deron next to him: "That guy."

"Actually, you look good too." Deron said softly.

"Forget it, it's not bad, but it can't compare to that guy's popularity."

After American singer-songwriter Tiffany Giardina sang the national anthem, the rookie challenge officially began.

"Wood really didn't appear in the first-year starting list. The first-year starter was Brandon Roy from Portland, the only rookie who had an impact on Wood. Lin's best rookie, Rudy Gay of Memphis. Yi, Jordan Farmar in Los Angeles, Adam Morrison in Charlotte, and the handsome Italian guy Bargnani who was selected with the first pick."

Hoffman looked at the roster in his hand and continued: "The second-year starters are Utah Jazz's Deron Williams, Houston Rockets' Luther Hyde, Indiana Pacers' Granger, and New York Knicks' David Knicks. Lee and Andrew Bogut of the Milwaukee Bucks, cp3 also did not appear in the starting lineup, is this specially arranged by Coach LeBron?"

Lin Sen didn't expect that Paul would sit on the bench, but he knew that Paul would definitely play and Paul definitely didn't know that he would play. Thinking of Paul Deron's surprised expression when he played, Lin Sen wanted to laugh.

"The absence of Wood Lynn and cp3 always makes me feel less. I don't even have the mood to follow courtside gossip." Bill Wharton looked at Hoffman, "Actually, Beyoncé is not bad."

Hoffman had a black line: "Bill, are you infected by that guy Charles? Good game starts."

Bogut and Bargnani jumped the ball, and Bogut easily passed the ball to Deron.

Deron dribbled the ball forward and passed it directly to David Lee who was cutting inside from a high position. David Lee made an easy layup.

"David opened the scoring first. Although there is almost no defense on both sides, I still want to praise Deron's pass is awesome." Hoffman said with a smile.

As the media predicted, the first-year rookie was really bad. Going back to the offensive end, Morrison missed a shot. The second-year counterattacked quickly, and David Lee directly staged an alley-oop dunk after receiving a pass from Luther Hyde.

There was applause at the Thomas & Mack Center, and then the first-year rookies still seemed a little stiff, repeatedly missing shots, while the second-years made all four shots.

"Are the first-year rookies practicing blacksmithing?" Bill Wharton said looking at the field.

Morrison got an open shot on the left, but the shot missed. Gay grabbed an offensive rebound and made a tip-up but still missed. Morrison rushed to the basket and grabbed an offensive rebound again to make up the ball.

"Thank God for the score. The first grade made their first shot after blatantly brushing the offensive rebounds under the gaze of the second grade. I saw Bryant's brow almost wrinkled to the sky. He seemed to be talking to Wood. What, is Wood going to play?" Hoffman said, looking at the first-year bench. (To be continued.)