The Golden Age of Basketball

After successfully dissuading two teammates from wanting to participate in the slam dunk contest and three-point contest, Gan Guoyang flew to Dallas with Wang Fuxi and Drexler on February 2, preparing to participate in the All-Star Contest .

This is the first time in the history of Dallas to host the NBA All-Star Game. For a city that just had its own NBA team in 1980, being able to host an All-Star Game is undoubtedly an effective means to further stimulate the ball market.

Last year's All-Star Game was held at the Indiana Dome super large stadium, and it should be said that it has achieved a large degree of success. This time in Dallas, the league did not choose a super large stadium, but played at the Dallas Mavericks' home stadium, the United Stadium.

After all, although Indiana's All-Stars give people an extraordinary experience, the capital and energy expended to hold a basketball game in a football stadium cannot be compared in a regular basketball stadium.

Moreover, Stern is sure that this All-Star Game will be better than last year. After the concept of "All-Star Weekend" was proposed last year, the three-point contest, which echoes the slam dunk contest, also debuted and became an All-Star Game. One of the highlights of the weekend.

In the All-Star voting, Magic Johnson was elected as the All-Star vote leader with 1,060,892 votes. He was injured before the All-Star Game and he recovered from his injury quickly, and he did not regret that the vote leader missed the All-Star Game.

The magician's votes are also the first time in the history of the All-Stars that a player has more than one million votes. The previous highest vote was Moses Malone in 1984. The championship, mvp and fmvp slams in 83 made this a bit slow The center received 92 votes.

Gan Guoyang almost reached the record created by Moses Malone, and received 90 votes, second only to Magic Johnson, and ranked second in the total vote list. Good feedback.

In the 53 games before the All-Star break, Gan Guoyang averaged 25.7 points, 15.9 rebounds, and 2.9 blocks per game. His scoring has increased significantly compared to last season, and his four consecutive 40-plus points are shocking.

With an average of 15.9 rebounds per game, he continues to rank first in the rebounding list, nearly three rebounds more than the second Bill Laimbeer. His talent and accomplishments in rebounding will not be matched by anyone until next season. match.

At the same time, the strong backcourt rebounding ability also gave the Blazers enough fast break opportunities, and Gan Guoyang has therefore become the most critical part of the Blazers' offensive system.

Blocking shots has dropped compared to last season, but in fact Gan Guoyang's defensive level has not declined but has risen. As the last barrier for the Blazers inside, he began to learn to restrain his desire to take off, which greatly reduced his turmoil. Although the number of blocked shots has decreased, the quality of defense has improved.

All this proves Gan Guoyang's growth, and also allowed him to gain the recognition of the fans. He successfully surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and became the starting center of the Western Conference All-Star. ".

The last player who snatched the starting center of the Western Conference All-Star from the sky hook was Bill Walton in the Trail Blazers period.

Compared with Gan Guoyang, another person, although unable to play, did not lose the limelight at all, that is the Bulls guard who was reimbursed due to injury at the beginning of the season, Michael Jordan.

Under the circumstances that he was definitely unable to participate in the All-Star Game, Jordan actually received more than 71 votes, more than 9 votes more than Larry Bird, the strongest contender for the mvp this season.

It can be seen from this that Jordan has such a huge influence among fans, especially young fans. In the next ten years, no one can threaten Jordan's status in popularity except Gan Guoyang.

Of course, Gan Guoyang didn't care much about this. The All-Star Game is entertainment after all. Basketball itself is entertainment, and the All-Star Game is entertainment within entertainment.

Wang Fuxi also took a day off to accompany Gan Guoyang to Dallas to enjoy a wonderful vacation.

After arriving in Dallas, Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi ate several famous Mexican restaurants in Dallas, and visited the Kennedy Monument to feel the style of Texas.

Since Drexler grew up in Houston, he is more familiar with the terroir of Texas, so he took two people to a farm in the suburbs of Dallas to experience the feeling of a cowboy. The three of them had a great time together. Almost.

Gan Guoyang's nerves that have been tense during the season have finally been relaxed to a certain extent. At this time, he can cool down the raging fire in his heart, stop thinking about those annoying and stressful things, and be able to spend time with him people.

On February 2th, the All-Star Weekend officially started. In addition to those regular star and fan interaction activities, the most eye-catching ones were of course the evening dunk contest and the brand new three-point contest.

Before the start of the game, the giants of the Eastern and Western teams gathered together to open a private handicap, betting on who will win the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest tonight.

Since the three-point contest was held for the first time in the league, there are only a handful of excellent shooters in the league who can shoot three-pointers. There are a total of eight participating players, of which Larry Bird is the most famous. Everyone knows that Bird's three-pointer is the strongest.

So Bird's old opponents, including Moses Malone and Dr. J, all bet on Bird to win. Only Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar think Cooper will win because Michael Cooper is their teammate.

Bird had a calm expression on his face, as if no one was in his eyes.

<ause-i-will-win-this。”（我希望你们好好考虑一下谁做No.2，因为冠军是我的了。）

The arrogant Bird did not break his promise. Although Hogans scored a shocking 25 points in the preliminaries (nba three-point contest record, which has not yet been broken), in the finals, Larry Bird still used his steady performance to win The high score of 22 points won the first three-point contest championship in NBA history.

For this result, except for the magician being slapped in the face by Bird again, everyone else almost guessed the result. Bird's face after winning the championship seemed indifferent, as if the championship belonged to him in the first place, but it was a late announcement. will only.

But in the subsequent slam dunk contest, opinions began to divide among the giants, and each had its own ideas.

The slam dunk contest and the three-point contest also have eight players participating, they are Terry Taylor, Roy Henson, Jerome Kessler, Gerald Wilkins, Dominic - Wilkins, Terrence Stansberry, and Spati Webb.

This lineup is obviously much worse than the lineup of the previous two dunk contests. Dr. J is old and has no interest in the entertainment of the dunk contest. Larry Nance, who has won the championship, does not want to participate again. He wanted to participate, but he was reimbursed for the season and couldn't even make it to the main match. The defending champion Drexler also gave up the idea of ​​continuing to participate under Gan Guoyang's persuasion.

Therefore, the biggest hit in the slam dunk contest can only be Donimike Wilkins, the "essence of human movies". After last year's champion was destroyed by Gan Guoyang, a spoiler, Wilkins will continue to have a sense of presence in the slam dunk contest. , Not only did he want to have a sense of presence, but his brother Gerald Wilkins was also pulled in by his brother.

Compared with Wilkins, there is another person who is more eye-catching, and that is Wilkins' teammate in the Eagles, the "potato" with a height of only 170, rookie Spati Weber.

170 is relatively short among ordinary people, let alone in the basketball world full of giants, but Webber has an astonishing bounce, and dunking is really a piece of cake for him.

More stars still think that Dominique Wilkins will win the slam dunk contest, and some people think that other players will win the championship, but no one thinks that Webber can win the championship. A guy with 170 can dunk. It's not easy, and it's not bad to give him the "Physically Disabled and Strong" award, but forget about the slam dunk contest champion.

Only Gan Guoyang insisted that Weber would win the slam dunk contest, and made a "heavy bet"—the opportunity to cook Chinese food for everyone.

And James Worthy and Gan Guoyang went to the bar, insisting that Wilkins would definitely win the championship, and he also made a "heavy bet"-the pair of sports eyes on his head, if he lost, he would give Gan Guoyang to wear it.

Naturally, Gan Guoyang does not care about Worthy's broken glasses. He is not short-sighted, so there is no need to add anything to the snake. Gan Guoyang insists that Weber will win the championship, naturally because his experience from the future tells him that Weber will win the championship in this slam dunk contest. , leaving a strong mark in the history of the nba slam dunk contest, becoming the shortest slam dunk king.

However, Gan Guoyang was still a little nervous. After all, last year’s slam dunk king changed hands under his influence. Maybe there will be some kind of moth this year. It's over.

Fortunately, as a rookie, Webb did not show any timidity in the game and played very steadily. He reached the final all the way and challenged the team's big brother Wilkins in the final.

Wilkins' dunks are as violent, domineering, and full of hostility as ever, with the momentum of destroying the basket, but the audience and judges are indeed familiar with his routines, and there are not many surprises.

Little Webb, on the other hand, is small and looks like a small spring. The ball looks very big in his hands. Although his dunks are not fancy, they are not low in difficulty, and they are full of beauty and aura.

In the end, relying on his stable performance and the freshness brought by his height, Webb upset Wilkins and won the 1986 All-Star Game Slam Dunk Championship.

Gan Guoyang also won Worthy's pair of glasses, and Worthy had to change to another pair during the game.