Legendary star

Chapter 235 All-Star Feast

On February 2001, 2, after the game against the Nets, Meng Xu, Duncan and David Robinson set off directly from New Jersey to Washington to participate in the All-Star Weekend held there this year. Due to the recent games, the Spurs Facing big teams like the Nets, Warriors, and Cavaliers, the players in the Spurs' main lineup didn't play much time. Except for Duncan, they basically clocked out after halftime. And in the game against the Warriors, Meng Xu's "pretentious moment" was refreshed again. This time in the All-Star Game, Meng Xu may make big news again.

On the last day of January, shortly after the league announced the All-Star starting lineup, all the All-Star players for this season were released. Under the circumstances, Antonio Davis from the Raptors and Anthony Mason Jr. from the Miami Heat replaced the two respectively and entered this year's All-Star starting lineup.In the ensuing bench vote, Dikambe Mutombo from the Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks backcourt duo Alan Houston and Latrell Sprewell, Detroit Pistons' Jerry -Stockhouse, Milwaukee Bucks' Glenn Robin Thunder-Allen, and New Jersey Nets' Stephon Marbury were each selected to the All-Star bench this season, and the Eastern Conference's All-Star head coach also It was also finally confirmed that Larry Brown was in charge.

In the west, O'Neal has been caught in a scandal of fraudulent injuries recently, and his All-Star starting position has also been replaced by Kings star Chris Webber. In addition, David Robinson of the Spurs, Kevin Garnett of the Timberwolves, Dallas Dirk Nowitzki and Michael Finley of the Mavericks, Antonio McDyess of the Denver Nuggets, Rasheed Wallace of the Portland Trail Blazers, Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz and Seattle SuperSonics Gary Payton formed the Western All-Star bench for several years, and the Western All-Star coach was finally determined to be Adelman.

After all the All-Star lineups were announced, the happiest person now is undoubtedly the league president, David Stern. All the candidates for "guard" have entered this year's All-Star team.And this year's All-Star voting is also the one with the most fans participating since Jordan's retirement season, especially from Huaguo on the other side of the ocean. A total of more than 500 people participated in this year's All-Star voting, which has already accounted for all votes this year. The number of visitors is about 20%, and this year, the NBA has signed an NBA broadcast agreement with CCAV, the largest TV network in Huaguo, so this also marks that the globalization of the NBA has made significant progress this year.

On Friday, February 2001, 2, the appetizers for the All-Star Feast began today. The first thing that happened today was the All-Star Rookie Challenge. Since the rookies of this season were worse than last year, the "worst rookie" The hat of Meng Xu was transferred from the 9 class where Meng Xu belonged to the rookies of the 9900 class.Therefore, this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge is also considered to be the most suspenseful year. After all, the rookies of last season are also in the history of the All-Star. One of the few first-year rookies defeated a group of second-year rookies.

The first-year All-Stars participating in today's All-Star Rookie Challenge are Martin Cliffs from the Detroit Pistons, Khalid Al-Amin from the Chicago Bulls, Stephen Jackson from the New Jersey Nets, and the Los Angeles Clippers. Daryls Miles of the boat, Mike Miller of the Orlando Magic, Maurice Peterson of the Toronto Raptors, and this season's No. 35 pick Kenyon Martin, and Kenyon Martin is also this year's Among the rookies, the player who has performed the best so far can average 12 points and 7.4 rebounds in [-] minutes per game. In addition, among these rookies this season, only Mike Miller's scoring average is in double figures, which also shows how bad the rookies of this season are.

And this year's All-Star rookie sophomores are basically the same as last year's All-Star rookie first-year, Andre Miller, Lamar Odom, Wally Szczerbiak, James Posey, Elton Brand and Meng Xu were all included in this year's sophomore list, and Todd McClochy, a parallel importer, was also replaced by Sean Marion, who performed well this season, and Steve Francis was in the After withdrawing from this year's All-Star rookie game due to injury, his place was replaced by Jason Terry.

"Don't worry, Elton, isn't he the MVP of the rookie game? We promise to get it for you." On the night of February 2001, 2, when all the All-Star rookies walked out of the player tunnel, they looked a little melancholy Meng Xu put his arms around Elton Brand's shoulders, trying to relieve him.

After missing the MVP trophy in last year's rookie game, Elton Brand has been brooding. At the same time, after losing this year's All-Star game, Brand is also determined to win this year's rookie game MVP trophy.Just yesterday when Meng Xu arrived in Washington, Brand called together Meng Xu, Posey, Miller and Szczerbiak. After the reply, Brand once again promised that as long as he gets the MVP, no matter who it is, next time he goes to Chicago to play an away game, he will be served by a big sword.

Because of Meng Xu's promise to help Brand, now Brand's biggest competitor is only Odom, and Odom's performance this season is also very good. Dom, who gave up Derek Anderson this season, also sent the team's boss Morris Taylor to the Rockets almost for free.After failing to compete for the MVP last season, Odom still has a little bit of thought about the MVP this season. Because the small group of Brand and Meng Xu is too strong, just to be on the safe side, Odom is also in this game. Before, I contacted in advance, Marion and Terry, two players who added to the second-year rookie All-Star this year.

Although the current Meng Xu is much more prosperous than Brand, Odom, Francis and other rookies of the same class, Meng Xu still has a little envy for them in his heart. It is far inferior to themselves, but they now have a team of their own.In Anna's words, they have a lion king that belongs to their own independent kingdom, and now they are at best slightly stronger than the stray lions.Especially Francis, when he learned that the Rockets directly sent away the team's banner Olajuwon in order to let Francis take the position, Meng Xu felt sorry for Olajuwon, but he also felt very sorry for Francis' treatment in the Rockets. envy.During this period of time, Meng Xu can also feel that both Anna and He Hui will inadvertently reveal hints to let him leave the Spurs in the process of chatting with him, and Meng Xu is also very entangled now. Meng Xu is grateful for his seniors, Duncan who has always taken good care of him, and Popovich who brought him into this league.But in Meng Xu's heart, he also hopes to have a team of his own and a kingdom of his own like Brand and the others.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the much-anticipated All-Star Rookie Challenge officially kicked off. The starting lineup for the second grade is center Elton Brand, power forward Lamar Odom, and small forward Meng Xu. , shooting guard Szczerbiak, point guard Andre Miller.

The starting first-year rookies are center Kenyon Martin, power forward Darius Miles, small forward Stephen Jackson, shooting guard Maurice Peterson, and point guard Khalid Al-Amin.

"This year's All-Star rookie game may be the one with the biggest gap in the past few years." When the starting lineups of the two teams came out, the commentator Kenny Smith smiled and shook his head, saying helplessly. , The more disparity between strength and weakness, the worse the ratings, so this kind of situation, whether it is the NBA or the major TV stations, is unwilling to see it.The second-year rookies completely overwhelm the first-year rookies in every position. Among these first-year rookies, there are basically few players who can be used, let alone those who can decide the direction of the game on their own. .

"Kenny, I remember you said the same thing last season." In today's game, Kenny Smith's partner is the former NBA superstar, Mr. Barkley, known as Sir Charles. After announcing his retirement last season, Barkley joined TNT TV this year and commented on NBA games with his old partner Kenny Smith. In today's All-Star rookie game, Barkley and Smith also came directly to the scene to explain.In the rookie challenge of the year, Kenny Smith believed that the difference in strength between the two teams was too large as soon as the lineups of the two teams appeared on the stage, and the first grade would undoubtedly lose, but the final result made Smith feel ashamed.

"Charles, that's an exception." Hearing that Barkley exposed his shortcomings in front of so many audiences, Smith also blushed, but what Smith said next also made Barkley a little bit confused: " Charles, in your opinion, you are very optimistic about this year's first-year rookies, performing the miracle of last year again?"

"Uh... Let's watch the game, the two sides have already started jumping the ball."

　Thanks for Qiu's 999 book coin reward, thank you.

　　Thank you Taoist Zhishu for being a mother's monthly ticket, thank you.

　　Thank you for the monthly ticket to travel to Huangpu, thank you.

　　Thanks to Emperor Kangxi for the monthly ticket at the starting point, thank you.

　　Appreciate the monthly pass for mode 5, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)