Legendary star

Chapter 655 All-Star Game
On February 2006, 2, Saturday, American time, Meng Xu, Jermaine O'Neal, head coach Rick Carlisle and others came to Houston to participate in the upcoming All-Star Weekend, the All-Star Game of this season , Meng Xu was selected as a starter again, Jermaine O'Neal was selected as a substitute, and Rick Carlisle became the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Stars.

After arriving at the hotel where he was staying, Meng Xu parted ways with Jermaine O'Neal, Rick Carlisle and others, because before Meng Xu set off for Houston, Nike had contacted him in advance, and Nike's Odin The brand should take advantage of this All-Star Weekend to launch the fourth generation of Odin sneakers. Since Meng Xu signed with Nike, the Odin series of sneakers has been launched for three generations, with a cumulative sales of more than 1500 million pairs. In the plan of the Ding company, after the end of last season, they will launch the fourth generation of Odin sneakers, but the sudden gang fight in the Auburn Hills Palace caused the release time of the fourth generation of Odin to be postponed indefinitely.

Today, under the public relations of the NBA and the team behind Meng Xu, the adverse impact of the gang fight in Auburn Hills on Meng Xu cannot be said to have been completely eliminated, and it has almost been downplayed to the minimum. Therefore, after deliberation, Nike and Odin decided to take advantage of this All-Star game, when journalists from all over the United States gathered in Houston, to launch the fourth generation of Odin sneakers.

Since Meng Xu stayed in Indianapolis as an otaku in addition to participating in some charity activities during the offseason of last season, many sponsors' activities, including the shooting of some commercials and promotional videos, were put on the global stage. In the past few days of Star Weekend, it can be said that Meng Xu's itinerary for these few days is still very tight. Fortunately, Meng Xu does not need to participate in other events this year except the All-Star Game.

And in the All-Star Game, head coach Rick Carlisle doesn't want Meng Xu to play too much time. After all, the Pacers and Spurs are now competing for the league's No. After the All-Star Game, he overtook the Spurs in one fell swoop and took the No. [-] throne in the league. Besides, Meng Xu didn't have much pursuit of this year's All-Star MVP.

The Western All-Stars, because it is McGrady’s home, so according to the usual practice, the Western All-Stars will basically support McGrady to win the All-Star MVP, while the Eastern All-Stars, Vince Carter and Allen Iverson both hope Being able to win this honor, although the All-Star MVP is not a great award, but for Vince Carter and Allen Iverson who are in desperate need of honor, mosquito legs are also meat.

As the "Big Four Shooting Guards" touted by the league in the past few years, Vince Carter and Allen Iverson's situation in the past two seasons has been a bit bad. The data has shrunk and the team's record has declined. Today, the batch of rookies have begun to emerge. If they don't get any substantive honors, they will be far away from the All-Star stage like Jason Kidd, Steve, and Marbury.

After finishing the press conference of the fourth generation of Odin, Meng Xu rushed to the Toyota Center. Sarunas Jaskovicius of the Pacers was selected into this year's second-year rookie team, so as the boss, Meng Xu Naturally, I want to cheer for Salunas Jaskovicius, and under the requirements of the league, all the All-Stars who want to participate in the All-Star Game must sit on the sidelines and cheer for these rookies. The purpose of the league's arrangement is obvious. After all, no one wants to pay a lot of dollars to watch a game with a player whose name they can't name.

Compared with the All-Star rookie game with star folds in the previous two seasons, the starlight of tonight's All-Star rookie game will be much dimmer. The first-year team: Andrew Bogut, Luther Hyde, Danny Granger , Chris Paul, Channing Frye, Nate Robinson, Charlie Villanueva, Bracey White.Sophomore Team: Dwight Howard, Sarunas Jascovicius, Andres Nocioni, Devon Harris, TJ Ford, Nenad Kostic, Deron Te West, Andre Iguodala, except for Dwight Howard of the Magic, the other [-] players have not yet made a name for themselves. Such a game may not be as exciting as a game. Ordinary regular season.

As expected before the game, the first-year team without a star player fell into a disadvantage from the beginning of the game. Whether it was inside or outside, they were completely crushed by the second-year team. If it wasn't for dragging the game to the end At that moment, the first-year team had been beaten for a long time, and the final result was not surprising at all. The second-year team defeated the first-year team 106 to 96. Since Meng Xu's rookie was below the top, the 6th-year team so far In the All-Star Rookie Challenge, all first-year teams lost.

However, the final candidate for the MVP of the Rookie Challenge was slightly different from what was expected before the game. As the only star player in the second-year team, Dwight Howard, who was crowned the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, was the most popular player, but he unexpectedly won the Rookie Challenge As the assistant coach of the Pacers, Lester Connor, who was in charge of the second-year team, naturally moved the Pacers' set of tactics, so Dwight Howard, who was the starting center, naturally also It is impossible to get too many opportunities. On the contrary, Andre Iguodala of the 76ers was entrusted with the important task by Leicester Connor, and Andre Iguodala finally scored 30 points, 6 Rebounds, 3 assists won the MVP of this Rookie Challenge.

"Allen, I can't see it, you little brother can do it." After the game, Meng Xu joked with Allen Iverson beside him. Ferson is looking for a few qualified helpers, but suffers from the lack of high-level picks and suitable bargaining chips, and the owner of the 76ers is reluctant to spend money, so the 76ers have repeatedly hit the wall in the free market, which has also led to the 76ers in recent seasons. The team's record has always been unsatisfactory. After reaching the finals, they have been hovering on the edge of the playoffs.

"It's not bad." Looking at Andre Iguodala who held up the Rookie Challenge MVP trophy, Allen Iverson also showed a look of satisfaction in his eyes. Andre Iguodala's The talent is very good, and he will definitely become his suitable helper in time, but he is 31 years old now, and Iverson himself does not know how much patience he has to wait for Andre Iguodala to grow.

(End of this chapter)