swing striker

Chapter 114 All-Star Weekend

Since entering February, the Celtics have gradually entered the right track. Except for the absence of Garnett at the beginning of the month, Shi Lei went to the power forward position, and James was unguarded. In addition to one loss, the Celtics won six other games, including the opponent they need to guard against this year-the San Antonio Spurs.

After defeating the Knicks by a big score, the Celtics game temporarily came to an end, and it was time for the annual All-Star Game.

This year's All-Star Game Celtics has a total of five players participating, including the "Big Three", Shi Lei and Rondo.Among them, Garnett unexpectedly became the All-Star vote leader this year. I mean the Eastern Conference. Yao Ming will never be the leader of the vote.He got 2399148 votes and is also the starting power forward in the East, but unfortunately, his injury seems to be more troublesome than predicted, and he is still on the team's injury list.

Naturally, Rondo and Shi Lei couldn't participate in the main game. They were selected for the second-year team of the All-Star Rookie Game. Shi Lei was also invited to participate in the slam dunk contest.

The NBA All-Star Game began on March 1951, 3 and is held once a year. By 2, it had held 2008 sessions.

Since its inception, the event has attracted fans from all over the world to watch.After evolution, the contemporary All-Star Game has developed into the "All-Star Weekend", which lasts for 3 days, including the "All-Star Gala", "Rookie All-Star Challenge", "Slam Dunk Contest", "Three-Point Long Shot Contest". ", "Basketball Skills Challenge", "Shooting Relay", "All-Star Game".

The most exciting ones are the "Slam Dunk Contest" and "All-Star Game".Therefore, the players who participate in these two events each time can attract the attention of the media the most.

The NBA is the most successful basketball game in the world. Its biggest feature, in addition to the fierce physical confrontation, is the endless variety of highly ornamental slam dunks.Starting from Larry Nance, to Di Brown, Dr. J, Wilkins, Jordan, Carter, almost every year, the NBA will add a group of slam dunks.

Since this season, the news about Shi Lei has never stopped, and it will appear in the media almost every day.With the high level of data, the attention he received increased again and again, until he signed a sensational contract with Adidas, and a series of subsequent contracts fueled the flames, making Shi Lei's popularity even surpassed that of some superstars.

This made Shi Lei realize that after he arrived in New Orleans, where the All-Stars are held, he had to deal with media interviews first.

"Hi Shi Lei, congratulations on becoming the first Chinese and Asian to participate in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. May I ask if you have confidence in winning the championship?"

Interviewing is not like having sex, there is almost no foreplay in this job, but the first question, Shi Lei who is "inserting" is a little bit unbearable.Fortunately, he did enough homework before coming here, so Shi Lei, who was already inexperienced, didn't make a fool of himself on the spot because of his lack of words.

"The opponents are very strong, they can always do some jaw-dropping things, and their experience is also very rich. I didn't think about what kind of results I would achieve this time, and I have more of a learning mentality. .Yes, it is like that."

"So can you tell me about the moves you prepared?"

"Because I'm going to participate in the game, I recently watched a lot of dunk videos, including those of Jordan and Carter, and I decided to try their dunk moves."

Although he said so, Shi Lei came here for the championship, no reason, the 1000 million is more than enough reason.

The above two questions were raised by the Chinese media, but the American media were not so polite. Shi Lei's super contract with Adidas attracted the hatred of these media who had just changed their attitude.

Their first question was maliciously asked: "Do you think your performance is better than Kobe Bryant and LeBron James? If not, then why do you get a job worth more than [-] million US dollars?" The sneaker contract?"

Shi Lei didn't have many opportunities to deal with these people, even if he had, he would mostly refuse, he knew very well that as a Chinese, he couldn't win their favor by groveling, he didn't come here to please anyone, he Knowing where his roots are, who would buy him more? Faced with these unkind words, Shi Lei didn't think he had the need to be euphemistic: "The reason is very simple, the exchange rate of USD to RMB has depreciated!"

What Shi Lei said caused the group of Yankees to stir up a commotion.Schwartz, who has been focusing his work on Shi Lei recently, saw that the confrontation between the two sides was so intense, and quickly handed over the next opportunity to ask questions to an Asian media, because he couldn't tell the difference between most people of yellow race .Fortunately, he was lucky, this happened to be a Chinese media.

"So what round do you think you'll make it to?"

In fact, China pays more attention to Shi Lei's endorsement, and wants to know more about the details of the signing. However, after looking at the situation at the scene, the reporter who accidentally got the opportunity to ask questions wittily extended the question to the slam dunk contest.

"Go for the finals."

After Shi Lei answered this question, Schwartz hurriedly announced the end of the interview.Naturally, the turbulent American media would not let Shi Lei go, and asked several more unreasonable questions one after another, but after that Shi Lei didn't say a word until he was escorted back to the hotel by the organizers.

On February 2, the All-Star Game officially began, starting with the All-Star Celebrity Game.This game can be regarded as a warm-up for the All-Star Game. Shi Lei doesn't know any of the players from the Development League anyway.

In the afternoon, the All-Star Rookie Game was held.

2006 was a small year in the draft, and there were a few good stars at the guard position, but at the forward position, except for Aldridge, none of them could play star flavor later.

Forwards: LaMarcus Aldridge, Andrea Bargnani, Shi Lei, Rudy Gay Guards: Ronnie Brewer, Jordan Farmar, Daniel Gibson, Rajon Long Much, Brandon Roy.

Compared with the first-year starlight, the team has not only Kevin Durant, but also first-line star players such as Mike Conley, Jeff Green, and Al Horford.

First-year rookie starting lineup: Conley, Durant, Green, Scola, Horford.

Second-year rookie starting lineup: Rondo, Roy, Gay, Shi Lei, Bargnani.

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