Chapter 138

The 2004 all star weekend lasted from February 13 to 17.

The rookie challenge is scheduled for February 14, which is also Valentine's day.

Candice was there to watch James play.

There were also many celebrities and entertainment celebrities from Los Angeles, such as little plum who always wanted to win the Oscar, rapper superstar dog ye, director and Oscar winner Nicholson, actress Scarlett, Jessica and kolka Daishan.

The players selected for the first grade team of the rookie challenge are James (Cavaliers), Anthony (Nuggets), bosh (Raptors), Haslem (heat), Jarvis Hayes (wizards), Hinrich (bulls), Josh Howard (Mavericks), Kaman (clippers) and Wade (heat)

The players selected for the second grade team are Yao Ming (rockets), Boozer (Cavaliers), Dunleavy (Warriors), Ginobili (spurs), jaric (clippers), Murray (supersonics), Nene (Nuggets), Prince (pistons) and Stoudemire (suns).

In fact, the NBA has a rule that if rookies participate in the All-Star game, they can't participate in the rookie challenge.

Yao Ming started the All-Star game last year and didn't participate in the rookie challenge.

By this year, this rule has been abolished by the league, because last year's No. 1 Yao Ming and this year's No. 1 James have been selected into the All-Star competition. If this rule is still implemented, neither Yao Ming nor James can appear in the rookie challenge, which will greatly reduce the attraction of the rookie challenge and the audience rating is bound to drop significantly, This will affect the alliance's income.

Therefore, the alliance abolished this rule. In the face of interests, the so-called rules can still be abolished. What about the freedom of speech of the alliance? Maybe it's bullshit.

This also contributed to the confrontation between the two top picks in the rookie challenge.

At the beginning of the challenge, Yao Ming and James were the players who jumped the ball on both sides.

The starting lineup of the first grade team is that Hinrich and wade are in the backcourt, James and Anthony are in the front, and Kaman is in the center.

The second grade team started with jaric, Ginobili, Boozer, Stoudemire and Yao Ming.

With his excellent bounce and agility, James won the ball from Yao Ming.

The first grade team led the attack.

Hinrich controlled the ball for half court and gave it to James on the right. James rushed forward with the ball and scored from the right to the basket. He noticed that Anthony had followed from the left. He threw the ball high and passed it to Anthony.

Boozer rushed forward to defend Anthony, but Anthony didn't shoot, but threw the ball to the basket.

Bang!

James took off to complete the air relay and slammed the basketball into the basket.

"Wow!" Candice stood up and applauded for the wonderful cooperation between Anthony and James.

Scarlett also stood up and applauded vigorously.

Looking back, the second grade team attacked. The ball was in Ginobili's hand. He pushed the ball outside the front three-point line. After a snake breakthrough, he hit the ground and passed the ball to Stoudemire, who followed up. Stoudemire took off step by step and buckled violently.

How cool and how to play at the beginning, the defensive intensity is more than a little lower than the official game.

Burst buckle is the most routine operation.

The fans at the scene were very happy.

"Old man, which side do you think will win?" The dog asked Nicholson.

"There's no need to see. The second grade team must win. The first grade team is a class of rookies. How can we play with the second grade team?" Nicholson is a little dismissive of the problem of dog master.

"Ha ha." The dog master smiled and seemed to think that the question he asked was a little silly, "I think so, too. The second grade team has won for many years in a row. No exception will happen this year. "

"Yes, there are Stoudemire and Yao Ming in the second grade team. Their strength in the interior is much better than that of the first grade team. There are cunning guards like Ginobili in the back line. Can't they win?"

It seems to be a negative response to the two people on the sidelines. Anthony broke through the bottom line with the ball, passed Boozer's defense, scored under the basket, slammed his hands and added two points to the first grade team.

When jaric wanted to hang the ball into the inside line and give it to Yao Ming, he was predicted by James and got a good cut in the middle. He ran down quickly with the ball, followed by Wade who followed up like lightning.

James ran under the basket and didn't lay up himself. Instead, he spread the ball back, over his head, and handed it to wade who followed up and jumped in the air. Wade also made a sharp buckle.

The three brothers dunked one basket each and played very happily on the court.

The three smiled and clapped their hands and stepped back.

The fans in staples stadium were also happy. Their emotions were mobilized by such dunks. The rookie challenge, which had always felt that it was a little chicken, now seems to be really worth the ticket price.

When the second grade team attacked, jaric rushed to the front court with the ball. After breaking through, he changed his hand to Boozer in the middle. Boozer could have taken off and dunked, but he didn't dunk. Instead, he gave the ball to Stoudemire on the right. Stoudemire took off and slammed the basket.

"These guys are really young!" Carter, the "half man and half god" who came to see the ball, sighed.

"Ha ha, we were like this back then." McGrady next to me smiled and said.

"Pretend, now someone says you're old?" Duncan, sitting in the row behind McGrady, answered. He unconsciously stretched out his hand to touch McGrady's head, but his eyes caught a glimpse of Ginobili on the field, and then realized that McGrady was not Ginobili. He took back his half stretched hand,

"The little guy on your team played well." McGrady mouthed Ginobili Nunu on the court.

"He, under my guidance and education, played fairly well." Duncan is not modest in private.

"Did Kobe go out with you last night? Los Angeles is his territory. " Carter changed the subject.

"No, he has been in trouble recently. Where is he free to play?" McGrady replied.

"Isn't the eagle group incident about to be settled by him? What's the trouble? " Carter was curious and continued to ask.

"There was something wrong between him and O'Neill and they had an argument."

"Really?" Duncan heard that he was immediately interested. You know, the Spurs and the Lakers have been fierce enemies of the playoffs in recent seasons. It seems good to spy on some military information from McGrady. At present, the media has not made any fuss, and there are no reports of contradictions in the Lakers.

But McGrady chose to shut up and stop talking about the Lakers. He realized that it was bad to talk too much and looked at the ball seriously.