This All-Star Game was also widely covered in China. CCTV Sports Channel specially sent a camera team to Los Angeles. The happiest thing is the Chinese fans. This year’s All-Star Game has Chinese players participating, and Lu Yu not only participated
In the Rookie Challenge, I also participated in the three-point contest and the All-Star Game, which is equivalent to watching it for three days in a row.
Just after Lu Yu got off the plane and met with Quentin Richardson, he received a call from Arenas: "Lu, where are you? Come over quickly, I have already arrived at the hotel, Sean and Jason are also there
Now, let's discuss how to play the rookie game tonight? There are many great second-year players, such as Quentin on your team. He scored 20 points last year. We can't let him steal the spotlight."
Lu Yu glanced at Ah Q Richardson next to him awkwardly.
He is the latest player in this group of All-Star Game players to participate in the Rookie Game, because he signed a contract in Boston yesterday.
After arriving in Philadelphia, Lu Yu definitely contacted Quentin as soon as possible. The two were teammates and had a very good relationship. However, he did not expect that Arenas would call as soon as he found Quentin.
Lu Yu and Arenas have formed a deep "friendship" since the NCAA. From the first game when Arenas lost to Lu Yu for $100, to the NCAA finals where he was defeated by Lu Yu with his left hand, and then to the NBA where Lu Yu became the boss of the team.
And he is just a substitute. It seems that Arenas has been living in Lu Yu's shadow.
What a miserable man.
But Lu Yu also knew that although Arenas regarded him as a friend, he also regarded him as an opponent. The two of them could sit together in Lu Ji Chinese Restaurant to eat, or they could go head-to-head on the court. This was the first time that they were side by side.
Combat.
There is also Sean Battier, who was also defeated by Lu Yu.
Gasol has never beaten Lu Yu since he came to the NBA.
Anyway, among this year's first-year rookies, except for Tony Parker who defeated Lu Yu, no other player has ever defeated Lu Yu as the main player of the team.
Arenas gave his address and hung up the phone.
Immediately after, Lu Yu received a second call.
"Lu, I've arrived in Philadelphia, can you pick me up?" Scarlett Johansson's charming voice came from the other end of the phone.
"I just got off the plane. By the way, I haven't thanked you properly for the All-Star vote last time." Lu Yu never mentioned picking her up.
"Didn't you already thank me via text message? I came to Los Angeles specifically to watch your All-Star Game performance. Don't let me down... If you perform well, I will be rewarded in the evening."
"But I want to save my energy to perform well in front of you tonight."
"rogue."
"How do you know my nickname? They all call me an old basketball hooligan."
"Forget it if you don't come to pick me up. I'll go there by myself. Make sure to work hard tonight!"
Lu Yu didn't know what she was referring to by cheering up. He always felt that the relationship between the two people was more like a purely physical relationship. However, as the relationship deepened, he found that Scarlett seemed to be playing tricks.
emotion.
The two people would sometimes chat after finishing things. Scarlett Johansson always felt that this man had a unique perspective on things, and sometimes the two people's views would be surprisingly consistent.
But Lu Yu also knew that Scarlett Johansson had many male celebrities chasing her, such as the man named Jared Leto, and Scarlett had rejected her more than once.
Lu Yu sometimes thought that if he hadn't appeared, Scarlett would have already been dating Leto.
But he was often not with Scarlett, and sometimes he really couldn't be sure whether she would do anything outrageous, so Lu Yu never thought about having a relationship with her.
Fortunately, it seems that Scarlett has no plans to fall in love with someone else yet.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yu realized the reason why Scarlett chased her to Philadelphia. It was because the All-Star Game was from February 10th to February 13th, and the first day after it happened to be Valentine's Day. It seemed that Scarlett
I want to spend Valentine's Day on my own.
Quentin had already arranged a car, and Lu Yu got in the car and went all the way to the hotel designated by Arenas.
After arriving at the hotel, Lu Yu first sent his luggage to his room, and then called Arenas' number.
"Yes, turn right, it's the third room, come in, brother."
Lu Yu opened the door and realized that there was not only Arenas in the room, but also Battier, Gasol, Kirilenko, Jamal Tinsley, Tony Parker... almost first-year players in the rookie game.
The rookies are all in the room.
Kirilenko was selected by the Utah Jazz with the 24th pick in the first round of the 1999 NBA draft, but he only joined the Jazz last year, so he is also considered a first-year rookie.
"You're finally here, we've been waiting for you for a long time." Shane walked up, shook hands and patted the back as a sign of friendship.
Then Lu Yu greeted the others one by one.
There are many familiar faces in it, needless to say Arenas, Battier was also defeated by the NCAA, Gasol failed to defeat the Bulls in two regular season games, and Tinsley's Pacers also lost to the mainland.
Remain……
"What are you doing here?" Lu Yu asked.
Arenas smiled and said: "We are discussing the tactics for the second grade tomorrow."
"Huh?" Lu Yu was startled: "Where is the coach?"
Arranging tactics should be the coach's business, how can the players discuss it together?
What's more, these players all come from different teams and play completely different tactical systems. If we continue to discuss this, won't the final result still be singles first?
"The coach said to let us play freely. This is just a performance game. He can't prepare the game video. Besides, so many people on the opponent's team are in different teams, and the game video is not easy to prepare, so we discuss among ourselves what to do tomorrow.
How to play the game." Arenas said.
"Do you need to be so serious?" Lu Yu touched his nose.
"Of course!" Arenas curled his lips and said, "Do you think you are the same as you and can still participate in the All-Star Game? We will only participate in the Rookie Challenge. If we don't perform well, won't there be no shots at all?"
The other players in the room laughed.
Of the rookie players in the room, only Lu Yu was selected for the All-Star Game. Even Gasol, who performed best, missed the All-Star Game.
In fact, this year’s Rookie Challenge is quite special.
Among the 19 people participating in this year’s Rookie Challenge, a record 6 non-American players appeared——
Gasol is from Spain,
Kirilenko is from Russia,
Parker is from France,
Rebraka is from Yugoslavia,
Turkoglu is from Türkiye,
Lu Yu is from China.
Behind every player is his or her own country, but only Lu Yu participated in the All-Star Game.
Although this is due to the large number of Chinese fans and their strength, we have to admit that Lu Yu's popularity in the United States is also very high, which is enough to make them envious.
"Then have you discussed any tactics?" Lu Yu decided to avoid this hateful topic.
A hint of cunning flashed across Arenas's eyes: "My plan is to let you beat up your teammates!"
Lu Yu: “????”
Quentin Richardson is one of the best players among the second-year rookies. He even got the highest score among that batch of rookies last year. On the way here, Richardson even discussed with himself that Lu Yu would be allowed to play when the time comes.
Put some water.
Lu Yu didn't expect that this piece of shit Arenas would have thought of this a long time ago.
This year's Rookie Challenge will be the 8th Rookie Challenge. In the past two years, the second-year rookie team defeated the first-year rookie team.
Last year's second-year rookie team won 121-113. Second-year rookie Wori Szczerbiak from the Minnesota Timberwolves scored 27 points and was elected the Rookie Challenge MVP.
Last year, the time of the Rookie Challenge was increased by 10 minutes, so that the total game time reached 40 minutes. The game was divided into two halves. No players were sent off. The overtime time was 2 minutes.
Players who have won the Rookie Challenge MVP in the past, such as Elton Brand, Allen Iverson and Damon Stoudamire, have all won Rookie of the Year honors.
So everyone also intends for Lu Yu to win the MVP.
After all, Lu Yu is the player most likely to win the Rookie of the Year award. Even Gasol has no intention of competing for this now.
In addition to Quentin Richardson, the second-year players include last year's Rookie of the Year Mike Miller and Kenyon Martin, who performed well this year.
Memphis Grizzlies forward Stromire Swift, forward Marcus Fizer, who was traded to the Clippers, Charlotte Hornets forward Lee Nelong and Kings forward Turkoglu;
Seattle SuperSonics guard Desmond Mason; Cleveland Cavaliers center Chris Mihm.
By the way, Mason won the 2001 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
This year's slam dunk contest champion, if nothing else, Mason will be defeated by Jason Richardson.
Next year... he'll also be defeated by Jason Richardson.
It's miserable enough to think about it.
In fact, if it weren't for the care of the league, Jordan might have become a player almost as miserable as Mason.
Jordan participated in three slam dunk contests in total. The first time was in 1985, when the 22-year-old Jordan participated in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. That slam dunk contest was a gathering of heroes.
There were Dr. J, Drexler and Wilkins, the essence of the human movie. Finally, after a hard battle, Jordan and Wilkins entered the finals.
But in the end it was Wilkins who won.
The second time Jordan won was undisputed.
In 1987, Jordan's performance in the dunk contest was amazing.
He first dunked at a 45-degree angle. After taking off, his posture was very beautiful, like a big bird flying in the air, with his limbs stretched beautifully.
Finally, he jumped and dunked from the free throw line. This action was really beautiful.
From sprinting to gliding dunk, everything is so perfect and impeccable!
This dunk shocked everyone, Jordan's stay in the air was really beautiful.
This dunk earned him the title of Flying Man!
Then in 1988, he participated in the slam dunk contest for the third time. This year, Jordan won, but his victory was not convincing.
To be fair, although Jordan's dunk action is very beautiful, Wilkins is not only not inferior in any way, but even slightly surpasses it.
Otherwise, he would not have won such a big reputation as "the essence of human cinema".
The reason why Jordan was able to defeat such a powerful opponent was largely due to the help of referees, which caused great controversy at the time.
Even though more than ten years have passed, there are still voices expressing dissatisfaction for Wilkins from time to time, which is evident.
If this time, Jordan loses.
Then he will become the first player to lose to the same opponent twice in the dunk contest, just like Mason losing to Richardson twice.
This is also the reason why Jordan will never participate in the dunk contest again.
"By the way, Lu, you must pass more balls to me today. I want to dunk a few more to get in shape for tomorrow's dunk contest." Jason Richardson said to Lu Yu with a smile.
He felt that he believed in Lu Yu's passing skills more than Tony Parker.
Arenas was unhappy on the sidelines: "Hey, Jason, I'm your teammate. How could you ask Lu Yu such a request? This makes me lose face."
Lu Yu: "Maybe your passing skills are too bad."
Arenas: "I'm not convinced."
Lu Yu thought for a while: "I think there is another reason."
"what reason?"
Arenas was stunned and asked quickly.
Lu Yu smiled and said, "Maybe it's because you don't have much playing time."
Arenas: "..."
Lu Yu was telling the truth. If it weren't for the fact that Zelko Rebraca of the Detroit Pistons had a heart problem some time ago, he wouldn't have been able to come on as a substitute.
Reblacca had to leave the game midway through the game between the Detroit Pistons and New Jersey Nets a few days ago because of dizziness with 8 minutes and 34 seconds left before the end of the second quarter.
The Pistons announced at halftime that Rebraka was feeling dizzy and could not play in the second half. After the game, the Pistons announced that Rebraka's condition was an irregular heartbeat.
For health reasons, Rebraka gave up the Rookie Challenge.
Although Lu Yu was telling the truth, Arenas still felt too heartbroken.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the Rookie Challenge officially kicked off...
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