The 2005 All-Star Weekend will officially kick off on February 18th in Syracuse and Denver.
Before the All-Star Game, more and more people came to Denver. On the streets, restaurants and casinos of Denver, the voices of Chinese people could be heard from time to time. But this time it was obviously not the Chinese who came to catch up with the excitement of the NBA All-Star Game.
, but the NBA is trying to gain popularity among the Chinese on this special day.
At the Madrid Bay Hotel, where the All-Star Carnival is held, red Chinese Spring Festival couplets and strings of red lanterns are hung in the main passages and eye-catching places, contrasting with the All-Star promotional posters. It makes people feel like NBA.
The owners decided to hold the NBA All-Star Game during the Chinese Spring Festival shrewdly and thoughtfully.
Because this year Yao Ming and Chen Jie both appeared in the starting lineup of the All-Star Game, which made many Chinese fans extremely excited. You can see posters of the two of them almost everywhere in Denver.
Because the All-Star Game happened to coincide with the Chinese New Year, Li Ming'er also came to Denver with Chen Jie. On the first day, the day before the All-Star Game Rookie Game, the two of them had a wonderful New Year together.
Chen Jie not only has many games to participate in this All-Star Weekend, but also has many charity activities.
The entire All-Star Game is like a party, and Chen Jie doesn't need to feel any pressure about the game.
Before the game, he was very relaxed.
Partying and chatting with Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady, doing brand promotions with James and other Nike players, and participating in charity activities with Pierce Iverson and others from the Eastern Conference, Chen Jie has never left the media's sight, and his
You can always see a smile on your face.
Because of Chen Jie’s rising status in the league, his recent amazing performance, and his unprecedented slap in the face after the media slandered Chen Jie, many media were cautious and did not dare to bring up anything during routine interviews with Chen Jie.
Here comes the question that makes Chen Jie unhappy.
In fact, the main theme of many media now is to sing praises to Chen Jie.
In their words, Chen Jie is almost on the same level as Michael Jordan.
There were people to flatter him, friends to chat with, and beautiful women to keep him company. Chen Jie was living a very smooth life.
The All-Star Game is a big party, a time to relax in the middle of the season.
Although Chen Jie may not be able to relax physically, his mood is definitely greatly relaxed.
Happy time always passes quickly.
Before we knew it, the All-Star Game was here.
The first thing to do is the All-Star Rookie Challenge.
This game will be played on Friday night local time and Saturday morning Beijing time.
Generally speaking, the All-Star Game does not have much ratings in China. What fans prefer to watch is the All-Star Game.
However, this year's rookies and last year's rookies are both very good. You can imagine how exciting this game will be.
In addition, Chen Jie will also participate, and the number of Chinese fans paying attention to this game has set a record.
CCTV had early sent Zhang Weiping, Chen Jie's number one fan, and Yang Yi from the Basketball Pioneer to Denver to broadcast the All-Star Game live.
Because Chen Jie was going to participate in the game, they did not invite Chen Jie to the studio as a guest. Instead, they invited another popular Chinese basketball superstar, Yao Ming, to join in the commentary.
This kind of commentary lineup also makes fans look forward to it.
That night, the Pepsi Center in Denver was packed, and many celebrities and superstars who participated in the main game came to the scene. Many fans also came because Anthony of the Nuggets was also going to participate in the All-Star Game.
The NBA Rookie Challenge is one of the important exhibition games of the NBA All-Star Weekend. The first session was held in 1994. In history, most of the games were played by the new rookie team challenging the previous rookie team (sophomore team), and a group of coaches met
In January, the best 9 rookie players and second-year players were selected to form the rookie team and the second-year team. The assistant coaches of the teams with the best performance in the East and West served as the team's interim head coach. Sometimes the NBA would also be invited
A star player serves as the team's nominal manager to increase topicality.
In exhibition games, as the name suggests, winning is not that important.
So in the locker room before the game, the head coaches of the first-year and second-year teams didn't say anything about important tactical arrangements, but tried their best to joke with the players.
In this year's Rookie Challenge, the head coach of the first-year team is Carlesimo, the assistant coach of the Spurs, the No. 1 team in the Western Conference, and the legendary superstar English of the Nuggets. The second-year head coach is the assistant coach of the Bulls, the No. 1 team in the East.
Mike, and legendary Nuggets coach Moore.
The rosters of both teams also include many superstars who can participate in the main game.
The first is the first-year team. Except for Chen Jie, Luer Deng, Iguodala, Howard and Al Jefferson who replaced the injured Okafor in the starting lineup, the other players include Tony Allen, Ben
Gordon, Devin Harris, Josh Smith, and Udrih.
The starting lineup of the second-year team is LeBron James, Wade, Bosh, Anthony, and Haslem. Other players include Chen Jie's teammate Hinrich, Josh Howard, Korver, and Ridnour.
The rules of the Rookie Challenge are also different from ordinary games. The Rookie Challenge is divided into two halves of 20 minutes each. There is a 100-second long timeout in each half. In addition, there are two halves in the first and second halves.
There are two mandatory commercial timeouts, one at 7 minutes and 14 minutes of the half. Both teams will automatically lose a 100-second timeout if they do not do so at 14 minutes (the rookie team loses the timeout opportunity) and
Each team's timeout is used up at 7 minutes (the second grade loses the timeout opportunity). Each team has a 20-second short timeout opportunity in each half. The player's foul behavior will be counted by the scorer's table, but there is no case of leaving the field with 6 fouls.
.The scoreboard will notify the referee to enter the free throw procedure when the cumulative number of fouls committed by either team reaches the 11th time. If any team commits the second foul within 2 minutes before the end of the half, a free throw will also be awarded. In the rookie competition,
If the scores are tied during regular time, there will be a 2-minute overtime. A shot made within the last minute of the first half will result in a timeout. The All-Star Rookie Challenge mvp award will be awarded after the game.
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During the 20 minutes of warm-up time before the game, Chen Jie greeted many familiar friends and shot random shots.
This Rookie Challenge has many players that Chen Jie is very familiar with.
Needless to say, Luol Dunhinrich, although James and Chen Jie are regarded as lifelong rivals by the league, they have a good relationship. Anthony and Wade have a close relationship with Chen Jie, but Howard, Chen Jie's No. 1 pick in the same year, has a good relationship.
Players in the same year as Ben Gordon are still very friendly with Chen Jie.
After all, everyone knows that the core of the first-year team is destined to be Chen Jie.
Although Yao Ming was invited to the media box to commentate, on the sidelines, superstars such as Tracy McGrady, Bryant, and Iverson who had a good relationship with Chen Jie came up to talk to Chen Jie and hug him before the game, making Chen Jie look very popular.
In the studio, seeing this scene, Yao Ming joked: "Today Chen Jie seemed to be condescending to participate in the Rookie Challenge. Looking at his current relationship with people like Kobe, this is incomparable to other rookies."
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Next to him, Yang Yi smiled and said: "Chen Jie seems to be more popular than you."
"Haha, this guy may have a hot temper in front of the media, but he is actually a very nice person in private. I remember when I first met Kobe, he was very disdainful of me. But when Chen Jie met Kobe for the first time,
Kobe actually valued him very much!" Yao Ming laughed.
"Kobe is such an arrogant person, I don't know how Chen Jie subdued him. Not long ago, he helped Chen Jie a lot!" Zhang Weiping has a good impression of Kobe recently because of Chen Jie's relationship.
"Speaking of which, you two do have one thing in common. That is, you both have an entanglement with Shaq!" Yang Yi made another joke.
Yao Ming smiled and did not continue. It was a bit embarrassing to talk about this issue in the All-Star Game.
The story of the two men and Shaq is not that beautiful.
Until now, even though they are both starting in the Eastern Conference in the All-Star Game, neither Chen Jie nor Shaq has spoken to each other. (To be continued...)
