In the morning, Wang Zelin first went to meet with this year's All-Star players, and then the officials took photos for everyone, and then did various activities. He was busy all morning.
In the afternoon, the 2014 Nassmith Basketball Hall of Fame inductees were announced to the outside world.
A total of 10 people were inducted into the Hall of Fame this year. The most famous one is naturally the league president David Stern, who has just retired. Due to his outstanding contributions as NBA president for 30 years, he was elected as soon as he retired.
Basketball Hall of Fame honors.
Of course, there is no dispute among the outside world about this!
Among the remaining 9 people, the one Wang Zelin is most familiar with is undoubtedly the former American professional basketball player and Heat legend Alonzo Mourning who played as a center in his career!
Won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year and NBA Block Leader twice and was selected to the NBA All-Defensive First Team. He was selected to the NBA All-Star Team 7 times. He helped the American men's basketball team win the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and won the 2006 NBA All-Defensive Team with the Heat.
The NBA championship is also the only championship ring in his career...
Among this year's shortlist, apart from the special being of David Stern, "Kidney Fighter" Mourning is the one with the most spots.
I still remember that in the 1990s, there were four major centers under Air Jordan, and under the halo of the four major centers, there were many outstanding big men with considerable strength.
Mourning is one of them, and was even rated as the fifth-best center in the NBA that year!
Wang Zelin was not very familiar with the final selection, so he didn’t pay much attention to it.
After all, the list of inductees is only announced now, and the Hall of Fame induction ceremony will not begin until August in the second half of the year.
An hour and a half after the announcement of the Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA All-Stars began the first event of this year - the All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game, the Shooting Stars Game.
Since the league's top management approved Jay Chou's live performance of "Nunchaku" during the All-Star Game, perhaps out of consideration for adapting to the venue in advance, Jay Chou was invited by the league to participate in the All-Star Celebrity Game.
Wang Zelin came to the scene specially, maybe because he was worried about his hereditary ankylosing spondylitis. Jay Chou only played 8 minutes, scoring 2 points and 1 assist, and only took 1 shot in the game...
en, 100% hit rate, so terrifying!
"Oh, not bad!"
Seeing Jay Chou return to the bench, Wang Zelin behind him shouted one of Jay Chou's iconic mantras.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
There were some Chinese football stars around who came to watch the game, and they all laughed when they heard it.
"Tch, you really think my nickname of Yellow Chocolate is for nothing!"
In the past two days, after the nickname "Yellow Chocolate" was mentioned by Wang Zelin more than once, Jay Chou saw that there was no hope of refutation, so he slowly acquiesced.
In the end, the score of the two sides in the Masters Game was 60:56. The Eastern team had the last laugh, and the MVP was awarded to a male star named Hart.
After playing the Masters Game, Jay Chou, who had been addicted to golf for a while, did not rush to leave, but stayed.
Because, after the Masters, it’s the Rookie Challenge’s turn.
Just like last year's All-Star Weekend, the NBA Rookie Game is no longer divided into first and second grade games. Instead, TNT's ball commentator serves as the general manager to select the home teams one by one.
However, last year's general managers were Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley, and this year they were replaced by Grant Hill and Chris Webber.
O'Brien became the president of the rookie game this year, Barkley served as Hill's advisor, and Webb's advisor was Kenny Smith.
Leaving aside the players, these few off the court may not lose to many current stars in terms of popularity or topicality.
As for Wang Zelin, after thinking for a long time last night, he decided to participate in this rookie competition.
For every NBA player, there are only two opportunities to participate in the Rookie Challenge, so why miss it in vain?
Or, who would think that he has too many MVP trophies?
Although he is only the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat!
At least, there was a certain old blacksmith in Los Angeles who did not want to be named. During the 1997 Rookie Challenge, he scored 31 points, the highest in history, and he wanted to win an MVP.
However, in that game, the Western team lost to the Eastern team 91:96. In the end, the MVP was won by Allen Iverson, who only scored 19 points and 9 assists!
Wang Zelin became angry when he thought of the old snakehead. He had participated once last year, but this year he refused his repeated invitations.
Of course he can understand, after all, that guy is thinking about the Lakers' record, but he's not even planning to play in the main game, so he just takes a breather in the past few days!
But he is still angry!
No, next time you visit Los Angeles to play basketball, you must bring the MVP trophy from the rookie game.
You must bring both!
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Back to the rookie game.
This year's rookie lineup is voted on by the chief assistant coaches of the league's 30 teams, and the head coach is the assistant of the All-Star coach.
This person Wang Zelin is very familiar with, because this year's All-Star Game has determined that Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts will be the Western Conference coach, and Pacers head coach Vogel will be the Eastern Conference coach.
The two teams are the best record holders in their respective divisions!
Therefore, the head coach of the rookie game is David Vanderpool, the chief assistant of the Trail Blazers.
When it came time to draw the exciting players, Hill was superior and got the first pick.
As for the first choice, he decided without any suspense on Wang Zelin, the two-time All-Star voting champion who was at the peak of his career.
"Oh ho ho ho!"
O'Neal immediately laughed out loud and gave Hill a thumbs up:
"Man, you have a vision!"
"Haha!" Hill turned around and smiled, then turned around and shook hands with Wang Zelin who was walking towards him:
"Wang, I hope we can have a happy cooperation!"
"I hope so too!"
Next it was Weber's turn to be in trouble.
Logically speaking, among the 18 first- and second-year rookies who participated in this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge, exactly two were selected for this year's All-Star lineup.
Hill chose Wang Zelin, so Weber's best choice is Lillard!
However, Webber unexpectedly chose last year's No. 1 pick Anthony Davis!
"Davis, what are you still doing? Come on!"
Seeing Anthony Davis still dazed, Barnes on the side quickly reminded him.
"oh oh……"
After reacting, Davis quickly stood up and walked quickly in the direction of Weber.
To be honest, as a player in the same class as Wang Zelin and Lillard, Davis was still selected with the No. 1 pick, which meant that in the eyes of everyone at the time, he was the most outstanding one.
But the result is that Davis has been surpassed by two other players of the same generation. Wang Zhelin and Lillard not only entered the playoffs, but also made it all the way to the conference finals, touching the Western Conference floor that someone could not dream of. This year
Both were also selected to the All-Star team.
On the other hand, Davis himself has never even led his team to the playoffs once.
Whenever Davis knows that he is being compared with Wang Zelin and Lillard in the same class, he can only sigh: After being in the same class with these two perverts, do you know my pain?