Everyone who participated in the rehearsal this time has arrived.
Wang Zelin and his team, the duo of the 2009 generation, and an anonymous knight No. 23 who enthusiastically organized the rehearsal location, dance company costumes, and props from beginning to end.
Compared with last year's seven-member dance troupe, this year's dance troupe is missing Love and Wade and has a bearded golfer, making it exactly six people.
By the way, even the dance videos and instructors, James has arranged everything.
It was originally agreed that we would go and cook first.
After finishing the meal, I came back and rehearsed in peace, but the plan did not change.
The dance adapted from "Little Apple" is much simpler than last year's Kung Fu choreography for "Nunchaku" performed by Jay Chou.
During the three-and-a-half-minute dance, a six-person dance group is obviously better at arranging the formation than a seven-person dance group.
Under the guidance of professional teachers, everyone first became familiar with the dance steps, then practiced formation changes, and finally put on leather gloves and officially rehearsed...
After a series of processes are completed,
It actually only took less than two hours.
At two o'clock noon,
The instructor cursed and left.
According to his words: "For this kind of dance that is aimed at young people and is purely cute, it is easy to find a college student majoring in dance to guide them. If it were not for the sake of money..."
After basically understanding the whole set of movements, everyone, whose stomachs were already growling with hunger, went to find a nearby Western restaurant to eat.
After drinking and eating, everyone returned to the gym to start practicing in the afternoon, constantly consolidating and deepening their proficiency in dance.
Since everyone has been selected for the All-Stars, according to past practice, everyone is very busy during the All-Star Weekend. In the next few days, not only will there be many sponsorship activities for endorsed brands, but in addition, there will also be charity activities organized by the league.
join.
Therefore, during this precious time, everyone rehearsed carefully over and over again, and finally left the arena at seven o'clock in the evening.
Everyone returns to the hotel to rest.
The next few days were very busy, but everyone still agreed to spare half an hour every day to rehearse several times to ensure that nothing went wrong during the official performance at the All-Star Game.
certainly,
This has to be attributed to the popularity of the opening dance in the past two years, which has made fans have high expectations for this year's performance.
That night,
After NBA officials asked Wang Zelin and James for their opinions, they finally officially announced online that six All-Stars will participate in the opening show this year.
After that, the normal highlights of the All-Star Weekend seemed to be focused on their performances.
This makes the NBA official operations department both happy and sad.
The good thing is that compared to the past, when many stars were not even willing to play in the All-Star Game, the popularity of the All-Star Game has continued to explode in recent years.
All of this must be traced back to when the Blazers entered the league on the 36th.
But the sad thing is that all the attention of the All-Star Game itself was taken away by the opening dance of these stars!
This makes members of the entire operations department feel like they are a bit redundant.
Fortunately, the wages that should be paid still have to be paid, so they are in pain and happiness now.
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at the same time.
This time during the All-Star Weekend, with the official launch of the dance show by Wang Zelin and others, the popularity was so high that the original discussion of the All-Star Game became less intense.
It also makes other All-Stars selected to be envious and jealous!
On the afternoon of the 13th, the third day of the All-Star Weekend, Wang Zelin met with the current All-Star players.
Everyone took photos for the officials and did various activities.
While doing charity work, Westbrook, who has always been outspoken, said half-jokingly: "Wang, I'm actually quite interested in dance performances and so on. It shouldn't be too late to join you now."
"Haha, it's too late this year. Let's go next year. Next year, I will take you to pretend to be 13 and fly together!"
Wang Zelin said with a smile.
"Okay, then it's settled."
After the agreement was made, Westbrook turned around and joined the procession of distributing gifts to the children.
Not far away, Durant glanced nervously at Wang Zelin and quickly turned towards Westbrook's direction.
After a busy afternoon, under the reluctant eyes of the children in the orphanage, a group of all-stars waved goodbye to them.
In the blink of an eye, it’s another night.
On the 14th, the 2015 All-Star Weekend officially kicked off. This year’s All-Star Weekend will be more exciting than ever.
New York is one of the largest ball markets in the world, and the number of participants in this All-Star Game is huge and staggering.
At the same time, the excitement of this All-Star Weekend is worthy of the fans’ expectations and participation.
Starting from the Masters Game, the first event in the morning, the famous American comedian Kevin Hart, who represented the Eastern Team, once again received the favor of countless fans. Although the Eastern Team lost to the Western Team 51:57, he was still favored by countless fans.
Named the MVP of the Masters Game.
By the way, this is also the fourth consecutive year that he has been elected MVP, setting a new NBA historical record.
After the game, Hart announced his retirement. He has been crowned four times and will be named MVP tomorrow, which can be regarded as a beautiful end to his Masters career.
In the afternoon, the All-Star Rookie Game begins, which can be regarded as the first climax of the All-Star Weekend.
The selection for the main game of this year's rookie game is still the same as last year's selection system, with the head coach of the team with the best record in the East and West as the head coach.
It's just that compared to last year's first- and second-year rookie battle, this year's All-Star Rookie Game has made another revolutionary change. Now the first- and second-year rookies in the league will be divided into two teams according to their respective nationalities.
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After the reform, the rookie game has since been divided into the American team and the international team.
The new gimmick is undoubtedly very successful, not to mention that this year's rookie game will also have Wiggins, a super rookie who claims to have the physical talent of "Little Emperor James" to support the scene.
The United States team is coached by Kenny Atkinson, assistant coach of the Hawks, who have the best record in the Eastern Conference; Trail Blazers assistant David Vanderpool coaches the international team.
After the game started, they played very well. The younger generation of international players are different from the older generation. They are as good at performing as the local players.
As a center in the rookie game, Jokic took a lot of shots, passing wonderful passes, or assisting his former teammate Adams for a dunk, or making a fake shot and passing the ball to German guard Dennis Schroeder after breaking through the defense and pulling the lever.
Of course, the performance of the international team is indispensable for Wiggins. Wiggins, who has been intensively trained by the Kings, has not yet begun to embark on the "path of no return" of healthy basketball. His several breakthrough dunks made the fans at the scene shout.
Enjoyable.
On the contrary, the American team lacked passion on the court. Apart from Oladipo, Zach LaVine, and Trey Burke, there were basically no other hot spots.
The game entered a 5-minute countdown and entered the real-life stage. The international team also showed richer practical experience.
In the final analysis, most of the players on the international team have been in the European professional basketball world at a young age. There are actually very few foreign players like Wiggins who made their debut in NCAA universities.
Therefore, the international team generally needs the American domestic team to have more team spirit.
In the last few minutes, the rookies of the international team showed excellent teamwork skills. Although it was their first time working together, they were able to ensure organizational stability and no mistakes at the same time, and at the same time suppress the counterattacks of the straggler American rookies in time.
In this way, the International Team defeated the United States Team 135:122, and they became the first team to win the All-Star Rookie Game since the reform.
The reformed rookie game highlighted the elements of competition between regions, coupled with the wonderful performances of a group of talented rookies, which made the fans enjoy watching it.
However, what they never expected was that the first day was actually just a small warm-up, because one day later, during the three-point contest and dunk contest, two people would appear out of the blue, completely ruining the All-Star Weekend.