This year's All-Star Rookie Challenge is different from previous years. In previous years, the first graders faced off against the second graders. This kind of confrontation is a tradition in the NBA, but to be honest, it is always like this without intention and quite boring. of.
And the most important thing is that sometimes the talents of first graders and second graders are different.
Sometimes the games are not very intense and are very nice to watch. Since Adam Silver became the commissioner of the NBA, he has also had a lot of plans for the restructuring of the NBA. Among them, the Rookie Challenge is the first one he started to change. item.
The original Rookie Challenge pitted first-year players against second-year players, but this year he changed it to the US team vs. the international team.
American players are selected from all first-year and second-year players in the NBA to compete against international players.
This will allow this game to have more confrontations, and also allow us to see the future strength comparison between USA Basketball Political Consultative Conference and international basketball. Sure enough, since his restructuring, the number of tickets for this year's Rookie Challenge is higher than before. Sold much better.
The head coach of this year's international team is Kenny Atkinson, the assistant coach of the Eagles, which has the best record in the Eastern Conference.
The head coach of the US team will be Warriors assistant coach Kim Terry.
I have to admit that the recent Warriors are really ambitious, and the Xingduo coaching staff can see it.
King Terry could have been the head coach of the Suns, and his results during his coaching were pretty good. He once reached the Western Conference Finals, but now he is with the Warriors, but he is willing to be an assistant coach. This shows that the Warriors are really very attractive.
While these players were warming up, the members of the two teams were being introduced on the big screen in the stadium.
The players on the U.S. team include last year's best rookie of the 76ers, Mike Carter-Williams, and Michael Carter-Williams. Together, these three names are really bluffing. With the Magic's current outside core Odipola, Jazz's main No. 1 Trey Burke, Pistons' Pope, Minnesota's Zach LaVine, also from the Timberwolves, Muhammad, the 76ers' quasi-number one pick last year, the result The sixth pick was Nerlens Noel, the second brother of the three Plumlee brothers, Mason Plumlee, a home player of the Brooklyn Nets, and one of the three Zeller brothers, the Charlotte Bobcats , no, Cody Zeller, who has been renamed the Charlotte Hornets this year, and Payton, the Magic's No. 1 position whose hair is better than his football skills.
On the international side, there is this year's No. 1 pick, who was selected by the Cavaliers and used to trade for Love, Andrew Wiggins of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who is Canadian, and Steven Adams of Oklahoma City. , the Bucks’ Greek weirdo Giannis Antetokounmpo, also known as Antetokounmpo, is very popular in the NBA recently.
He took up a lot of the screen with his three-step layup from beyond the three-point line.
There are also players here, the Nets' Bojan Bogdanovic, the Timberwolves' Gorgui Dieng, the Jazz's third potential No. 1 Dante Exum, who the Bulls use There are many Nikola Mirotic who have strengthened the interior, the Jazz's long-handed interior weirdo, Rudy Gobert, the little yellow Schroeder of the Atlanta Hawks, and Jiang Hai who once had a relationship. I had an acquaintance, to be precise, it should be a Boston Celtics player, Kelly Olynyk.
Looking at the people taking warm-up shots on the court, Jiang Hai sat on the sidelines and kept taking photos of everyone on the court with his mobile phone.
For him, the competition has not started yet. Instead of just watching here, he might as well take some photos and send them to his circle of friends. That would be so rewarding! Just when Jiang Hai was happy there, a face suddenly appeared in his lens.
"Is it you?" Looking at this face, Jiang Hai was also startled. He resisted the urge to punch him and took a careful look at the owner of this face. Then he frowned because of this Guy, he knows him too.
Just the day before yesterday, the jerk he had some conflicts with was Justin Bieber.
"I also want to say, what's wrong with you!" Looking at Jiang Hai in front of him, Justin Bieber also said with an unhappy face.
Originally, he was a die-hard basketball fan. A few years ago, when his reputation was still good, he was invited to participate in the All-Star Celebrity Game. In fact, if it weren't for his later reputation becoming really bad, the NBA would still be very willing to do so. Promotion with him, after all, it is beneficial publicity, but now, the NBA does not like to have anything to do with him.
The Masters Game will not invite him again, but he still likes basketball and pays his own money to come and watch the game.
Especially since this guy is a very patriotic guy. With Andrew Wiggins, a Canadian, here to help him support him, it is not a big deal.
Looking at Bieber's big face, Jiang Hai raised his middle finger towards him, and then continued to fiddle with his phone. He didn't want to have anything to do with this guy. This guy is indeed a bad person.
"Are you coming to watch the game too? Do you understand?" However, Jiang Hai ignored him, which did not mean that he ignored Jiang Hai. Seeing Jiang Hai just sitting there, he also brushed up against Jiang Hai with a look on his face. He said proudly to Jiang Hai.
"I know better than you." Jiang Hai glanced at this guy and said with an unhappy expression.
"Know better than me? Hey, you can really boast, can Asians also play basketball? Don't you only produce centers? Don't tell me, with your height, you are also a center." Looking at Jiang Hai, Justin Bieber He said with a happy face.
Indeed, over the years in Asia, China has trained the most players to enter the NBA, but the only one who has been directly promoted is Yao Ming. Even if Yi Di has some outstanding performances in the NBA, that's not the case. Just occasionally.
If his defense improves a little more, he can be a rotation player. After all, his explosive scoring power is pretty good. But the problem is that even though he is not the core player and his defense is below the level, he is still free in the end. The difficulty is that after returning to China after his rookie season, apart from these two, other Asian players, which can also be said to be domestic players, are unable to gain a foothold in the NBA. Although Sun Yue and Daba won two NBA championships in the end, A championship ring, but that's basically a win.
For Europeans and Americans, it seems that Asians are not good at basketball. This seems to be a very conscious thing.
"Fight if you don't accept it!" After hearing Justin Bieber's words, Jiang Hai also put down the phone in his hand.
Although he admitted that the Chinese team may not be able to beat the American team, but you are a Canadian, you have to be a fool here. Besides, just because the Chinese team can't beat the ground, it doesn't mean that he, Jiang Hai, can't beat him. How strong is he? , he himself felt scary.
"Okay!" After hearing Jiang Hai's words, Justin Bieber also looked at him. He was in a nightclub that day after eating and drinking, which made him feel very unhappy. Why should he apologize to him after he was beaten? Now that he has the opportunity to teach Jiang Hai a lesson, he will not give up.
"Make an appointment!" After hearing his agreement, Jiang Hai said directly without any hesitation.
Seeing that Jiang Hai agreed, Justin Bieber's face also filled with a smile: "Then now."
"Now? Shall we go out to play?" After hearing his words, Jiang Hai was stunned for a moment and stopped watching the game
"What are you doing out there? Let's fight here!" Seeing Jiang Hai's surprised look, Justin Bieber smiled, and then regardless of Jiang Hai's wishes, he stood up from his seat and walked straight to the left side of the field.
"Hey, Andrew, you guys take a rest first. I want to borrow your venue. I want to have a bullfight with a guy." Regardless of Jiang Hai's stunned eyes, Justin Bieber walked straight to Andrew Wei. In front of Jinsi, he said proudly.
As a proud Canadian, Andrew Wiggins is naturally very familiar with Justin Bieber.
Although he has done a lot of disgusting things and has also encountered resistance in the United States, in Canada, he seems to be a national treasure-level artist, so the relationship between Andrew Wiggins and him is quite good.
"I want to ask the coach about this." Hearing Justin Bieber's words, Andrew smiled slightly awkwardly. Although he is this year's No. 1 pick, to put it bluntly, he is just a rookie in the first grade. Now this At that time, he naturally wanted to ask what the coach meant, but fortunately, their coach was the assistant coach of the Eagles. Everyone knew that the head coach of the Eagles, Hornacek, was Popovich's staff, so their team The character of the team's coaching staff is not much different from that of the Spurs.
Basically, they are the kind who regard the regular season and playoffs as more important than life and death, but they hardly care about the All-Stars, a platform that many people pay attention to. The super core of the Spurs is the most important player in the history of the NBA. Tim Duncan, the most powerful forward, has only shared one All-Star MVP with O'Neal in 2000 in his career so far, and has continued to win every year for so many years.
So when the coach learned that Justin Bieber was going to play, he shrugged his shoulders and said that he didn't care. Since he didn't care, the other players were happy to rest. one time.
Seeing that this half of the court had been cleared, Andrew Wiggins also smiled, stuffed the basketball in his hand into Justin Bieber's arms, and winked at him: "Then I'll leave it to you. "
"Hey, come on up!" Holding the basketball, Justin Bieber also turned his head and looked at Jiang Hai, who was still stupid and shouted.
Jiang Hai is indeed a little stupid now. He really wants to teach this guy a lesson on the basketball court, but he really never thought that he would be on the NBA All-Star game. Really a little numb.
Looking at Justin Bieber, who was constantly waving his arms on the court, Moses Adams also leaned close to Jiang Hai and asked Jiang Hai in a low voice: "Hey, boss, are you reliable?"
"If I say, I don't know, what do you think?" After hearing what Moses Adams said, Jiang Hai replied in a low voice.
"Then what to do now?" "Cold salad!"