Chapter 409
Chapter 409
The news that Li Weisi announced his withdrawal from the three-point contest undoubtedly became the headlines of the next day, and the major media reported it one after another. The heat not only overshadowed the news that Li Weisi himself won the three-point contest with a full score, but also overwhelmed the slam dunk. News of the contest winner.
It has to be said that this year's slam dunk contest is really stretching the hips, and at the same time that there is not enough star flavor, what people are most looking forward to is that "Glider" Drexler can fulfill his dream of being the champion of the slam dunk contest.
As a player who has participated in the first slam dunk contest, "Dr. J" Owen who participated with him has already become a judge, and Drexler has not yet won the title of slam dunk king.
The highly anticipated "Uncrowned King" Drexler finally entered the semifinals with No.2 results, No.1 was "Little Potato" Webber, and No.3 was Kenny Walker from the Knicks. Round 86 show.
However, after entering the semifinals, Kenny Walker performed better and better, and finally defeated Drexler in the final and won the slam dunk contest.
Poor Drexler was full of regrets and won the second place, which is worthy of his title of uncrowned king. Unfortunately, such a result, for Drexler, this is not a good ending.
With the end of this slam dunk contest, Drexler also bid farewell to the slam dunk contest. Together with Jordan, Webber, Yuan Shikong and Wilkins who will participate in the last session next year, the slam dunk contest has a brilliant 80 In the era, it also began to decline, and the next rise may not be until the half-human and half-god appears.
In short, compared with the tasteless slam dunk contest, the three-point contest undoubtedly attracted more attention, and Li Weisi also became the hottest star before the start of the All-Star Game.
Before the start of this year's All-Star Game, a celebration ceremony about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was held at the scene. Magic Johnson also attended the ceremony. He specially served as the host and invited Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to sit in the chair that was moved from nowhere to the middle of the venue. On the Internet, talking cold jokes, reviewing Kareem's career.
The atmosphere at the scene was also quite friendly. Obviously, even the fans of the Rockets recognized Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, even though Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had ruined their team's hope of winning the championship.
Li Weisi was different from most people. He was sitting on the bench chair at this moment, chatting with Frank beside him.
Don't ask Frank why he's here, money can make money.
"Remember, you must not let your temper run wild in today's game, you will be scolded to death." Frank repeatedly urged.
"Got it, you're so wordy, do I look like the kind of person who can mess around?" Li Weisi said impatiently.
"It's not like, you clearly are!"
"you……"
The two of you come and I quarrel non-stop, but unfortunately because the two speak Chinese, the people around them can't understand what they are saying.
It wasn't until the ceremony was over that the players from both sides were ready to go on the court, and the two stopped bickering. Li Weisi took off his training clothes and walked onto the court.
Looking at Li Weisi's back, Frank frowned, then stood up and came to Riley.
Since Nelson had served as the head coach of the All-Star team last year, the head coach of the Western team this year has naturally become Riley again. In addition, the head coach of the Eastern team is Lenny Wilkens.
The number one in the Eastern Conference this year is the Pistons, but because Chuck Daly has been an All-Star coach last year, this year's head coach falls on Cavaliers head coach Lenny Wilkens who is second in the Eastern Conference at this time.
"Hi Pat!"
"Oh, Frank, what's the matter?" Riley greeted him politely after seeing that it was Frank.
"I want to ask you something."
"You said."
"West suffered back discomfort after the All-Star Game yesterday, and it hasn't eased up to this day, so I hope he can play less tonight, not to mention, this guy is too strong, if he plays on the court It’s been a long time, and if I become addicted, I’m afraid I’ll mess up Kareem’s performance.” Frank said.
"Haha, that's it! Don't worry! No problem." Riley naturally fully agreed to what Frank said. This is not a difficult task in itself, not to mention it is beneficial to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Riley has no reason to refuse .
"Thank you, Pat, and hope Kareem's dream comes true tonight!"
"You're welcome, I would like to lend you a good word."
Frank, who sat back on his seat again, was finally relieved. With Riley as the final insurance, Li Weisi's game time was limited, and he could not have enough performance opportunities. Anyway, he had already won the AMVP , and there is nothing to regret.
In fact, Frank was thinking too much. Li Weisi had no interest in tonight's game.
This is the third year since he joined the league. He used to go all out against the All-Stars, but now he is gradually "becoming bad". Let Li Weisi feel like he is being insulted by Thomas if he fights well.
Therefore, after two attacks in the opening game, Li Weisi took the initiative to connect the teams and distribute the ball to the other four.
In the first round, except for Li Weisi, both English and Olajuwon have already participated in the All-Stars many times. In addition, they know the inside story of tonight, so they have no interest in performing well.
This led to the fact that Karl Malone and Dale Ellis, who participated in the All-Star for the first time, had a great time playing. The two played happily.
It wasn't until Riley replaced them that it ended their performance.
After entering the rotation lineup, neither Mullin nor Malone had the desire to perform individually. They all took the initiative to play the ball for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and let Kareem Abdul-Jabbar attack.
This allowed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to get more possessions than the original time and space.
On the Eastern side, as long as they saw Kareem taking the ball, they didn't even defend and let Kareem layup, which led to Kareem scoring 8 points alone at the end of the first quarter.
By the time Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was replaced in the second quarter, he had scored 12 points, the highest in the West.
Not enough, he is old after all, and he is a substitute, so he doesn't have much time to play, and after Malone was replaced, he started a battle for points. It can be seen that this guy's thoughts on AMVP have already changed. To the point of no care.
Especially when Li Weisi is not on the court and Stockton is the point guard, Karl Malone's intention to grab points is even more obvious.
Such a situation not only aroused dissatisfaction from the Eastern team, but also the teammates from the Western team who played with Malone. This is really too careless.
(End of this chapter)