Chapter 857
Chapter 857
After the Rookie Challenge and before the All-Star Game, there is another important event, which is the All-Star Weekend that many viewers are looking forward to.
Compared with the star-studded and popular All-Star Weekend in the 80s, although the topicality and level of the current All-Star Weekend have declined to a certain extent, and the starlight has dimmed a lot, thanks to the NBA's global promotion plan, the total number of people who follow has increased instead.
Although Li Weisi withdrew from the three-point contest after winning three consecutive championships, and has never participated in the three-point contest since then, most of the crowns of the three-point champion still fall on pitchers born in the Warriors. superior.
After Mark Price won two consecutive terms, he was won one term by Dell Curry and Steve Kerr respectively. It really gave people the illusion that the three-point champion was contracted by my team.
However, in this year's three-point contest, someone stood up and broke the Warriors' monopoly on the three-point leader. This person is Tim Legler.
Although the name is very unfamiliar and he is not a star, he has actually played in the NBA for six seasons. He participated in the 88 draft and belonged to the same class as Kerr and Richmond. Unfortunately, He lost.
As a white shooting guard with a height of only 193cm, he couldn't jump high or run fast. Therefore, in the draft, he was not interested at all. Even though there were three rounds of the draft, he still lost the draft.
However, although it seems that he can't do anything well, there is only one thing that he has practiced to the perfection, and that is the ability of long-range shooting.
Relying on this long-range shooting ability, Legler was valued by the Suns in 89, successfully logged into the NBA, and fulfilled his dream. After that, he stayed in the Nuggets, Jazz, and Mavericks, and this season came to the Bullets. Team.
Due to the existence of Li Weisi, other teams have paid more and more attention to three-pointers. Although Legler has been wandering, he can always find a job and play with the ball.
And this season, Legler, who has been ignored by no one, finally became a blockbuster. In the game, he defeated strong opponents all the way, and finally won the crown of three-pointer king, making the whole world realize his existence.
In fact, in this three-point contest, the Warriors have very few pitchers, only Cole and Kukoc.
On the one hand, these pitchers from the Warriors, or the Warriors' own pitchers, are old and injured, and they are not very interested in this honor. On the other hand, they are also changing with the development of the times , The three-point shooters of other teams are also improving.
Take other pitchers participating in this year, Nick Anderson is from the Magic, Dana Barros is from the Celtics, and Glenn Rice is from the Hornets. How much worse is the pitcher, and there are also George McLeod and Clifford Robinson.
In short, no matter what, Legler finally defeated a series of powerful opponents and successfully won the three-point contest.
In addition to the three-point contest, the next slam dunk contest also staged a counterattack by soldiers.
Also different from the star-studded slam dunk contest in the 80s, this year's slam dunk contest is just like the three-point shot contest, and the stars are also dim, including: Brent Barry of the Clippers, Michael Finley of the Warriors, Celtics Greg Miner of the Sixers, Jerry Stackhouse of the Sixers, Doug Christie of the Knicks, and Darrell Armstrong of the Magic.
It can be seen that these six contestants are also not well-known, and the ones who are somewhat well-known may be Michael Finley, a rookie of the Warriors, and Brent Barry, the son of Rick Barry, a veteran of the Warriors.
Stackhouse, who is also a rookie, performed well in the 76ers, but too few people in the team paid attention to him, so his popularity is not high.
However, as the so-called tiger father has no dogs, although Brent Barry has performed very mediocrely after joining the Spurs this season and cannot be compared with his father at all, but in tonight's slam dunk contest, Brent Barry showed With an amazing talent, he announced to the world that white people can fly too.
According to the regulations of the NBA in 94, there are six players participating in the slam dunk contest. In the first round, each player needs to perform at least three dunks, and then take the two players with the highest scores to accumulate the first round scores of the players, and select three of them with the highest scores. players to the finals.
The first player to play in the preliminaries was Brent Barry. His first dunk action was a one-handed ground rebound and a dunk. The second dunk was a back throw and a two-handed catch. For the dunk, Barry took off with one-handed ball and raised it over his head in the air with a 360° turn and dunk.
It can be said that in the first three dunks, Barry has made everyone exclaim that white people can fly, but the most amazing is the fourth dunk.
In this dunk, Barry first stood at the free throw line to measure it, then retreated to the three-point line in the backcourt and held the ball with one hand, and ran all the way to the middle of the free throw line to take off and dunk the ball. Cheers, even Dr. J, who is a judge, praised it.
After that, the six players finished the competition. Barry scored 45.5 points, Finley scored 45 points, and Miner scored 41 points. The three of them successfully entered the final.
In the final, the three used their housekeeping skills one after another. However, perhaps due to nervousness, the three failed to complete the action in the first dunk of the final.
In the second dunk, Miner scored 40.8 points with a two-handed windmill that took off from the left side. Finley scored 46.2 points with a one-handed windmill that bounced off the floor from the floor. Barry once again sacrificed his own Dunk from the free throw line and won the championship with 49 points.
With the end of the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest, soon on the second day, the All-Star Game finally ushered in.
Although the previous games were very exciting, the star flavor was really lacking, especially in the slam dunk contest, where almost a lot of them were first-year rookies.
Therefore, when it comes to the All-Star Game, this is the game that fans are most looking forward to.
Moreover, unlike the previous two years, Jordan finally returned to the All-Star Game this year. After two years, people finally saw the duel between Jordan and Li Weisi in the All-Star Game.
So, on February 96, 2, the eyes of all fans around the world were gathered in the Alamo Dome, a multi-purpose stadium in San Antonio. There are none.
However, even though there is no home arena, it still can't stop the fans from paying attention to this game. People can't wait to see these two superstars face off again in the All-Star Game. They are also curious. What a wonderful game.
(End of this chapter)