I'm not really a role player

Chapter 349

In the star-studded Staples Center, after a grand appearance ceremony, the starting star players from the East and West all stood in the middle of the court.

On the Eastern side, Li Ke and Ross stood at the rear, with Lebron and Stoudemire on both sides, and Sparks in front.

On the Western side, Kobe and Paul stood at the back, with Guagua and Xiaodu on both sides, and Duncan at the front.

That's right, it's Uncle Deng.

The original starting center of the West team was Dayao, but Dayao was destined to not be able to play, and then he was postponed to Anzhu.

As a result, Anzhu was injured before the All-Star Game, and the starting center had to be replaced, and the league gave Popovich the right to choose.

Without even thinking about it, Popovich chose Duncan.

In this way, the most central position of Staples, Uncle Deng and Sparks' jump ball duel.

After the whistle sounded, there was no suspense, and the sparks dialed the basketball with a huge advantage.

Amidst the cheers, the main game of the 2011 All-Star Weekend began.

As a point guard, Rose did his part to control the ball and quickly advanced to the frontcourt.

The Eastern team opened up the frontcourt, and Li Ke and Le Bang stretched out their hands shamelessly.

"Sure enough, this guy is the only unstable factor in the Eastern team..."

Lebron has become accustomed to playing all-inclusive, and it's only natural that he wants the ball at the beginning.

However, the basketball appeared in Li Ke's hands in the next second. This was the result he had agreed with Rose before the game.

With question marks all over his face, Lebron could only watch Li Ke hold the ball on the other side and command his teammates to pull away.

It was Kobe who defended Li Ke. Kobe must be serious at the beginning.

Li Ke did not underestimate the enemy, he leaned against Kobe sideways.

In the Staples Center, the voice of "Defense" sounded, and the atmosphere was already very hot.

In the heat, Li Ke turned around, pretending to turn his back, but actually continued to turn around quickly.

Turning around and turning around, Li Ke used an almost 270° turn like this to wipe out Kobe.

Kobe's defense was already serious, but Li Ke's outburst caught him off guard.

Rushing to the close range, Li Ke threw the ball against the almost non-existent interference from Uncle Deng.

Swish-!
"The ball is in!"

"Sheldon made a throw and the Eastern team scored first!"

The moment the ball was scored, Staples didn't react much, because Li Ke defeated Kobe's defense head-on.

Emma Roberts is also very quiet, no longer as noisy as the Christmas fight two months ago.

Because she had communicated with Mrs. Va, she already understood that, as a family member of a player, she should keep her mouth shut when watching the game from the sidelines.

In the quiet Staples, Li Ke was the only one left clenched his fists to celebrate.

The Western team kicked off in the backcourt, and Brother Pao controlled the ball all the way to the frontcourt.

Brother Pao wasn't very interested in the All-Star MVP. He even won one in 08, so his interest disappeared immediately.

In recent All-Stars, Brother Pao has always been an unpretentious passing tool, and this game is no different.

Controlling the frontcourt, he passed the ball to Kobe.

This wave is "fulfillment". After Li Ke scored a one-on-one throw at the beginning...

Kobe already thought that his one-on-one match with Li Ke was transferred to the All-Star Game.

Without pick-and-roll coverage, Kobe played very simply, with a breakthrough, he rushed straight towards the basket.

Li Ke is also serious, he knows that Le Bang in this game is no longer something to worry about.

On the other hand, Kobe on the opposite side, if you don't guard against him, let him shoot away. If the Western team wins the game, no matter how many points Li Ke scores, it will be useless.

So, the serious Li Ke stopped Kobe near the free throw line.

Kobe also took advantage of the situation and made an emergency stop, and just shot.

Bang-dang-!
In the All-Star arena, the sound of blacksmithing is actually a bit harsh.

As the host, Bryant's performance silenced Staples.

Sparks grabbed the rebound, and Rose, Li Ke and LeBon were all waiting for the ball in the backcourt.

As a result, Sparks chose Rose, who was the least offensive.

But Rose controlled the frontcourt and handed the ball to Li Ke.

LeBron understood, and he stood directly outside the three-point line on the left side of the top of the arc with his hips akimbo, a very iconic move.

On the front, Li Ke's singles against Kobe are equally iconic.

A post-up single from the top of the arc, rolled Kobe to the close frame area, turned around and made a layup with a low hand.

Swish-!
In this way, even if Li Ke's hands were not hot in the first two rounds, they were hot now.

The western team's round was Kobe's singles against Li Ke.

In the All-Star arena, the truly high-EQ style of play is to attack with all your strength and play defensively.

But in the first two rounds, Kobe's defense was serious, and Li Ke, who wanted to win, couldn't let him.

Still a very serious defense, blocking Kobe who broke through.

Kobe stopped again in the middle distance, raised his hand for a signature fadeaway jumper, and continued to hit the iron with a bang.

The East team's offense, Lebron continued to akimbo from outside the three-point line.

Li Ke slowed down a bit. He got into the bottom corner and left the field to Rose.

Rose followed up with a rapid breakthrough, passed Paul in one pass, rushed to the basket and made a layup.

In the opening game, the Eastern team played a wave of 6-0.

Lebron crossed the waist for three offensive rounds, and Kobe made two consecutive irons.

In the private room of the high stand, David Stern noticed that something was wrong. One played soy sauce on 23 and 24, and the other completely pitted the Western team for two rounds.

The goals were scored by players from the 07 and 08 classes. Times have changed?
In the next game, Kobe also slowed down the Western team's offense.

With Lebron's defense against him, Xiaodu scored one to help the West team break the scoring drought.

In the attack of the Eastern Army, Li Ke interspersed with another hit. This time it was a mid-range emergency stop shot, and continued to hit with a bang.

The feeling is already hot, and the difficulty of scoring has been greatly reduced.

The Western team's offense completely dispersed the possession of the ball.

During the Eastern team's offense, Li Ke let a ball out from time to time, but most of the ball was still in Li Ke's hands.

Lebron occasionally catches and hits a ball, but he is always guarded by the serious Xiao Du.

Le Bang became impatient.

The first wave of official timeouts, returning to the bench area off the field, Lebron was very straightforward: "This game is really boring, let me come down, Doug, I don't want to play anymore."

Rivers didn't mean to persuade him, and replaced Pierce with a big wave of his hand, and even replaced Rose, Stoudemire, and Sparks who didn't want to play more, leaving only Li Ke in the starting lineup.

In the second half of the first quarter, Li Ke continued to fire and quickly accumulated his score to 16 points.

单节16分2个篮板0个助攻，加上东部队以35比28的比分，拿到一个7分的领先优势。

Li Ke pointed at the All-Star MVP...

In the second quarter, Li Ke took a short break and Lebon applied to play.

He thought that without Li Ke and Xiao Du, the villains of the 07 class, he could finally start the show.

As a result, he ran into Kobe who also hit a wall in the first quarter and is now very suffocated.

Then, a wave of Kobe and Lebron's matchups directly declared that the two missed the All-Star MVP competition.

In the second half of the second quarter, Li Ke reappeared and further improved his statistics to 23 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal.

The Eastern team also led the Western team by 72 points with a score of 63 to 9 after halftime.

It’s wrong to say too much. In the All-Star Game, the difference of 9 points is really not that big.

Sure enough, in the second half, Li Kezheng gave up the ball with high EQ (collecting assists). He watched Rose, Stoudemire, and Lebron, the starters of the Eastern Conference team, continue to play singles with the ball.

Emmm, Ross and Stoudemire played casually, Lebron was serious, but the Western team was more serious about defending him.

After all, the temptation of Hollywood first-line actresses is too great...

As a result, there was this wave, and the West team quickly bit the score to only 4 points.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Li Ke directly ended the handover, regained control of the ball, and started to do it himself.

Because of the 5-point advantage of this wave, Li Ke had to do his best in the second half of the third quarter.

Then, it scored 11 points in a wave and a half.

At the end of the third quarter, Li Ke, who scored 34 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, led the East to regain the advantage.

With a score of 105 to 95 and a double-digit lead, Li Ke got the sense of security he wanted.

In the fourth quarter, the decisive battle is over.

Generally speaking, in an All-Star game, two will be played at the beginning of the first quarter to bring out the atmosphere, and the second and third quarters will continue.

Then no matter what happens in the first three quarters, the East and West will start to get serious in the fourth quarter.

After all, the competition is coming to an end, and those who should be fighting for honor are starting to fight, so don't be serious.

But this year's All-Star Game, at the end of the third quarter, Li Ke is already the best.

No one in the East is competing with him, and in the West, falling behind is not a big problem.

The problem is that Kobe, who had vowed before the game to compete for the MVP, pulled his hips at the beginning.

After that, Xiaodu, Pao Ge, even Guagua and Griffin on the top, the statistics are not outstanding enough.

In this case, the fighting spirit of the western army is not so strong.

Guagua wanted to try, after all, if he succeeded, he would steal Li Ke's MVP.

As a result, Li Ke discovered this keenly, and directly switched defenses to Guagua.

After some fighting, the Eastern team secured the victory in this game.

Before the end of the game, the East team maintained a double-digit lead.

This led to the complete loss of suspense in the last 2 minutes of the game, and the commentary lost interest.

Waiting for the timer to beep and the red light to turn on, Mike Breen shouted: "The game is over, the score is 142 to 131, and the Eastern All-Star team, led by Sheldon Lee, won this much-anticipated All-Star game!"

"Sheldon scored 43 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals, and has already secured the MVP honor of this All-Star Weekend."

At the end of the game, Li Ke, who had fulfilled his wish, raised his hands high, and rushed to the sidelines of the court amidst surprised eyes.

The thin Emma Roberts jumped up and was held in Li Ke's arms.

This scene surprised many people, and some bystanders who thought of the Christmas war were not surprised by it.

"This guy, is this going to be made public?"

Xiao Du was sour, but soon, he thought of the first-line Hollywood actress that Li Ke had promised, and he became optimistic and cheerful again.

David Stern was quickly invited to the Staples venue by the live host. After a formulaic speech, David Stern announced:

"The MVP of this All-Star Game is—"

In fact, there was no suspense, so Stern didn't keep it secret, and directly shouted Li Ke's name: "Li! Ke!"

That's right, it's Li Ke.

NBA commentators are used to calling Li Ke Sheldon Lee. As the president of the league, David Stern still remembers Li Ke's real name, which is professionalism.

Staples gave a burst of cheers out of embarrassment, and amidst the cheers, Li Ke won the MVP of the All-Star Game.

This is the first All-Star Game MVP of his career.

"Without a regular season MVP, an All-Star MVP will be enough."

Rubbing the trophy, Li Ke suddenly understood a truth.

The All-Stars don't play on strength, but on popularity and connections.

How did Li Ke get this MVP?

First of all, he is the most popular in the league, giving him an All-Star starting position.

Then there is the network.

Although he has no friendship with the 03 generation, he still has no problem getting along with those players after 03.

Coupled with the full support of Rivers and a lot of intrigue on the court, the MVP automatically got into Li Ke's pocket without Li Ke's blood and sweat.

To understand the key point, Li Ke was not in a hurry to lead Emma Roberts away after the awards, but wandered around the Staples Center for a while.

He found Brother Pao to chat about the rumors of the transaction that had been rampant during this period.

"Leaving New Orleans, I really want to leave, but Del Demps talked to me, he wants me to stay for another season..."

Del Demps is the new general manager of the Hornets, and his reasons for letting Paul stay are quite good——

New coach Mike D'Antoni hasn't finished a season yet, and the Hornets' signings are not a big problem after all. After playing a full season, it is reasonable to try the gold content of the Hornets' current match.

After this conversation, Li Ke has a general understanding of the new situation of the alliance after the trade deadline.

"If Brother Pao doesn't leave New Orleans, the Nets' plan to acquire Guagua and Brother Pao will be shattered. Compared with the Nets with a poor record, Guagua will definitely choose the Knicks, which currently looks more promising."

"The inertia of history is still too strong. Guaguajia Stoudemire's Knicks are really not a threat."

"There is no way to get Guagua and Paoge. The only thing the Nets can get is Deron. I don't know if Billy King can be smarter. Seeing through Deron's essence is a point guard relying on Jerry Sloan."

"If Billy King can see through this, the Nets have a future, otherwise..."

The general trend of the Nets and Knicks has been set, and the rest is the overall situation.

"The Nuggets left Guagua, so the team should be dismantled. The leftovers that were dismantled may go to the Cavaliers."

"A Cavalier who has completed the bench lineup should not be underestimated..."

Therefore, in the second half of the season, the Cavaliers will rise, and with the current strong Bulls, the Eastern Conference will be a three-legged situation.

The west is still in chaos as usual. Deron and Guagua's eastward tour will only reduce the pressure on the top-ranked teams.

After finishing the All-Star Game, Li Ke couldn't help but start thinking about this season's championship.

(End of this chapter)