NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 249 Fishing in Troubled Waters All-Stars and Random Task Triggers

The Heat signed Reggie Evans to strengthen the Heat's weakest rebounding problem.

The Heat's rebounding problem this season is too serious, especially in the Christmas game when Wang Chao grabbed 25 rebounds in one game and blasted the Heat's entire inside line by himself, which really caused a serious psychological shadow in Miami. .

Therefore, it is imminent to strengthen the team's rebound protection ability, and the Heat also somewhat want to use Reggie Evans' rough defense to limit Wang Chao's performance.

It's not just the Heat who are making reinforcements.

The Spurs followed suit.

Due to Wang Chao, the Spurs lack two high-quality outside shooters, Leonard and Belinelli, in the current lineup, which has affected the team's outside scoring ability, even if there are players such as Ginobili and Danny Green. , but still need to strengthen the outside line, especially the striker position.

They chose to send a first-round pick and two role players to get forward Gerald Green from the Suns.

Gerald Green is 2 meters tall and serves as a small forward. He was selected by the Celtics with the 03th overall pick in the first round of 05. In addition to his impressive personal strength, he is currently averaging 18 points per game for the Suns, including 15.8% of his three-pointers.

The Spurs got Gerald Green, and the outside firepower has been greatly improved. Although this player's defense is very average, the offensive end, especially the firepower outside the three-point line, is exactly what the Spurs currently have with Duncan and Howard. needed.

The Heat and the Spurs, two popular championship teams, both have reinforcement operations. As the Pacers with the current record in the Eastern Conference, they are certainly not far behind.

With a wave of his hand, general manager Larry Bird sent the team leader, Danny Green, who had been completely replaced by Paul George due to injuries, to the Philadelphia 76ers and traded for 76ers forward Evan Turner.

Evan Turner, the No. 2010 overall pick in 17.4, averaged 6 points and [-] rebounds per game this season. Joining the Pacers is bound to become a strong support and help the Pacers go further.

The transactions of the above teams have received most of the attention of the league, and with the progress and announcement of the transactions, the All-Star weekend is gradually approaching.

With the determination of the final voting results, the All-Star starters of the East and West are also confirmed.

In the West, Wang Chao was elected as the vote leader with an absolute advantage, and he also served as the starting forward in the Western Conference for the All-Star Game. Durant, Griffin at the forward position, and Curry at the guard position were also selected with him. and Harden.

The starting five Eastern Conference All-Stars are James, Paul George, Carmelo Anthony, Wade and Irving.

Compared with the previous All-Stars, there are many new faces in the starting list of this All-Stars, including Curry and Harden in the West, George and Irving in the East, which also represent the success of a group of stars that fans are familiar with. Aging and rising of young players.

To Wang Chao's surprise, Leonard was actually selected as a Western All-Star as an All-Star substitute.

You must know that the West is strong and the East is weak. It is a well-known situation that the West is obviously better than the East in terms of team strength and the number of stars.

Just like this season, the contenders for the Western All-Star bench list include Chris Paul, Davis, Damian Lillard, Howard, Duncan, Tony Parker, Nowitzki, Aldrie Odd and Cousins ​​and many other stars.

Leonard's personal data this season has gradually increased to an average of 17.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3 assists per game. He is the second-highest scoring player in the Rockets. Inferior.

In Wang Chao's impression, Leonard's first All-Star selection should be two years later, in the 15-16 season.

At that time Leonard had already won the FMVP of the Finals, and averaged 21 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the new season, becoming the mainstay of the Spurs, and therefore directly participated in the 15-16 season as an All-Star starter On the weekend, he started his road to superstardom.

Now, although Leonard is destined to only play a Pippen-style role next to Wang Chao, he was selected as an All-Star two years earlier.

There are two main reasons why Leonard can be selected as an All-Star. The first is that the Rockets currently have the No. Only one player was selected as an All-Star, which is somewhat unsightly.

The second is that Leonard's actual role in the game is not fully reflected by the data. Compared with the offensive scoring data, Leonard's defense is the most commendable.

This season Leonard's defensive efficiency is quite high, and he can rank in the top five in the league. Of course, No. 1 is Wang Chao, who is on the same team as him.

According to statistics, the shooting percentage and offensive efficiency of all players defended by Leonard, whether they are superstars or role players, will drop significantly, even including superstars such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and Carmelo Anthony. The scorer is no exception.

Of course, Leonard can't completely prevent these top super scorers at the forward position, but it is quite rare to be able to slightly reduce the offensive efficiency of these superstars.

Based on the above situation, Leonard will finally be selected as the Western All-Star substitute, and the player replaced by him is Dirk Nowitzki.

Nowitzki's strength and performance this season are unquestionable. Even at the age of 36, Nowitzki can still contribute 21 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists steadily. Harden, who scored 25 rebounds and 5 assists, jointly led the Dallas Mavericks. The team's current record can be ranked fifth in the Western Conference and is on par with the sixth-ranked Warriors.
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2014年全明星周末的举办时间，是2月15日到2月17日，举办地点是新奥尔良。

There is actually nothing to say about the process of the All-Star Weekend. After all, every year is the same. Although the league often undergoes some restructuring, it has little effect. The All-Star Game against star players is slightly better, such as the Rookie Challenge and Ratings for events such as the [-]-point contest and dunk contest have declined almost every year.

It is worth mentioning that there is only the three-point contest. The Rockets' substitute player Belinelli defeated many competitors, including the Warriors Curry, the Cavaliers Irving and others, and was elected the champion of the 2014 three-point contest.

As for the dunk contest, it was as lackluster as ever.

After the league's reorganization, the slam dunk contest has become a confrontation between the East and the West. Three players from each side will compete in the dunk contest, and finally the fans will vote to select the slam dunk champion among the three players on the winning side.

Under such rules, the game did increase the interaction with the fans, but the East-West confrontational dunk system resulted in no suspense and competitive tension in the game. The whole dunk process was very boring, and none of the six participating players showed any Good enough dunk moves.

Fortunately, fans who were disappointed with the slam dunk contest watched a wonderful and extremely intense East-West All-Star Game on the last day of the All-Star Game.

Although Wang Chao wanted to paddle in the All-Star Game, but with his current popularity and status, it would be very difficult for him to remain invisible.

During the entire All-Star Game, Wang Chao played for about 26 minutes. All of his shots were outside the three-point line, mostly super-long-range three-pointers. The result was an astonishingly high shooting rate. He made 11 of 7 shots and scored 21. Points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.

On the contrary, Durant, who was also his teammate, seemed to be on the same level as Wang Chaomao in the game. He shot wildly from outside the three-point line. As a result, he made 17 of 6 shots and his three-point shooting percentage was only 35%. Wang Chao, who has never been closer than one meter from the three-point line, the gap is obvious.

However, the large number of shots allowed Durant to gain a lot in terms of personal statistics. He scored 38 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists in the game.

Originally, if he had won the game with this score, Durant would have been elected this year's All-Star MVP, but the situation changed suddenly in the fourth quarter. The score was reversed, and for the Western All-Stars, Durant and Harden missed consecutive shots from outside the three-point line. At the end of the fourth quarter, they were reversed by the Eastern All-Stars and lost the game.

As a result, Durant failed to win the All-Star MVP. This award was awarded to Kyrie Irving, who had the best performance in the Eastern Conference and scored 31 points, 5 rebounds and 14 assists.

Seeing Irving cheerfully holding up the All-Star MVP trophy, Durant was a little unhappy again.

He glanced at Wang Chao with some displeasure. Although he didn't say anything, he felt aggrieved in his heart.

"Damn it, this guy is actually playing me!"

Durant is very aware of how strong Wang Chao is. At the last moment just now, if Wang Chao had his hand, it would definitely help the Western All-Stars stabilize the situation and win the game.

But Wang Chao didn't do that. He walked around the field slowly like an 80-year-old man, and would pass the ball immediately after receiving the basketball. He had no idea of ​​attacking with the ball at all.

Durant didn't think that Wang Chao was trying to save energy and strength, but that the opponent was targeting him, deliberately playing bad games in order to prevent him from winning the All-Star MVP.

"Wang Chao, just wait, I won't let you lose this year's scoring champion no matter what!"

Thinking in this way, Durant and other teammates hugged and saluted one by one, but deliberately missed Wang Chao.

Wang Chao hadn't noticed this at first, and he was still thinking about the cool thing about fishing, but suddenly, the system's long-lost notification sounded.

"Ding—trigger a random mission."

(End of this chapter)