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Chapter 455 Happy Weekend
After a long flight, Li Yue finally landed at New York International Airport.

Turning on the phone, Durant had five missed calls. He hurriedly called back to ask what was going on, but it turned out that he was only invited to go to the nightclub. Li Yue thought that there was nothing important to deal with, so he got in a special car and went straight to the agreed place .

When I arrived at the place, I found that Irving and other stars were also there. It seemed that it was called by the nightclub owner JAY-Z. Li Yue and these people had very little in common.

Smoking a shisha, Durant told Li Yue about the troubles he had encountered recently, mainly because the Thunder had a poor record and was about to lose hope of qualifying for the playoffs. Worried about getting worse.

And this All-Star game, he was also selected as a substitute for the Western Conference, and he is still struggling with whether to perform on stage. Performing, it will easily increase physical consumption, and not performing, worrying about attracting criticism from the media and fans.

Li Yue smiled and emphasized that the probability of the Lakers' three consecutive championships is as high as 99%. He suggested that Durant should not play with injuries just to help the boss sell more playoff tickets. Don't bet on your health and career. As for the All-Star exhibition game, you can go to TM, and block anyone who wants to criticize.

Durant still showed concern, and Li Yue advised him to get rid of his sensitive personality as soon as possible.

After leaving the nightclub, Li Yue settled in the hotel officially arranged by the NBA and began to communicate with the staff.

Early the next morning, pre-All-Star interviews were held at the Barclays Center.

In Li Yue's area, there were at least [-] media outlets. Questions ranged from 'why not participate in the three-point contest' to 'what kind of tactics will be used to coach the celebrity game', and even 'how do you view the city of New York under the influence of global culture? There are various types of changes, but he gave answers one by one, and the reporters were very satisfied.

In contrast, Klay Thompson, who was sitting next to Li Yue, who was selected for the All-Star game for the first time, had very few people asking questions from the media. At one point, he was caught in an embarrassing scene where the questions were interrupted. Li Yue asked loudly, "Girlfriend and Rocco fell into the water at the same time." In, you choose which one to save first', helping to ease the embarrassment, while teasing Thompson's almost zero dribbling ability.

The reporters on the scene laughed in unison, and Thomp took the initiative to come over and give high fives, agreeing to join hands in making troubles during the main game.

At the end of the interview, Li Yue returned to the arena and, as a coach, guided the Western Celebrities to train.

The assistant coach arranged by the brokerage company made an official appearance, and it turned out that he was also an old acquaintance-hardcore lake honey Mark Wahlberg, who came to participate this time to promote his upcoming movie "Teddy Bear 2", and the first trailer has just been released recently piece.

The two chatted for a while, and Wahlberg introduced Chadwick Boseman to Li Yue. According to Wahlberg, Bosman will star in the next stage of Marvel's personal superhero movie "Black Panther" , the future is also a big coffee.

Li Yue nodded and smiled, and said bluntly that Bosman's performance in "Draft Day" was very good. Although he only played a supporting role, Bosman really played a character who hoped to change his fate through the draft very well.

The Masters game started soon, both sides were laughing and joking, Li Yue imitated Doc Rivers to give a chicken soup speech, applauded when he scored a goal, and slammed the referee when he made a foul, all things were handed over to Wahlberg, and finally he 'seized' the C seat for a group photo .

After the Masters game, the Rookie Challenge was held next, and Li Yue stayed in the arena to support the Lakers rookie.

The format of this competition has been greatly changed. It no longer distinguishes between the first-year team and the second-year team. Instead, it is changed to the form of the world team and the US team. Bell, Antetokounmpo, Schroeder, and Mitty Roach players form the world team, and they only really played in the last quarter of the game.

After the rookie game ended, Li Yue returned to the hotel, and the staff sent a bunch of lists, which were the final candidates for this year's Hall of Fame. The league wanted him to record a video with a few sentences, which would be used when announcing the final list. The specific content It is to express admiration for a certain candidate, and the candidate recommended by the league for him is the former Rockets player Dikembe Mutombo.

Mutombo is recommended, probably because Yao Ming led the Rockets in those years and may have related memories.

This makes sense, but after reviewing all the rosters, Li Yue decided to record a video for the legendary coach Bill Fitch, mainly in the hope that Bill Fitch, the first "coach with a thousand defeats", can get a more objective and fair evaluation.

Because Fitch is not a garbage coach, he has led a total of five teams in 25 seasons of his coaching career.

And these five teams were all bad teams before he took over, so his coaching winning percentage was seriously affected, but through various efforts, he successfully helped these five teams return to the playoffs, and even led the 81-year-old Celtics. The Walters won the championship.

NO.15 At one o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yue rushed to the Barclays Center to participate in the public training before the game.

Durant ran over to chat, thinking that what he said before made sense, and chose to miss the main game performance.LeBron suggested that all three of them could be in New York, and simply finish the dinner plan that had been made before, and Li Yue readily agreed.

In the evening, the All-Star competition was officially held.

The first project was the shooting star. Curry and his son appeared on the stage with full confidence, but they were eliminated in the first round. However, Bosh’s team was still the same three people from last year. They completed the first round in only 30 seconds and won the championship again.

Perhaps Bosh's dominance was too strong. After the game, Curry and Westbrook expressed that they would not participate again in the future.

The second event is the Skills Challenge. This time it is no longer a group of stupid things, but it has not escaped the form of a pair. If someone has a better score, they will not be able to enter the next round, Bev Lee, who played as a substitute for Wall, miraculously passed all the way and finally won the championship trophy, fully demonstrating that he is more than just defending.

The third event is the three-point contest. Wesley Matthews was the first to play and scored a relatively high 22 points.

JJ Redick followed up and scored only 17 points, which was completely beyond everyone's expectations, but then Harden, who played later, only scored 15 points, which made Olajuwon, who was watching the game from the sidelines, hold back his laughter, and the Rockets fans burst out loud laughing out loud.

In the end, Curry played bravely in the final and beat his teammates Thompson and Irving to win the championship with 27 points. Harden stood on the sidelines and looked up at the replay on the central screen, unwilling to sit down for a long time, with the word "envy" written all over his face .

The interview with Curry winning the championship was quickly completed, the big dunk contest was staged, and many stars appeared on the sidelines.

Zach Lawen and Li Yue bluntly said that he will imitate the moves he used last year, and this year he will fight alone, without worrying about other people dragging him down. He is fully confident in winning the championship and hopes to help him cooperate.

Li Yue naturally agreed, and the two briefly exchanged how to cooperate, one of which was to help lift the basketball horizontally.

Antetokounmpo was the first to play, accompanied by the Greek flag and the beautiful messenger, it can be said to be extremely high-profile, but he failed three consecutive attempts, and only scored 31 points in the first dunk, followed by Plumlee, who also played mediocre, only scored 40 marks.

LaVine successfully advanced to the finals. Li Yue cooperated and scored 45 points once. However, Oladipo performed poorly in the finals twice in a row. The slam dunk contest champion finally fell to LaVine. The excitement of the audience was far higher than last year.

One day after the game was over, Li Yue returned to the hotel and played Booray with LeBron and others for a while. He lost more than 3 US dollars in half an hour. His luck was so bad that he couldn't get any more, so he quickly put his hands back and went back to the room to rest.

NO.16 at [-]:[-] p.m., the All-Star Game Concert was grandly held, Li Yue was invited to attend, and joined forces with Oladipo to sing the song "lighter", intending to pay tribute to Mars and Eminem, but unfortunately the rap part was stretched to Like reciting a composition.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the All-Star Game started.

After the opening of the Eastern Conference, the Eastern Conference scored five consecutive dunks, while the Western Conference responded with consecutive three-pointers. The two teams basically did not defend. , Helping the West beat the East 22 to 163, and the AMVP awarded Westbrook who scored 158 points, everyone is happy.

Li Yue departed for Los Angeles that night, preparing to start his vacation after the All-Star Weekend.

(End of this chapter)