The toughest man in the NBA

Chapter 102 Appetizers on the table
On February 2010, 2, the 19th NBA All-Star Weekend officially kicked off.

The appetizer is rookie pecking——

Rookie Challenge.

Nine players from each of the first and second grade teams participated. The players were voted by the assistant coaches of 30 teams. Each team submitted a list, and the nine players with the most votes won.

Among them, the first-year lineup is:

Tuman, Blake Griffin

John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins

Greg Monroe, Eric Bledsoe, Landry Fields, Derek Favors, Gary Neal

The sophomore lineup is:

Stephen Curry, James Harden, DeMar DeRozan

Serge Ibaka, Jrue Holiday, Brandon Jennings

DeJuan Blair, Taj Gibson, Wesley Matthews

The way the coaching staff is matched is:

Assistant coach of the head coach of the All-Star game + popular superstar + gold medal commentator

For example, the first grade is Budenholzer, Stoudemire and McHale, and the second grade is Lawrence Frank, Carmelo Anthony and Steve Kerr.

As the No. 2009 pick in the [-] class, Blake Griffin was supposed to play for the second grade, but he was reimbursed for the season without a game last year and was repeated.

Therefore, this rookie challenge can be regarded as a record——

The first grade has two top picks at the same time!

In the second grade, there is no champion!

Due to the lack of superstar participation in the rookie challenge, the organizers specially organized more than 4000 primary and middle school students to come to the scene to cheer for the competition that night.

In fact, this is Griffin's home court.

If the tickets for the All-Star Weekend are not so expensive, there should be a lot of Clippers fans here, and they don't need to worry about the silence at all.

Damn capitalism!
Different from the All-Star Game, the Rookie Challenge is similar to the NCAA, only playing the first and second halves, and the half time is 20 minutes.

Tu Man and Stoudemire winked, and walked into the locker room with Cousins ​​shoulder to shoulder, and asked in a low voice:
"Cousin, why don't you come to Phoenix on the 13th?"

Cousins ​​said with a sad face:
"You don't know, I ate an expired sandwich, and I had a stomachache that day..."

Tu Man didn't believe it:

"Nonsense, you think you are the great Michael, I think you have taken too many little blue pills?"

Cousins ​​said angrily:

"Fart, I'm such an idiot, I never take the little blue pill!"

At this time, a voice came:

"DeMarcus, what are you talking about?"

Tu Man turned around, and it turned out to be Wall.

Cousins ​​pulled Wall over and provoked discord with malicious intentions:
"John, come here quickly. Let me introduce you. One is the No. [-] pick in the draft, and the other is the super undrafted pick. You guys should get close..."

Tu Man and Wall smiled at each other.

Cousins ​​said in amazement:

"No, why don't you fight?"

Tu Man said pitifully:

"Stupid child, don't use your hasty logic to guess other people's IQ, it's too hurt..."

Wall pointed at Cousins ​​and laughed.

At this time, Budenholzer suddenly asked:
"Guys, does anyone want to win the Rookie Challenge MVP?"

Before the words fell, Tuman, Griffin, and Wall raised their arms almost at the same time. Cousins ​​was even more exaggerated, and he jumped up directly...

Budenholzer looked around, nodded, and said:

"To win the MVP, John needs to get assists, and the three of you need to get points and rebounds. This should not be contradictory. But the three of you overlap, what should we do?"

Tu Man frowned. Old Bu's open and closed style doesn't look like Zhuge Weiqi's move. Do you have to point out this contradiction in public?

This is to do something!
Stoudemire didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, so he secretly laughed and said:
"What should I do? A fight will be enough! Whoever has the stronger fist will be the first to clear the stats, and the other two will be the second to do the dirty work..."

He is very confident in Tubaru's force.

The entire locker room is very confident in Tubaru's force, including Cousins ​​and Griffin.

It was quiet for a while.

Tu Man remained silent, rubbing his hands slowly, pressing the knuckles of his fingers one by one.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"...

The corner of Cousins' mouth twitched, and he took a step back, far away from Tu Man. While waving his hands, he hurriedly shouted:
"I quit, I quit, I quit..."

Everyone looked at Griffin.

Griffin smiled sarcastically:
"I still have to play the main game and prepare for the slam dunk contest. I'm too busy. This game lasts about 10 minutes, just make fun of it, don't take it too seriously, buddy!"

The corner of Tu Man's mouth twitched, who hasn't played the main game yet, isn't ready for the slam dunk contest?
Griffin and Tuman made history together, becoming the only players to play three events during NBA All-Star Weekend, one in a day:
Rookie Game, Slam Dunk Contest, All-Star Game.

Last year's Derrick Rose would have had a chance to break that record first, competing in the Sophomore Rookie Tournament, Skills Challenge and All-Star Game.

However, he ended up only playing in the All-Star Game due to a hip injury.

Tu Man didn't say anything...

People are tough.

So, Tu Man turned around and stretched out his palm to Wall:

"Happy cooperation!"

Wall was taken aback, held his hand and smiled:

"my pleasure!"

McHale looked from Budenholzer to Stoudemire and thought:

"These two guys are good at singing the double reed. One light and one dark, one black and one white, and a few words can resolve the biggest contradiction. Whose bad idea is this?"

Before the game, the first and second grades respectively announced their starting lineups.

First grade:

Point Guard: John Wall

Shooting Guard: Gary Neal

Small Forward: Landry Fields
Power Forward: Blake Griffin
Center: Tu Brutal

second grade

Point Guard: Stephen Curry
Shooting Guard: Wesley Matthews

Small Forward: DeMar DeRozan
Power Forward: Taj Gibson
Center: DeJuan Blair

This season, Harden and Ibaka are still playing as substitutes for the Thunder, far less popular than Gibson and Blair, two defensive monsters. Frank's arrangement is obviously timid, and he is going to defend first?
Tu Man rubbed his hands and said to Griffin:

"Blake, look at this group of dwarfs. If you don't dunk, you will be sorry for the basket! Regardless of the previous agreement, we will take turns dunking later, but no repetition is allowed, how about it?"

Griffin's eyes lit up, he stared at him and said:

"You don't want MVP anymore?"

Tu Man shook his head and said mysteriously:
"Of course I have to win the MVP, but I don't need too many points. I'm going to make a big four. It's up to you to get the assists. Work harder!"

Griffin froze for a moment, sucked his teeth and said:

"Wori, you pervert!"

Tu Man chuckled and slapped him:

"Think of this as a warm-up for the slam dunk contest, don't make me beat it!"

Griffin laughed:
"You think beautiful!"

The three people on the coaching bench looked confused. Instead of fighting, these two people were laughing and gesticulating under the basket. What kind of attribute is Tu Man? What kind of rainbow fart did he feed Griffin?
(End of this chapter)