Basketball League of Legends

Chapter 216 All-Star Weekend

The NBA announced on February 2 the roster of all 1 players participating in this year's slam dunk contest. After announcing the complete roster, the league also announced the revised rules of the slam dunk contest.

This unprecedented 12-person slam dunk contest will be divided into three rounds. In the first round, each player will dunk two balls, and the six players with the highest total score will advance to the semi-finals; The top three will advance to the final; in the final, a dunk will be used to determine the winner, and if there are two players with the same score, a dunk will be added in an extra match to determine the winner.

This kind of competition system also obviously prolongs the duration of the dunk contest, the number of dunks has also greatly increased, and the viewing and competitiveness have also become stronger, making it even more exciting.

In addition to the slam dunk contest, the All-Star votes have also ended, and the league is nervously counting the votes.

Finally, in the afternoon, the nba officially announced the final ballot results.

In the Celtics training hall, the Celtics players were training intensely. The general manager of the team, Carl, walked in with an uncontrollable joy on his face.

"Rick, let the boys stop for a while! There is good news." Carl smiled and walked to Rick Pitino, who was organizing the training of the players.

Rick Pitino glanced at Carl and asked curiously, "What good news?"

Karl smiled mysteriously and urged Rick Pitino to gather the players.

When all the Celtics lined up in the middle of the court, Carl smiled and began to announce: "Now I want to tell you the good news. The results of the All-Star Weekend votes came out. Michael Jordan got 1000." votes, and Jonny's votes are [-]! He surpassed Michael Jordan's [-] votes and became the All-Star vote king this year!"

As soon as Carl finished speaking, there was cheers in the Celtics training hall, and Jonny also smiled. At the beginning of January, when he saw that his votes were very close to Michael Jordan's votes, he knew he could Beyond Michael Jordan.Then Johnny went on a canvassing campaign. Obviously, the canvassing campaign is now a success.

Michael Jordan has become a god, he will not let go of his figure, and canvass for votes in order to compete with Johnny, so Johnny's canvassing has invisibly accumulated an advantage for himself.In the end, Johnny also surpassed Michael Jordan by 1000 votes!
And now the outside world has already discussed the matter of Jonny surpassing Michael Jordan in the All-Star vote, which is already in full swing.Yahoo Sports' Wojnarowski said that Jonny's passing will be a historic moment.

In fact, most of the outside world is treating this surpassing with this kind of argument. Almost everyone thinks that Johnny surpassed Michael Jordan in the All-Star votes as a historic surpassing.

When Michael Jordan was about to retire, Jonny surpassed Michael Jordan in the All-Star Game, which seemed to give people an idea that the one who succeeded Michael Jordan and became the leader of the league was Jonny Lee who surpassed Michael Jordan this time. up.

On February 2, the Celtics challenged the Charlotte Hornets in an away game, and all the headlines of the basketball newspapers and magazines on this day were the fact that Jonny Lee surpassed Michael Jordan in the All-Star vote, but the Celtics did not agree with this matter. The heat has subsided. Although such discussions can still be heard in the locker room, they are not as hot as before. At most, they only mention a few words.

But in the game against the Hornets, Jonny heard a lot of congratulations when he met other people.

Before the start of the game, Jonny was first stopped by NBC commentator Kevin Harlan on the technical stage on the sidelines, accepted the congratulations from Kevin Harlan and his partner Craig Sager, and was then called by the head of the Hornets The star Glenn Rice stopped and accepted Glenn Rice's sour compliment.Jonny didn't care about the sour Glen Rice. He wasn't surprised. Glen Rice could be said to be a new star promoted by the league at the beginning. It can be said that Glen Rice himself had great ambitions.

But in the past few seasons, a large number of young players have poured out, especially the players of the 96 generation, and a large number of players have begun to play well. Glen Rice has gradually fallen behind among these many young stars, especially compared with Jonny. , Glen Rice has become an ordinary star.

The game against the Hornets started quickly, and the excited Celtics solved their opponents in three quarters. Jonny scored 40 points in the game, and several dunks in the game also made the away fans in Charlotte very excited. excited.Charlotte has a nickname, the city of hustle and bustle. The basketball atmosphere here is very strong, but the basketball market was not very good at that time.

So when Johnny showed off his dunk stunt, Hustle City rebelled like this. They began to cheer for Johnny's dunk, especially the few fans in the back row. When Johnny jumped to the basket, These fans will make a huge noise, making the entire arena very hot.

And Jonny ended the game in this double excitement.

And two days later, the Celtics faced the bad Dallas Mavericks at home. Before the All-Star Weekend, Rick Pitino chose to let Jonny, who had a heavy workload during the All-Star Weekend, rest for halftime, but The Celtics almost lost the game because of this. Fortunately, Jonny re-entered the game in the final quarter and scored 22 points, leading the Celtics to overtake in the final quarter and win the victory!
Then, it's All-Star Weekend.

The 1998 All-Star Game was the 48th All-Star Game. The location of this All-Star Game was Madison Square Garden. As the Mecca of the NBA, hosting this All-Star Game seems to have some special meaning.

In the All-Star Game, the participation of the Celtics was not high, only Jonny participated in the All-Star Game and the Slam Dunk Contest, and Chauncey Billups participated in the Rookie Challenge, and the others did not have the Celtics However, the Celtics still attach great importance to the All-Star game. After all, Jonny won the honor of the All-Star vote leader in history, and Jonny will also participate in the slam dunk that is known as the strongest in the history of the league. contest.

In order to reflect Jonny's status in the Celtics, this All-Star game, the Celtics not only accompanied Jonny to New York by Karl and other high-level executives, but also the team's boss met with Jonny for the first time.

The first game of the All-Star Game was the rookie challenge on the first day. Celtics owner Vic Grosbeck booked the best private room at Madison Square Garden, invited Jonny, and also It's obviously a so-called high-level meeting to ask the bosses and stars of other teams.

And in this private room, Jonny met the Lakers owner Jerry Buss and the Lakers logo Magic Johnson. Obviously, although the Celtics and the Lakers are deadly rivals in the game, the relationship between the two bosses still sounds good.In fact, the biggest reason for these nba owners to buy an nba team is to use this team to enter the aristocratic class, so for them, the team is just a tool for them to socialize.

Of course, there are also owners who love basketball, such as Celtics owner Vic Grosbeck and Lakers owner Jerry Buss. They may be the most basketball-loving owners among league team owners, so they The two also have a common language.

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