dream ten

Chapter 268 All Stars

In terms of strength, Cousins ​​can be called the league's No. [-] center. The Pelicans who lost Cousins ​​have fallen from the league's top team to an ordinary playoff team.

After the Lakers beat the Timberwolves back-to-back in away games, the team will usher in a wave of one-week holidays, because the grand All-Star Game is coming. Although Han Ziqi was not selected for this year's All-Star Game, he will be part of the Rookie Challenge World Team The starting shooting guard played in the game, and Paul was also elected as the starting power forward of the US team in the rookie game, and the Lakers' substitute player Kuzma was selected as the US team's substitute.The three young players of the Lakers compete in the Rookie Challenge, which is also very interesting for Lakers fans.The host, the fourth-ranked Lakers in the Western Conference, did not have a single player selected for the All-Star game. This result has aroused the dissatisfaction of countless Lakers fans. They kept complaining why Kerr didn't choose Han Ziqi or Paul to enter the All-Star game, but Now that the list has been released, there is no possibility of changing it.

The next day, the league announced that since DeMarcus Cousins, the starter of the Western All-Star James team, could not participate in this year's All-Star Game due to season reimbursement, the head of the Lakers Paul Mack will participate in this year's All-Star Game as an alternate player. In the star game, Paul George will replace Cousins ​​in the starting lineup, and Paul Mack will serve as a substitute.The Lakers fans who had been aggrieved slowly dissipated the anger in their hearts.

Coming to the All-Star Weekend, the first day of the competition is the Celebrity Tournament and the Rookie Challenge. At 2 am on February 17th, BJ time, the 8 Los Angeles All-Star Celebrity Tournament will start. The Chinese singer and actor wyf will participate. Partner Tracy McGrady and Nate Robinson, two former NBA players, played for the Lakers.For the Clippers, Paul Pierce and "White Chocolate" Jason Williamson lead the way. wyf was invited to play in the 2018 Los Angeles All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game. This is the third consecutive year he has played in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game after the 2018 and 2016 Celebrity Games. Wyf is the first Chinese star to participate in the All-Star Celebrity Game, and now he has become the first Chinese star to be invited to participate in the competition for three consecutive years, making history.This game was also played very happily, and the game ended in a joyful atmosphere.

The rookie challenge is a game for rookies to show themselves. The outcome of this game is only about who can get the final MVP. Other than that, the outcome doesn't have much meaning, and there is almost no defense in this kind of game. The rookies on both sides continued to show off their dunking skills to please the fans at the scene.Although Han Ziqi is a man of yellow race, he can still have an extremely explosive dunk with the addition of skills.Han Ziqi showed his signature windmill slam dunk and lost step learned from Wade in this game. In addition, he also contributed three three-pointers. Paul of the US team was even more brutal. A total of 6 alley-oop dunks were dunked, and all the balls passed to him were "Ball Brother" Lonzo Ball. As a pass-oriented point guard, Ball Ball has very strong passing skills.But in the end all the limelight was taken away by Kuzma alone. In this campaign, Kuzma scored 35 points and 6 rebounds and was elected as the MVP of the rookie game. Tatum had 20 points and 9 rebounds. Trey Young had 18 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds. Mitchell had 13 points, 9 assists, 7 rebounds and 5 steals, and Paul had 22 points and 14 rebounds.

世界联队方面，西蒙斯28分6助攻3抢断，马尔卡宁21分6篮板，艾顿15分8篮板5助攻，东契奇13分9助攻5篮板。中国球员韩子琦得到23分7次助攻。

The first day of the All-Star game is over, and Han Ziqi also ended his first All-Star tour.Then it just needs to enjoy the upcoming All-Star Game.

The second day's competition included a skill challenge, a three-point shooting contest, and a much-anticipated slam dunk contest.

In the final of the All-Star Skills Competition, Markkanen got stuck in the passing link, and Dinwiddie counterattacked to the end and was crowned the champion of the skills competition.

This year's 28-point shootout lineup is: Bradley Beal, Devin Booker, Paul George, Wayne Ellington, Kyle Lowry, Tobias Harris, Klay - Thompson and Eric Gordon.In the end, Devin Booker finally won the three-point contest with a record-breaking [-] points.

This year's slam dunk contest entries are: Victor Oladipo, Larry Nance Jr., Dennis Smith Jr. and Donovan Mitchell (replacing Aaron Gordon).Mitchell put on Carter's classic Raptors No. 15 jersey, then Mitchell swooped down, jumped high, turned around and imitated Carter's famous work with a 360-degree windmill!After landing, he made the classic gesture of pointing to the sky just like Carter did back then, and then waved his hands, muttering: "It's over. The game is over." In the end, he scored 48 points, accumulating 98 points twice, beating Xiaonan Si successfully won the slam dunk contest championship.

The main meal of the All-Star Weekend—the All-Star Game is finally here.

The two sides were anxious until the last moment. In the final attack, Durant defended his teammate Curry in the Warriors. With DeRozan's shot timed out, James narrowly beat Curry 148-145.

此役，詹姆斯砍下了全场最高的29分10篮板8助攻，杜兰特19分6篮板5助攻，乔治16分，威少11分8篮板8助攻。保罗·马克得到8分4个篮板球。

库里队方面，德罗赞21分6篮板，利拉德21分，恩比德19分8篮板，唐斯17分10篮板，哈登12分7篮板8助攻。

After the All-Star weekend, the players will resume preparations for the second half of the regular season.Although the Lakers are currently ranked fourth in the Western Conference, the Thunder behind them are only 2.5 games behind them, and they are only 5 games ahead of the eighth Pelicans in the Western Conference. For the Lakers, they are still far behind. It's not time to relax.

After resting for about half a week, the Lakers started training again. Their first game after the All-Star Game was against the Mavericks at home. In the end, the Lakers continued to win. It is worth mentioning that the Mavericks Dirk · Dirk Nowitzki started the game, he contributed 23 points and 8 rebounds, a few independent jumpers as if he had returned to his peak.

Although the Lakers took away a victory, Nowitzki won the respect of all the fans on the scene with the immortality shown by Nowitzki in the game.

(End of this chapter)