The world's best combo guard

Chapter 208 205 [Fire Opening]

During the All-Star Weekend, the Pepsi Center in Denver operates 24 hours a day. Whether it is participating in the three-point contest, skill competition, or other individual competitions, players can come to the arena to train at any time.

The Denver Pepsi Center at 7 o'clock seemed very empty, but Li Hao also saw a figure sweating profusely on the court training from afar.

Take a closer look, isn't this teammate Kobe?How could he train here?Li Hao was a little surprised. In his memory, Kobe did not participate in other individual competitions except for the All-Star Game.

"Hey, Kobe, early, why are you here for training?"

Li Hao slapped the basketball and asked casually!

Seeing Li Hao, Kobe also stopped his movements, "Hey, buddy, early, I'm training, you know, I've been insisting, I'm used to it"

Kobe said with a smile.

"Okay! Sure enough, this is your style"

Li Hao spread his hands, isn't this his style?Immediately, he walked to the other side of the arena and started training.

In the Lakers, he and Kobe are almost different. Both of them are training freaks, and they both have strict requirements on themselves. Therefore, in many cases, the training hall is the territory of the two of them, but what Li Hao did not expect today is that Kobe In the absence of individual competitions during the All-Star Weekend, he will still insist. To be honest, Li Hao thinks that he is still inferior to Kobe in this respect.

Soon Li Hao started training.

However, at the beginning, he didn't do dunk training directly, but did some physical training first, which was regarded as a warm-up for his body, and then he started dunk training.

Because Li Hao is training dunks, this allows him to take a little rest after each dunk.

Extending his gaze to Kobe on the opposite side, Li Hao also praised Kobe from the bottom of his heart.

Almost two hours later, Bryant has barely rested, and has been practicing a shooting action. He is practicing a fadeaway jumper.

"Swish"

"Swish"

Watching Kobe make fadeaway jumpers one by one, Li Hao couldn't help but feel a little pleasing to the eye. When will he have this kind of picturesque skill? From Hao's point of view, there is still a gap with Kobe.

"Lee, looking forward to the slam dunk contest tonight, it will be a great experience for you to win the championship"

Even Li Hao wondered why Kobe had so much confidence in him.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the number of people in the Pepsi Center Arena gradually increased. Li Hao and Kobe finished training at the same time. At the entrance of the arena, Kobe said this to Li Hao. Kobe said that he would also come to the scene for the slam dunk contest tonight.

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At noon, Li Hao and Ling Sixue participated in a charity event together with Rudy, Tom, Norwich, and Brian Cook, because the second single event in the afternoon was the three-point contest, so, Caron Butler didn't go with Li Hao and the others, but went directly to the arena for pre-match preparations. As for Kobe, he couldn't go together because of personal matters.

At 20 o'clock in the evening, Li Hao, Ling Sixue and their son Li Te in Ling Sixue's arms appeared again in the Pepsi Center Arena. In more than an hour, the slam dunk contest officially began.

In the two single events that ended before, the skill championship was won by Chris Bosh of the Raptors.

In another game, the three-point contest, the championship was won by Caron Butler of the Los Angeles Lakers. Caron Butler also defeated many masters along the way and became the first Lakers player to win the three-point contest in the history of the Lakers in nearly 20 years. .

After the skills competition and the three-point contest ended, the flow of people in the Pepsi Center not only did not decrease, but gradually increased. The arena's stands had already reached [-]% occupancy.

why?
Because the attention of this All-Star Game is almost no lower than the Slam Dunk Contest of the All-Star Game, it will start immediately...

Li Hao's appearance once again attracted the attention of media reporters. Under the spotlight, Li Hao maintained his iconic smile and looked relaxed.

"Wow, you know, I feel like my pores are opening up all over my body now, honestly, this is a really exciting prelude"

"When you can compete with a group of masters, under the eyes of people, it feels great to think about it. I love the slam dunk contest and I love the All-Star Weekend."

"Yeah, coming here, of course there is only one goal, and that is the championship, I will go all out"

At the door of the locker room, Li Hao accepted the reporter's interview. It seemed that he was in really good condition and seemed very excited.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome our first contestant, Josh Smith"

Ten minutes later, that is, at 10:2 local time on February 18th, at the Pepsi Center Arena in Denver, the lights dimmed and everything was silent, and the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest players' appearance ceremony officially began.

With the loud DJ sound of the live host, the Atlanta Hawks rookie Josh Smith, who was the first to appear on the stage, ran all the way out of the player channel, and at the same time, some of Josh Smith’s explosive dunks were played on the super-large electronic screen at the scene , and his biography.

"Josh Smith, currently playing for the Atlanta Hawks..."

"The second player, Dwyane Wade..."

"The third player..."

"Fourth player... Vince Carter from the Brooklyn Nets"

When Vince Carter played, the entire Pepsi Center burst into cheers. After all, most of the fans in this arena are from the United States. Carter, who has the title of "Demigod", is very Apparently their absolute favourite!
"Let us welcome the fifth player, he is Li Hao from the Los Angeles Lakers"

Perhaps knowing Li Hao's current popularity, the host at the scene deliberately lengthened the rhythm of the word Li Hao in order to completely ignite the atmosphere of the scene.

As a result, as expected by the host, when Li Hao walked out of the player tunnel, the entire arena made a huge noise again, which was even comparable to the noise caused by Vince Carter's appearance just now. The sound waves are on par.

Of course, if you distinguish carefully, it is not difficult to find that most of these voices are different, that is to say, today, unconsciously, Li Hao’s fan base is already diverse, from all over the world.

All the contestants finished their appearances, and the lights on the scene were slightly restored.

Li Hao immediately looked around.

"hiss"

He still underestimated the attractiveness of this slam dunk contest. Just look, besides the already over [-]% attendance rate, the big names around the court are almost dazzling.

The basketball field is led by "God of Basketball" Michael Jordan, four shooting guards headed by "Peter Pan" Kobe Bryant (of course, except for Carter and McGrady on the field), "Truth" Paul Pierce, Yao Ming, and tomorrow The hosts Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James who will participate in the All-Star Game.

In addition, there are some rookies from various teams, some active NBA players, etc. Li Hao glanced at them, and there are forty or fifty in the basketball world alone.

Secondly, the football superstar headed by Roberto Carlos, the "heartbeat" Beckham...

The Kim Kardashians of entertainment and more...

With such a "luxurious audience lineup", Li Hao couldn't help but feel a little excited. He secretly looked at Carter in front of him. Even this super shooting guard who has been famous in the NBA for a long time was also a little excited at this time.

In a few minutes, the preliminaries will start. At this time, Li Hao and the others are doing their final warm-up before the match.

Holding a basketball in his hand, Li Hao walked towards the left side of the court while slapping it.

Here is where NBA basketball players gather.

"Senior, we meet again. Maybe many years later, I will still remember the help you gave me." Li Hao took the initiative to greet Michael Jordan.

For Li Hao, Jordan's special training for him during the offseason definitely benefited him a lot.

"Come on, Li, you will be even better. I look forward to the day when you surpass me." Jordan also smiled and patted Li Hao on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.

"Lee, go ahead and do it with all your strength"

When Li Hao walked in front of his teammate "Peter Pan" Kobe, Kobe laughed out loud and hit Li Hao on the chest.

"Kobe, you know, I have to win the championship." Li Hao smiled thoughtfully at Kobe.

What's unbelievable is that Kobe seemed to understand the meaning of Li Hao's smile, and nodded slightly.

"Brother Yao"

Immediately afterwards, Li Hao also greeted Yao Ming. For Yao Ming, Jin Feng has always had a feeling of respect in his heart. It is difficult for him to achieve his current achievements without Yao Ming's help.

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Li Hao showed the humility of a young man and the confidence of a young man. Regardless of whether he knew him or not, he still paid tribute to these guys in turn.


After greeting those legendary stars on the court, Li Hao drew a number plate from the lottery box carried by the staff at the entrance of the player tunnel. The number displayed on the number plate was 3, that is, Li Hao The third out in the first round.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, please calm down. This year's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest has officially begun. The first player to appear is Tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets..."

McGrady drew No. 1, so he was the first to appear on the court. On the court, as the host's voice fell, McGrady also came directly to the middle of the court and took a basketball from the caddy.

McGrady probably didn't need anyone's help for this ball, because at this time, there was no other person under the basket used for dunking.

After McGrady slapped the basketball a few times, he dropped the basketball, clapped his hands, and shouted as a cheer for himself.

At the top of the arc, the referee came over and asked if he was ready.

"OK" McGrady nodded to the referee.

The referee immediately pinched the watch, and the countdown began, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, beep, officially started.

At the top of the arc, McGrady's dribbling speed increased immediately, and he suddenly started towards the basket. Then, he came to the basket in an instant and jumped up.

"boom"

"Whoa, Tracy made the first dunk, the basket soared into the air and dunked with both hands"

The entire Denver Pepsi Center was instantly filled with cheers.

The much-anticipated All-Star dunk started with Tracy McGrady's two-handed reverse dunk under the basket.

McGrady, who completed the dunk, didn't seem very satisfied. At the moment of jumping just now, the rhythm was not well controlled, and the height of the jump was a bit low, which caused the entire completion of the movement to be uncoordinated.

In about 1 minute, McGrady's deducted points came out.

The five judges of this year's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest are: Sbert Webber, Dominique Wilkins, David Robinson, Chris Webber and Hakeem Olajuwon.

They are all legendary stars who have left famous names in the history of the NBA. Of course, without exception, they were all dunk champions!

McGrady scored a total of 45 points for this deduction, and 5 people gave 9 points!
It's not bad, at least it didn't screw up completely. The first dunk, obviously McGrady didn't come up with an absolute box-pressing trick.

"Next, the dunk will be Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade, let's look forward to his performance"

Wade played second, however, with him on the court, as well as his teammate Haslem in the Heat, it is clear that Wade's first dunk needs the help of outsiders.

The two went straight to the basket first, and Wade held Haslem's arm, allowing Haslem to stand about a step and a half on the left side of the basket.

Immediately, Wade walked out of the three-point line, at a position 45 degrees to the left of the three-point line, and Wade stopped holding the ball. It seemed that he planned to start from this position.

The same procedure, a few seconds later, with the sound of "beep", Wade's first dunk officially started.

"Oh, Haslem is 2.05 meters tall. Is Dwyane planning to step over him to complete the dunk? It's really bloody"

Accelerating suddenly from outside the point line, Wade rushed to Haslem's position with the ball, but when he was about to approach Haslem, Wade stopped suddenly.

He shook his head, it seemed that he wasn't ready for this one.

At this time, it is obvious that Wade has to prepare again.

Taking a deep breath, Wade turned around and returned to the origin, dribbling paused for a few seconds, and quickly started again.

"Dwyane's off again, oh, he's charging"

When he was one step away from Haslem, Wade soared into the air forcefully, holding the ball in his right hand, and leaning on Haslem's shoulder with his left hand, he stepped over Haslem's head in an instant. The next step was Stay in the air with the intention of smashing the ball into the basket.

"clang"

The entire arena became noisy in an instant, and the fans made regretful voices.

Obviously, Wade's dunk flew, and his ability to stay in the air is very strong. However, when he smashed the ball to the basket with his right hand, he couldn't grasp the accuracy, which caused the dunk to hit the basket.

Wade, who was dunked, also shook his head regretfully, then picked up the ball and returned to the origin again, he can continue to try.

However, on the third attempt, Wade ultimately failed.

Three chances run out!

Therefore, in the end, Wade failed to complete the first dunk, and there was no result!

On the sidelines, Li Hao, who was going to play next, gave Wade a high-five as he walked over, and then walked towards the center of the court unhurriedly.

"The next player to play is Li Hao from the Los Angeles Lakers. Let us look forward to Li's performance"

"Li Hao Come on"

"Lee, Lee, go go go"

When Li Hao took the ball from the caddy's hands, the entire arena was filled with cheers and cheers.

Among them, there are cheers from the Chinese and also from foreigners.

Li Hao grabbed the ball with his right hand, beat his chest with his left hand, and showed a signature smile, which can be regarded as a gesture to the fans who cheered for him.

"Li, are you ready?" The referee came over and asked.

"Mr. Referee, OK!" Li Hao gave the referee a thumbs up.

Immediately afterwards, the referee pinched the watch, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, beep, Li Hao's deduction officially started.

At the top of the arc, Li Hao held the ball in his right hand, started it instantly, and rushed straight to the basket. The entire Denver Pepsi Center, at this moment, the atmosphere suddenly fell silent...

(End of this chapter)