The rise of basketball legends

On February 2, the Phoenix All-Star Weekend began.

The atmosphere of the All-Star has been very strong as early as a few days ago. Phoenix is ​​different from other cities. Their NBA basketball stadium is located on Jefferson Avenue. This is the most prosperous area in the whole city. Weekend players and fans provide a lot of convenience.

Most NBA stars stay in the Hilton Hotel not far from the West West Arena. If they want, they can even walk to the West West Arena. Now the security forces around the West West Arena have been significantly strengthened to ensure the smooth progress of the game.

The Bank of America building opposite the American West Arena is one of the tallest buildings in Phoenix. There is a huge poster hanging here. The stars on the poster are Chen Yan, Dayao and Howard. Chen Yan is standing in the c position, two big men Standing on both sides looked like his bodyguards, the three of them just hung on the landmark building in Phoenix overlooking the American West Arena and even the entire Phoenix.

Due to Nash's absence, the Suns' players participating in this All-Star Game were reduced to three players, Chen Yan, Stoudemire and Jordan. Unlike the two big brothers, Jordan participated in the All-Star Rookie Game.

Even though it was a rookie game, Jordan still looked excited. He felt that he was a star now, and kept asking Stoudemire and Chen Yan what experience they had.

Stoudemire was annoyed by the question, so he said casually: "You dunk two baskets as soon as you go up, and tear the basket apart by the way, so you can steal everyone's limelight."

Chen Yan also smiled and said, "I think what Amare said is right."

Little Jordan smiled innocently: "Then I have to gain another 20 kilograms to become O'Neal."

Chen Yan replied with a smile: "It's not the 90s now, the NBA has already strengthened the basket, and it's probably not enough to become O'Neal."

Chen Yan and Stoudemire didn't argue with Jordan for too long. They were players participating in the All-Star Game, and they had to attend the media meeting in the morning.

The process of the media meeting was similar to last year, and Chen Yan was already familiar with it.

Entering the venue, Chen Yan first chatted with Dayao and Ah Lian.

This is the first time that three Chinese players have gathered for the All-Star Game.

"A Lian, Dayao and I have already discussed that we will target you in the main match, so you should be mentally prepared." Chen Yan joked.

"You two don't scare me, this is my first All-Star, don't cast me out of the shadows." Ah Lian laughed.

"Ah Lian, don't listen to his nonsense, what kind of targeting, at most it can be regarded as 'entertainment'." Dayao also laughed beside him.

"Yes, this is Phoenix, I want to be a landlord." Chen Yan said.

"Haha, if you go on, I'm going to cheat." Ah Lian said.

It's very relaxing to get together, and Ah Lian, who is introverted, also made a joke.

After chatting for a while, the three Chinese players each accepted interviews from reporters.

The popularity of the three Chinese players is very high, but it can be clearly seen that Chen Yan has the most reporters in front of him. Chen Yan is the ticket leader in this All-Star Game, and his home team, the Suns, is the host. It is also reasonable that he gets the most attention among.

"Chen, you were the mvp winner of the last All-Star Game, and this year you are playing at home again. Your goal is to win the fmvp again, right?" the reporter asked.

"To be honest, I don't have much interest in fmvp, but this is our territory. In order not to disappoint the fans, I will try my best to keep fmvp in Phoenix."

Chen Yan didn't talk too much, no matter he took it or Stoudemire was staying in Phoenix.

"You are the most active person in the All-Star Weekend this year. Besides the main game, you also have to participate in the Rookie Challenge, the Three-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest. Have you thought about how many trophies you want to take home?" the next reporter asked with a smile.

Chen Yan shrugged: "The psychological pressure of thinking about trophies is great. I am here to play. If I insist on having a goal, it is to have fun."

The reporters smiled knowingly. Chen Yan also said the same thing in the last All-Star Game, but in the end he won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game backhand.

In the afternoon, Chen Yan and a group of stars participated in community service activities, which is also an integral part of NBA care activities.

Community service is not only community service, the official also set up a temporary stadium around the American West Arena, the purpose is to allow more fans, especially small fans, to interact with NBA stars.

There are baskets of different heights from children to teenagers, and the official is very humane in this regard.

Let the children experience difficult moves such as shooting, dunking and even alley-oop, and the stars will throw the ball with dynamic music, which directly gives the fans the experience of playing in the NBA.

Chen Yan's itinerary is full of arrangements. After finishing the community activities, he will take a day off. On the morning of the 14th, he will participate in the training of the rookie game. In the afternoon, he will participate in the public training session of the All-Star players. By the way, he will interact with the fans. game.

On the 15th, he was going to participate in the three-point contest, the dunk contest and the All-Star Game. He was so busy that he didn't even have time to date Taylor Swift.

On the 14th, the rookie challenge will start soon. The lineups of both sides are full of talents. The first-year side has Derek Rose, OJ Mayo, Oden, Beasley Marc Gasol, Greg Oden , Eric Gordon, and even Westbrook can only play off the bench.

The funniest thing is Oden. He was injured for a year last year. The league put him directly on the first-year team this year and let him play with the "junior boys".

The overall talent of the second grade is not as good as that of the first grade, but they have Chen Yan and Durant, and the outside world is generally optimistic that the second grade will win the championship.

UAE was not selected for the second-year rookie list. He may be the first player in history to start an All-Star but not be selected for the rookie list.

Because the All-Star starters are voted by the fans, and the rookie list is selected by the assistant coaches of each team from the first and second graders through voting.

Chen Yan appeared in the player channel wearing a black windbreaker and sunglasses. This outfit is simple and stylish.

The media have expressed that Chen Yan has extended the aesthetics of the Grammys to the NBA arena.

Xiaoshuai was dressed in a dark green jacket and a pink knitted hat. He felt that his fashion sense was not inferior to that of Chen Yan, and he stared straight at the female reporter during the interview.

Seeing that the female reporter didn't respond, Xiaoshuai thought to himself, right?Can't take you down?

Xiaoshuai's real stage is still on the court. Today he fired 40 points and led the team to win the rookie game mvp.

Chen Yan scored 14 points and 7 assists in the whole stroke. He mainly passed the ball tonight and played very effortlessly.

Except for a 360-degree dunk dedicated to the fans at the beginning, he didn't get inside much. The fans also understand that Chen Yan has a lot of events to participate in later, and he needs to spend too much energy in the rookie game. This is also a chance for others.