Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

On February 2, Zhuang Yu, An Xin, Tang Wan, Xiao Nuomi, Yang Jinsong, and Anna arrived in Chicago two days in advance.

This All-Star Game will be held in Chicago.

Zhuang Yu has been to Chicago many times when he played away games, but An Xin, Tang Wan, and Xiao Nuomi have never been to Chicago. They had a good day in Chicago, and then welcomed the 2020 NBA All-Star Weekend.

On February 2, the All-Star Weekend ushered in the first day of competition, which was divided into the Celebrity Game and the Rookie Game.

Zhuang Yu didn’t even watch the Masters Tournament, but he did watch the Rookie Tournament.

This year's Rookie Game is still very interesting. It is divided into the World Team and the American Team. The World Team includes the 2018 No. 2018 pick Deandre Ayton and the best among the rookies Luka Doncic.

The US team has Trae Young, Ja Morant, Zion Williams, Jaren Jackson Jr., etc.

There were two All-Star starters in this Rising Stars Game.

This is very rare in the rookie game, so it is very interesting. The focus of people's discussion is the duel between Luka Doncic and Trae Young. Both of them are rookies in 2018, and they swapped teams after being selected in the draft. Both of them have performed very well in the past two seasons and have always been compared together.

Many people are looking forward to the matchup between the two in the Rookie Game. Who will win the Rookie Game MVP?

During the game, Doncic and Trae Young did not disappoint the fans and staged a three-point competition, while Zion Williams and Ja Morant performed beautiful dunks one after another. It was just a bit embarrassing that many of their dunks missed.

You have to know that this is just a rookie game, the defensive intensity is not high, and basically if you want to dunk, the defenders will get out of your way.

However, they both messed up the performance.

Of course, there were quite a few dunks as well.

Doncic and Trae Young's three-point duel, Zion Williams and Ja Morant's dunk performance...

These still make the fans feel very enjoyable to watch.

But it was a bit boring for Zhuang Yu.

A group of first and second grade players were playing an exhibition game on the court, which was really uninteresting to him and was somewhat disappointing.

In the end, when the game was over, the US team defeated the World Team 151:131.

The MVP of the Rookie Game was not one of Doncic and Trae Young, but Miles Bridges of the US team.

He performed well in the third quarter and scored 3 points, winning the MVP of this year's Rookie Game.

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Zhuang Yu did not go to watch the individual events on the second day, but Tang Wan, Anna, and Yang Jinsong went with Xiao Nuomi.

After returning, the three told Zhuang Yu that they were very disappointed with this individual event.

Although there were "killers" in all three individual events, whether it was the duel between Dinwiddie, Beverley, Siakam, Alexander, Middleton and others in the skills challenge, or the competition between Trae Young, Devin Booker, Zach Lavine, Joe Harris and others in the three-point contest, there was a strong sense of performance.

The dunk contest is more interesting than the skills challenge and the three-point challenge.

The reason is that Aaron Gordon, who had lost in the dunk contest before, participated in the dunk contest again this time.

The tragic thing is that although his opponents this time were neither LaVine nor Zhuang Yu, he still failed to win the dunk contest championship in the end.

Of course, there are still many exciting slam dunks and gimmicks in the dunk contest.

For example, Aaron Gordon jumped over Tacko Fall, the tallest player in the NBA at 231 cm, to complete a two-handed dunk; Dwight Howard put on a Superman cape and completed a one-handed slam dunk after receiving a pass from his teammate; Connaughton jumped over his teammate Giannis Antetokounmpo and hit the backboard to complete a two-handed dunk...

But for Tang Wan, Yang Jinsong and others who had seen Zhuang Yu’s ultimate performance in the individual events before, the current individual events always seemed to be missing something.

The individual events have come to an end, and next comes the highlight of the All-Star Weekend, the All-Star Game.

This All-Star Game is still very interesting.

This year's All-Star Game continued last year's method of having the captains of the Eastern and Western teams select players. Zhuang Yu and Antetokounmpo served as captains of the Western and Eastern teams respectively. The two each selected the best candidates for their team and competed in the All-Star Game.

This time, when Zhuang Yu was selecting the starting lineup, he chose Anthony Davis first. He really thought this guy was very good. However, in order to create a show effect, Zhuang Yu made a joke and said to Antetokounmpo: "You know, LeBron and I are rivals."

"So you chose his current teammate first, haha..." Antetokounmpo was also very capable and immediately chose LeBron James.

This is just great.

The Clippers' two stars are on the same team. Zhuang Yu and Antetokounmpo are very happy, and the fans are also happy, but I guess James won't be happy.

Isn't this making trouble?

Zhuang Yu’s second choice was Kawhi Leonard.

Once again, this choice was unexpected.

After all, the two sides were opponents in the finals last season, and the duel between Zhuang Yu and Leonard in the finals was even more exciting.

Just now Zhuang Yu said that he and James were rivals, but the second choice he made was last year's finals opponent Kawhi Leonard, which made fans not know how to complain.

Antetokounmpo's second choice was Luka Doncic.

Seeing that the other side chose Luka Doncic, Zhuang Yu chose Trae Young next. The two second-year players have always been rivals, and this was no exception in the All-Star Game.

Zhuang Yu still knows what the fans want to see.

Later, Antetokounmpo selected Kemba Walker and Joel Embiid, while Zhuang Yu selected Karl-Anthony Towns.

Finally, the starting five for the Western team were Zhuang Yu, Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard, Trae Young, and Karl-Anthony Towns.

The starting five for the Eastern Conference team are Giannis Antetokounmpo, LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Kemba Walker and Joel Embiid.

The two then chose their own substitute lineups.

Zhuang Yu’s first choice was naturally Russell Westbrook, after all, they are good brothers. The second choice was Paul George, and then he chose Nikola Jokic, Sabonis Jr., Donovan Mitchell, Jimmy Butler, and Jayson Tatum.

On the other hand, Antetokounmpo's selected substitute lineup is Chris Middleton, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Ben Simmons, Damian Lillard, Chris Paul, and Rudy Gobert.

The captain selection was completed long before the All-Star Weekend.

At this time, the All-Star Game arrived, and the starting lineups from the East and West appeared one after another, causing screams and cheers from the audience.

Then the substitutes of both sides came on the field one after another.

Although they are substitutes, those who are selected for the All-Star team are naturally not ordinary people.

What makes fans a little regretful is that Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant were not selected for the All-Star Game due to injuries. The All-Star Game was less interesting without the two of them.

In addition, the Warriors, which had several players selected for the All-Star Game last year, didn't have any this season, which is a bit strange for fans...

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After the players warmed up, the All-Star Game officially kicked off.

The starting players of both teams came onto the court.

"Who will win this time?"

"It's hard to say. Zhuang Yu's team has Zhuang Yu and Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard, Russell Westbrook, and Paul George. The lineup is still very balanced and strong. I am more optimistic that they can win."

"I think the Eastern Conference has a better chance of winning. Although the Western Conference has a strong lineup, the Eastern Conference is not weak either. The combination of Antetokounmpo and James is still worth looking forward to. Their bench lineup also includes scoring masters such as Harden, Irving and Lillard."

The game officially began amid the fans' discussions.

First there was a jump ball. The one responsible for the jump ball for the Western team was Towns, while the one responsible for the jump ball for the Eastern team was not center Embiid, but Antetokounmpo.

The two men jumped up almost at the same time, but Antetokounmpo's bounce speed was obviously faster. He touched the basketball first and hit the ball to the backcourt, where it fell into Kemba Walker's hands.

After Walker got the ball, he did not pass it to Doncic, but chose to advance with the ball himself, but after reaching the frontcourt, he passed the ball to James.

This was obviously discussed by the players before they went on the court, or it might have been arranged by the Eastern Conference head coach Mike Budenholzer, who obviously let LeBron James be in charge of the organization.

But this is indeed a good choice.

On the Eastern team side, Doncic and Walker both play the No. 1 position, but who to play is a problem. Instead of worrying about this, it is better to directly give the organizational task to LeBron James. James' status in the world is there, so naturally no one has any objection.

After all, this is the All-Star Game, and the game has just begun, so neither side is defending seriously.

The Western team's position was relatively loose, with Kawhi Leonard facing James. His expression was still dull, but he didn't jump too far forward, just pretending.

James glanced at the defensive situation, then wandered outside the three-point line, his eyes looking at Doncic on the other side, but his hands moved to throw the ball to the floor, making a ground pass to Antetokounmpo who was cutting to the empty field without looking at anyone.

The next moment, Antetokounmpo grabbed the basketball, jumped up, and slammed the basketball into the basket with one hand.

"Wow..."

The audience was in an uproar.

The game just started when there was an explosive one-handed slam dunk, which made the fans excited and they shouted loudly towards the court with thunderous applause.

The score is 2:0.

Western troops attack.

Naturally, Zhuang Yu plays the No. 1 position here. Although there is also Trae Young, he is naturally not qualified to compete with Zhuang Yu.

After arriving at the frontcourt, Zhuang Yu did not choose to attack by himself. He was relatively indifferent to today's game. As long as his side could win, anyone could win the MVP.

Kemba Walker is responsible for defending Zhuang Yu, while Doncic is facing off against Trae Young. The matchup between the two of them is also a highlight of today.

Walker was a little shorter, and when he saw Zhuang Yu dribbling the ball between his legs outside the three-point line and raising his center of gravity, he subconsciously wanted to jump.

However, Zhuang Yu did not directly pull up for the shot. Instead, he changed direction in front of his body to pass Walker, took two steps forward and paused slightly, waiting for Antetokounmpo to come up for defense. Then he threw the ball into the basket. A figure flew into the air, grabbed the basketball in the air and dunked it towards the basket.