NBA: Start the water cooler and reach the Hall of Fame

After the All-Star starters were announced, the Wizards only had three games left before the All-Star weekend.

On February 2, with the home referee's whistle, the Washington Wizards defeated the invading Salamonto Kings 22-115. The team's record also reached 101 wins and 27 losses, solidifying first place in the Eastern Conference and first place in the league. A record of one.

Li Kaiming also averaged a super triple-double of 32.5 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists per game. He led the team to 3 wins and 0 losses and successfully won the second Eastern Conference Player of the Week in February. It seems that if nothing goes wrong, February's The Eastern Conference Best of the Month still belongs to him.

However, before the best player in February is decided, Li Kaiming will usher in the Orlando All-Star Game as the All-Star vote leader.

Because last year's Eastern Conference All-Star coach was Sanders, this time even if the Wizards are first in the Eastern Conference, the Eastern Conference All-Star coach will be Coach Spoelstra, who is second in the Eastern Conference.

However, Sanders does not feel any regrets about this, because if this trend continues, he should be able to win the first best coach trophy in his career...

Compared with the best coaches, the All-Star head coach is nothing!

This year's Rookie Challenge has a different twist. Instead of the league's coaches jointly selecting the first- and second-year lineups, Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley, former NBA superstars and current TNT commentators, will select Shaq. Team and Chuck.

Of course, these two guys with excellent comedy effects also have to work hard in the selection process. The two first competed for the "general manager" position of the second-year team. Barkley even said, "I am Lee's most loyal fan." , I should be allowed to choose him!"

However, O'Neal did not give him any face, and directly made Barkley's "ambition" public, "Pull him down, Charles, who doesn't know that the team with Li Kaiming has a higher winning rate, I will not give up the second-year team to you. ! You are simply dreaming! Victory belongs to Team Shaq!"

However, the league later stipulated that O'Neal and Backus could choose at will among sophomores and rookies. In the end, the two live treasures each chose their own person after being naughty for a while. Li Kaiming was robbed by Shaq, but still not by his loyal fans. Buckley was chosen.

Of course, in addition to the Rookie Challenge, the league also invited Li Kaiming to participate in the three-point contest and dunk contest, but Li Kaiming directly refused after taking one look at the other participants!

It's boring, not challenging, and it's no fun at all to win the championship by crushing yourself up there. It's better not to destroy the balance of the game.

In the end, Li Kaiming only participated in the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game, and attended the other sessions as a spectator.

But don't mention it, it feels really good to be a spectator at the All-Star Weekend, especially as an All-Star player, Li Kaiming can stand directly on the sidelines and watch the participating players perform, and he also beats the audience hard. Addiction!

After playing basketball for so many years, what’s wrong with me enjoying myself?

The Rookie Challenge is not a challenge at all for Li Kaiming. Although he is the starter, his playing time is the shortest among the starters. The main reason is that he is not at the same level as other rookies at all. It kind of destroys the balance of the game. In order to To make the Rookie Challenge a bit entertaining, Coach Spoelstra decided to let Kaiming Li play less games.

Without Li Kaiming on the court, the game was really good. Under the leadership of Griffin, Team Shaq and Team Chuck played back and forth. From time to time, both sides could send out an alley-oop dunk. It was interesting to see. Li Kaiming, who was sitting on the bench, applauded repeatedly!

There is one person on the Chuck team who impressed Li Kaiming deeply. It is this year's No. [-] pick Kyrie Irving. Although he is not tall and not very strong, his dribbling is very fancy, his movements are beautiful, and he is full of entertainment. He is almost the ceiling of the technical stream. .

Li Kaiming nodded and then remembered the name Kyrie Irving in his mind.

In the last five minutes of the game, Li Kaiming was chatting happily with his good brother Elliott Williams on the bench. Suddenly he heard Coach Spoelstra calling him, and Li Kaiming immediately stood up and walked over.

Coach Spoelstra had a kind smile on his face and said in a joking tone, "Have you had enough?"

"No!" Li Kaiming replied subconsciously, then suddenly realized and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"

Spoelstra seemed very confident in Li Kaiming, "There are only five minutes left in the game. We are 5 points behind. It's your turn to play!"

10 points behind?A third-year student who is said to have performed at a historic level in his rookie year, leading a group of second-year students who have played in the professional league for one year, can't beat the rookie opposite him named Irving?

Li Kaiming rolled his eyes, and then turned his attention to the core of Shaq's team tonight, the Clippers' No. [-] pick Blake Griffin.

Griffin is undoubtedly the soul of the Shaq team on the court. Not only does he play the most minutes, but he also scores the most points. But what is very embarrassing is that the Shaq team is lagging behind so far and is basically being suppressed by Barkley's team. beat.

Don’t you want to compete for the Rookie Challenge MVP?I'm almost catching a cold even when I'm sitting on the bench. I gave you a chance but you didn't use it!Li Kaiming couldn't help but complain about Griffin in his heart.

Griffin was sitting on the bench and heard the conversation between Spoelstra and Li Kaiming. Thinking that he couldn't even lead the team to victory, he immediately lowered his head...

Spo also glanced sideways at Griffin, who was pretending to be a turtle, and then patted Li Kaiming's shoulder with his hand, "Go ahead, I believe you!"

Those who know you best are often your enemies. It seems that Spo knows himself better than Li Kaiming.

When Li Kaiming walked onto the court, he saw, my dear, there are all familiar faces on the opposite side!

Cousins, Gordon Hayward, Evan Turner, and even a facial paralysis he is very familiar with!

Good guy, this Barkley has selected all the lottery picks in 10 years, but they are just some of his losers, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

Several people on the opposite side had nervous expressions on their faces after seeing Li Kaiming play, which made Kyrie Irving, who had already scored 30 points tonight, frown.

"What are your expressions? What's going on?"

Evan Turner pointed at Li Kaiming on the opposite side, "That's the guy. When he comes up, it means the other side is going to end the game!"

Several people nearby also nodded in agreement. It seemed that Li Kaiming had left quite a shadow on these people.

However, Irving didn't say anything. In his eyes, even if the God of Basketball comes, he will try to fight. He is a guy who is not afraid of anything.

What's more, Irving said with a smile, "It's not like he hasn't played before, and his performance before was average! At least in my opinion, he's not as good as Blake Griffin..."

Leonard, who suffered from Li Kaiming's offensive firepower every day, had a painful expression on his face, "He just didn't fight seriously. If he did, he would be serious..."

Evan Turner and others next to him nodded again.

Owen looked at the reaction of this group of people and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "I want to see if it's as evil as you say?"

The game got back on track. Team Shaq served and Li Kaiming came on the court. In addition, coach Spot specifically stated that Li Kaiming was required to control the ball, so the basketball was directly handed to Li Kaiming to dribble across half court.

Leonard plays power forward in the Chuck team's lineup, because the Chuck team only has Cousins ​​in the post, and everyone else has to play power forward out of position.

Just play power forward. It's not like I haven't played more than half a game before, but the problem is that the Shaq team's power forward is Li Kaiming now, and it's Li Kaiming in the last 5 minutes of the game.

Facing Leonard's defense, Li Kaiming chose to dribble less. This guy was tortured by him every day, and his defensive level has skyrocketed. In addition, his physical talent is extremely good, so now even Li Kaiming has to dribble less to avoid beating him. Mistakes.

Leonard followed Li Kaiming, using his long arms to interfere while providing physical confrontation.

Li Kaiming dodged Leonard's confrontation with a shoulder press, and then suddenly broke through, took a step forward, then exploded the ball and retreated, hitting a three-pointer!

123 to 130!The score difference is 7 points!

The Chuck team attacked and the ball was given to Irving. The Chuck team players believed in him. After Irving arrived in the frontcourt, he singled out the defender, changed direction and passed directly. After breaking through to the middle distance, he met Li Kaiming's assist. Defend.

Irving tried hard to adjust the arc, but Li Kaiming jumped really high and had a long wingspan. Although Irving was not blocked, the ball was blocked by Li Kaiming.

When the Shaq team got the ball, Li Kaiming went to the frontcourt and chose to call a screen to hit the ball out of position. The target was this young man named Irving.

When Irving saw that Li Kaiming was going to challenge him, he was very excited at the moment, so he waved his hand at Leonard and wanted to switch defense.

Leonard knows that asking Irving to guard Li Kaiming is no different than giving away points, but Irving seems to be on top. If he doesn't agree to switch defenses, he can directly come and double-team Li Kaiming, thus forcing him to switch defenses.

Irving faced Li Kaiming contentedly, and then tried hard to use all his strength on the defensive end, hoping to give Li Kaiming some color.

Unfortunately, one-on-one defense in basketball does not always pay off if you work hard. Most of the time, you work hard but it doesn't work for a year.

Li Kaiming easily ran over Irving to the basket and scored a layup, making the latter realize how stupid his idea was.

After that, Irving became smarter and chose to use his speed to break through against Li Kaiming. Li Kaiming's poor outside defense was also broken by him a few times, but by turning around, Li Kaiming was able to get back the points he just lost on the offensive end.

Of course, the most critical three-point rain still has to be there, otherwise how can we chase points?Is it possible that Brother Xue Deng will make a fortune?

At the end of the game, Li Kaiming led the Shaq team to make a comeback in the last 5 minutes of the game and narrowly defeated the Chuck team 147-145.

Li Kaiming played for 18 minutes and made 17 of 14 shots, including 10 of 7 three-pointers and 3 of 3 free throws. He scored 38 points, 7 rebounds and 1 block. He scored 18 points in 38 minutes and made 17 of 14 shots. This scoring efficiency was simply amazing. When a tiger joins a flock of sheep, there is no one that can be beaten!

Irving on the opposite side scored 34 points and performed very well, but unfortunately there was Gundam on the opposite side.

Li Kaiming has become the MVP of the Rookie Challenge for two consecutive years, but this MVP is not what he wants. He is ready to stay on the bench until the end of the game, but who can let someone fail to live up to his expectations? This MVP cannot be given away. go out……

Griffin: I have a saying about MMP that I don’t know whether to say or not...

Watching the dunk contest made Li Kaiming sleepy. If he were the judge of this dunk contest, he would mercilessly say to the young guys who dunked, "You are the worst class I have ever reviewed!"

In the end, it was Jeremy Evans from the Utah Jazz who won the Slam Dunk King trophy. It’s a pity that this year’s Slam Dunk King has no sense of existence at all in history, especially with Li Kaiming in front of him. This year’s Slam Dunk King is even more Become insignificant in his dazzling light...

The championship of the three-point contest was won by White Wolf King Love. Unexpectedly, in addition to winning the league's rebounding title, Love also won the three-point title...