Chapter 661 No feelings
The 2015 All-Star Game was held in New York.
New York, as the once center of American basketball, is now in the NBA.
Li Liang once thought about whether he would go to New York to play basketball one day and strive to win a championship in New York?
After thinking about it, I just thought about it. This difficulty may be comparable to qualifying for the group stage of the Chinese Men's Football World Cup.
It's really a bit difficult.
This All-Star Weekend was divided into three days, just like before.
13, 14, 15 Three days.
Starting from the public training of the No. 13 rookie match, the next All-Star player interview, the NBA celebrity match, and the rookie challenge.
Then to the three-point contest, the dunk contest, the skills challenge contest, and the shooting star contest.
The last day is the Development League All-Stars, All-Stars pre-match concerts, and All-Stars main competition.
Basically, the league applies every bit of the star's value to the extreme.
Selection, appearance, interview, pre-match training, pre-match peripheral activities, last several official competition events, as well as various media, reporters, comments, television broadcasts, fan activities around the All-Star Weekend...
As the All-Star vote king this time, Li Liang is of course the league's primary target of exploitation.
Because there are the most fans who like him.
So, after arriving in New York, Li Liang became a group photo machine, signature machine, and community event mascot without emotions.
There are many Chinese in New York, and Chinese fans are extremely enthusiastic.
Li Liang has always been very good to fans. On the night he arrived in New York, he also attended a large gathering of the Overseas Chinese Basketball Fans Association and met many Chinese in New York, including many beautiful beauties, but he did not leave a single contact information and was taken away by his agent.
After playing the human-shaped machine without emotions for most of the day, it is difficult for Li Liang to have any major interest in the All-Star Game.
This time, Li Liang did not participate in any individual events, did not participate in the dunk contest, and did not participate in the skills contest.
Xiao Hua really hopes that Li Liang can participate in the three-point competition and compete with Curry, Thompson and others again. Fans and media are also looking forward to it.
But Li Liang refused and said, "I don't have any interest, I'll think about it when someone breaks my record."
In fact, Li Liang is lazy. His previous consecutive competition tasks and his punishment at night have really lacked energy.
On the one hand, he wanted to have a good rest, but on the other hand, he didn't want to stop completing the task.
If you have to participate in various competitions during the day and do tasks at night, you will be a little tired.
If you just watch and play on the sidelines during the day, sleep and so on, you will have more energy to deal with the old man Russell at night - yes, Russell is almost tortured Li Liang crazy in the mission.
Li Liang found that these old stars in the system are more difficult to deal with.
Fraser used various props to make Li Liang very difficult. Now it's Russell's turn to educate Li Liang on the training ground.
Theoretically speaking, with Li Liang's current layup and dunk level, he should not be trained with a center of Russell's level.
Maybe the systematic judgment is not based on historical status, but on actual level. Russell was a team from the 1960s after all.
Even so, Li Liang is still in trouble. In the key system, Russell is very smart and is no longer the first person in history.
After more than a week of training, Li Liang's [confrontation/dunk ability] barely increased from 20 points to 30 points.
This is really a bit slow.
After all, Li Liang is no longer as good as when he first got the system, and his overall level has improved greatly.
It is quite easy to do some basic tasks competitions and training.
Unexpectedly, I suffered a loss at Old Bill, and the teaching progress was quite slow.
This made Li Liang very unhappy.
I've almost played all the Celtics' games in all periods in the system and almost became the Celtics' hero.
As the founder of the First Celtic Empire, you old Bill can’t let me go. Just practice and help me improve my ability value by just doing it?
However, as the NPC in the system, Bill Russell inherited the cold personality in reality and was extremely strict in training Li Liang.
On the night of the 14th, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, several pre-NBA events will be held here.
This All-Star Game is jointly organized by the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets.
The All-Star Game on the 15th will be held at the historic Madison Garden Plaza.
Other previous events were held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Li Liang sat on the sidelines as an audience to watch the individual event.
Among them, the Shooting Star Competition was won by Bosh's team without Li Liang participating.
If Li Liang hadn't won the game with his magical performance last year, Bosh would have achieved three consecutive championships by a great shooting star and founded the "Bosh's shooting dynasty".
Because of Li Liang's existence, he won twice in three years, so he could only be the small court.
The Skill Challenge was then held, and the championship was taken by unknown Rockets guard Patrick Beverly.
It is enough to show that the accidental factor in this skill challenge is quite large. You can't say that Beverly is the best player in the league defender skills, right?
Of course, the opponent who competes on the same stage with him is not that good. He is basically a project without big-name stars.
In fact, NBA's individual projects face such problems.
When it was just inaugurated, top stars would participate.
For example, the dunk contest, the three-point contest, Dr. J, Jordan, Kobe, Bird, etc.
The same is true for the skills competition. At the beginning, Kidd, Payton, Nash, Davis, Wade, Paul, etc.
But over time, these individual events have become increasingly the battlefield for unknown players in the league to increase their popularity.
The willingness of top stars to participate is getting weaker and weaker. For example, James has been rumored to participate in the slam dunk contest, and as long as he participates, the ratings and influence of the slam dunk contest will definitely soar. But now he has been in the league for more than ten years and has not made any noise. He probably won't participate - unless Li Liang really will participate.
Like the three-point competition, three-pointers have emerged in the past two years, and some superstars have participated.
The Skill Challenge is a project that is not very interesting and is a bit tricky and has only fewer and fewer celebrities to participate in.
This year has reached a low point, and the biggest players participating in the competition are John Wall of the Wizards and Jimmy Butler of the Bulls.
As a result, both of them quit the game for personal reasons, with Beverly and Schroeder taking over.
Beverly won the championship after replacing him with the game.
This is Beverly's amazing honor, equivalent to a wild card player winning the championship.
But from a commercial perspective, well, there is no commerciality.
The real highlight is still in the three-point competition.
Although Li Liang did not participate in this three-point competition, he was also star-studded.
Some of the best three-pointers in the league have signed up for it lately.
Warriors' Splash Brothers, Irving, JJ-Redick, Korver, Harden, Matthews, etc.
The finals of the finals were the Warriors' Splash Brothers and Kyrie Irving.
This year's three-point competition scores have changed compared to the past.
When each point has five balls, four ordinary balls and one flower ball, it is stipulated that each player can choose one point and all flower balls are placed.
In this way, players can place five flower balls at points they think they are best at, which increases the drama of the game.
Of course, this is just the official take for granted to increase drama.
If you can't make a comeback, there's no drama.
In the end, Curry, the popular chicken this season, won the championship with his 27-point performance in the final.
This score exceeded Li Liang's record of 26 points in the three-point competition.
However, Curry's total score this time was 34 points, while the previous total score was 30 points.
Therefore, Curry's goals are still not as many as Li Liang.
After the three-point competition, the reporter interviewed Li Liang and asked how many points Li Liang could get.
Li Liang said shamelessly, "It will definitely be 30 points, just put the flower balls on the bottom corner on the left."
Curry said in an interview with the championship, "I won the championship, but I hope some people will bravely accept the challenge next time."
Of course, this is directed at Li Liang.
Li Liangxin thought, if you have the ability to participate in the dunk contest next time, if you can enter the finals, even if you win, I can share the FMVP trophy with you.
After the three-point competition, it finally came to the highlight of the slam dunk competition.
Chapter completed!