Basketball's most talented forward is on the left

"What do you mean Richie? I remember that I have finished all my work today."

At 5:30 in the evening, Zuo Li, who had just reunited with Omei and was about to go to Staples to watch the rookie game, received a call from Rich Paul again.

"Yes, boss, I wasn't supposed to have any more work today, but this call is from the league. He wants to ask you if you are interested in temporarily becoming the second-year coach for the rookie game."

Zuo Li: "???"

"What's going on! Didn't this year's competition system change?" Zuo Li's mind was full of questions.

Oh, I was so busy training that I forgot to introduce the details of the All-Star Game to you.

As mentioned before, the 2011 All-Star is also the 60th All-Star. In order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the All-Star, the league and the Los Angeles management have also done a lot of work.

It is said that in the autumn of 1950, the NBA was just four years old, but it began to decline.

Podoloff, the first president of the NBA, and Walter Brown, the president of the Boston Celtics, agreed to select the best players from the East and West divisions (at the time, the NBA only had 11 teams in these two divisions) halfway through the season.

A competition.

On March 2, 1951, Brown, the president of the Boston Celtics, provided the Boston Garden Arena for free to host the first All-Star Game.

This is the prototype of the current All-Stars.

It is precisely because of the holding of the All-Star that the NBA, which had already been in decline, got back on track. Therefore, every anniversary, the NBA All-Star will be more grand than before.

It just so happens that the venue for this All-Star event is Los Angeles, a big city, so the scale of the entire All-Star event can be said to be unprecedented.

No matter how you come to Los Angeles, by plane, by car, by train... you can see various elements of the All-Stars along the way.

Posters and promotional signs for this All-Star event can also be seen at major attractions in the city, such as Hollywood, Disney, Santa Monica Beach, and major transportation thoroughfares in the city.

The fan carnival is not just around Staples, many large and medium-sized supermarkets and plazas in the city have held carnival activities.

The official slogan of the Lakers is: Let everyone who comes to Los Angeles feel the hottest atmosphere of basketball.

I have to say, they did it.

Zuo Li hadn't noticed it before, but Zuo Li, who went out for a run today, really felt the basketball atmosphere in Los Angeles. To be honest, the Lakers are still very wealthy. The scale and atmosphere are indeed very impressive. 13

While the external factors have done a good job, naturally we cannot ignore the most important thing about the All-Stars - the game!

This time the All-Stars also put a lot of effort into the competition, let alone the All-Star game, which has always been the trump card of the All-Stars' attention.

The league also invites strong players in various positions for individual events. Of course, because of Zuoli's own traffic, the league is not worried about individual events.

The alliance mainly focuses on the other two items.

The first is the Masters Game, which has a relatively small audience. This time, a lot of money was spent to invite many big-name stars to join the show. For example, Justin Bieber and many other cross-border stars made the Masters Game yesterday afternoon break the record for the highest ratings in history.

Moreover, before, during and after the game, stars from all walks of life performed their songs, making the Masters Game the dark horse of this All-Star Game.

Next is the rookie game.

The previous rookie competition reached its peak because Zuo Li participated in two consecutive years, but in this rookie competition, the third-year Zuo Li was naturally unable to play, and the organizers quickly felt the difference.

In addition to the low level of news coverage and public attention, the popularity among fans has also dropped a lot.

In fact, take a look at the roster for this rookie competition:

First grade: Blake Griffin, John Wall, Bledsoe, Cousins, Fields, Monroe, Neal, Derrick Favors, Wesley Johnson.

Second grade: Curry, Danny Green, DeRozan, Holiday, Harden, Ibaka, Jennings, Taj Gibson, Matthews.

Among them, Tyreke Evans missed the game due to injury, and his place was replaced by James Harden.

There are still some future popular superstars here.

But now is the present, and the future is the future. They are still just in their infancy and have no great reputation. Except for Curry who has won the championship with the Knicks and has some fan base, many people are not that well-known yet.

This resulted in fans not recognizing it. Not many fans bought tickets with real money. The game will officially start at 8 o'clock tonight, and one-third of the tickets have not been sold out.

In addition, the rookie game may be for the sake of formality, and no well-known stars like the previous two years were invited to be coaches, so many people feel that this rookie game will collapse.

That’s okay!

The organizers are trying to find a way urgently. They cannot replace the participating players, so they have to start from other aspects.

So, they thought of Zuo Li... Oh, and Los Angeles' core ace, Kobe!

They decided to invite these two as first and second year head coaches on an emergency basis!

So this invitation came about...

After listening to Rich Paul's introduction, Zuo Li looked strange. The league's rescue measures are okay, but...man, do I have such great appeal?

However, Zuo Li had no reason to refuse. The league directly offered a price of 500,000 U.S. dollars for one stop. Although Zuo Li was not short of money, it was still very good. Besides, the second-year team coach

It's Curry, it makes me happy just thinking about it.

And the opposite is Kobe!

This makes me agree even more!

"Okay, then you tell the organizer that I agreed...I will go to the locker room now." So Zuo Li agreed to the invitation and asked the organizer to move all the tickets for Omei's family to behind the bench.

Then, Zuo Li went straight to the locker room after entering the door. He was not going to do anything directly tonight. In his memory, the second grader was smashed to pieces this time. How could that be allowed!

Now that Zuo Li has taken over, he can only win but not lose!

On the other hand, Kobe refused the invitation immediately after receiving the invitation. Although this time it was in Los Angeles and he was prepared to take it seriously, becoming a coach was obviously not in his plan.

However, the league used one sentence to make Kobe change his mind:

"Kobe and Zuo Li are also participating. He is on the first-grade coaching bench next door."

Kobe: "I did it!"

There was no hesitation at all, and he hung up the phone after finishing speaking, as if he was afraid that the alliance would regret it.

With Zuo Li on the opposite side, his nature has changed. How could he lose to Zuo Li?

So Kobe also changed his schedule and went directly to the first grade locker room.

"You can only win, you can't lose!" Kobe also arrived at Staples angrily.

So, when major media around the world got the list of all the members of the rookie competition, they were shocked by the names on the list.

"Kobe!?"

"Zuoli!?"

"First- and second-year head coach!?"

"Fuck!!!"

The reporters were shocked. It was true that they came to the coaching bench to battle just after the game!