I’m Really Playing Basketball

February 14, 2004, Saturday night, Staples Center.

At this time, the Staples Arena was already packed, especially with the arrival of O'Neal, the Los Angeles fans were chanting O'Neal's name.

If last year's Atlanta All-Star Jordan was the protagonist launched by the league to attract traffic.

So this time in the Los Angeles All-Stars, there is no doubt that O'Neal is the protagonist.

As a person who likes liveliness, how could O'Neal let go in the face of such enthusiasm from the Los Angeles fans? Like a king who has returned to his kingdom again, O'Neal was 'affectionate' in front of Kobe and the Lakers fans at the scene. Interacting.

After the interaction, O'Neal did not forget to smile and say to Kobe: "Viper, you will never be the king in Los Angeles!"

The Lakers audience at the scene saw O'Neal smiling and greeting Kobe on the big screen, and thought that O'Neal wanted to reconcile with Kobe regardless of past grudges. Who would have thought that O'Neal would say such a thing?

So when Kobe faced O'Neal's "show of goodwill", Kobe actually glared at O'Neal with a very ugly face. Many Lakers fans at the scene even booed Kobe.

Listening to the boos at the scene, Chen Xiao and James next to Kobe looked at each other. Is this fat guy bad?

It's just so bad.

Seeing O'Neal twisting his big butt and talking and laughing with the famous Los Angeles Lakers fans after cheating Kobe Bryant, and interacting closely with the Lakers fans at the scene, Chen Xiao and James sighed almost at the same time.

"He is indeed the villain!"

The second day of the All-Star Weekend, Saturday, is the day of the skills competition.

Compared with yesterday's Rookie Challenge, today's skills competition attracted more attention.

After all, whether it is a skills challenge, a three-point shooting contest or a dunk contest, most of the participants are stars.

More importantly, all the All-Star players are here tonight.

Unlike yesterday's Rookie Challenge, there were not many stars around the fans.

Especially O'Neal, who makes Lakers fans the happiest, came to the scene tonight, which raised the atmosphere tonight by more than one level.

Although O'Neal's plan to buy coffee failed yesterday, this did not affect O'Neal's good mood.

As the protagonist of this All-Star Game, he came to Los Angeles this time to tell Kobe and Buss how popular he is in Los Angeles, how good he is now, and how bad it is for the Lakers to lose him.

So, tonight, O'Neal is quite active.

In tonight's first mixed shooting competition, after the Los Angeles team (Lakers) led by Magic Magic won the championship, O'Neal actually snatched the trophy from David Stern and replaced David Stern for this mixed shooting contest. The championship cup of the competition is awarded.

David Stern was so embarrassed that he couldn't laugh or cry at the same time.

But hearing the huge cheers from the scene, David Stern smiled, shook his head, and let it go.

David Stern is also a very smart person. How could he not know why O'Neal rushes to the center of the court from time to time.

Just to make Lakers fans cheer for him.

Look at the ugly look on Kobe's face when the Lakers fans cheered for him?

O'Neal is showing Kobe and Buss his influence in Los Angeles.

O'Neal's move did no actual harm to Kobe and Buss, but it was extremely insulting.

You are the leaders of Los Angeles now, but your Los Angeles is willing to cheer for a player who is now a Nets player.

You have no roots in Los Angeles and are not welcome.

Therefore, every time O'Neal does something like this, it is equivalent to slapping Kobe and Buss in the face.

This fat guy is really ruthless.

So O'Neal was very satisfied when he saw Kobe making himself very uncomfortable on the sidelines.

This is the first slap.

Wait a minute and there will be a skills competition, a three-point shooting contest and a slam dunk contest.

So, viper, enjoy it.

By the way, look at the two boys in front of Kobe who are glaring at him, Chen Xiao and James.

O'Neal felt that if these two boys won the championship, he would definitely not give them awards, hum!

O'Neal came up to present the award to himself in such a pretentious manner, and he was the only one happy. David Stern was very embarrassed, and the good old Magic was also very uncomfortable. Magic also wanted to hang out with the Lakers.

I don't want to offend you, Shaq, and you don't let me offend Kobe and Buss either.

I'm not your slap in the face tool.

However, after all, the Magician is too old-fashioned and good-natured. Although his status is high, he can't make him fall out with O'Neal on this occasion.

In the end, I could only accept the award in embarrassment and leave quickly.

At the end of the mixed shooting competition, tonight's skills competition, the next event is the skills challenge.

Before the skills challenge, Chen Xiao specifically promised his idol Kobe: "Idol, don't worry, that damn fat guy will definitely not be able to hit you in the face tonight, Xiao Zhan, next is our stage!" "

"..."

Looking at Chen Xiao and James high-fiving, and recalling Chen Xiao's words, why did Kobe feel that he was touched but also a little uncomfortable at the same time?

After all, in Los Angeles, on your own territory, you actually need to rely on others to protect your face.

For Mr. Ke, this is indeed a bit uncomfortable.

I have to say, that damn fat guy really knows how to play.

If it weren't for Chen and LeBron, he would probably be humiliated by this fat guy tonight to the point where his mentality would explode.

After all, except for these two enemies who are already in the ring with O'Neal, unless he himself participates in these games, otherwise, whoever wins the championship, O'Neal will step up to steal the show and slap him in the face.

After putting these thoughts away, Kobe shook his head and secretly cheered for Chen Xiao in his heart.

On the other side, O'Neal was cheering for Fisher, now the Nets' backup point guard, for his leg.

"Derek, you won the championship tonight, I will take you back to Los Angeles from now on!"

Good guy, O'Neal's words exploded Fisher's morale.

Although New Jersey is also very good and very close to paradise New York.

But after spending so many years in Los Angeles, Fisher feels that Los Angeles is still suitable for him.

Therefore, after going to the Nets, he has been secretly regretting that he followed the wrong boss.

If it was Kobe who followed and bet on Kobe, the Lakers wouldn't use him as an add-on in the deal.

Look at Braxon, how happy he is in Los Angeles because he made the right bet.

Chen Xiao's teammate at Marquette University, the all-around inside man Braxson was indeed almost the only Laker player willing to follow Kobe last season.

Most of the others support O'Neal, and a few are neutral.

Old Buss was also ruthless. While choosing Kobe, he also got rid of all the players who supported O'Neal.

But there are also advantages to doing this, that is, although the Lakers are very dissatisfied from the outside this season, the fans are dissatisfied, and the Los Angeles media is also dissatisfied, they are still quite united internally.

Just like the Lakers this season, if there is no internal unity, they can be disbanded.

Back on the court, Fisher, who was the first to appear in the skills challenge, was inspired by O'Neal and was like a god. He was the first to appear and completed all the actions in only 28.7 seconds.

This result is nearly 7 seconds faster than Ji’s winning time last year.

At the same time, Fisher's result is also the best result in the Skills Challenge so far.

Although Fisher is a role player, it has to be said that he is still very capable in the skills challenge because he has no shortcomings in point guard skills.

It's true that he's not that strong, but he definitely doesn't have any flaws.

In addition, his mentality is stable enough. It can be said that ordinary star point guards may not be able to beat Fisher in this game.

Chen Xiao felt that even Boss Ji couldn't handle him.

So after Fisher came out and achieved this result, Marbury and Boykins, who came out later, were under a lot of pressure.

Both made more or less mistakes. In the end, Marbury's first-round time was 36.4 seconds, while Boykins' time was 34.9 seconds.

After Fisher used his own results to scare away Marbury and Boykins, O'Neal was singing and dancing very excitedly on the sidelines.

Especially when Chen Xiao came on the court, O'Neal even booed and instructed the Los Angeles fans at the scene to create pressure on Chen Xiao.

Soon, the entire Staples was covered in boos.

Although there were many Chinese and Asian fans at the scene this time, there is no doubt that Los Angeles Lakers fans still account for the majority.

Therefore, when the Lakers incited Lakers fans to boo, all the other Chinese fans could not hear the cheers for Chen Xiao.

Seeing Chen Xiao being booed by the audience at this time, although he still had that cheerful smile on his face, Xiao Zhan, Kobe Wade, Yao Luo, Ji Ge and others on the sidelines were still very worried.

To be honest, for some reason, Chen Xiao felt even more excited when he heard the overwhelming boos at the scene.

"Is this the mentality of Mr. Key?"

Chen Xiao feels that his mentality and confidence in adversity are really nourished by the constant wins brought by the scoring experience card.

The critical moment of a game is far more than just the final buzzer-beater. When the team needs you to stand up, you can stand up. This is the critical moment. Chen Xiao's scoring at critical moments in the game has always been the best in the league. That one.

Many fans say that his shooting percentage is only about 50%, but watching the game, it seems that he never misses, and his shooting percentage feels like at least 60 to 70%.

This feeling is the impression score.

Because the key moments were too accurate and the audience was too impressed.

Therefore, Chen Xiao has always felt that even if he runs out of scoring experience cards in the future, his winning percentage will definitely be the best in NBA history.

As the referee's whistle blew and the timer started, Chen Xiao, amidst the boos from the audience, picked up the first ball from the rack, dribbled along the sideline to the basket, and completed a light layup without speed or speed.

In this link, you can use dunk or layup. Layup saves time.

After Chen Xiao completed the layup, he immediately turned around and picked up the second basketball from the rack. The next event was cross dribbling.

Chen Xiao must dribble around obstacles while dribbling. According to the rules of the game, the first obstacle must be passed from the left, the next obstacle must be passed from the right, and so on. There are 4 obstacles in total. It seems simple, but it is also very easy to get busy. Something went wrong.

However, for NBA defenders, the probability of making mistakes is low. For NBA players, these previous steps are very simple.

What is more difficult is the next few links.

After Chen Xiao passes the cross dribble, he needs to use his chest to pass the ball to the target. Even NBA defenders often make mistakes here.

Of course, Chen Xiao is not in a hurry anyway. With his passing rate of 90%, as long as he is not in a hurry and has a stable mentality, there will be no problems.

There were five goals and five opportunities for chest passes, but Chen Xiao passed them in one go.

The next ground pass, the same five balls, five opportunities, Chen Xiao also passed it in one go.

After completing two passes, Chen Xiao took the ball from the rack near the three-point line and entered the line for a jump shot. This time, Chen Xiao also hit the jump shot in one go.

When Chen Xiao's game came to this point, O'Neal, who had originally incited the audience to boo Chen Xiao, became dark-faced.

Although he does not participate in the skills challenge, he also knows where the difficulty of this competition lies, and that is where it lies.

After Chen Xiao completed the jump shot in one go, he ran to the corner of the court to pick up the ball and pass the ball from the outside. Again, he passed in one go.

After completing the outside pass, the skills challenge has completed all the difficult aspects. The next step is to take the ball and dribble through all obstacles, and then use the ball in your hand to make the final shot. You can choose to lay up, dunk, or shoot. , the method is not limited.

Just now Fisher chose a layup.

But Chen Xiao chose a 3-point shot.

A swipe!

Three point hit!

At the same time, the timer next to it stopped timing, and the time on the timer read...

26.5 seconds!

Looking at O'Neal who was singing and dancing to incite the fans just now at this time, he was dumbfounded.

Even O'Neal who incited the fans was dumbfounded, let alone the Lakers fans who were incited by O'Neal.

Fisher's score of 28.7 seconds, which was reviewed just now, was already considered by the audience to be the limit of the skills challenge.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xiao could actually improve his score by more than 2 seconds.

Fisher did go through it just now, but some of the links in Fisher's middle were a little more stable.

For example, in the jump shot session, Fisher stabilized his rhythm and took aim.

For example, in the later finishing session, Fisher did not choose to shoot, but chose a layup.

For another example, the rhythm is neither fast nor slow. Fisher's legs are not as long as Chen Xiao's.

All these factors added up, even though both of them experienced it once, the difference is huge.

Therefore, at this time, Fisher was under great pressure.

Fisher is not stupid. Of course, he can also think of the reasons why he lost to Chen Xiao in the preliminaries.

Originally he thought he had comprehensive skills and could win as long as he was stable.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xiao was as comprehensive as him and had longer legs than him. Even if Chen Xiao sought stability and the two of them sought stability together, he would not be able to win.

Thinking of this, Fisher gritted his teeth.

In the final, Fisher once again took the lead. Chen Xiao's game just now put a lot of pressure on Fisher, but Fisher's ability to withstand pressure is indeed good and he did not change his rhythm because of Chen Xiao's pressure.

Still neither fast nor slow, he completed all his actions steadily.

28 seconds 4!

This result is still quite outstanding, and it can be seen that Fisher is in really good condition tonight.

He is very aware of his own strength. If he seeks stability, he can still have the opportunity to wait for Chen Xiao to make mistakes. If he does not seek stability, he will definitely not be able to defeat Chen Xiao in the end.

However, what made Fisher despair was that in the finals, Chen Xiao took the same aim as him when he shot the jumper, and at the same time, he also chose the same finish as him in the subsequent finish.

Fisher continued to seek stability in the finals, and Chen Xiao also sought stability.

Then the time it took Chen Xiao to complete the finals was...

27 seconds 5!

Still 1 second faster than him!

This second is the difference in leg length.

After Chen Xiao completed the finals, he did not go to James Wade Jr. and the others immediately. Instead, he immediately ran to O'Neal on the sidelines.

"Shaq, are you going to give me an award later?"

"..."

Seeing the smile on Chen Xiao's face, O'Neal's face turned green at this time.

"Hahahaha, Wonder Boy is so funny. He is worthy of being a fan of NBA stars. He is venting his anger on his idol, Kobe Bryant."

Seeing O'Neal deflated, Barkley, the TNT commentator next to him, was also very happy.

Of course, the happiest person must be Kobe who is applauding Chen Xiao at this time.

"This guy is really good!"

Chen Xiao invited O'Neal to come up and give him the award. With O'Neal's petty mind, how could he go up and give him the award? Although he likes the popularity, Chen Xiao and him are simply 'incompatible'.

Chen Xiao and James both beat him up as evil and came to chop him in the face with a machete. He also sent his head to Chen Xiao's knife?

Therefore, in the end, Chen Xiao still won the skills challenge championship trophy from David Stern.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for winning the NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge and obtaining the achievement 'King of Skills', which will reward the host with a B-level ability card with hidden attributes and ball feel attributes."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for unlocking the hidden attribute, ball sense."

Chen Xiao was slightly stunned when he took the championship trophy from David Stern's hand.

"Chen, congratulations on your outstanding performance."

"Thanks."

David Stern's delighted voice brought Chen Xiao back to reality.

When Chen Xiao looked at his property panel, a hidden property appeared under the normal properties.

Hidden properties:

Ball feel: 50

This hidden attribute has no parentheses with potential behind it and no dotted + sign.

Obviously, this is a fixed attribute that cannot be added with potential cards, basketball experience and professional skill points.

Without the hidden attribute ability card obtained by winning the championship in this skills competition, I am afraid that this hidden attribute would not be able to be turned on, nor would it be possible to add points. It is a fixed attribute.

Item: Ball sense attribute B-level ability card

Item Level: Purple Gold

Item description: Used to add points to hide the attribute ball sense. It can increase the ability of the ball sense attribute with an ability below 90 by 5 points. It is a one-time prop.

Looking at this description, Chen Xiao was a little excited.

"I thought that like Xiao Zhan, I would never have the chance to handle beautiful ball control in this life, but unexpectedly, things turned out to be bright!"

When Chen Xiao came off the court with the championship trophy, he still had that excited look on his face, and everyone could see it clearly.

By the way, although Fisher performed very well in this skills challenge, Chen Xiao shouldn't be so excited.

"Xiao Chen, are you okay?"

"Xiao Zhan, we are different!"

"..."

Seeing Chen Xiao like this, Xiao Zhan's mind was filled with black questions.

By the way, when will we live the same life?

Of course, Xiao Zhan didn't have any questions for long. After all, Chen Xiao won the skills competition, so Xiao Zhan and Wade kept congratulating Chen Xiao.

Especially Mr. Ke. When Mr. Ke was congratulating Chen Xiao, his right hand kept patting O'Neal on the shoulder.

O'Neal looked green just now, but it made him so happy.

"Chen, keep up the good work!"

"Don't worry idol, it's just a matter of anger."

Angry?

Dayao next to him blinked, Xiao Chen wants to defeat O'Neal tonight?

And then let O'Neal lose his wife and lose his troops?

Soon, Dayao's guess was confirmed.

In the next three-point shooting contest, Chen Xiao defeated Nuggets player Leonard and Nets player Vince Carter in the final and defended the three-point shooting contest championship.

After Chen Xiao defeated Carter, he immediately ran to O'Neal who was cheering Carter on the sidelines.

"Shaq, are you going to give me an award this time?"

"..."

O'Neal, who was inciting the audience to boo Chen Xiao just now, felt a little depressed when Chen Xiao smiled.

Is this kid born specifically to slap me in the face?

Damn it, that poisonous snake has such good fans, where are my fans!

Anyway, O'Neal now feels that he is in a panic.

Immediately after the three-point shooting contest, there was a slam dunk contest.

James, Jason Richardson, Ricky Davis, Richard Jefferson.

Four players lined up.

The biggest favorites in this dunk contest are of course Jason Richardson and James,

Richardson has won two consecutive championships and is now preparing for a third consecutive one.

The rookie No. 1 pick James, who caused a lot of noise before, finally decided to participate in the dunk contest, which made Richardson's three consecutive championships more difficult.

Therefore, after the four players appeared, all eyes were on James and Richardson.

Jason Richardson is one of the best dunkers in NBA history, while James is known as the most talented player in the NBA.

To be honest, as Xiao Zhan's teammate, Chen Xiao knows very well how much pressure Xiao Zhan is under to participate in the dunk contest this time.

Richardson is too strong, so strong that Xiao Zhan is not very brave.

This was because Chen Xiao was cheering for Xiao Zhan, and Xiao Zhan himself was really confident now, so he finally chose to participate.

The chosen one and the strongest dunker?

Who can win?

Of course, Chen Xiao will definitely support Xiao Zhan.

And the O'Neal next to him must be Jefferson.

Originally, O'Neal wanted to persuade Carter to participate in the dunk contest this time.

In the end, Carter ruthlessly rejected him.

As the best dunker in history, Carter didn't want to lose to Richardson.

Now he may not be able to beat Richardson.

An epic battle is about to begin!