I’m Really Playing Basketball

On the evening of February 19, 2006, Houston, Toyota Center.

The theme of this year's All-Star Game is a little different from previous years. This year's All-Star Game is really quite special. In the history of the NBA, there have never been several situations like Chen Xiao and Ray Allen.

Among the performances of all players so far this season, Ray Allen and Chen Xiao have both performed at an epic level.

Oneself has performed a shocking performance that has never been performed in NBA history, and is leading the team towards the first regular season record in NBA history.

The other one performed the craziest scoring performance since the NBA entered the modern era, and is constantly creating personal scoring miracles.

Ray Allen and Chen Xiao, if they don't have each other's magical performances this season, there is no doubt that both of them will become the protagonists of the NBA.

But unfortunately, the two of them are just there, so neither of them can become the only protagonist.

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, unless they are one male and one female.

Obviously, Lei Allen and Chen Xiao are not mothers.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the two will compete this season, and the competition will be extremely fierce.

In the regular season, the two had winners and losers in direct confrontations, and their personal performances were basically evenly matched.

As for the playoffs, that’s still some time away, and it’s hard to say the outcome right now.

But in the All-Star Game, the two can compete once for each to become the only protagonist.

Logically speaking, in tonight's All-Star game, Chen Xiao and Ray Allen will definitely have to perform their best.

but……

"Dayao, you will win the MVP tonight!"

"..."

Seeing Chen Xiao like this, Yao Ming opened his mouth wide and didn't know what to say for a while.

And just when Dayao was holding back what to say for a while, Chen Xiao had already appeared on the stage with other Eastern Conference All-Stars.

Looking at Chen Xiao's back, the expression on Yao Ming's face slowly changed from surprise to emotion.

This time Sports Illustrated selected the four most overrated players in the NBA. His inclusion on the list was a big blow to him.

Although his high emotional intelligence during the interview made people think his answers were very good.

But it is impossible to say that there is no grudge in my heart.

He really didn't expect that in the NBA, in the minds of many players and coaches, as the second-in-command of the Heat, he would actually be responsible for the Heat's playoff failures in the past few seasons.

He always thought that as the first Chinese No. 1 pick in NBA history, his performance in the past four seasons with the Heat was enough to be recognized by everyone.

It turns out that in the minds of many people, he is the one holding back the Heat's constant failures and the one who is not worthy of Wade.

Since coming to the NBA, Yao Ming has never thought about fighting for anything, but now, he feels that Xiao Chen is right.

He does need to fight for something.

"All-Star MVP?"

Thinking of this, Yao Ming held his hands tightly and his heart was constantly heaving.

At this time, the audience saw that the All-Star starters of the two teams had appeared on the court, and the fans gave out deafening cheers and shouts.

Of course, in Houston, without the Mosaic All-Stars, it was Luo Ge who cheered the loudest.

As the current No. 1 brother in the southwest region, Luo Ge, who is handsome, has good temperament and has good football skills, is extremely popular in the United States.

Just look at the Hollywood and American black actresses wearing Roger's jerseys screaming at him, and you can see how popular he is in the United States.

Luo Ge's current situation is very similar to Grant Hill's back then.

Of course, Hill is more popular among ordinary fans, but Luo Ge's popularity among some 'high-end female fans' is simply explosive.

After Beyoncé failed to confess her love to Roger last season, she is still chasing after him. According to Arenas, Beyoncé is really planning to marry someone other than Roger.

In fact, not to mention Beyoncé, some time ago Chen Xiao also received a call from Rihanna, a young black woman who has been somewhat popular in the United States. During the call, the girl said that she hoped to meet him at the All-Star Game and hoped that he could lead her. Attend with Rogo.

Good guy, this is going to take the side route.

Of course, Chen Xiao refused.

Brother Luo has no intention of falling in love now, and Chen Xiao can't trick him, although Chen Xiao is quite worried about Brother Luo's rest of his life.

And now, on the sidelines before the game, Chen Xiao saw Rihanna in Luo Ge's "support group" of black actresses.

"Hua Q, Ron is so enviable!"

"..."

Chen Xiao glanced at Wade next to him. Is this what you said just now?

You kid is really not that honest!

Being stared at by Chen Xiao like this, Wade snorted twice and stopped pretending. You already knew it anyway.

Moreover, it doesn’t allow me to think too much, it doesn’t allow me to go out physically, and it doesn’t allow me to relax mentally.

To be honest, Chen Xiao can also understand Wade's thinking.

Not to mention the black NBA stars who are envious of Luo Ge's black female star support group, Chen Xiao is actually quite envious as well.

Suppose, every time Chen Xiao has a major game, there are a bunch of East Asian female stars wearing his jersey and screaming for him and going crazy for him. As long as he wants, he can kill at will among these beautiful stars, what do you think? , can you not make people envious?

Of course, Brother Luo is a gentleman. Even if he can kill indiscriminately, he will not kill indiscriminately.

Of course, so did Chen Xiao.

And this is why Luo Ge is so popular among black female stars.

Luo Ge's "male godness" is too high. The better women are, the more they want to have him. Only by having the number one male god in the black world like Luo Ge can he prove that he is the number one queen in the black world.

Therefore, the more Brother Luo rejects these black female stars, the higher his popularity will be and the more popular he will be.

If Brother Luo really kills randomly, even just one person, his character will collapse.

Therefore, although the league and the media are mainly promoting Chen Xiao and Ray Allen in this All-Star Game, at the Toyota Center, Luo Ge is the king-like man.

on the pitch.

The All-Stars in the East and West are all ready to stand.

Chen Xiao, Duncan, James, Ray Allen, Wade.

O'Neal, Garnett, Ron Howard, Kobe, Kidd.

In the center of the court, Chen Xiao and O'Neal were already standing ready to jump the ball.

Seeing the huge contrast between Chen Xiao and O'Neal in the midfield, the audience burst into laughter. Even David Stern on the sidelines burst into laughter at this time.

Chen Xiao and O'Neal stood there jumping the ball, which was indeed quite a joy.

Although happy, Chen Xiao was still very serious.

This time for the All-Stars, he came with a mission.

In the two system tasks, he and Xiaopao are more dazzling than Ray Allen and Reed. At the same time, Dayao must not be underestimated and shine in the audience.

These two tasks do not conflict.

Chen Xiao and O'Neal jumped the ball. Chen Xiao worked hard, but in the end, O'Neal won the ball for the Eastern Conference.

"Hahahaha, we can see that Wonder Boy has gone all out, but his jumping ball skills are really bad!"

"Wonderboy is the center with the worst jumping skills I have ever seen in NBA history!"

After Chen Xiao and O'Neal jumped the ball, the commentators and fans on the sidelines laughed again.

Even the players on the field and even O'Neal almost had a smile on their face.

It has to be said that Chen Xiao, who has not yet awakened his jumping ball skills, is really stinging his feet when it comes to jumping balls.

O'Neal defeated Chen Xiao. After Kidd got the ball, he advanced to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Kobe on the right side of the three-point line. The division steadily hit the first goal.

2 to 0!

Boss Ke's fighting spirit in this game is also very high.

To be fair, in this All-Star Game, the Western Conference is quite strong.

Especially starters.

O'Neal, Garnett, Luo Ge, Kobe, Key.

To be honest, this lineup is still quite strong.

"Chen, we want to win this game!"

After the hit, Boss Ke ran up to Chen Xiao and beeped.

Well, the West has lost a lot of games in a row.

Chen Xiao has won the All-Star MVP three times in a row.

Chen Xiao didn't say anything about Boss Ke's confidence, but just smiled.

It was Eastern's turn to attack, and Chen Xiaolai scored the Eastern's first goal.

After Wade dribbled the ball past halftime, he hit the ball to Chen Xiao in the paint area. Facing the help of Jia Idol, Chen Xiao made a close shot. However, after Duncan grabbed the rebound, he passed it to Chen Xiao. After catching the ball, he broke through O'Neal's defense and dunked.

Bang!

The basketball was smashed into the basket by Chen Xiao.

After Chen Xiao successfully dunked, the crowd cheered, but Chen Xiao on the basket felt a little regretful.

Because the situation just seemed wrong, O'Neal hid himself, otherwise Chen Xiao would have tried to dunk him.

2 to 2!

Although both teams wanted to win this game, and the intensity of the game was not low from the beginning, the All-Star game was a performance game anyway.

So after the game started, in fact, the players of the two teams didn't care about the score, and neither did the fans. Everyone watched the highlights of the game.

Just now, if Chen Xiaoqi had dunked O'Neal, the audience would have gone crazy.

It's just obvious that although O'Neal really wants to be the focus, he doesn't want to become the focus in this way.

By the way, Chen Xiao and Ray Allen are not the only ones who have needs in this All-Star Game. In fact, many players have needs.

Like O'Neill.

Last season, O'Neal was still immersed in the sadness of being hacked by Chen Xiao and backstabbed by Phil Jackson.

So O'Neal gave people a very bitter and resentful feeling last season.

And this season, after playing the Christmas game with the Lakers and finally kicking Phil's PP hard, O'Neal has resumed his previous funny personality.

As the saying goes, nature is hard to change.

Although O'Neal's personality has changed because of Chen Xiao's repeated blows to him, and he has become more serious about basketball, but this season, O'Neal has returned to his own nature in terms of showing off.

And when O'Neal starts to show off, he is definitely the strongest king in the entire NBA.

In the first quarter of this game, O'Neal kept putting on a show and constantly amusing the audience.

For example, in the halfway point of the first quarter, O'Neal took control of the ball and was ready to dribble like a guard. Then he passed the ball through the frame and passed the ball to the boss, but unfortunately the boss missed the shot.

Similarly, on the other hand, don't think that the relationship between O'Neal and Co. is still the same as before.

In fact, during the All-Star Weekend, the two talked.

Are the two reconciled?

How can this be.

The reason why the two talked was because Boss Ke felt that his current situation was very good, and his resentment towards O'Neill had subsided a lot. Everyone kept hyping up his relationship with O'Neill, which made Boss Ke very upset, so he wanted to use actions to justify one time.

As for O'Neal, after the successive failures of the Nets and the Suns, he no longer has the mentality that he can easily succeed with his grandma. Now, in his heart, he actually thinks that the boss of Ke is still okay.

Therefore, the two initially melted.

The initial reconciliation between the two is also a highlight of this All-Star weekend.

Therefore, during the first quarter of the game, you can often see Kobe and O'Neal greeting each other affectionately on the court.

After O'Neal's performance, Kobe did not show weakness. He turned around continuously with the ball and suddenly passed it to Garnett. After Garnett dribbled one step, he handed it to O'Neal.

Well, the reason why O'Neal was not prepared is that he didn't think that the old Column would pass the ball this time...

According to his understanding of Boss Ke, if Boss Ke is so showy, he must be pulled out.

Who knew Kobe would be so selfless with the Lakers this season.

Six and a half minutes into the first quarter, after Chen Xiao made a steal and completed a one-stop dunk, the game entered an official timeout.

After the timeout, Duncan was replaced.

Brother Ke has been in a good mood recently, which can be seen from his selfless passing and chatting and laughing with O'Neal during the All-Star Game.

Therefore, after the timeout, Kobe immediately let the fans feast their eyes with a windmill dunk.

Boss Ke's big windmill had to swing his hand twice before he dunked.

Then, Chen Xiao immediately responded with a dunk, broke through quickly, jumped high and then dunked hard with one hand!

After Chen Xiao's dunk, the two teams tied at 23.

I have to say that there were many exciting scenes in this quarter, but the most exciting one was O'Neal.

When O'Neal made a free throw in this quarter, he threw the ball into the air, then caught the ball and smashed it in.

O'Neal's performance of giving up treatment for his own free throw made the entire scene boil.

Of course, this ball does not count, and free throws cannot be made like this, but what does it matter?

Even Chen Xiao laughed and applauded O'Neal.

I have to say that when O'Neal starts playing, everyone else becomes his younger brother.

Chen Xiao feels that he and Yao are really not as good at playing as O'Neal, and officially, the other protagonist, Ray Allen, is even better at this aspect.

Originally, Chen Xiao and Ray Allen were officially the protagonists of this All-Star Game, but in the end, O'Neill just relied on his own strength to snatch the protagonists away.

I have to say that the audience loves to see O'Neal's performance in the All-Stars.

At the end of the first quarter, the West, with a more reasonable lineup, slowly began to take the lead, leading by 4 points at one point, but the head coach of the East, Terry Porter, took Chen Xiao, Xiaopao, Ray Allen and Michael Reed substituted at the same time, and the four of them cooperated with Yao Ming, and the Eastern Conference finally narrowed the gap.

At the end of the first quarter, the two teams were tied at 36.

Why is it not Carter but Dayao who is partnered with Chen Xiao and the other four?

Because Carter is an All-Star this year, he doesn't want to play.

Carter, who was overtaken by Duncan at the last moment and lost his starting position, is still losing his temper.

To be fair, Carter is still quite unhappy this season.

The All-Star starting position was lost, and the strong rise of Ray Allen made his position among the top five guards begin to be questioned by some fans and vicious experts.

Among the five major guards, Chen Xiao, Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Iverson and him, he has the least honors.

If you really want to remove one person from the top five defenders and make way for Ray Allen.

He must be eliminated.

The brightest person in the first quarter was O'Neal.

But it wasn't O'Neal who had the best statistics in the first quarter.

Chen Xiao scored 10 points in the first quarter, while Yao Ming also scored 10 points on 4-of-4.

Ray Allen was 3 of 4 and scored 9 points.

O'Neal was as fierce as a tiger in one operation and scored 5 points after the first quarter.

Xiaopao scored 1 of 2 and scored 2 points.

Michael Reed was 0 for 2 and scored 0 points.

Ray Allen and Reid's performance was not as good as Chen Xiao and Xiaopao.

This is inevitable. In the starting lineup, Wade is Chen Xiao's person, James is Chen Xiao's person, and Chen Xiao is the first choice for passing the ball.

Among the substitutes, Chen Xiao holds the ball. Although he will not pass the ball to Ray Allen, his first choice is Yao Ming.

As for the two juniors, Michael Reed and Xiao Pao, well, both of them were quite nervous for their first All-Star game.

In short, even though O'Neal was having so much fun and stole all the focus, Chen Xiao felt that everything was under his control.

In this All-Star Game, he can accomplish both tasks.

In the second quarter of the game, the West once again took advantage of the game.

And as soon as the second quarter came up, he was directly high-powered. The Mavericks player Dirk Nowitzki, who has always disliked performing in the All-Stars, came up in the second quarter and broke through with the ball like a guard. After Nash's foul, he scored 3 points with consecutive shots and penalties.

The 'showdown' between Nowitzki and Nash's former teammates and friends also caused a sigh of relief from many Mavericks fans at the scene.

There is a saying: the "antagonism" between former teammates has become a spectacle, and the dream of a German tank and a Canadian sports car is difficult to realize.

Of course, this is the title of the picture book. In fact, the relationship between the two is quite good.

After Nowitzki played Nash with a two-plus-one, Nash made two consecutive pick-and-rolls and made two consecutive shots in front of Nowitzki. After that, he even organized Yao Ming to make a shot in front of Nowitzki.

After Nowitzki successfully 'provoked' Nash, Nash led the Eastern Conference to start this quarter with a 13-5 wave, opening the score.

I have to say that Nash's organization is really strong.

Under Nash's organization, the Eastern Conference's substitute All-Stars really thrived.

However, Arenas in the West responded with an unreasonable three-pointer in front of Nash, and then Britney Anthony also scored 3 points with penalty shots. After the West scored 8 points in a row, the score was tied. 49-49.

The score of this game between the two teams was really intense.

From this we can also see how close the two All-Star teams are this time.

"This All-Star event is really exciting!"

Not to mention the fans, even many commentators and professionals on the sidelines became excited.

However, after the two teams tied again, the Western Conference's performance was not over.

Since then, there were several wonderful performances in the West. Arenas once again shot Nash in the face and made a three-pointer, Anthony performed a dunk, and Brand also made two shots during the period. Advantage.

Originally, in the wave of "crazy wave" led by Arenas, Carter felt that he was embarrassed by Arenas, and wanted to return the color with a dunk, but he jumped too high and the ball hit the ring Fly out after the inner edge.

After Nash handed over the organizational power to Xiaopao, the Eastern offense became chaotic.

I have to say that Xiaopao is not only nervous now, but there is still a big gap between Xiaopao and Nash in organizational ability, although Xiaopao is now the assist king.

The West continued to expand its advantages by taking advantage of the chaos in the East. After Arenas succeeded twice in a row, the West led by 14 points 67-53 before the two teams started.

In the end, in the first half, the West led 80-63 by 17 points and entered the second half.

At the end of the first half, Yao Ming scored a game-high 17 points, while Arenas scored a game-high 16 points in the Western Conference.

Chen Xiao and his team started with 4 minutes left in the second quarter. Chen Xiao scored 3 points and 13 points in the first half.

After the first half of the game, Yao Ming could clearly see that Chen Xiao was holding back.

Seeing that the Eastern Conference was trailing by 17 points due to Chen Xiao's closing down, to be honest, Dayao was still quite panicked.

Of course Chen Xiao could see Dayao's emotions.

"Don't worry, Dayao. We will definitely win this game. Just score well and perform well."

Seeing how confident Chen Xiao was, Yao Ming finally nodded.

During the halftime break, except for Dayao, who felt unworthy of winning the MVP award, the other Eastern All-Stars did not feel uncomfortable being behind by 17 points.

Although there is indeed no face, the All-Star Game is an All-Star Game after all, and the nature of the show is larger.

It doesn't matter even if you lose in the end.

Therefore, seeing everyone like this, Dayao, who was a little ashamed at first, felt a little better.

After all, it was the first time in his life to win honors. Although he was an accomplice, he was still really nervous!

In the second half, at the beginning of the third quarter, there was a "bad guy" who made Dayao even more nervous!

After the start of the third quarter, the starters of the two teams continued to stay on the court. After Ray Allen faced the defense of Ke Boss, after the magical performance of three-pointers in a row, Rogo used his super stable The jammed Qiao hit two goals in a row from mid-range!

And on the second goal, he forced a hit under the defense of Wade, another of the Three Eagles.

After Luo Ge hit two consecutive mid-range shots, the West led the East 84-63 by a full 21 points!

Seeing this score, Dayao on the sidelines felt as if he had changed from color to black and white!

At this time, Yao Ming felt that it was too difficult for him!

"Am I really the overrated one?"

After cheating Dwyane in the Heat, are you going to cheat Xiao Chen again in the All-Stars?

Dayao, who was a 'bad boy' for the first time, felt like he had doubts about life...