I’m Really Playing Basketball

This time in the Casino All-Stars, the Casino gave the NBA a lot of face. Basically, as long as the Casino can do it, it has done its best.

According to the persuasion of the outside media, the casino is trying to flatter the NBA and hopes that a casino team will appear in the NBA next year.

Before the start of the All-Star Weekend in the casino, many American media headlines were: "Sin City is going crazy for the NBA, and Las Vegas will have an NBA team!"

This is a very noisy title.

The crime capital of America, shouldn’t it be Los Santos?

In short, the casino never thinks of itself as a city of sin, but only as a city of humanity.

Here there is sex, there is music every night, there is everything here, but there is no crime here.

Well, that's what they think.

After all, the last thing you want to see in a gambling city is crime. It’s a big tree that attracts trouble. If you still have to fight and kill people every day, it would be too eye-catching. Therefore, this place has always been civilized and may be one of the best places in the United States for security.

Are you telling me that a place like this is a city of sin?

This place is farther away from DP, guns, and crime than Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.

Just like the mayor of the casino city said: "Everyone knows that staying away from drugs, no crime, and no pornography is the healthy image of the NBA that Stern has been working hard to create. And the LA-based players who rise from the ground in the desert Vegas is a city that perfectly meets David Stern's requirements. The fans here are the most gentlemanly fans in the world. In this All-Star, we will let everyone see our desire for the NBA!"

I have to say that the casino is really eager for the NBA. On the facade of the most famous Pyramid Hotel in the casino, and on the outer wall behind the Sphinx, there are huge posters of Chen Xiao and Garnett.

Garnett wears No. 21 in the Western Conference, while Chen Xiao wears No. 11 in the Eastern Conference.

This is just a scene in a casino. During the All-Star Weekend, posters with the faces of Chen Xiao and other All-Stars appeared almost everywhere.

The casino is so open and bright. As the president of the NBA, David Stern, without saying whether there will be an additional NBA team in the casino next year, just said that everyone should be treated equally in terms of courtesy.

So this time during the All-Star Weekend, the NBA is also doing its best.

This can be seen from the lineup of Kobe, James, Wade and Paul in the Skills Challenge.

In the dunk contest, the lineup was even more terrifying.

Jordan, Wilkins, Carter, Kobe, Dr. J, these five are the judges of this dunk contest.

It can be said that the judges of this slam dunk contest are definitely the most popular in the history of NBA All-Star Weekend.

After all, if the participating players are not good enough, then use the judges to make up for it.

The players participating in the slam dunk contest this time are indeed not very high quality.

Xiao Chen, Nate Robinson, Gerald Green, Howard.

Except for the two All-Stars, Chen Xiao and Howard, the other two are supporting players in the NBA.

And even if Chen Xiao and Howard were All-Stars, both of them were All-Stars who were not good at dunking.

Therefore, in the warm-up stage before this slam dunk contest, the TNT reporter Reggie Miller deliberately found a few All-Star players and asked them who they are optimistic about.

Iverson said he was optimistic about Nate Robinson, while McGrady said he was optimistic about Gerald Green.

As for Chen Xiao and Howard...

The person who was asked must have no one optimistic about these two.

Those who are optimistic about Chen Xiao are Wade, Brother Luo, Dayao, and Xiaopao. Reggie Miller did not interview these people.

It can only be said that Chen Xiao and Howard are seriously looked down upon.

Not only the current players think that Chen Xiao and Howard are the All-Stars officially introduced by the NBA to help the casinos make up the numbers. These two are not here to compete for championships, but to enhance the atmosphere.

Even Wilkins, the judge of this slam dunk contest, thinks so.

During the warm-up period before the game started, Uncle Wilkins smiled at Chen Xiao and said, "If I lower the height of the basket, I can still win the slam dunk contest."

Good guy, Uncle Wilkins, you really don't use bean buns as dry food!

Chen Xiao's dunk attribute is 90. For a top dunker like Wilkins, this dunk attribute is indeed average.

But let alone your old self, even if you are at your peak, I can beat you in the slam dunk contest!

The attributes of 90, combined with his physical talent, allow Chen Xiao to use most difficult dunk experience cards.

And how many dunk experience cards did Chen Xiao get on the training ground?

There are countless ways to describe it!

Let's put it this way, although Chen Xiao does not know many dunk moves in official competitions, in informal competitions such as the dunk contest, Chen Xiao's dunks are absolutely divine.

Therefore, Chen Xiao really felt that he was looked down upon.

He came with a mission this time!

In this All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, the system issued him a task called ‘bringing order to chaos’.

When the system has entered the stage of allowing him to explore freely, it rarely issues tasks to him, and the name of this task issued by the system is "bringing order to order"

As the slam dunk contest becomes more and more focused on gimmicks, the truly outstanding dunk action is increasingly looked down upon. The system's intention is to let Chen Xiao correct the chaos so that audiences around the world can see the charm of a real dunk.

To be honest, Chen Xiao would definitely not want to participate in the slam dunk contest if he had not accepted this task.

Although he can use the dunk experience card to make a lot of extremely difficult dunks on the court, Chen Xiao rarely tries those really difficult dunks on the training ground.

Because it is easy to get hurt!

After all, Chen Xiao is not a person who has been dunking since he was a child. To be honest, he has little experience in difficult dunks and does not know how to move to protect himself when dunking.

Although Chen Xiao was transformed by the system and became physically stronger, the system did not say that he would never be injured. Therefore, Chen Xiao felt that it was better for him to be cautious.

However, there is really no other way this time.

Moreover, this task of the system is quite righteous, and it is also very attractive to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao also feels that the current dunk contest is becoming more and more boring.

Especially last year when Howard turned Bynum into a dunk contest champion, he took the gimmick to the extreme.

To be honest, the gimmicks are enough and the atmosphere at the scene is indeed good, but it is difficult to become a classic.

Ten or twenty years later, when people look at Bynum's dunk last year, they won't think it was a dunk contest or playing basketball, they will just think it was a juggling act.

If you really want to watch Sideshow, isn’t Harlem Basketball good?

Although Chen Xiao, as the biggest player in this slam dunk contest, is so looked down upon by professionals, it makes Chen Xiao a little embarrassed.

But for the audience at the scene and in front of the TV, they will not look down on Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao is one of the most popular players in the NBA and the number one player in the league.

In this case, as long as Chen Xiao appears in the dunk contest, it will be a profit for them.

No matter whether Chen Xiao performs well or poorly in the dunk contest, they will not lose.

If the performance is good, they will cheer for Chen Xiao excitedly and witness the classic. If the performance is not good, they can also laugh, Tu Yile Well,

It has to be said that the dunk contest has gradually become a fast-food emotional outlet, which is also the reason why the dunk contest has gradually become a gimmick.

Players participating in the slam dunk contest are not willing to fight hard, but the fans see it and think that if you don't fight hard, your actions will not look good. Naturally, I can only focus on gimmicks.

This is actually mutual.

The system specially issued a task this time for Chen Xiao to participate in the dunk contest, and the euphemistic name was to bring order to the chaos. It also hoped that he, the first person in the league, would take the lead and reshape the value of the dunk contest champion.

"Look, how glorious it is to be the winner of the Slam Dunk Contest. Chen Xiao, the MVP, scoring champion, two-time FMVP and championship, would actually make such an injury-prone move just to win the Slam Dunk Contest!"

Of course, this is the effect Chen Xiao needs to achieve.

Because of Chen Xiao, this dunk contest is definitely the most popular dunk contest in recent years. At the same time, because of the participation of Chen Xiao and Howard, this dunk contest is also the weirdest one.

NBA officials allowed Chen Xiao and Howard to register successfully, mainly to take advantage of their popularity, and really had no expectations for their performance in the dunk contest.

However, these two seem to be quite serious.

Especially Howard.

Yesterday, Howard went to the NBA officials and made a request to the officials. Howard wanted the league to heighten the basket for him in the dunk contest, so that he could fully demonstrate his amazing jumping ability.

Faced with Howard's request, NBA officials were certainly shocked and decisively rejected it.

Are you kidding me?

You bring your own props for the slam dunk contest. If you can't bring them with you, don't ask the official. I'll help you get it. Someone asked me to use Jordan as his background. What should I do?

According to the information Chen Xiao received from Arenas, Howard has been practicing two actions in this dunk contest. One is to complete a 360-degree rotation dunk on a 3.66-meter basket; the other is to complete a 3.50-meter basket. Completed an alley-oop catch, bypassed the crotch and then dunked.

Of course, if such an action is done on an ordinary basket, it will not be competitive at all, so Howard wants to increase the height of the basket.

This is actually a gimmick. The height of the basket increases and it looks more difficult. In fact, for Howard, the difficulty has not increased at all.

This kid likes to play tricks and is the target of the system's attack.

Therefore, Chen Xiao was a little frustrated after hearing Arenas say that Howard was rejected by the league, but Chen Xiao was quite happy.

This kid always likes to go astray, this habit needs to be changed.

But, when the dunk contest was about to begin, when Chen Xiao walked to the center of the court with Howard and several other participating players amid the cheers of the fans.

Chen Xiao felt that Howard didn't have any frustration on his face.

Could it be that this kid has a new trick?

Others don't know Howard, but Chen Xiao knows how this kid pushed Bynum to the dunk contest champion last year.

In this dunk contest, his biggest opponent is not Gerald Green or Nate Robinson.

This is the big man!

Even the ultimate boss of the system-issued task of bringing order to chaos is Howard!

Let's put it this way, Bynum's victory last season was the beginning of the dunk contest becoming a complete gimmick. Before Bynum won the championship, the mainstream of the dunk contest was still about difficulty and skill.

However, after playing with skills and difficulty, they found that no matter how difficult their dunks were and no matter how good their skills were, they could not compare to those who played stories. Therefore, those excellent dunkers would not have much interest in the dunk contest.

For example, Iguodala, logically speaking, he should come this year.

However, in last year's dunk contest, Iguodala looked quite injured.

Howard, who was standing next to Chen Xiao, saw Chen Xiao staring at him, which caused Howard some misunderstanding.

"Chen, don't worry, I'm determined to be the winner of this slam dunk contest, and our Wolf King has secured it!"

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I almost forgot to mention that, besides Kwame Brown, Howard is the member of the Wolf King Cult who has the most sense of belonging...