The King of the NBA

United States, New Orleans Arena.

The All-Star Weekend has entered the last day, which is the All-Star Game.

There are many differences between this year's All-Stars and previous ones. For example, the rules of the dunk contest have been changed. It used to be a competition between players, but this year it is divided into Eastern and Western teams. The reason for such a change is to a certain extent because during this NBA All-Star period, the NBA president will complete the handover of the new and old. David Stein, who has been in charge of the NBA for many years, will step down, and Adam Silver will take over as the NBA president.

So before the start of the NBA game, a resignation ceremony was held for David Stein.

The auditorium was filled with darkness, the huge arena was full, and there were even some fans standing in the corridors, while near the stadium, there were a group of players, as well as some celebrities and media people.

As a reporter for "Basketball Weekly", Duan Xiaoran was naturally there too. Her eyes were always on Ning Yi, and she wanted to tell Ning Yi that she was the Duan Xiaoran who wrote "I Want to Say", not entirely for the purpose of interviewing Ning Yi, as a fan of Ning Yi, has the opportunity to meet idols, and even become friends, which is very tempting to her.

It's a pity that Ning Yi didn't notice her, which made her very depressed: "Oh, I'm really anxious to death."

A moment later, David Stein's resignation ceremony ended, and a group of All-Star players entered the backstage. On the stage, some stars were performing, and the fans watched with gusto.

When the performance came to an end, the lights on the scene also changed, and the players participating in the All-Star Game came out one after another. First, the Eastern All-Star players, LeBron James, Paul George, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade , Kyrie Irving, the five starters played first, causing screams from the audience.

Then came the Eastern All-Star bench players, Chris Bosh, Roy Hibbert, Joakim Noah, DeMar DeRozan, Paul Millsap, Joe Johnson, John Wall.

Immediately afterwards, the Western All-Star players also appeared one by one. The five starters, Ning Yi, Kobe, Curry, Durant, and Griffin, were particularly dazzling. Needless to say, Ning Yi, although he is a rookie, is very popular. Gao, other people are more popular than Ning Yi, Curry, Kobe, Durant, Griffin, except Griffin may be slightly inferior, the other three are all superstars. When they played, the fans in the auditorium suddenly went crazy.

"Curry."

"Kobe, Kobe!"

"KD!"

People shouted, and the sound was like waves, resounding through the entire arena.

This kind of scene is very shocking. There are too many fans and the atmosphere is too hot, which makes Ning Yi feel a little nervous. After all, this is the All-Star Game, which is different from the regular season.

A hand clapped Ning Yi's back, and Ning Yi turned his head to look: "Kobe."

Kobe smiled at Ning Yi and said, "Take it easy."

"Yeah." Ning Yi nodded.

Looking at Kobe, Ning Yi was a little lost. He remembered that Kobe did not participate in the 2014 NBA All-Star Game in history because of injuries, and Anthony Davis took his place. But now Kobe is standing beside him, in good health, smiling at him, comforting himself, like a kind elder.

"Butterfly effect? ​​It seems that more and more things are different from before. Now it's just nba, will there be other changes?" Ning Yi muttered in his heart and couldn't help frowning. He didn't know what it was Good or bad.

But being able to stand with Kobe and participate in the NBA All-Star Game together, Ning Yi is still very excited. Kobe is one of his idols.

At this time, the spotlight moved away from Ning Yi and others, and the Western All-Star substitutes came out one by one, James Harden, Dwight Howard, Damian Lillard, LaMarcus Aldridge, Tony - Parker, Dirk Nowitzki, Chris Paul.

The twelve players from the East and the West are all on the field at this time, and everyone starts to warm up. The atmosphere is very relaxed. After all, the All-Star Game is like this, and entertainment accounts for a large proportion. No one will take it too seriously.

Of course, it's not absolute, at least Lillard's eyes on Ning Yi are not very friendly, he is completely on the bar with Ning Yi, even if the two are on the same team at the moment.

"This guy, what about it?" Ning Yi shook his head and smiled helplessly.

After some warm-up, the players from both sides returned to the field.

The game is about to start, and people are whispering in the audience.

"I don't know which side will win today, the East or the West?"

"It's hard to say. The east and west are all star lineups. From the lineup alone, no one has an advantage."

"Yes, it depends on the performance of each of them."

"I don't know what Ning Yi will do?"

"He? It's just soy sauce. He's just a rookie. With Kobe, Curry, Durant and others around, he doesn't need to show much."

"That's true."

Listening to people's comments, Yao Ming shook his head and whispered to himself: "Although what these people said is a bit harsh, but with the lineup in the west, Ning Yi may really have little room to play. But it doesn't matter, after all, he is the number one To participate in the All-Star Game for the first time, as long as you are better than me, that’s enough.”

When Yao Ming participated in the All-Star Game for the first time, he only scored 2 points and 2 rebounds.

On the sidelines, in the rest area of ​​the West team, a group of players surrounded coach Scott Brooks. Brooks is the head coach of the Thunder. The Thunder team has an outstanding record this season. He was also elected as the coach of the West team in the All-Star Game.

"Let me talk about it." Coach Brooks glanced at his players and began to arrange, "Wait for Curry to play the 1st position, Kobe will play the 2nd position, Ning Yi will play the 3rd position, Durant will play the 4th position, and Gerry will play the 4th position. Fern plays number 5."

This is a completely small lineup. Durant, who is used to playing small forward, was pushed to the position of power forward, and Griffin, who played power forward, became a center. But this is the All-Star Game, but it's nothing.

Subsequently, coach Brooks arranged a simple tactic.

In fact, there is nothing to arrange tactics. The players are not from the same team, lack of tacit understanding, and it is the All-Star Game. It mainly depends on the performance of the players in the forest. Tactics are not too important.

Not far away, the coach of the Eastern team, coach Frank Vogel from the Pacers, is also making arrangements.

Similar to the Western team, the Eastern team does not have a center or even a power forward among the starters, but there are three small forwards. James, George, and Anthony are all used to playing small forwards. Vogel can only let James play the 5th position, Anthony play the 4th position, and George play the 3rd position.

As for tactics, there is nothing to arrange.

After a while, the coaches of both sides finished their arrangement, the whistle sounded just in time, the starting players of both sides walked onto the court, and the fans also sat up straight—the match was about to begin!