roccoschili Chapter 209 Becoming a Teammate Again After Many Years
Chapter 209 Becoming a Teammate Again After Many Years
Chapter 209 Becoming a Teammate Again After Many Years
The arrival of his parents and aunt's family made Xie Kai very happy and felt at home.In the United States, the five people in front of him are all his relatives. They are in Dallas, and the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year will be there.
Cousin Yang Yixin is a banana girl. She doesn’t have much feeling for the traditional Chinese Spring Festival. She thinks it’s no different from ordinary weekends. She came here mainly to experience the NBA All-Star Weekend.She doesn't like basketball, but she also has vanity. She has participated in the carnival of the NBA All-Star Weekend, and she has more face in front of her classmates.
After settling down with his parents, Xie Kai focused his attention on the rookie competition.This is his first rookie game, and he is a second-year rookie.You must know that he was not selected in last year's rookie game.
The All-Star Game is an important part of the NBA's commercial promotion. The status of an All-Star is valued by NBA players, but the outcome of the All-Star Game is not valued, and it is not included in the regular season record and personal data. The 10 All-Star Game MVPs may not be as valuable as one regular season MVP.
The purpose of the All-Star Game is to give back to the fans and to promote the NBA. It is essentially a commercial promotion of the NBA.Therefore, the All-Star Weekend is a close entertainment exchange between star players and fans. It is an event, so All-Star players with entertainment skills will feel like a fish in water and are very popular (such as Sharks and World of Warcraft).
NBA star players are also very smart, and they will not really do it in the All-Star Game. Such a game is not worth the risk of injury.
It's just that because they played too casually, it seemed that the game was not exciting enough, so under the reflection of some fans, the stars would play some real things in the last quarter to make the game more exciting.
In the history of the NBA Rookie Challenge, the sophomore team has won in the past 7 years.In fact, this is also easy to understand. Because the second-year team has played an extra year in the NBA, the overall level of maturity and immediate combat power will indeed be better than the first-year rookies.
Of course, there is no such thing as "reasonable" in competitive sports. The first-year juniors are not willing to admit that they are worse than their seniors!
The disadvantage of the second year is that because the No. [-] pick Derrick Rose was selected for both the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game (substitute), he finally chose to give up the Rookie Challenge.
In this way, the second-year team will lose a strong defender, which also increases the confidence of the first-year team to counterattack Big Brother.
Rose was replaced by Anthony Morrow, a swingman from the Golden State Warriors.
Xie Kai was not as lucky as Rose, and he was not selected for the All-Star bench in the West.In the eyes of many coaches, he may not be qualified enough!
According to regulations, the head coaches of the first and second-year teams will be the chief assistant coaches of the head coaches of the East and West All-Star teams.In the latest list, Denver Nuggets assistant coach Adrian Dantree and Orlando Magic assistant "Gorilla" Patrick Ewing will serve as the first-year and second-year team coaches respectively.Thunder forward Kevin Durant and Raptors forward Chris Bosh will serve as assistant coaches for the freshman and sophomore teams, respectively, in this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge, according to the Detroit News.
Durant was the MVP of last year's Rookie Challenge. Unexpectedly, he became the assistant coach of the first-year team a year later.
This year's All-Star Rookie Challenge will be held on the morning of the 13th BJ time, and the 13th is the last day of the Chinese lunar calendar - New Year's Eve.
That morning, Xie Kai connected with Zhou Jing. In order to prevent his parents from asking questions, he did not choose the method of video.Looking at Zhou Jing's photos of her in China, he felt an urge to go back to China.It's true that I haven't returned to my country for a long time, and there are indeed explanations here in the United States, but my heart still yearns for the eastern land on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
The Rookie Challenge is held at the American Airlines Center, home of the Mavericks.Xie Kai is no stranger to this venue. Since joining the NBA, he has played here many times.But it is indeed the first time to participate in the All-Star Weekend here.
Everyone in the second-year team is also acquaintances. Except for my good brother Russell Westbrook, people like Love, Gordon, and Mayo are all opponents in the NCAA. Everyone is familiar with it.
Evans and Casspi in the first-year team are Xie Kai's teammates in the Kings. This time they become opponents, but it feels like they are playing an intra-team match.
During the press conference and makeup photos before the game, all the players in the first and second grades will take group photos and individual photos, so that young talents can enjoy the all-star treatment.
Xie Kai sat next to Westbrook. Because Rose was absent, the one sitting in the middle with the ball became Westbrook.
Xie Kai is in a good mood. It is indeed very rare to be able to take pictures with so many talented players of the same level, and to be able to fight side by side with his good brother Westbrook later.
The American Airlines Center arena can accommodate 19200 people. There are basically no vacant seats in the arena today. The enthusiasm of the fans is high, creating a good atmosphere on the scene.
Not only Xie Kai's parents were present today, but also Westbrook's parents and his younger brother.The elder brother of the little sister-in-law of the second grade team and their parents also came.
All-Star Weekend instantly became a big party for the players and their families.
The All-Star Rookie Challenge currently has no exclusive team uniforms, so the 18 participating players all wear their own team uniforms.This year, too, the freshmen wear dark uniforms and the sophomores wear white home uniforms.
Xie Kai was wearing his No. 22 white team jersey. Seeing Evans and Casspi wearing the away blue team jerseys, he instantly felt that he was acting a little bit.
The players participating in the rookie game are different from the players participating in the All-Star game. Here are all first- and second-year rookies, so they are all young people.
Young people are full of vigor and vitality, and they represent the future hope of the league.
As the only yellow person among the 18 people present, Xie Kai felt a little lonely, but it made him want to prove that being a yellow person was no worse than people of other races.
According to the rules of the rookie challenge, the warm-up time before the game is 20 minutes.
The young people on both sides are full of energy, and they have already started shooting 3-pointers and dunking dunks during the warm-up.The cheers from the fans at the scene stimulated these young people even more, causing their adrenaline to continue to be secreted, and the dunk movements became more and more exciting.
Westbrook is in a good mood today. He is going to play with his good brother when he was young, and it is still on the All-Star Weekend, which has made him happy for a long time.Moreover, his teammate Kevin Durant is a first-year assistant coach. Before the game, he joked that he would blow up the first-year team and let the opponent's first coaching career end in failure.
(End of this chapter)