Guo Xu rejected the invitation from the league's three-point competition and chose to participate in this year's newly launched Skills Challenge.

Four contestants will compete for a total prize of $50,000, of which the champion will receive $25,000. Guo Xu's opponents are Jason Kidd, Gary Payton, and Stephen Marbury, all of whom are popular point guards in the league.

The NBA official is trying every means to get fans to participate in the event. This weekend, the participants also added a celebrity competition, including NBA retired NBA players, NBA players, actors, singers and athletes in other events.

This year's All-Star Weekend was relatively early, and it kicked off in Atlanta from 7 to 10. The embarrassing thing is that the Hawks have no stars selected, Anthony Hardaway and Glenn Robinson have a conflict, the team's poor record, and various factors have caused home fans to be disappointed. The media's gimmick is Jordan's last All-Star Game, and the Lakers' Big Three are teammates again.

The Suns had no game two days in advance. Guo Xu checked into a designated hotel in Atlanta with his teammates on Thursday. When O'Neal arrived in the evening, he took him to a nightclub.

Guo Xu did not refuse again and gave O'Neal a reasonable explanation. He is now 21 years old and has been an All-Star for two years. The regular season MVP is very popular this season. No one will say anything when going to nightclubs. If it didn't work in the past two years, a group of people would say that he didn't work hard, which would affect the fans' sense of his feelings.

Marion, who was selected as an All-Star for the first time, and Stadameier, who came to participate in the rookie tournament, also went to nightclubs together.

Several people met and had a good chat. When Marion rushed to his own basket and dunked, O'Pang felt that this was a "comedian" like him and teased him.

Sir Little Sir is a fan of O'Neal. Although the two played against Sir Little Sir Little Sir Little Sir several times, O'Neal still recognized the strength of this little brother and encouraged him a few words, believing that he will definitely become a star in the future.

O'Neal didn't mention Kobe's name at all, and the three of them had a tacit understanding and did not mention topics related to Kobe. This year, the Lakers' mid-term record was only 23 wins and 24 losses, and the conflict between O'Neal and Kobe became increasingly fierce.

All-Star Media Day event, the 96th class players are the most popular.

There are 24 All-Stars in total, 9 of which are rookies in the 1996th class, accounting for 37.5% of all All-Star players. There is no such exaggerated success rate in history, and they are worthy of being the golden generation!

Guo Xu is the most attractive to the media in the competition for the popularity of the stars. The reporters not only asked him about basketball, but also asked about gossip.

A Chinese reporter asked him what he thought about when he was about to cooperate with Yao Ming.

Guo Xu said: "I'm looking forward to it. As long as he has a chance to make a phone call, I will pass more balls at that time."

Chinese journalists also care about what type of girls he likes, and mentioned Wang Jingjing. Many people found that a Chinese girl watched two games at the Suns home court and greeted Guo Xu.

Guo Xu explained: "We are ordinary friends, she is my buddy's girlfriend, the blonde hair sitting next to her. They have known each other for more than two years and their relationship is very stable. If I have a girlfriend one day, I will definitely make it public."

A reporter asked Guo Xu what song he would sing at the Grammy, and Guo Xu said: "This must be kept confidential, otherwise it will be boring."

There were also reporters asking Guo Xu to comment on the "ok combination", and Guo Xu remained silent and refused to comment. They had a connection, but he was not the nanny of the ok combination, so it was impossible for him to always pay attention to the Lakers.

The rookie challenge started on Friday, and the sophomore easily defeated the first grade 132-112, and the Warriors point guard Arenas won the MVP.

Arenas made three-pointers in the second half, and the commentator said he remembered Guo Xu. "They are both second-round rookies and they all love to shoot three-pointers. After the end of this season, the Warriors also had difficulty renewing Arenas due to the labor-management agreement, which is surprisingly similar."

With a single jump shot and a three-pointer, Arenas's style of playing is indeed very similar to Guo Xu, but he is no longer an impressive "general" and has become an imitator.

The next day, Guo Xu made a big splash in the skills challenge and performed well.

The rules of the game are very simple. After the player gets the ball, he first completes a layup, then dribbles through four obstacles, then passes the ball in front of his chest and hits the ground, then the players shoot a three-pointer in the middle, and after completing it, they have to undergo a straight pass test, and finally bypass three obstacles to complete the layup. The two players who use the shortest time in the preliminary round will enter the final, and the players who use the shortest time in the final will win the championship.

This event is very unfamiliar to other players, but Guo Xu understands the rules. He has watched it many times as a fan in his previous life. He knows that steady movements are more important than pursuing speed. As long as you don’t make mistakes, the players will complete it quickly. He happens to be the best three-point shooting among the four players participating in the game.

In the preliminary round, Guo Xu made a mistake when he hit the ground and passed the ball, and the rest were completed in one go, and he reached the final with Kidd.

In the final, Guo Xu appeared first, without any mistakes. All the actions were completed in one go, only 25.7 seconds.

The better he performs, the more pressure he will be on his opponent. Kidd is not as sensitive as him. Even if he makes zero mistakes, he will take a little more time than Guo Xu, so Kidd must speed up when doing the movements.

As soon as Kidd accelerated, he was not so steady. He made two passes and three three-point shots, wasting a lot of time and finally finished second with a time of 38.8 seconds.

Kings forward Peja Stoyakovic won the three-point contest, and he performed better than last season, with 22 points in the final.

The Bulls' Jason Richardson defeated Mason with the difficult movement of "turning half a corner of the bottom line to change hands and dunk", and won the dunk contest again, completing three consecutive championships with unprecedented succession.

Richardson's entry into the NBA one year earlier was a big butterfly effect. He did not have a strong competitor in the dunk contest. He overwhelmed Mason to win the championship in three years. He obviously surpassed his opponents in both his jumping ability and his tricks. Mason was unlucky enough.

However, like his previous life, Richardson still has little presence. This is a matter of temperament. Richardson is too low-key, has no gimmicks in personality, and does not have a star appearance. Even if he often scores exciting goals in the game, he cannot attract fans.

Also the dunk king, Kobe was selected as the Western Conference star in the second season, and Carter became the league's voter king for three consecutive years.

It would be too miserable to look at Richardson again. Not to mention entering the top ten in the star vote, he has less than 100,000 votes for two consecutive seasons. He is the least popular slam dunk king in the NBA, no doubt.

Richardson's emotional intelligence is not very high. When he was having dinner with Guo Xu yesterday, he hoped that Guo Xu would cooperate with him once on the court and pass the ball to him.

Guo Xu directly refused and suggested that he go to find Jay Williams to cooperate, otherwise he would appear to be very unteamable and would leave a bad impression on the Bulls management. Even if Guo Xu is very popular, it would do more harm than good.

In addition, Guo Xu also suggested that Richardson pay tribute to Jordan. He put on the Bulls' No. 23 jersey in the second dunk in the preliminaries, imitating Jordan to perform a free throw dunk, which received a lot of applause.

Fans like to imitate the show. If Richardson could completely imitate Jordan in terms of technology, he would not have been like this and would have become popular long ago. Of course, it may not be necessary, because Kobe has done this. Some people may say that he imitated Kobe.
Chapter completed!