Chapter 476(1/2)
This time, the All-Star Casino is very good at giving the NBA a face. Basically, as long as the Casino can do it, everything will be the best.
According to the persuasion of the outside media, Casino is flattering the NBA, hoping that a Casino team will appear in the NBA field next year.
Before the All-Star Weekend in Casino began, many American media titles were: "The City of Sin is willing to go crazy for the NBA, and Las Vegas will have an NBA team!"
This is a very noisy title.
Shouldn’t the capital of sin in the United States be the capital of Los Angeles?
In short, the casino never considers itself a city of sin, but only considers itself a city of human nature.
There are all kinds of people here, there are all kinds of people here, there is no sin here.
Well, that's what they think.
After all, the least you want to appear in a casino is sin. It is a big tree that attracts wind. If you still fight and kill every day, it would be too eye-catching. Therefore, this place has always been civilized and may be one of the best places for American public security.
Such a place, do you tell me it is the capital of sin?
Here, more far away from DP, guns, and sin than Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.
As the mayor of the Casino said: "Everyone knows that stay away from drugs, no sin, and eliminate S-love. This is the healthy image of the NBA that Stern has been working hard to shape. Las Vegas, which rises from the desert, is a city that perfectly meets David Stern's requirements. The fans here are the most gentlemen fans in the world. This time, with the All-Star, we will let everyone see our desire for the NBA!"
I have to say that Casino is really eager for the NBA. On the front of the most famous pyramid hotel, Casino, and on the exterior wall behind the Sphinx are huge posters of Chen Xiao and Garnett.
Garnett was wearing No. 21 in the west, while Chen Xiao was wearing No. 11 in the east.
This is just a scene of a casino. During the All-Star weekend, Chen Xiao and the avatars and posters of each All-Star have appeared almost everywhere.
The Casino is so open and bright. As the NBA president, David Stern will not explain whether he will have an additional NBA team in the Casino in the year, but he will also treat it equally in terms of politeness.
So this All-Star Weekend, the NBA has also produced all the main players.
It can be seen from the lineups of Kobe, James, Wade and Paul in the Skills Challenge.
And in the slam dunk contest, the lineup is even more terrifying.
Jordan, Wilkins, Carter, Kobe, and Dr. J, these five are the judges of this dunk contest.
It can be said that the judges of this dunk contest are definitely the most popular NBA All-Star weekend ever.
After all, if the players participating are not good, then the judges should be used to collect them.
The players who participated in the dunk contest this time are indeed not very quality.
Chen Xiao, Nate Robinson, Gerald Green, Howard.
Except for Chen Xiao and Howard, the other two are NBA supporting roles.
Even though Chen Xiao and Howard are all-stars, they are not good at dunking.
So, in the warm-up phase before this dunk contest, TNT reporter Reggi Miller on the scene specially found several All-Star players and asked who they were 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...
No one was optimistic about these two people when asked.
Those who are optimistic about Chen Xiao are like Wade, Brother Luo, Yao, Xiaopao, and these people are not interviewed.
I can only say that Chen Xiao and Howard were seriously underestimated.
Not only the active players think that Chen Xiao and Howard are the All-Stars officially launched by the NBA to explain the numbers to the Casino. These two are not here to compete for the championship, but are an atmosphere group that enhances the atmosphere.
Even Wilkins, the judge of this dunk contest, felt the same way.
During the warm-up stage before the start of the game, Uncle Wilkins also smiled at Chen Xiao and said, "If I lower the height of the basket, I can still win the championship in this dunk competition."
What a guy, Uncle Wilkins, you really don’t use bean bags as dry food!
Chen Xiao's dunk attribute is 90. Compared with top dunkers like Wilkins, this dunk attribute is indeed average.
But, let alone you, even if you are the peak, I can beat you in the dunk contest!
The 90 attribute, combined with his physical talent, allows Chen Xiao to use most of the difficult dunk experience cards.
And how many dunk experience cards did Chen Xiao get on the training ground?
It can be described as countless!
Let’s just say that, although Chen Xiao does not know many dunk moves in the official competition, Chen Xiao’s dunk is definitely like a god in an informal competition like the slam dunk competition.
So, Chen Xiao really felt that he was looked down upon.
He came with a mission this time!
In this All-Star Dunk Contest, the system issued him a task called "Remake the Rumor".
When the system has entered the stage of free exploration, tasks are rarely issued to him, and the name of this task released by the system is "Take the wrong things"
As the slam dunk competition pursues gimmicks more and more, the truly excellent slam dunk movements are increasingly being despised. The system means that Chen Xiao can correct the situation and let audiences all over the world see the charm of the real slam dunk.
To be honest, if Chen Xiao hadn't accepted this task, he would definitely not want to participate in the slam dunk contest.
Although he can use the dunk experience to make a lot of super 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 childhood. To be honest, he lacks experience in dunking at high difficulty and does not know how to make moves to protect himself when dunking.
Although Chen Xiao was transformed by the system and had a hard body, the system did not say that he would never be injured. Therefore, Chen Xiao thought it would be better to be cautious.
But, this time there is nothing I can do.
Moreover, this system's task is quite just and is very attractive to Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao also feels that the current dunk contest is becoming more and more boring.
Especially last year, Howard, who used Bynum as the champion of the slam dunk contest, used the gimmick to the extreme.
To be honest, the gimmick is enough, and the atmosphere on the scene is indeed good, but it is difficult to become a classic.
Ten or twenty years later, when people saw Bynum's dunk last year, they would not think it was a slam dunk contest, they would not think it was a basketball game, they would not think it was a juggling.
If you really want to watch juggling, isn’t Harlem basketball good?
Although Chen Xiao, as the biggest player in this dunk contest, was so despised by professionals, Chen Xiao was a little embarrassed.
But for the audience on site and the audience in front of the TV, they would not look down on Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao is one of the most popular players in the NBA now and the first player in the league.
In this case, as long as Chen Xiao appears in the dunk contest, they will make a profit.
Whether Chen Xiao performs well or not in the slam dunk competition, they will not lose.
They performed well, and they were excited to cheer for Chen Xiao and witness the classics. If they performed poorly, they could laugh and make fun of it.
It has to be said that the slam dunk competition has gradually become a fast-food-style emotional venting tool, which is also the reason why the slam dunk competition is gradually becoming gimmick.
The players participating in the dunk competition are unwilling to fight, but the fans see that they think that if you don’t fight and your movements are not good, I naturally can only focus on the gimmicks.
This is actually mutual.
The system specially issued a task to allow Chen Xiao to participate in the dunk contest, and called it a mistake. It also hoped that he, the first person in the league, would lead the way and reshape the value of the dunk contest champion.
"Look, the champion of the slam dunk contest is so glorious. Chen Xiao, who is the MVP, scoring champion, two-time FMVP and champion, actually makes such an easy-to-be-injury move in order 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, due to the participation of Chen Xiao and Howard, this dunk contest is also the most bizarre one.
The NBA official registration was made by Chen Xiao and Howard successfully, mainly to take advantage of their popularity and really have no expectations for their performance in the dunk contest.
But both seem to be quite serious.
Especially Howard.
Yesterday, Howard specially found the NBA official and made a request to the official that Howard wanted the league to raise the basket for him in the dunk game so that he could fully demonstrate his amazing bounce.
Faced with Howard's request, the NBA officials were of course very shocked and decisively refused.
What a joke?
I bring my own props for the dunk contest. If I can’t bring them, don’t ask the official one. I will help you get them. Someone asked me to find Jordan as the background for him. How can I do it?
According to the news Chen Xiao got from Arenas, in this dunk contest, Howard has been practicing two moves, one is to complete a 360-degree spin dunk on a 3.66-meter basket; the other is to complete an air-receiver on a 3.50-meter basket and dunk after bypassing from the crotch.
Of course, if such an action is done on an ordinary basket, it will be of no competitiveness at all, so Howard wants to raise the height of the basket.
This is actually a gimmick. The basket has increased its height and looks more difficult. In fact, for Howard, the difficulty has not increased at all.
This kid likes to play gimmicks and is the target of the system's focus.
So, Chen Xiao was a little depressed when he heard Arenas say Howard was rejected by the league, and Chen Xiao was quite happy.
This kid always likes to go to the wrong path, and 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 had no frustration on his face.
Could it be that this kid has new tricks?
To be continued...