NBA All-Star Weekend, a game that is boring every year but is extremely popular every year.

When I was a fan in the past, Link thought that the All-Star weekend was meaningless, and at most, I watched the dunk contest. Even so, several NBA dunk contests made people dunk watching it.

However, as a player, Link feels that the All-Star weekend is not that boring. At least, it is much more interesting than day-to-day training and competitions.

The All-Star Weekend started on the 24th, but until the 23rd, there were still teams playing games. There was no way, the shrinking season was just so fucked. But luckily, Link and Gasol Jr. did not encounter such a dilemma.

The Grizzlies' game ended on the 21st. The day before the 23rd All-Star Game started, Link arrived in Orlando with Gasol Jr.

As soon as the plane landed, Link couldn't wait to glance out a few times. Sure enough, in the airport, Link saw the promotional poster of this year's All-Star! Most of the characters on the poster were players selected for the All-Star Championship this year, and Link was listed!

Although this is not the first time Link has seen his poster on a building, Link still feels quite accomplished when he appears with so many big-name stars.

After getting off the plane and walking out of the passage. In the airport lobby, Link and Gasol Jr. encountered crazy surroundings from reporters.

The reporters basically stayed at the airport for 24 hours in the past two days, just for these players who came to participate in the All-Star Weekend.

But today, when the reporters saw Link, they all opened their mouths in surprise.

This guy is pretty stylish?

With the creation of a stylist, Link wore a dark blue suit, which just echoed the main color of the Grizzlies. Since he was an athlete, his figure was naturally unspeakable, and he was simply a clothes rack. Before traveling through time, Link always felt like a street liar after wearing a suit.

This is the first time that he can be related to the word "shuai" after wearing a suit.

Not just a suit, Link also wore a pair of sunglasses on his face and had some textures on his short hair, which looked like Paul George in the future. Although it was just a simple short hair style, the haircut process was very complicated.

Link finally knows why those seemingly simple hairstyles look so good on TV, but they are ugly when they do them themselves.

Because hairstylists are not of the same level at all, the effect of finding a teacher Tony who is one of 30 and a well-known hairstylist to get the same hairstyle is very different.

Link's appearance made the entire hall flash. I believe that tomorrow, his photos will also murder most of the pages of paper media.

"You are really popular, Link, your new look is very suitable for you." Gasol, a little bit envious of Link's popularity when he got on the special car to the hotel.

"Yes, I spent 50,000 US dollars." When he thought of his expensive clothes, he felt aching.

I am used to wearing Nike's free clothes, so I suddenly spend 50,000 yuan to buy clothes. It would be strange if I don't feel sorry for you.

"Hahahaha, but it's worth it. You have competitions three days this year and the exposure is very high. It's true that you should play well. By the way, you're going to participate in the rookie challenge tomorrow?"

"Well, I can only rest today. Oh, no, there will be activities from Nike tonight. So strictly speaking, I can have a good rest every day this year." Link felt desperate when he thought of his full schedule. What about the Golden Week?

But this is also good. Link is afraid that he will become lazy after he completely relaxes. If he keeps trying to urge himself, he will give people a certain sense of tension.

This year, Link has no goals in the All-Star Game. Rookie Link just wants to play casually, after all, it is unlikely that he will be the MVP in the rookie game for the rest of the time. And it is enough to win one of these awards.

In the All-Star Game? Link wanted to perform well, but it was too difficult to grab the All-Star Game MVP. This is not like last year, when he fooled Cousins ​​for a while, he could grab the MVP. James, Durant, Kobe, and Anthony wanted to stand out from these guys, but it was not easy at all.

Both MVPs are basically unable to stand, so the goal that Link gave him this year is to strive to win a three-point competition champion back!

This year, the players participating in the three-point competition are not particularly strong. Chalmos has always been a shooter. Although James Jones has a high shooting percentage, he has made few shots this season and may not be able to maintain his form. Ryan Anderson, Love and Anthony Morrow are not super shooters either.

So Link believes that as long as he works hard to maintain the feel, it is not impossible to defeat them.

Link doesn't remember who the three-point championship this year, nor how much is the highest score in this year's three-point competition. He only knows that when the three-point competition was not restructured before 2014, the highest score record in the three-point competition was 25 points, which was created by Clegg Hodgson in 1986, and Novak in 2008 once tied this record.

To break the record, we have to wait until Curry in 2015 and Devin Booker in the future.

Therefore, there should be no too perverted high score this year.

Thinking of this, Link suddenly felt a lot of confidence. When he came to the All-Stars, he couldn't return empty-handed.

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On the morning of the 24th, pre-match training for the rookie tournament officially began. Like last year, this kind of training is mostly about show work.

This year's rookie match is a bit special. In order to stimulate the ratings, the league no longer uses first-grade and second-grade teams, but allows first-grade and second-grade teams to mix, and then Barkley and O'Neal are the two old enemies who choose to tie up the team.

Link was selected by Barkley this year and was formed with old friends George, Cousins, and two No. 1 picks Wall and Irving.

On the O'Neal team are Griffin, Monroe, Jeremy Lin, Fields and Rubio.

On paper, Barkley's strength is stronger on paper. But people also believe that Griffin will seriously play with Link because of the All-Star Game.

Overall, the restructuring of this year's rookie tournament was indeed very successful. At least in terms of attracting attention, the league has achieved its goal.

Link is very glad that he is in the Barkley team because most of the players here have a good relationship with him. At least, there are no players who are in the wrong way with him.

So when the rookie competition is open, Link can practice his three-point shooting peacefully without worrying about anyone looking for trouble.

Link is indeed not as concerned about this year's rookie tournament as last year. As a person, he cannot just live in the glory of the past and has to work towards new goals.

So, the rookie match at night completely became a stage for Irving and Wall and others. The fantasy Link vs. Griffin did not appear because neither Link nor Griffin played for long.

Griffin did want to beat Link, but he didn't have to prove himself in a rookie game.

Link is already an All-Star, and he just shows off his face in the rookie game.

In this year's game, Griffin still played QQ after he came on the court. After Link came on the court, he just tried to shoot a three-pointer to warm up tomorrow's three-point match.

Link felt pretty good today, making 4 of 5 three-pointers. However, this is because there is no defense in the rookie game and Link also shoots without much pressure, so he is so accurate.

Although tomorrow's three-point competition is also unpredictable, under the dual pressure of scoring and time limits, players may not be able to shoot as accurately as they did during training.

In the end, the new No. 1 pick Kelly Irving scored 34 points and became the MVP of this rookie tournament. When the awards were presented, the official deliberately arranged for Link to hand the trophy to Irving, which had some meaning of inheritance.

But a loser to the No. 1 pick, Link thinks it is quite weird.

Today's rookie match ended, and Link and Griffin were basically spectators. But after the game, Link did not leave immediately, but continued to practice three-pointers in the training hall.

On the one hand, Link needs to prepare for tomorrow's three-point contest.

On the other hand, after finally getting extra practice time, Link also wanted to fill in his little white strips as much as possible.
Chapter completed!