One Thousand Five Hundred and Ninety-Six. The Five All-Stars Who Feel Honored (Five Thousand Words)

On the afternoon of the 15th, Sun Ce went to New Orleans alone with several teammates and several stars who had agreed to perform before the All-Star Game on a plane chartered by James.

Lily Collins is pregnant. Although she has just been pregnant for a short time and theoretically does not affect her daily life, Sun Ce's parents have a completely different view. Now Lily Collins is "extremely high-risk" in their eyes.

If Lily Collins does not go to New Orleans, Xiao Wuhan will not go either. Therefore, Zu Ge also refused to take leave to accompany Sun Ce to New Orleans. Since Sun Ce is going to have a new child, Zu Ge, who has long wanted to hold a child and treat Xiao Wuhan as his own child, is worried that Xiao Wuhan will fall out of favor and is particularly worried.

Sun Ce's parents... now ignore Sun Ce. They are about to hold their second grandson or first granddaughter, and they don't care what Sun Ce wants to do.

Sun Ce was abandoned again...

This year's All-Star Weekend is from the 17th to the 19th. The Rookie Game will start the day after tomorrow. Including tonight, there are only three days until the performance of the All-Star Game. When they went out together after lunch at noon, James, Wade, Love, Irving... and other old and new members of the dance troupe were asking Sun Ce what he was going to perform.

There are only three days, even if the fans don't care whether their performance is professional or not, they want to perform as well as possible.

But Sun Ce has never paid attention to this and is really not prepared.

But fortunately, there is an event that can be triggered actively.

Sun Ce first perfunctorily passed it over and said that he would tell them what to perform when he arrived at the hotel in New Orleans.

After worrying about his family status for a while, Sun Ce sighed that fortunately he didn't have a dog or a cat at home, otherwise his family status would inevitably decline further.

Focus on the performance, and you must perform well. The fans are the parents of food and clothing. Whether it is the fans watching the game in person or the fans watching the game on TV or online, you have to be responsible for them.

It can't be said that they don't have too many requirements, so they don't prepare well. Since they have accepted this task, they have to perform well. Fans originally had performances of professional singers or world-class dance troupes from Grammy to watch.

"Brother Learning Machine, what is the event that you bet on with a lottery card? Use that!"

"Artist's Fantasy (All-Star Weekend Exclusive): The host can put in a lottery card, specify a literary type, and randomly get a perfect performance card of that type.

The types that can be specified: singing and dancing, musical instruments, stunts...

If the host's performance before the All-Star Game is sincerely loved by the fans or infects the fans,

you can get a special reward: the level of the lottery card invested is upgraded and returned. (The highest level of the returned lottery card is A-level)"

Sun Ce decisively put in the B-level lottery card that he had kept all the time, and specified a song and dance performance card.

"The host has put in a B-level lottery card and specified a song and dance performance card. Congratulations to the host for getting a random song and dance card."

With a thought, Sun Ce directly used the card he just got.

"Host uses random song and dance card... Congratulations to the host for getting the song card:..."

The system screen switched to the prop space, and a sheet of music was added.

At the same time, Sun Ce had a "singing memory" of this song in his mind.

This Sun Ce was a bit annoyed, this is a solo song for the orchestra!

Even a chorus song would be fine!

"Hey, wait, this song is a bit in line with my current family situation and mood!"

As a man who was "abandoned" but loved his wife who had just got married, Sun Ce looked at the lyrics and felt that this song was too wonderful!

As for the others, due to the retirement of Nash and Yao Ming, Randolph, Duncan and Bosh not being selected for the All-Stars, this year's All-Star dance troupe has lost a few people. Last year's dance troupe only had him, James, Kobe, and Wade.

So this year, Love and Irving, who were re-selected for the All-Stars, were recruited to join, and there were only 6 people.

To be honest, with this number of people, there was no special effort to recruit more members this year. I'm used to square dancing together... No, it's Sun Ce who is dancing happily with a bunch of people, and I feel that the number is too small.

It just so happens that these guys seem to know how to play some instruments, so why not let the five of them play accompaniment and harmony?

Having made up his mind, Sun Ce was no longer so upset. He wanted to express his sadness that his family status was once again seriously affected during the All-Star Weekend!

However, Sun Ce looked at the name of the event that was triggered actively again - the artist's fantasy.

"Hey, using music to express emotions, as expected, I, Sun Ce, can't avoid the title of people's artist."

...

Most of the players have already started their holidays, while those All-Star players who are regarded as very good in some aspects by the league or who have the potential to become stars have to continue working.

Excellence often requires more work from the capable, and sometimes the better the better.

Entering the All-Star Weekend holiday, fans' attention and enthusiasm for the NBA continue to rise. This year's All-Star Weekend has four events that fans really want to watch.

In the Rookie Game, what kind of sparks will the mixed team composed of 13th and 12th players create?

In the three-point contest, how will the little bully who will avenge his grudges perform?

The All-Star Game, due to the team changes of many All-Star players last summer, who will win the MVP this time... There is also the performance before the All-Star Game. What will be performed has not been announced yet, and Many of the stars who participated in the show in the past two or three years have retired or stayed away from the All-Star Game.

Also, in the Shooting Star Challenge, can Bosh continue his dominance? Can he continue to win the championship under the siege of three pairs of father and son teams?

In the previous half-time finale, the Grizzlies' game against the Thunder had already aroused the enthusiasm of the fans.

The remaining heat of the NFL has completely passed; ice hockey is more popular in Canada than in the United States; baseball is a summer sport, and Major League Baseball is usually the most interesting in the middle of the season, which is different from the other three major leagues. In other places, baseball leagues in other countries are fine. Here in North America, after the players rested for a winter and half of the spring, they entered the state relatively slowly.

Except for the major ice hockey league, which has no choice but to play at fixed times, the other three major leagues have staggered the most exciting and intense stages of their leagues.

Therefore, in North America, from the end of the Super Bowl in early February to the start of the All-Star Weekend to June, these four and a half months are the hottest stage of the NBA.

Since there are still two days left before the start of the All-Star Weekend, hot news such as Sun Ce’s crazy quadruple-double, Sun Ce’s proposal, and Sun Ce’s certification have dominated the screen for two days. On the 15th, fans’ attention is devoted to the All-Star Weekend and the first half of each team’s season. Performance, the performance of each player in the first half.

In terms of teams, the best performer currently is undoubtedly the Pacers.

The Pacers, who played 53 games, achieved a terrifying record of 46 wins and 7 losses, ranking first in the league!

In the Eastern Conference, the Bulls ranked second with 41 wins and 13 losses; the Wizards achieved a comeback in the last game before the All-Star Weekend, ranking third in the Eastern Conference with 33 wins and 21 losses; the 76ers ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference with 32 wins and 22 losses.

The Raptors are fifth with 31 wins and 22 losses, the Nets are sixth with 31 wins and 23 losses, the Knicks are seventh with 30 wins and 24 losses, the Hornets are eighth with 29 wins and 25 losses, and the Cavaliers are 28 wins and 25 losses. Ninth, the Hawks with 28 wins and 25 losses ranked tenth, and the Pistons ranked 11th with 26 wins and 27 losses...

The record gap between No. 3 and No. 11 in the Eastern Conference is very small. A winning streak by a certain team or a losing streak by a certain team will have a great impact on the record rankings.

In the Western Conference, the Lakers did not play against James in the last game before the All-Star Weekend, and were upset by the Kings. Their record became 43 wins and 11 losses, falling to second place in the Western Conference; the Spurs' troika + cover Yi took the rest and steadily defeated the Nuggets, returning to first place in the Western Conference with 44 wins and 10 losses.

This scene seems to return to the 2003-04 season 10 years ago. That year, before the All-Star Weekend, the Spurs ranked first in the Western Conference, but the Pacers were first in the league.

That year, the Pacers, led by a veteran who was no longer as strong as he once was, led a group of talented young players and achieved the best half-season record in team history; that year, the Spurs' strongest star was named Duncan...

The third place is the rising Trail Blazers with a record of 40 wins and 14 losses, the Grizzlies are ranked fourth with 36 wins and 16 losses, the Mavericks are temporarily ranked fifth with 34 wins and 20 losses, and the Warriors are ranked sixth with 32 wins and 21 losses. , the Jazz ranked seventh with 32 wins and 22 losses, the Thunder ranked eighth with 30 wins and 24 losses, and the Timberwolves ranked ninth with 27 wins and 27 losses.

This year, 20 teams are still vying for a playoff spot. There is one team, the Nuggets, that cannot make it to the playoffs.

There are still 9 teams that are already happily heading towards Wiggins.

The Clippers, who are last in the league, currently have 5 wins and 39 losses. It is not that they have no chance to break the record low winning rate set by the Bobcats in the 11-12 season. They even have the most losses in history of 9 wins and 73 losses set by the 76ers in the 1972-1973 season. Chance to break, anyway, there is no suspense for the Clippers to break their worst record of 12 wins and 70 losses in team history.

In terms of player performance, at the end of the half-season, Sun Ce, Westbrook, James, Rose, and Evans became the five best players in the first half of the season.

Among them, the one who is now regarded as the strongest player is Sun Ce!

Even though the troubles the team has encountered this season have not stopped, Sun Ce has relied on 14 40+ single games, one 60+, one 70+, and 26 triple-doubles to help the Grizzlies in this difficult period. The season has supported the record.

Of course, the Grizzlies' young players have begun to take on heavy responsibilities this season, and their performance has been extremely impressive.

Klay Thompson maintained his performance last season with more accurate shooting when his strength inside was weakened; Paul George became more comprehensive and became a first-class point forward; Yi Jianlian developed three-pointers and reached his peak. Performance; although Beverley had more injury time, he showed the strength of a top 3D point guard...

Personally, Sun Ce currently ranks first in the scoring list, triple-double list, and blocks list! Averaged 33.3 points, 13.5 rebounds, 9.1 assists, 3.4 blocks and 1.5 steals per game, which can only be described as crazy.

After the All-Star Weekend, we will enter the end of the regular season. Each team still has 28 to 30 games to play...most teams have 28 games, a small number of teams have 29 games, and only the Grizzlies have 30 games.

This means that the Grizzlies have one more game than most teams in late February and March.

This is a huge test in the eyes of experts and the media.

It seems to be just one more game, but in fact, the impact will be huge!

The league has begun to adjust the schedule this year. Before the All-Star Weekend, each team will have 1-3 more games than in previous seasons, so that the schedule after the All-Star Weekend will be easier for each team.

When other teams are relaxed, the Grizzlies' schedule from February to April has not changed, which means the difficulty has increased.

This year, there are more interesting games after the All-Star Weekend. Nine teams in the East are competing for six playoff spots. In the West, although some are ridiculously strong and some are too weak, the gap between the third and ninth is not that big. In case of a ghost, the Timberwolves have a winning streak and still have a theoretical chance to rush to third.

In addition, the competition between the Spurs and the Lakers for the first place in the West is also very fierce. And what kind of record can the Pacers finally get?

Last season, with Nene, James and Bosh led Wade, who was in a serious decline, to win 30 consecutive games and 70 games in a single season. The Pacers' current record is better than that of the Heat last season... Before last season, people always thought that only the Bulls could win 70 games, after all, the Lakers, who won 33 consecutive games, only won 69 games.

But now, nothing can be said!

This group of players on the Pacers has really become popular this year. As a defensive player, Hibbert's defensive data is not so good, and his offensive data is even more average, but he has been ranked in the top ten of the MVP rankings for a long time. It seems that the best defensive player has been taken by him. Ibaka, Noah, Chandler, Paul George, James and other players are all runners-up.

When the discussion among netizens reached a climax, late at night on February 15, the NBA officially announced a deal that seemed insignificant to others, and it was related to the object of the fans' discussion.

The Pacers sent Danny Granger, Odom Johnson, and the 2014 second-round pick to the Kings and reached a deal in exchange for Evan Turner and John Salmons.

After the deal was reached, most media and fans felt that the Pacers made a huge profit!

Granger and John Salmons are both players who have big contracts but cannot play games. The former has only played 22 games this season with a hit rate of 35%; the latter has not played many times in the Kings this year. He played at the peak of his career in the 2009-2010 season and got a 4-year, 30 million contract. Who knew that John Salmons would be useless after getting the big contract? Now it is finally the last year.

The Kings made this deal to avoid the embarrassment of whether Evan Turner will renew his contract. Evan Turner is like a chicken rib for the Kings. It is a pity to eat it and throw it away, so they simply exchanged it for a second-round pick.

By the way, the Kings' salary this year has not reached the poverty line, so it is just right to take Granger's contract.

As for the Pacers, they exchanged Granger's contract of more than 14 million and Odom Johnson's more than 1 million for the expiring contracts of Evan Turner and John Salmons, reducing their salaries by more than 4 million, and reducing their total salary to 76 million to avoid luxury tax.

Moreover, the Pacers got Evan Turner, a point forward with 13+5+3 level, which seemed to be a great reinforcement, which was equivalent to exchanging Granger, who could no longer play, for Evan Turner, who was in the last year of his rookie contract!

After the transaction was completed, the Pacers' operation was widely praised.

But that night, Sun Ce, who had just agreed to play a song with four teammates who performed before the All-Star Game, was speechless when he saw the transaction-does the Pacers really want to save that part of the salary no matter what?

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In the original time and space, the Pacers completed the transaction with the 76ers, who were in a bad state and had a total salary of less than the poverty line and needed to fill the gap. Here, it was the Kings, who were also in a bad state and had a salary of less than the poverty line and needed to fill the gap.

Sun Ce can understand the Pacers' trade. Any team would be willing to do it if they can get Evan Turner and save money.

However, since Sun Ce knows the huge impact this trade will have on the Pacers, his view is very different from others.

A moment of silence for the young men of the Pacers. Lance Stephenson and Hibbert, the two troublemakers, are not suppressed by Granger... The picture is beautiful!

On February 16, Sun Ce participated in a business event in the morning. This morning he had two promotional activities. The first one was to promote the replica version of Air-Jordan's sneakers. This year is the promotion period for the replica sneakers. Next year, it will be his turn to promote his three sneakers.

The second one was to promote the products of several Internet companies invested by his and John's investment company.

In the afternoon, Sun Ce began to cooperate with a professional band to practice instruments for James, Love, Kobe, Wade, and Irving.

These guys can play some musical instruments to some extent. James… after entering the NBA, he actually learned to play the violin; Love and Irving are pretty good at playing guitar; Wade is more versatile, and has dabbled in many instruments; Kobe is the best in this regard, and his piano skills are extremely high. Of course, he can't compare with professionals, but he grew up in a wealthy family and had a professional piano teacher when he was over two years old. The only NBA player who can compare with him in piano skills is Grant Hill.

These five people, with two professional musicians, practiced for an afternoon and they are pretty good.

Originally, these five people were looking forward to a team performance, but after seeing the music score copied by Sun Ce and the high evaluation of the song by the professional band prepared by the NBA for them... Kobe, James, Love, Wade, and Irving felt that it was an honor to provide harmony and accompaniment for a Grammy-level singer!

But this also made several superstars very upset - this guy's musical level is so high, why can't he just sing well? He has to play basketball?

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On February 17, the NBA 2013-2014 New Orleans All-Star Weekend kicked off!

This year, two players from the Grizzlies participated in the Rookie Game, and the teammates who came to New Orleans went to cheer for Hardaway Jr.

Originally, Sun Ce and others did not have too many expectations for Hardaway Jr. and Valanciunas' performance tonight. They thought that Hardaway Jr. and Valanciunas were just here to make up the numbers, but they didn't expect Hardaway Jr. to have fun in such a game that was regarded as a dunk game!