One Thousand Six Hundred and Two. The Most Undesirable Trophy

Without holding back, Sun Ce's desire to attack and his aggressive running were no less than usual.

His desire to win was not at the same level as other players, and he also motivated his teammates.

When the Eastern team finally reacted, Sun Ce had already found his feeling!

After the first quarter, the Western team led the Eastern team by 10 points, 36 to 36!

During the intermission, Old Bickerstaff asked Sun Ce if he wanted to continue playing.

Although he wanted Sun Ce to play the whole game, generally speaking, even if the opponent's players were used to death, they would only play for more than 30 minutes, not more.

Sun Ce was naturally happy and nodded in agreement.

After the second quarter, the Western team sent out Sun Ce, Irving, Lillard, Anthony Davis, and Aldridge.

The Eastern team sent out Paul, Wall, Anthony, Griffin, and Gasol. Joerger did not make any deliberate moves to send people, and did not even consider the lineup. They took turns to reduce the playing time of their two All-Stars Hayward and Hibbert.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Sun Ce blocked Anthony's layup. Anthony grabbed the offensive rebound and jumped up again. Anthony Davis rushed over and blocked his shot again.

When Anthony grabbed the offensive rebound again and was about to force a shot, he saw Sun Ce jumping up again, so he quickly retracted his action, shook off Sun Ce and jumped up again. Although he didn't score, he caused a foul.

Anthony felt so miserable. He actually blocked two shots, Sun Ce and Anthony Davis, who are the top two in the block list this season! It just so happens that Anthony is very easy to be blocked.

Fortunately, he has an excellent sense of smell for the block. He is at his peak and can grab the ball himself in most cases after being blocked.

Going to the free throw line, Anthony really had nothing to say about the enthusiasm shown by Sun Ce.

In terms of strength, Anthony felt that he was really not Sun Ce's opponent, unless he opened up one-on-one.

Moreover, Sun Ce didn't care about his physical strength at all!

This was something Anthony couldn't compare to in the game!

Sun Ce's fighting spirit after the start of the second quarter was not inferior to that of the first quarter! The physical potion accumulated before the last game against the Thunder was not used. Tonight, in order to win the All-Star MVP, it is ready to be used at any time.

However, Irving and Lillard came up. This pair of second- and third-year point guards are not as good at dealing with people as the older players. They can break through by themselves and shoot by themselves.

Sun Ce had no choice but to defend with Anthony Davis. Neither Sun Ce nor Anthony Davis could build a no-fly zone alone. Aldridge could only hold on for a while, and his defense was really average.

But Sun Ce and Anthony Davis were both there, and both wanted to defend well. The opponent could only shoot from the outside. The key was that the East team had Wall who relied on luck to shoot.

The East team had no choice but to rely on the advantage of having a center and was forced to play defense with the West team.

The East team's lineup could not break into the West team's inside line, but Paul and Wall's back line, coupled with Gasol's defense under the basket, the West team did not play well.

As the second quarter went on, it gradually became a defensive battle.

The score difference was gradually narrowed. At 5 minutes and 22 seconds, the West team led the East team by 7 points, 59 to 52. They only scored 13 points in more than 5 minutes, which is rare in the All-Star Game.

Old Bickerstaff called a timeout to make adjustments.

It’s not that he is worried about winning or losing. Whether Sun Ce gets the MVP has nothing to do with Old Bickerstaff.

In more than 4 minutes, Sun Ce only got 4 points. Although he had 3 rebounds and 3 blocks, Old Bickerstaff was worried that Sun Ce would play casually or ask to rest when he saw that he had no chance to win the MVP. That would not work!

Irving and Lillard, two second- and third-year players, had already played, so Old Bickerstaff didn’t care about them and replaced Curry, Harden, Sun Ce, Paul George, and Anthony Davis again!

The offensive firepower is rising,

and the defense is not bad! Especially Harden, facing Wade and Rose who were replaced in the East, Harden defended very well.

At the end of the first half, the Western team was 83 to 71, and the score difference was widened to double digits again.

In the third quarter, when the lineup of Sun Ce, Curry, Durant, James, and Love came on the court, Sun Ce and Curry had a splash connection and started to soar!

However, in the third quarter, on the Eastern team side, Joerger also began to rotate properly, sending out the core lineup of Rose + Griffin, Dragic and Hayward to receive shots, and Hibbert defended James under the basket.

In the case of Durant's weak offensive desire, if Sun Ce and Curry had not hit three-pointers in succession, they really couldn't stop Rose and Griffin's pick-and-roll offense.

The All-Stars' games, even if they were really fighting and crazy defense, not only did the viewing experience not decrease, but the fans felt it was more beautiful!

No matter how good the defense is, there will always be loopholes of one kind or another. If it is a regular season, the opponent's team will always have role players on the court. The biggest difference between role players and stars is that most of them shoot open shots, while stars can seize the opportunity in a flash under the situation of defense and confrontation.

When both teams have All-Stars, in situations where there is confrontation and the other team has excellent defense, the offensive players are still able to seize opportunities. From a sensory point of view, it is much more exciting than the two teams' endless easy shots and slam dunks!

At the end of the third quarter, the two teams were tied at 110 to 101. The score between the West and the East was 27 to 30, which was the lowest score in the first three quarters of the game.

But the cheers from the fans on the scene were the most manic in this quarter!

The rhythm was not satisfactory, the offense and defense were strong, and the game was very tight, wanting to seize the opportunity...

After the three quarters, Sun Ce only rested for more than 4 minutes in the first half of the third quarter, and played for more than 31 minutes. Sun Ce made 17 of 29 shots, including 5 of 9 three-pointers, and scored 45 points, 13 rebounds, 1 assist, and 7 blocks!

Last year, Kobe played for 33 minutes to create a single-game All-Star Game scoring record of 44 points, which Sun Ce broke in 31 minutes!

This made Kobe on the sidelines grit his teeth - how could he be so independent last year?

Wait! This guy was just as independent last year! He monopolized the ball. Although he didn't shoot many times last year, he got more than 20 assists!

Kobe was so angry. If he had known, he would have shot more last year and not passed the ball. He got 60 points.

Although he played very hard, because his teammates were strong, Sun Ce felt that it was time to use the physical potion after the first three quarters, and he used it decisively!

In the fourth quarter, the head coaches of both teams did not hold back and sent out the strongest lineup!

On the Eastern side, it was naturally a defense + singles lineup, with Paul, Dragic, Evans, Griffin, and Noah on the court.

Dragic and Evans are both very good at singles, and they are both scoring point guards. Paul and Griffin have good pick-and-roll cooperation, and Griffin is fierce at close range and under the basket, and Noah defends in the middle.

On the Western team, Sun Ce, Harden, Paul George, James, and Anthony Davis played.

James, who played slowly on the offensive end in the first three quarters and scored 8 points, 3 rebounds, 12 assists, and 1 steal, started to exert his strength in the fourth quarter!

The Eastern team also raised the confrontation to the strongest level.

Then, the thing that made the opponents extremely upset came again. Sun Ce, who played for more than 31 minutes and shot 29 times in the first three quarters, seemed to be fine. He continued to play hard on both offense and defense in the fourth quarter!

At 10 minutes and 22 seconds in the fourth quarter, Sun Ce slapped Anthony's close-range jump shot, and James grabbed the ball and counterattacked!

After Sun Ce blocked the shot, he saw James grab the ball and immediately rushed down. Dragic and Paul followed closely, but after Sun Ce received a long pass from James, the two All-Star point guards in the East who had good defense chose to give up. Sun Ce took the ball and took a step inside the free throw line, and easily picked up two points.

51 points, 16 rebounds, 10 blocks, 2 assists, and 2 steals!

A 50+ triple-double in the All-Star Game!

In this game, Sun Ce showed his strongest characteristics to the fullest, just like last year!

When his teammates perform well, Sun Ce can always grasp the effect of his teammates' containment, and can seize the loopholes in the opponent's defense caused by his teammates' good performance. He can choose to score, or he can choose to enter the opponent's double-teaming range to create opportunities for his teammates. However, most of the time when Sun Ce received the ball today, he just did it directly!

On the defensive end, whether Sun Ce and Paul George, Anthony Davis, and Harden's four-man defense dragged Curry, or formed a strong outside pressure defense with James and Harden, they all played the role of "lubricant".

At the last moment of the fourth quarter, the five-man team of Sun Ce, Harden, Paul George, James, and Anthony Davis made the Eastern team explode!

Of course, the Western team was also defended badly, but the Western team defended better! And with Sun Ce and James, the counterattack was very sharp!

After Sun Ce blocked the shot this time, he counterattacked and received the ball and made a layup, successfully helping the Western team to widen the gap to 11 points again, 134 to 123, and the Western team locked the victory!

The Eastern team, which lacked players who could shoot three-pointers, failed to fight back in the last 1 minute and 20 seconds. In the end, thanks to Sun Ce's triple-double of 54 points, 17 rebounds and 10 blocks, the Western team defeated the Eastern team 138 to 130!

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Played for more than 43 minutes, scored 54 points on 19 of 35 shots…Sun Ce set a new scoring record in the All-Star Game, raising the scoring record set by Kobe, who wore a rose tie on the sidelines last year, by 10 points!

17 rebounds…The two sides shot a total of 231 times in this game, the Western team shot 110 times, and the Eastern team shot 121 times. Sun Ce had no problem getting 17 rebounds.

The key is Sun Ce's 10 blocks!

Of these 10 blocks, 4 were sent to the same player...Anthony looked at his 15 rebounds speechlessly, including 7 offensive rebounds. Sun Ce and Anthony Davis treated him as a block ATM.

Sun Ce once again proved that the better his teammates are, the better he plays. The key is that when playing with him, others feel very comfortable! Although Sun Ce has the attribute of a black hole tonight, Sun Ce will take the initiative to cooperate with the running position and look for shooting opportunities that are more beneficial to him. In turn, it is more beneficial for teammates to get assists, rather than Lillard and Irving holding the ball and doing it by themselves.

This kind of "black hole" is similar to Jordan, Korver, and Hamilton. When the ball holder passes to him, Sun Ce is already ready to shoot, which is not the same as the black hole in the conventional sense.

The game is over. Looking at the score of more than 130 to more than 130 that Sun Ce jumped up, this score is really rare in the All-Star Game. People can forget 150 or 160 in the rookie game for 40 minutes.

But the fans were happy to watch it. There was more than 1 minute left before Sun Ce and James cooperated to win the victory.

In general, the West won because Sun Ce first "sneaked" to create a leading advantage, and then relied on the overall strength advantage to withstand the counterattack of the East team.

Among them, defense is the key among the keys!

Harden, Paul George, and Anthony Davis, these three people showed their defensive talents or strengths on the All-Star stage.

The happiest ones are the two owners of the Warriors who came to watch the game. Harden has already shown a very good defensive talent, but he is a bit lazy. Now there is Curry scoring and Iguodala defending the opponent's arrow. In the regular season, Harden is not willing to defend well except against strong teams.

But whenever Harden encounters such a game that he thinks is important, he will defend well, which is a very happy thing for the Warriors players, coaching staff, and management.

On the other hand, the East has shown tenacious resilience.

Although the East has three centers, Gasol, Hibbert, and Noah, the overall situation is at a disadvantage compared to the West. Their most powerful weapon, the pick-and-roll offense of Rose and Griffin, is not that others are unwilling to cooperate, but they cannot cooperate as well as the role players of the Bulls. Except for Noah, when others cooperate with Rose and Griffin, they just stand and wait for the ball to shoot.

Compared with the clearer positions in the West, the guards selected for the All-Stars in the East are all point guards. The only serious shooting guard is Wade, who is no longer as brave as he used to be.

But the defense is really good. The defense of the Eastern point guard group played an important role in being able to hold on to the Western team to the end.

However, winning is winning, losing is losing, and it does not affect everyone. Everyone wants to win during the game, but when the game is over, it is just an All-Star game.

Sun Ce showed his idea of ​​winning the MVP from the beginning, and played for more than 43 minutes, fighting all the time, so he deserved it.

After the game, familiar All-Star players were teasing Sun Ce for playing an All-Star game like the finals, while Anthony was drawing circles in the corner.

Sun Ce and Anthony Davis blocked him 7 times! He played for a total of 21 minutes, and was blocked once every 3 minutes on average! How miserable!

The post-game interview and chat took 15 minutes, and the voting for the most valuable player on the league side was over.

Although there was no suspense, Sun Ce not only got his fourth triple-double in the All-Star Game tonight, the first four were Jordan, Wade, and James; he also set a new record for the highest score in the All-Star Game, 19 of 35 shots, raising Kobe's record of 25 shots in the All-Star Game last year to 35 times, and also raising his score to 54 points; and Sun Ce is the first player to get a triple-double in the All-Star Game...

But the league still has to go through the motions.

At 10:35 pm, David Stern came to the court with the etiquette lady. Sun Ce was pushed to the front by James, Griffin and others. Although James scored 14 points, 7 rebounds and 18 assists, everyone knew that the MVP tonight was Sun Ce, and most of the players in the West were feeding the ball to Sun Ce.

Irving was very jealous. He originally wanted to have a good show tonight, but Sun Ce stole the limelight. Although Irving was also valued by other stars and was one of the strongest point guards of the new generation, compared with Sun Ce, in the minds of All-Star players, their status was not on the same level.

Sun Ce refused disrespectfully and immediately stood in the front after a second, but Sun Ce saw a person who should not be on the court-Kobe Bryant!

"Could it be..." Sun Ce had a bad premonition.

David Stern picked up the microphone: "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to the scene or watching this wonderful game on TV or computer, and thank you for the efforts of all the players.

OK, OK, I know that everyone wants to see the Lord hold the MVP trophy again, but before that, I have a very important announcement!"

David Stern did not keep anyone in suspense and said directly that Sun Ce won the All-Star MVP for two consecutive years.

But David Stern's next sentence made people curious. What can be called an important thing tonight that must be announced before the All-Star MVP is announced?

And David Stern's words made Sun Ce feel even more uneasy! Because he saw it! There is something wrong with this year's All-Star MVP trophy!

There are actually two numbers on it!

"Ladies and gentlemen, after many rounds of discussions and consulting with many celebrities, we finally made a decision. The NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Trophy was finally named. In order to thank Kobe Bryant for his outstanding contributions over the past 18 years and to give Kobe Bryant, who has won five All-Star Most Valuable Player awards, a lifetime achievement, I declare that the All-Star Most Valuable Player Trophy is named the Kobe Bryant Cup!"

There were many Kobe fans at the scene. When they heard this, the scene was boiling!

The players on the court and the players watching the game on the sidelines were also shocked, and then...envious!

And Sun Ce, looking at the smile on Kobe's face, felt that it was so cheap!

Showing off, arrogant, proud...filled together, Sun Ce felt too cheap! He wanted to leave and didn't want this MVP!

After a few seconds, after the cheers gradually subsided, David Stern continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, I declare that the winner of the 2013-2014 New Orleans All-Star Weekend Most Valuable Player Award is-Lord Noah!"

David Stern picked up the All-Star trophy, put it in Kobe's hand, and then hugged Kobe.

Sun Ce wanted to hit someone when he saw this scene! It was like Kobe won the MVP!

Kobe walked up to Sun Ce, opened his arms to hug him, still with a mean smile, and smiled proudly. Sun Ce hugged Kobe and wiped the sweat off his body on Kobe.

Taking the trophy, Sun Ce looked at the 8 and 24 on both sides of the NBA logo...so jealous!