Chapter 1400 1399. The Whole Team Is Made up of High School Students

The Hawks announced the signing of two post players, Stromile Swift and Mark Jackson, the second overall pick in 2000, filling out the 15-man roster.

The teams competing for the championship are secretly criticizing the Heat, Grizzlies, Hornets and SuperSonics again, giving the Hawks a chance to strengthen.

But Liu Mang was very disgusted with it, which made the Eagles management feel weird.

This is already a good pick. Swift is okay, he is just a 28-year-old physical man, and Mark Jackson is a veteran center with good experience.

The acquisition of Mark Jackson was all due to the Hawks being very active. He was bought out at noon. In the afternoon, Chip Englander, who stayed in Atlanta and was bought out just after being traded, went to meet with Mark Jackson in Miami. Mark Jackson, who had just experienced a confusing situation, signed a contract with the Eagles for the remaining half of the season.

This season, due to O'Neal's journey to the west and Wade's retirement, the fortune teller has been much more cautious about the use of Stoudemire. In addition, Mark Jackson has become the main insider, averaging 13 points and 6 rebounds per game. Both statistics are good. This is a new high outside of his rookie season.

Mark Jackson is really weird. He was a rookie in the 1997 class. He only entered the NBA in 2000. In his rookie season, he averaged 13+7 per game and almost stole Mike Miller's Rookie of the Year award. Unfortunately, he was reimbursed for the season before the All-Star Weekend and did not win. It lasted the entire season, and at that time he received a higher evaluation than No. 1 pick Kenyon Martin.

After his rookie season was reimbursed, Mark Jackson became a homeless man. He is only in the seventh year of his career and is already on his seventh team.

The Eagles management felt inexplicably embarrassed because of Liu Mang's disgust, but other teams felt a little bit threatened.

No matter how bad these two are, they can give Marion and Kwame Brown a few more minutes to rest.

From last summer to now, teams competing for the championship, and teams that don’t want the Hawks to reinforce them, have tried every possible means to retain their own insiders, even raising the price to other teams that want to trade the insiders, but they won’t give them to the Hawks anyway. team, just to weaken the Eagles' inside strength.

These two people joined the Eagles. In other people's eyes, the Eagles were sure to make a profit. If they signed them, they would make a lot of money, but if they didn't play well, they would be cut. However, Coach Kruger saw Liu Mang's disgusted expression, but he didn't. What a sense of joy...

He was obviously very happy when these two transactions were just completed...

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In the Rookie Challenge on the 16th, the limelight was stolen by the Eagles signing two free agents.

They may not be outstanding players, but it's the Eagles who signed them, so that's different.

In the Rookie Challenge, Brandon Roy, the Blazers' favorite for the Rookie of the Year, led the first-year team to a 144-136 victory over the second-year team. Roy, who scored 33 points and 7 assists, won the Rookie Challenge MVP.

The second-year Paul didn't play, and the second-year Deron was really no match for the rookie Roy, at least in this kind of competition where personal ability is high.

On the 17th, in the three-point competition, Granger participated in the three-point contest.

Regarding being invited to participate in the three-point contest, Granger felt that he could not lose face. In an interview, he said: "I originally wanted to participate in the dunk contest, but I don't know why it ended up being like this..."

As for why he said this, it is mainly because he only scored 10 points in the three-point contest...

The Heat's Jason Kapono defeated Korver, Fisher, Granger, Wang Zhizhi, and Nowitzki to win the championship of this year's All-Star Three-Point Contest.

The slam dunk contest was still dimmed, with the only star of interest being Dwight Howard. However, Howard failed to advance to the finals and was won the dunk title by Timberwolves small forward Gerald Green.

As for the Shooting Star Challenge, Liu Mang originally planned to continue participating with Bosh. He won the championship last year and will continue to rush this year. However, Bosh was injured in mid-January and will miss four to six weeks. The All-Star Weekend is definitely Not being able to participate, Liu Mang refused the alliance's invitation.

The Skills Challenge was the most eye-catching. Kobe, James, and Kidd participated. However, none of them entered the finals and were eliminated in the first round. Mavericks guard Devin Harris won the Skills Challenge championship.

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Liu Mang, Garnett, and James sat together. Just seeing the three sitting there, the media felt a strong sense of embarrassment.

Some media broke the news that James took the initiative to recruit Garnett. Garnett expressed that he wanted to partner with James, but was unwilling to play in Cleveland.

The media also broke the news that before Garnett applied for a trade to the Hawks and was rejected, he excitedly called his friends to tell his friends that he was going to Atlanta to play, and the last place he went to was Chicago.

Even without the 1-1 tie between the Hawks and Bulls this season, and without the various conflicts that have arisen in the four regular-season games between the Bulls and Cavaliers in the same division, these three people would have Being interviewed together is already awkward.

Howard sat next to the three of them, looking even more embarrassed!

What a coincidence, Howard was also criticized by Garnett. Garnett scolded Howard for "being ridden every day" because it was hereditary...

These vicious words caused Howard to swing his elbow and be ejected from the game. In the game where the Bulls almost lost to the Magic, the Bulls finally came back after Howard was ejected.

There is only one person whose painting style is very strange...

Tracy McGrady is always so different.

The other four people had embarrassment written all over their faces, only McGrady smiled and answered questions...

All-Star Weekend is always changing. This year's roundtable meeting of the All-Star Game especially highlighted the five All-Star starters from the East and West, trying to create a topic of confrontation between the East and the West.

But I didn't expect that the East would be in opposition to each other.

Moreover, three of them targeted the same person...

This person is Garnett...

In fact, it was similar in the West. Iverson and Kobe were both selected as All-Star starters. The two were incompatible, but the Lakers team in the West occupied three starting positions. Iverson and Duncan had a bad relationship. The two had conflicts in the national team, so... The embarrassment of the All-Star starters in the West was no worse than that in the East...

The Lakers and Spurs are the favorites for the championship. As for the Nuggets, although their record is not as good as the top three in the West, they have two guns together, and their goal is definitely to win the championship.

The league wanted to create a gimmick of East-West confrontation, but from the beginning, the All-Star starters on both sides disliked each other...

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"Ace, how do we play this time?" Seeing Garnett was interviewed alone, James approached Liu Mang and asked, and McGrady also came together at this time.

"Let me think... Let's call Dako and Vince! Garnett will definitely not play with us. If we win, he will definitely compete with us for the MVP. It doesn't matter whether we win or not, the MVP cannot be given to him!" Liu Mang expressed his thoughts.

"That's right!" James and McGrady agreed with Liu Mang's idea.

"But if we lose to the West, Kobe may get the MVP, and such a result is also annoying." Liu Mang continued.

"Ace, what do you mean?" James felt a fear he had felt before...

When he was a rookie, the Hawks did those excessive things to him...

But now the target is the one wearing the No. 24 jersey, James wants to defeat the one wearing the No. 24 jersey the most...

Howard watched Liu Mang, McGrady, and James discussing something with their arms around each other. Since the three of them were in the same nest, Howard didn't hear what they were saying, but he was so envious when he saw the three of them grinning from time to time.

The first time Howard was selected for the All-Star Game, he felt that his teammates were so far away from him...

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Starting the All-Star Game for five consecutive years, Liu Mang has played in the All-Star Game for six consecutive years since his rookie season, including being designated by David Stern to replace Carter as an All-Star in his rookie year.

The All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas is quite unique. The biggest feature is that there are many girls wearing revealing clothes on the scene, sitting in the expensive front seats ready to catch a rich man.

However, Liu Mang's attention was still on the "black pearl" Beyonce. The thing Las Vegas lacked the least was money. The warm-up guest for the All-Star Weekend they hosted was the popular female singer Beyonce. According to the procedure, there were several big-name singers performing during the intermission and halftime. In addition, the sidelines were filled with a lot of celebrities that the girls and socialites wanted to hook.

A mess, this All-Star Weekend was too chaotic. There were many shootings in the past few days. Liu Mang stayed in the hotel except for necessary outings for activities and today's All-Star Game to avoid accidents.

Schwartz turned down a lot of work, and this aspect was also very important. Las Vegas... was indeed too chaotic.

But when it came to the game, the problem was not big. The security in the NBA stadium has always been very good.

This is the sixth All-Star Game, and it is in such a chaotic place. Liu Mang thinks it is better not to be too prominent.

At the same time, in the spirit of friendship, mutual assistance and love, Liu Mang is ready to let another No. 24 feel...

Feel the feeling of being close to autism that LeBron James felt back then.

After a series of complicated and tedious opening ceremonies, the 2007 Las Vegas All-Star Game kicked off.

The starting lineup of the Eastern All-Star team is: Liu Mang, McGrady, James, Garnett, Howard.

The starting lineup of the Western All-Star team is: Iverson, Kobe, Duncan, Gasol, Yao Ming.

Today, the main attack right of the Eastern team is unanimously agreed to be given to James.

If Liu Mang or McGrady wants to challenge the MVP, Garnett will definitely steal the show. The head coach of the Cavaliers is the head coach of this Eastern All-Star team. I guess he will be scared after being yelled at by Garnett.

But if it is James, a socialite with a very good relationship, who wants to rush for the MVP, even Garnett is embarrassed to steal the show. These days, James invited everyone in the Eastern All-Star team except Liu Mang to have fun.

It was quite awkward when we were interviewed together in public, but it was much better in private, mainly because of face.

Liu Mang didn't go because he was worried about the public security here.

Jump ball... The West team was completely unable to compete with the East team. The East team got the first chance to attack, and Howard easily won the jump ball over Yao Ming's head.

James received the ball and directly pushed forward the fast break. At the beginning of the game, the West team didn't defend much, and James easily scored two points with a quick dunk.

The West team was observing, observing who on the East team wanted to win the MVP this year.

The candidate for the West is very clear, it is Kobe. Even if it is Iverson, he is too lazy to compete with Kobe, the guy with explosive competitive spirit. After all, it is the first time to play as a Western All-Star. Iverson is new and his popularity is not as good as Kobe.

After Iverson pushed to the frontcourt, he passed the ball to Gasol, and then went to a 45-degree angle with his hands on his waist, watching the others attack.

Kobe saw that it was James, the young man wearing No. 23, who was the main attacking player of the Eastern team, and he immediately became interested.

In yesterday's three events, both of them participated in the skills challenge. Unfortunately, both of them were eliminated in the first round. They felt sympathetic and couldn't help it. Today, Kobe wanted to continue yesterday's duel.

After Gasol received the pass from Iverson, Kobe cut into the inside. Duncan, Yao Ming, and Gasol all made mid-range shots. Kobe felt that he could easily fight back against James by cutting in...

"Watt?"

When Kobe squeezed McGrady and rushed to the free throw line, he bumped into Garnett's arms!

Kobe wanted to go left, but McGrady's defense shrank. If he went right, James' defense shrank. There was also Howard under the basket...

Liu Mang saw Kobe being double-teamed by the four high school All-Star starters on his side. This scene... was so refreshing!

Of course, the high school student who was double-teamed felt very refreshed. Seeing Gasol pass the ball to Duncan, Duncan dribbled in from the baseline, attracted Howard's defense and passed the ball to the right side of the basket. Yao Ming's alley-oop dunk made Kobe want to vomit blood!

"How can this be defense? It's obviously targeting me!" Kobe saw Liu Mang who was going to receive the serve. The only one who didn't double-team him just now was this guy.

But Kobe always felt that the deepest malice came from this guy!

Liu Mang looked at Kobe's "real-black question mark face" when he retreated, and couldn't help laughing!

"You must not laugh. I'm a professional... But we have five starters and four high school students. How come I didn't notice it before?"

As Liu Mang pushed forward, he looked at the four high school students standing in position on his side and had a very strange feeling.

After Liu Mang pushed forward to the frontcourt, James wanted to ask for the ball directly. Liu Mang signaled him to play one. James did not object and ran to the side to help Liu Mang open up space.

When Kobe saw that Liu Mang did not pass the ball, he immediately pressed out of the three-point line with a fierce action.

Liu Mang turned his body sideways, supported Kobe with his elbow, and said with a chuckle: "Kobe, do you know what I found out?"

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"If you don't answer, I'll think you asked me."

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"Today I found out the reason why we don't have a good relationship..."

"The reason?" Kobe finally responded.

"Yes, I found out that I have always been out of tune with you high school students because of my high level of education..."