Chapter 914 913. The Picture Is Too Beautiful to Look At

"Ace, do you want to learn the fadeaway jump shot from me?" Jordan felt like he had seen a ghost. This kid, does he want to learn everything?

Jordan, who arrived in Denver on the day of the All-Star Game, was immediately found by Liu Mang.

Due to Okafor's injury, he has been injured for six games since February and cannot participate in the Rookie Game. The other players on the Bobcats have nothing to do with the All-Star Weekend. Jordan didn't plan to come to Denver to join in the fun.

But from a player to a businessman, Jordan has a lot of helplessness. For example, Time Warner, which spent tens of millions of dollars to sponsor the Bobcats to build the stadium, invited him to the scene to serve as the commentator of Time Warner's national live broadcast. He had to come, but he delayed it until the day.

Liu Mang had not heard from Schwartz that Jordan came to Denver in the past few days. He almost gave up the plan to learn this trick on the All-Star Weekend. He was going to Los Angeles in the summer to learn the copycat version. Anyway, the movements are similar. Maybe the paranoid fadeaway technique is a little better, but he doesn't have the top physical talent in history like Jordan.

But Jordan is here, so naturally Jordan is the best. Hard work is one aspect, and talent is also very important.

Although that guy's talent is also top-notch, he has visible disadvantages compared to Jordan in terms of jumping height and air retention. The little blacksmith's posture is more beautiful, but no matter how he shoots, he gives people a feeling of strong shooting.

But Jordan can also give people a feeling of being so relaxed when he is one-on-two in the air.

And the difference in talent, although the little blacksmith can study the fadeaway thoroughly through hard work, he will always be limited by talent. Jordan is different. His talent is better and the ceiling he can touch is higher.

Just like the little blacksmith worked hard to train, his mid-range shooting rate is only 43-4%. Although there are only a handful of players in NBA history who have achieved a mid-range shooting rate of 40% and averaged at least 3 hits per game, McGrady is limited by his physical condition and cannot practice for too long. As a result, his mid-range shooting ability is almost the same as that of the little blacksmith.

In the original time and space, McGrady's mid-range shooting before he was injured was similar to Kobe's, and he was famous for not being able to train for too long.

Therefore, Liu Mang felt that it was not necessary to have more sophisticated skills. In history, there was hardly anyone who had more sophisticated fadeaway skills than the blacksmith, but Liu Mang wanted better ones.

Because... I would practice it myself after I learned it...

So, when Jordan just flew over from Los Angeles on an early flight, Liu Mang got the news and immediately went to the airport to pick up Jordan. After picking him up, Liu Mang immediately put forward his request.

"Michael, you promised to teach me for three days, you can't go back on your word!" Liu Mang emphasized.

"..."

Jordan felt that this guy was going to drain him!

But if you say it, you have to do it... Jordan shrugged: "Ace, I promise you, by the way, I learned fadeaways this time, what do you want to learn next time?"

Jordan also accepted his fate, who made him agree.

"Wait a few months, I'll practice fadeaways in the summer, and I'll see what I don't know next year." Liu Mang thought about it. Three-pointers were his strongest point. He learned high-post back-to-the-basket from the blacksmith. Learning low-post from Jordan seemed good, but Olajuwon was better. Just pay him. Jordan only had three chances here.

Spend a few months practicing to learn new skills...

Jordan wants to hit someone. He spent two years retiring after practicing fadeaways!

"Wait for my call tomorrow. Just one day. Take me to the Oxford Hotel." Jordan felt a little skeptical about life. It has only been three years since he taught Liu Mang for the first time during the first All-Star Weekend. In three years, Liu Mang's progress has exceeded his expectations, and it is far beyond his expectations.

Jordan felt that the boy in front of him was no worse than him at the same age.

After getting a response, Liu Mang didn't say too much. Jordan was not the kind of person who liked to talk a lot. Liu Mang immediately drove Jordan to the hotel.

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"Uncle, you said that Uncle BIG-YAO and the fat uncle O'Neal are going to dance. Is that true?" Dina was a little excited. That picture was a bit beautiful!

"That's right, let's go to see the show! Dina, follow Christine and don't run around. Sit in the front row and don't walk around!" Liu Mang reminded him, and then said to the bodyguard, "Christine, Dina is troublesome to you."

"I know, uncle, I've said it several times..." The little girl complained for a while, and then she was looking forward to it. The two fattest... No, the best centers in the East and West danced...

Laviya and Alexia didn't come to watch the game today, mainly because Alexia was pregnant. It was okay during the rookie game, and the fans were not very enthusiastic. Yesterday's three events were already very popular. Although the results of the dunk contest were not very satisfactory, the dunk contest was like watching a small movie. Afterwards, I entered the sage mode and felt bored. I said I would never watch it again, but before the dunk contest started, the fans were still full of expectations, looking forward to another player like Carter, or playing something new like Liu Mang, not winning by difficulty, but winning with LaVine's chic and Howard's little tricks.

Not to mention today's All-Star Game, the highlight of the entire All-Star Weekend is this game, a grand event that 24 of the most popular NBA players and the best players in the eyes of coaches will participate in.

The fans were too enthusiastic, and if Alexia got hurt by bumping into something, the two girls had already considered hiring a Filipino maid, which would be bad, so Levia and Alexia stayed in the hotel, and Christine Wagner hired a driver from the hotel to take them here.

After Liu Mang met with Jordan in the morning, he started to participate in various league activities and made simple preparations in the afternoon. The head coach of the Eastern All-Star team is Van Gundy. The tactics are basically outside shooting. O'Neal, Kwame Brown, and Ben Wallace will compete for it.

Anyway, the tactics are arranged in that way. As for whether it will be played in that way, Van Gundy has no control, and he does not expect that a few players will play obediently.

Coach Kruger Philip Saunders was supposed to be the head coach of the Eastern All-Star team. The Hawks are the first in the East, but the All-Star head coach cannot be re-elected. It should be postponed to Philip Saunders, the head coach of the Pistons, who are second in the Eastern Conference.

But Coach Philip Saunders was the head coach of the Western All-Star team last season. This situation has never happened in NBA history. The league also feels painful and there is no precedent.

David Stern thought about it and directly ignored Coach Kruger and Coach Philip Saunders. He chose the head coach of the Heat, Van Gundy, as the head coach of the Eastern All-Star team.

After Liu Mang's afternoon training, he and his All-Star teammates had something to replenish their energy, and then began the interview session. Liu Mang accepted exclusive interviews from several media outlets, including Chaoting TV, Xinhua News Agency, Guangdong TV, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated, each lasting a few minutes.

At 6:30 in the evening, after the warm-up training, Liu Mang received a call from Levia. Dina was clamoring to watch the game on site, so he had to let Christine Wagner bring Dina to the stadium. Fortunately, Liu Mang had a few tickets.

After receiving Dina, Liu Mang chatted with Dina about interesting things and gave her some instructions.

After Liu Mang and Dina separated, Liu Mang returned to the locker room. The game was about to start at 8 o'clock, and they had to enter the venue at around 7 o'clock.

After Liu Mang returned to the locker room, he saw that the fat man was missing and James was not there. He asked Wade and he said that they went to the locker room of the Western Team.

Liu Mang felt so surprised!

Not only O'Neal, but also James was taken away?

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The song sung by Kelly Clarkson, an idol singer who has become popular in the past two years, ignited the atmosphere of the scene.

After the song and dance performance in the plateau area at the beginning, the 24 All-Stars started.

The first to come out was the All-Star substitute of the Eastern Team, who was the visiting team. The first to come out was the roaring master Rasheed Wallace. The fans gave him a face-saving cheer. Rasheed Wallace was followed by the four heroes of the 03 generation, James, Wade, Bosh, and Milicic.

Although many fans think that some of them are not worthy of the name and do not have the qualifications of the All-Stars, their popularity is still good, especially James, who is very popular and is the most popular among the first six All-Star substitutes.

The sixth to come out was Ben Wallace. After Carter and James, the cheers for Wade were less, and when it came to Bosh and Milicic, the temperature dropped a lot, and when it came to Ben Wallace, it was much smaller.

Ben Wallace in this time and space is really unlucky. Ratliff snatched the best defensive player, the championship was snatched by the Hawks, the block king was once monopolized by Mutombo, and Ratliff won the dragon battle a few years ago. Now, the only honors he can show off are the best defensive player and a few first-class defense. People appreciate his defense, but his popularity is not high.

However, when it came to the All-Star substitutes of the Eastern Conference, the scene became hot.

"Ladies and gentlemen, dear children, next is the most dominant center in history, the big shark, the big diesel engine, the big cactus... with various nicknames, and now the latest nickname is the big tractor Shaq-O'Neal!"

With the most words and the longest introduction by the host, O'Neal appeared.

O'Neal's appearance immediately set off the scene again. Originally, inside players were not popular during the All-Star Weekend, but O'Neal was different! He can still play well in the All-Star Game, and fans are looking forward to his performance show in this All-Star Game.

The fans in the stadium were cheering for O'Neal. No one noticed that a high school student who claimed to be 20 years old was staring at the ceiling in a daze.

"Why did I go and talk to this fat guy? Why? Why..."

After the Eastern All-Star substitutes came out, it was the Western All-Star substitutes.

Lewis, Francis, Marion, Stoudemire, Richard Jefferson, Ginobili, and Nowitzki came out one after another.

The reason why the coach mostly selected players from the top five teams in the East and West for the All-Star substitutes was not only because of the record, but also because the teams with good records usually have relatively high popularity of players, except for the special case of the Pistons who were so defensive in the past few years.

First, the fourteen All-Star substitutes from the East and West came out, and then the All-Star starters from the East and West began to play!

Liu Mang appeared as a starter again after a year, and was the first All-Star starter to appear as the visiting Eastern team.

The All-Star starters are very different from the All-Star substitutes. Although there are also popular players among the All-Star substitutes, the All-Star starters are almost all the most popular players in their respective positions.

Liu Mang's appearance triggered cheers and some boos. Most of the fans of the teams of the top five players in the 2003 draft were full of resentment towards Liu Mang.

Then came McGrady, the most popular player in the Eastern Conference this year.

When Kwame Brown came out for the third time, Liu Mang thought that the fans would shout for O'Neal and incite the "internal strife" of the Eastern team. Who knew that, because of the news that Jordan would be a commentator for Time Warner today, the fans shouted "Jordan" when Kwame Brown came out.

Liu Mang looked for a while and could directly see Jordan's livid face wearing headphones at the Time Warner commentary seat behind the technical desk, next to the live commentary seat of the court station.

However, Jordan, who was broadcasting live, was still quibbling because the TV screen was given to Kwame Brown: "I have long seen Kwame's talent, but he was not suitable for our team at the beginning. We didn't have the kind of players who could pass the ball to him. The Hawks are different. They had Stockton last year and McGrady this year..."

Bill Walton next to Jordan said that you should continue to pretend...

"Hey, Kwame, what is your relationship with Jordan?" Liu Mang asked curiously after Kwame Brown sat in the exclusive seat for the All-Star starters.

"I have nothing to do with Jordan!" Kwame Brown said in shame and anger.

"I don't believe it. You look so similar. Look, the fans have all mistaken you for Jordan." Liu Mang continued to tease Kwame Brown.

"Boss, you're going too far!" Kwame Brown covered his head in pain. He didn't know who had posted the message, and put the two's avatars together. The similarity was as high as 70%.

Enough is enough. After teasing Kwame Brown, Liu Mang felt that today's All-Star Game was more interesting.

The second to last player to come out was the old predecessor Grant Hill. As expected, this was Hill's last All-Star trip. This time, it was purely based on Hill's popularity that the fans voted him into the All-Star starting lineup.

When Hill came out, a group of older fans stood up and screamed and pulled the No. 33 jersey of the Pistons on their bodies.

The last one to come out in the East was Iverson. Among the five All-Star starters, Iverson was undoubtedly the most qualified to come out last.

In terms of qualifications, Iverson and Hill both entered the NBA in the mid-1990s, from 1994 to 1996, and McGrady was a player in the late 1990s.

In terms of honors, Iverson has MVP, three scoring titles, and only one championship less than Liu Mang.

Liu Mang, McGrady and Iverson were humble for a long time in the locker room. Finally, Iverson "reluctantly" accepted the "boss" status of the Eastern All-Star starter and stood happily at the last stage.

The host introduced the players according to the positions seen by the director in the headset.

After the Eastern team came out, they went to the Western team.

The first to come out was the double 21. They couldn't compete with the stubborn little blacksmith. They couldn't get the last order to come out, so the two rushed to come out first and came out almost at the same time.

Duncan never forgave Garnett. In the 1999 playoffs, when Garnett was eliminated in the first round again, when the two teams entered the decisive battle at 1:1, he said to Duncan, "Please say hello to your mother on Mother's Day for me." Duncan's mother had just passed away before the playoffs. Since then, the two have never had any contact with each other and have been enemies when they meet.

Duncan usually doesn't have too many emotions when he is interviewed, but in the 2001 playoffs, Duncan beat Garnett 3-1 again, and the two's data are almost exactly the same, almost 23+13+4+1+2, and even the hit rate is exactly 46.6%, and the age difference between the two is only more than 20 days. Garnett entered the NBA two years earlier but was 25 days younger, that is, they played a series of explosions at the same age. When Duncan was asked by reporters whether Garnett was his rival, Duncan showed his expression for the first time in his career when he was interviewed.

"Are you talking about Garnett?" Duncan said that with his neck tilted, and then shut up. He didn't say anything until the end of the interview. It was Popovich next to him who took over the conversation.

Duncan was obviously excited only twice in his career when he was interviewed. This was the first time. The next time was the first time he didn't win the championship after reaching the finals in 2013.

Every year, the "in-team conflict" between Garnett and Duncan is one of the highlights of the All-Star Weekend.

Yao Ming came out next, then Nash, and finally Kobe.

Kobe encountered more boos than Liu Mang...

It is obvious that Kobe did not turn around his image this season with his performance.

When Yao Ming came out, Liu Mang clearly felt a strong killing intent... Suddenly felt that something was wrong...

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After all 24 All-Stars came out, it was time for the players to interact.

Generally speaking, they would give gifts and say things like "friendship first, competition second" in a humble manner, even Jordan back then was like that.

But why is O'Neal so popular during the All-Star weekend? It's because he is different from others!

O'Neal went up and grabbed the microphone from the host.

The scene immediately became lively!

In the past two years, O'Neal's "will" was a little depressed because Yao Ming took away his All-Star starting spot, and he didn't play much. When Liu Mang entered the NBA in the 01-02 season, O'Neal even performed rap.

This year, O'Neal's All-Star starting spot was taken away again. The fans had given up hope, but they didn't expect O'Neal to start stealing the show again!

The fans at the scene went crazy again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, next, there will be a gorgeous song and dance show that is unique in this century, and even in history..." O'Neill said in a deep voice.

Liu Mang feels that O'Neal is really versatile! There is no one else who can host this tone.

"Ding... the host can use 1 million rogue points to specify the host's talent and skills..." At this time, the system gave a prompt.

"Go to hell!" Liu Mang refused decisively.

He doesn't want to become a living treasure like O'Neal!

Liu Mang swore he would never participate in such embarrassing things like dancing and singing!

At this time, O'Neal gave a long speech to build momentum for the upcoming dance show, and then talked about the list of performers: "...Ladies and gentlemen, next is me, the most versatile athlete in NBA history, and the new KING of the era, LeBron, BIG-YAO from China..."

When Liu Mang heard this, he clapped his hands. James was really made to dance in the square by O'Neal. It was so interesting!

However, O'Neal hasn't finished speaking yet...

"...and our strongest scoring champion, our Yamenar Ace-Liu!"

Yamenar? It seems to be the name of the Ice King... When Liu Mang heard this nickname at first, he didn't react for a moment. It seemed that a fan had called it that, but he didn't acknowledge it, and no one else followed him, so he left it alone. .

The nickname Ice King is stupid.

But that's not what Liu Mang cares about. Fans have given him a lot of nicknames. He doesn't call himself Black Mamba like Kobe, nor does he give himself a bunch of nicknames like O'Neal.

Liu Mang's eyes widened. Who the hell agreed to dance?

As Liu Mang looked in shock, a big man with yellow skin weighing more than 130 kilograms and a player from the Eastern All-Star Team substitute who claimed to be 20 years old came to his side.

"What are you going to do!" Liu Mang screamed.

"Ace, we are all brothers, let's have fun together!" Yao Ming showed a ferocious and devilish smile. O'Neal invited him and he had to participate, but he couldn't let Liu Mang go!

Seeing Liu Mang struggling and being sandwiched onto the stage by an extremely strong man on one side, everyone burst into laughter.

When Liu Mang saw O'Neal winking, he knew he was being tricked.

Now that they have gone up, Liu Mang cannot go down. The main reason is that the music has started, the dance partners nearby have also come, and the fans at the scene have begun to boo.

What happened at this time was that he didn't want to give O'Neal any face at all. This "grand event" that Liu Mang organized himself would instead become a thing for him to smear O'Neal's face.

But Liu Mang was determined not to jump!

O'Neal and James didn't care, as long as Liu Mang came up. Liu Mang could show off their "dancing skills" even if he didn't dance.

Asking Liu Mang to come up was just for fun.

Both O'Neal and James had a good sense of rhythm, and they started dancing along with the music. Not to mention, Liu Mang thought they danced very well, and he had an uncontrollable urge deep in his heart.

But Liu Mang held on and stood there stupidly, not moving.

There were already some boos at the scene.

But... when Liu Mang was listening to the music and his body began to twist uncontrollably, and saw Yao Ming's lame movements, he finally couldn't help it anymore. How did he move his hands? It’s time to kick your legs! It's time to turn around and look at O'Neal, he has learned it after a few days. Look at James, I heard Pulin just learned it yesterday.

Liu Mang couldn't help but go up and point out: "BIG-YAO, your twisting movements here should be more heroic, right? Are you Chinese? You don't know how to do this... Forget it, I'll teach you, here, here... "

Seeing that O'Neal was twisting so well and that Yao Ming, a Chinese, could not dance as well as a foreigner, Liu Mang was originally holding back, but he couldn't help it anymore and came to Yao Ming to start "on-site teaching."

"Dayao, like this, here, twist your butt higher, wave your hand from bottom to top, not a fist, but a swing from bottom to top, yes, yes, yes, come on, let's do it again, one, two, three, four , move every time, hit every time, one, two, three, four, yes, that's right..."

Liu Mang completely forgot about his persistence and stubbornness, and went up to teach Yao Ming to jump.

The square dance master's square dance ability is fully demonstrated at this moment...

Liu Mang jumped up, O'Neal danced even more happily, and Yao Ming, who was infected by Liu Mang, also danced better.

The fans at the scene were completely excited. They thought Liu Mang was "pretentious" at first, but they didn't expect that Liu Mang was hiding it!

Sure enough, the legendary "founder of NBA court dancing" is not an ordinary person!

Only then did Liu Mang realize that he had jumped up without knowing when, but he couldn't stop anymore...

Dinah, who already knew what square dancing was, felt that the scene was too beautiful and dared not look at it. She covered her eyes and peeked through her fingers...

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I wrote two chapters, a total of 6,000 words, and updated them together. I won’t split them apart. I’m sorry that I couldn’t complete the task today. However, it was updated after midnight, and I will work hard to complete it on the 6th! Please update before 12 noon tomorrow. Xiaofeng sleeps a little later and wants to sleep until eight or nine. It has been a long time since I had a good sleep.

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