Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 280
Carl's first game with the Nuggets ended in victory. Although the players' tactical moves were not so precise, the fans had a preliminary understanding of the team's new coach, and the team The performance, especially in the case of Anthony's continued recovery, the fans have expectations for the present and future of the team.

The game with the Supersonics is over, and it is also the last game of the Nuggets before the All-Star Game. During this period, the final votes for the All-Star Game are also released. Among the number of votes announced in the last issue, Anthony ranks third among the forwards in the Western Conference. As long as he is not overtaken, he will be selected as an All-Star for two consecutive terms.

After the recent outstanding performances, in the latest and final All-Star voting rankings, Anthony's ranking has been rising all the way. Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson, who are extremely popular, won the All-Star votes with a slight advantage. Behind this, it is said that Yang Yi, who is in China, has done a lot of publicity for Anthony during this period. On the one hand, I have to feel that Yang Yi can seize the opportunity, on the other hand, I have to feel the strength of Chinese fans.

Anyway, no matter what the reason is, in this final stage, after Anthony joined the league, he won the All-Star vote for two consecutive terms. This is absolutely unprecedented in the history of the league. There is no real honor to be selected as an All-Star and become the All-Star vote leader, but for local fans, this is definitely the most glorious moment in the history of local basketball.

Somewhat similar to the last All-Star Game, Anthony received invitations to both the League Slam Dunk Contest and the Rookie Challenge before the start of the game. He knew that it would be unrealistic to accept both events at the same time, which had been recognized last season. In order to prove it, so he asked Andrews and Yang Yi to conduct a fan survey on the Internet, and the votes obtained were unprecedentedly clear. About 80% of the fans wanted to see Anthony participate in the slam dunk contest in the All-Star Game.

In the end, Anthony chose to follow the opinions of the fans. After becoming a judge of the slam dunk contest last time, this time he will enter the main match of the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest as a contestant!

One thing worth noting is that the venue for this All-Star Game is Denver, the Pepsi Center Arena, so this participation is very meaningful for Anthony and Denver fans matter.

On February 2th, local time, in the midst of people’s long-awaited All-Star Game in Denver, the curtain finally kicked off. Outside the Pepsi Arena, there was an endless stream of fans flocking to the scene, as if to watch The All-Stars seem to be free of money, and they are comparable to the Chinese Spring Festival travel season.

The All-Star Game is on the second day of the All-Star Weekend, but for the fans, especially the local Denver fans, this first day is also very attractive to them. Needless to say, the reason is, Naturally, Anthony.

Anthony and Fox came to the arena arm in arm. After arriving, the fans immediately caused a commotion. After Anthony waved his hand, he entered the arena under the escort of security personnel.

As in the past, after the warm-up events, the Shooting Star and the Skills Contest, there will be booing, which is also the focus of the first day, the three-point shooting contest and the slam dunk contest.

In this three-point contest, Kyle Korver, the last All-Star Champion from the Nuggets, Quentin Richardson from the Clippers, Leonard from the New York Knicks, Joe Johnson from the Suns and Radmanovich from the Supersonics were invited to participate in the All-Star three-point contest. It is worth mentioning that Radmanovich’s teammate Ray Allen was also invited The league invited to participate in this event, but in the end Ray Allen finally rejected the invitation in order to participate in the All-Star Game.

The three-point contest is also full of highlights, the most eye-catching of which is naturally the duel between Korver and Leonard. In the last game, Nuggets player Korver and former Nuggets player Leonard Germany launched a fierce competition. In the end, Korver won the championship in the pinch of the three-world champion Stojakovic and Leonard. This time, Stojakovic has withdrawn. After entering the stage of the three-point contest, Leonard naturally became the biggest opponent.

The game was very exciting, but the process of the game was a bit unexpected. As the biggest competitor, Leonard was eliminated by one point in the preliminaries of the game, while Korver was eliminated. He made great progress all the way, scored 20 points in the final, and finally easily won the championship of the three-point ball contest. For the local fans, it can be said to have made a very good start.

But in fact, although Korver won the final championship, for the fans, Korver did not encounter too many challenges. This is obviously not what they want to see, so for the next slam dunk contest, They look forward to it even more.

In this slam dunk contest, the new slam dunk champion of the last All-Star game, Chris Anderson from the Knicks, Stoudemire from the Suns, Josh Smith from the Atlanta Hawks rookie And Anthony, four people compete for the final championship of this event as contestants.

In the anticipation and cheers of the audience, the players entered the arena one by one. Because it was a home game, and their popularity and strength were not comparable to those of the others, the order in which Anthony played was also ranked last. One, the result can be imagined, the fans cheered wave after wave, reaching a peak when Anthony appeared on the stage, the deafening cheers not only drowned out the sound of DK on the scene, even the ceiling of the arena, There seemed to be signs of being overturned.

In any case, Anthony's participation in the slam dunk contest as a contestant can be said to be full of highlights for the fans.

Not long after the players entered the field, the players warmed up, and then the slam dunk contest began. The Knicks and the defending champion Chris Anderson first appeared, because Anthony was also a contestant this time. Joining the slam dunk contest, so Anderson, who got a lot of ideas from Anthony last time, can be said to be completely relying on his personal freedom to play the game this time.

Anderson's first dunk was to throw the ball in the midfield, and then rushed to the inside for a heavy dunk. This seemingly not very difficult ball was finally completed three or four times before barely dunking. The result can be imagined , even though he knew that Anderson was the champion of the last slam dunk contest, he only got a low score of 41 points in the end, and even Anderson himself couldn't stop shaking his head after the dunk.

Next came the "Small Overlord" Stoudemire. Amidst the cheers of the fans, Stoudemire started from the bottom line. After rushing into the penalty area, he pulled the bar with both hands, turned over and dunked furiously. He succeeded once and came as an insider. It is already considered very good, but maybe before the All-Star Game, Stoudemire promised to give an innovative dunk method, which made the fans' reaction seem to be not as high as expected, and the referee finally scored 45 points Fraction.

The rookie Josh Smith from the Atlanta Hawks was next on the stage. This rookie has the lowest attention among the participants in this year. Although in the previous games, the buttonman showed his super physical fitness, However, due to the limited playing time, the space for performance is not particularly large, and the performance of the Eagles this season is not satisfactory, so the attention is not high, which is naturally reasonable, but sitting off the court at this time Anthony, however, looked at the field with piercing eyes. Unlike others, as a "comer", it is natural that Smith's dunk ability in the early stage of his career can be said to be at its peak. His super physical fitness, although dunks are not as good as Carter, Richardson and others are stretched, but their explosive power is off the charts, which is completely eye-catching.

Smith took the ball straight to the outside of the three-point line, holding the ball in his hand, basically had no luck, and went directly to the basket, followed by stepping on the free throw line and jumped directly.

The fans at the scene were in an uproar. In the NBA slam dunk contest, there have been several dunks from the free throw line, and without exception, all of them have been recorded in the classic history of the dunk contest. Jordan's, Wilkins's, and so on It is a topic that people talk about after dinner, but now, as a rookie, Smith dares to make such a dunk choice. Regardless of success or failure, this courage is very worthy of recognition.

Anthony's eyes were also attracted by Smith all of a sudden. In the game, he also often staged flying dunks. It can be said that those classic dunks have been performed by him one by one, but only the dunk from the free throw line. This action is something he has never done, not because he has never tried the idea, but because of this action, with his jumping, it is really impossible to do it, but now, Smith has once again challenged this action in the slam dunk contest. Classic action.

Smith glides in mid-air, his take-off is very explosive, the height of the take-off is also very sufficient, and his movements are also very stretched. Under the flashing spotlights all around, he glides straight towards the basket.

"Oh!"

There was a muffled sound, amidst the uproar of the fans at the scene, Smith pressed the ball into the basket with one hand, and the sound echoed in the arena.

(End of this chapter)