In this competition, the Shaq team was constantly suppressed by the Barkley team on the court, and the whole game ended in this atmosphere without any suspense.

The outstanding performance of No. 1 draft pick Kyrie Irving, who scored 34 points and 9 assists, undoubtedly won him the Most Valuable Player of the Rookie Challenge.

Lian Dao left with his teammates after watching the rookie game yesterday. Although Jeremy Lin did not perform well, Cousins's performance was still very good, but it is obviously impossible to compete with Kyrie Irving for MVP based on rebounding data.

Moreover, it is generally difficult for inside players to win MVPs in full-name games, mainly because the ball is in the hands of outside players. Unless there is an outside player willing to play for you, it is basically impossible for inside players to win MVP.

Too possible.

The 2020 Orlando All-Star Weekend has entered its second day. Today is also the competition day for all individual events. The Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest are all held today.

However, this year's slam dunk contest and three-point shooting contest did not go very well.

Three-Point Contest player Joe Johnson was injured, and the league had no choice but to find another player to replace him. The league originally wanted Lian Dao to replace him.

After all, whether it's popularity or three-point shooting skills, Lian Dao can attract the most attention.

However, Lian Dao made it clear at the press conference that he will not participate in this year's individual event competition. Even if someone withdraws due to injury, he will not be a substitute.

Lian Dao didn't participate not only because he wanted to enjoy the holiday life, but also because he didn't want to cause hatred.

If he participates, according to his character, he must be aiming to win the championship. Otherwise, he will not feel comfortable watching others beat him to win the championship.

However, many second- and third-tier stars in the league only focus on these, all-star personal projects to enhance their reputation.

There is absolutely no need for you, a superstar, to win so many irrelevant honors here. This is a dishonorable act of not even leaving the soup for others.

Therefore, it is better not to agree and not participate in the first place.

The league also quickly found a replacement star, and they found Kevin Durant.

At the same time, Yinman Shumpert, a player who participated in the dunk contest, withdrew from the dunk contest due to injury, and his place was replaced by Utah Jazz rookie Jeremy Evans.

Compared to this year's three-point contest and slam dunk contest, which were dimly lit, the Skills Challenge was full of stars.

In particular, this skills challenge covers the league's star-level new and old point guards, Kyrie Irving, Tony Parker, Rajon Rondo, John Wall, Russell Westbrook, Deron...

Williams.

The only thing that can make Lian Dao interested in watching is the skills challenge.

Before the skills challenge begins, there is also a Shooting Star exhibition match to be held.

Lian Dao was eating popcorn with his junior sister in the audience and watching his teammates playing on the court.

This year's Shooting Stars exhibition game has a total of four cities participating in the competition, namely New York, Atlanta, Texas and the host Orlando.

Each team has three participants, including one active NBA player, one WNBA player and one retired player.

The Knicks participated in this competition, but Lian Dao did not.

The current players they sent are Danny Green, retired star Alan Houston and WNBA New York Liberty All-Star player Cappy Pondexter.

The game is divided into two rounds. Shooting is done at 6 points at different distances on the field. Points are scored according to the time to complete the shot. The winner is the one who completes the shot the fastest.

In the first round of shooting, New York went very smoothly. Alan Houston hit a long shot in only 38 seconds.

Orlando was the least successful. The first close shot was made three times, and the last mid-range shot from beyond the distance took a lot of time. It took 104 seconds to complete the task.

Female player Maria Ferdinand Harris made a long shot, but the result was obviously not satisfactory.

Atlanta also made a long-range shot by female player Lyndsey Hudlin. They took 55.3 seconds and missed the finals.

New York and Texas advance to the finals.

Texas took the first shot, and Kenny Smith successfully hit a long shot in only 47.6 seconds, putting a lot of pressure on New York.

However, New York, with a luxurious lineup, went more smoothly, and it only took 18 seconds to complete the first five shots. After that, they took turns to make long-range shots, and Alan Houston completed the final shot. In the end, it only took 37.3 seconds to complete the task.

Easily win the championship.

Lian Dao did not expect that his team would win the championship so easily. This was also the first honor that Danny Green won for the team.

Danny Green, who won the championship in his first All-Star appearance, was also very happy and kept grinning on the court.

After the "Shooting Star" competition is over, the next thing to be done is the "Skills Challenge" that Lian Dao has been thinking about.

The number of participating players in this skills challenge has been expanded to 6.

Among them, Tony Parker, Deron Williams and Westbrook all participated in the skills challenge for the third time.

John Wall is attending for the second time, while Rajon Rondo and Kyrie Irving are new faces in the Skills Challenge.

These six players are all star-level players. Among them, Deron has the most brilliant record. He won the championship in 2008 with a record time of 25.5 seconds and reached the finals in 2010.

Originally, Lian Dao was looking forward to the performance of his good friend Stephen Curry, but the elementary school student was injured before the start of the All-Star Game.

Curry, the winner of the last Skills Challenge, gave up participating in this one.

First of all, Rajon Rondo replaced the injured Joe Johnson and made his first appearance in the preliminaries. He went relatively smoothly and completed the task in 32.8 seconds.

Then came Irving. Irving, who made 9 of 11 three-pointers yesterday in the rookie game, spent a lot of time on the shooting today, and finally took 42.2 seconds to clear the level. Because it took too much time, Irving may not be able to escape the fate of being eliminated.

Deron Williams came on the field, and the little fat guy's strength was impeccable. All his moves were completed in one go, and it only took 28.8 seconds.

The little fat man created the best results as soon as he came up, and the pressure was also put on the next players to participate.

Russell Westbrook didn't know if he was affected by the pressure brought by Deron. In a ground pass, he only succeeded twice, and it took 33.8 seconds in the end.

Kevin Durant, who was waiting for the three-point contest on the sidelines, stood up and applauded his second brother.

That damn temperament is really eye-catching.

Tony Parker also passed the test in one go. The French sports car is still very strong and it only took 29.2 seconds.

John Wall made his final appearance, but his performance was not satisfactory.

It took too much time. After comparing the previous opponent's time, Wall knew that there was no hope of advancement. He wanted to end his All-Star journey with a cool dunk, but he was ruined by himself. During the dunk, the basketball dropped from his hands, picked it up and dunked again.

time, it took more time.

After the first round, the older generation of point guards performed even better. Deron, Parker and Rondo entered the finals together, while the three new generation point guards of Irving, Westbrook and Wall were eliminated.

At the beginning of the finals, Rondo took the lead. His performance in the finals was not very smooth. It took him four times to succeed in the ground pass, and the final time was 34.6 seconds.

Parker came on second, and he continued his form in the first round. Although he made a mistake in the middle of the ground pass, he still achieved a time of 32.8 seconds.

Deron, who had the best record in the preliminaries, was the last to play. His first half went smoothly, but when it came to shooting, which he was good at, he had problems. He failed to hit the shot three times in a row, and only succeeded in the fourth time. The final time was 41.4 seconds. Unfortunately, he was

No chance of winning the championship.

"French sports car" Tony Parker finally won the skills challenge championship. He also became the first European player to win this event in NBA history!

Before the start of the three-point shooting contest, the on-site cameras were focused on Lian Dao, who was watching the game in the audience.

Lian Dao's figure suddenly appeared on the big screen, and the audience suddenly burst into violent cheers.

Lian Dao, as the champion of the 10-year Three-Point Shootout Contest, although he did not participate in this year's Three-Point Shootout Contest, he still attracted much attention.

And so far, the record of 28 points in the three-point contest created by Lian Dao is considered by the American media to be one of the most difficult records to break.

ESPN previously launched a poll for "the star they most want to see in the individual competition", and Lian Dao ranked first in the vote for both the three-point shot contest and the slam dunk contest.
Chapter completed!