288: Goals for This Year

NBA All-Star Weekend, a game that is scolded as boring every year, but is extremely popular every year.

When he was a fan before, Link also felt that the All-Star weekend was boring, and at most watched the slam dunk contest. Even so, several NBA slam dunk contests have made people sleepy.

But now, as a player, Link doesn't think the All-Star weekend is so boring. At least, it's much more interesting than the day-to-day training and competition.

All-Star Weekend starts on the 24th, but there are still teams playing until the 23rd. No way, the shortened season is so fucked up. But fortunately, Link and Gasol did not encounter such a dilemma.

The Grizzlies' game ended on the 21st, and the day before the All-Star Game on the 23rd, Link arrived in Orlando with Gasol Jr.

As soon as the plane landed, Link couldn't wait to glance out. Sure enough, at the airport, Link saw the promotional poster of this year's All-Star! Most of the characters on the poster are players selected for the All-Star Game this year, and Link is on the list!

Although this is not the first time that Link has seen his own poster on a building, Link still feels a sense of accomplishment to appear with so many big-name stars.

Get off the plane and walk out the aisle. In the airport hall, Link and Jr. Gasol encountered the frenzied containment of reporters.

The reporters are basically 24 hours at the airport these two days, just for these players to participate in the All-Star weekend.

But today, when the reporters saw Link, they all opened their mouths in surprise.

This guy is actually quite cool?

With the help of the stylist, Link wore a dark blue suit, which just echoed the main color of the Grizzlies. Since he is an athlete, his body naturally has nothing to say, it is simply a clothes hanger. Before crossing, Link always felt like a street liar after wearing a suit.

This is the first time that he can touch the word handsome after wearing a suit.

Not only a suit, but Link also wore a pair of sunglasses on his face, and his short hair was textured, a bit like Paul George in the future. Although it is only a simple short hair style, the process of haircut is very complicated.

Link now finally understands why those seemingly simple hairstyles look so good on TV, but they look so ugly when they do it themselves.

Because the hair stylists are not at the same level at all, going to 30 teacher Tony and a well-known hair stylist to get the same hairstyle, the effect is also worlds apart.

Link's appearance caused a flash in the hall, and I believe that tomorrow, his photos will also kill most of the pages of the print media.

"You're really popular, Link, the new look suits you very well." Getting on the special car to the hotel, Little Gasol was a little envious of Link's popularity.

"Yeah, it cost me fifty thousand dollars..." The thought of his expensive clothes made his flesh aches.

I'm used to wearing Nike's free clothes, and suddenly I spend 50,000 yuan to buy clothes. I don't feel bad.

"Hahahaha, but it's worth the money. You have competitions for three days this year, and you have a lot of exposure, so you should really play well. By the way, you are going to warm up for the Rookie Challenge tomorrow? "

"Um... In all, I can rest today. Oh, no, there is a Nike event tonight. So strictly speaking, this year's All-Star weekend, I don't have a good rest day. "Link felt hopeless when he thought of his packed schedule. What about Golden Week?

But that's fine. Link was afraid that he would become lazy after he completely relaxed. There is always something to supervise yourself, but it can give people a certain sense of tension.

This year, Link came to the All-Star Game with no goals at all. The rookie Selink just wants to play casually, after all, it is unlikely that he will win the MVP of the rookie game. And one such award is enough.

All-Star Game? Link wanted to perform well, but it was too difficult to win the All-Star Game MVP. This is not like last year, when you fool Cousins ​​for a while, you can grab the MVP.

James, Durant, Kobe, Anthony... It's not easy to stand out from these guys.

The two MVPs are basically inseparable, so Link's goal for himself this year is to win a three-point contest championship!

This year, the players in the three-point contest are not particularly strong. Chalmers has never been a shooter. Although James Jones has a high hit rate, he has shot less this season and may not be able to maintain his state. Ryan Anderson, Love and Anthony Morrow are not super shooters either.

So Link believes that as long as he works hard to keep his hand, it is not impossible to beat them.

Link couldn't remember who the three-point champion this year was or what the highest score was in this year's three-point contest. He only knows that when the three-point contest was not restructured before 2014, the highest scoring record in the three-point contest was 25 points, created by Craig Hodgson in 1986 and tied by Novak in 2008.

And breaking the record will have to wait until Curry in 2015 and Devin Booker in the future.

Therefore, there should be no abnormally high scores this year.

Thinking of this, Link's confidence suddenly increased. You can't come home empty-handed for a trip to the All-Star Game.

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On the morning of the 24th, the pre-match training for the rookie game officially began. Like last year, this training is mostly show-oriented.

This year's rookie game is very special. In order to stimulate the ratings, the league no longer divides the first-year and second-year teams, but mixes the first-year and second-year teams, and then two old enemies, Barkley and O'Neal, pick a team.

This year, Link was selected by the Barkley team and started with old friends George, Cousins ​​and the two No. 1 picks Wall and Irving.

The starters on the O'Neal team are Griffin, Monroe, Jeremy Lin, Fields and Rubio.

On paper, the Barkleys are stronger on paper. But people also believe that Griffin will seriously play Link with Link because he was robbed of his All-Star starter.

Overall, the restructuring of this year's rookie game has been very successful indeed. At least in terms of attracting attention, the alliance has achieved its goal.

Link is glad that he is on the Barkley team, because most of the players here have a good relationship with him. At the very least, there are no players who are wrong with him.

Therefore, when the rookie game is open for training, Link can practice his three-point shooting with peace of mind without worrying about who will find fault.

Link is indeed not as concerned about this year's rookie game as last year. People can't just live in the glory of the past and work hard towards new goals.

As a result, the rookie game at night has completely become a stage for Owen and Wall and others. The fantasy of Link vs. Griffin did not appear, because neither Link nor Griffin played for long.

Griffin does want to beat Link, but he can't prove himself in a game like the rookie game.

And Link is already an All-Star starter, and he will show his face in the rookie game.

In this year's game, Griffin is still a button after playing. After Link came on the court, he just tried to shoot a three-pointer to warm up for tomorrow's three-point contest.

Link felt pretty good today, 4-of-5 from three. But this is also because there is no defense in the rookie game, and Link has no pressure to shoot, so he is so accurate.

Although tomorrow's three-point contest is also unguarded, under the dual pressure of scoring and time constraints, players may not be able to shoot as accurately as they did in training.

In the end, the new champion Kelly Irving scored 34 points and became the MVP of this rookie game. When the award was presented, the official arranged for Link to hand over the trophy to Owen, which meant some inheritance.

But an undrafted award to the No. 1 pick... um... Link thinks it's kind of weird.

Today's rookie game is over, and Link and Griffin are basically spectators. But after the game, Link did not leave immediately, but continued to practice three-pointers in the training hall.

On the one hand, Link needs to prepare for tomorrow's three-point contest.

On the other hand, after finally getting time for extra training, Link also wanted to fill his little white bars as much as possible.

It has been more than two months since the last update.

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