Healing Basketball

   Chapter 639 639. All-Star Weekend

  Lu Xun, Anne Hathaway really heard about it after learning Chinese and Chinese culture. She didn’t know if Lu Xun had said this, but seeing Liu Xiu’s way of shaking her head, she knew that her boyfriend was talking nonsense again.

Anne Hathaway said: "Last year you were so busy, I thought you were busy this year for the entire holiday, and you were ready to be your assistant. It was nothing... By the way, you turned down the promotional activities, sponsors Don't you have an opinion?"

"It's okay, I just signed a long-term contract last summer. When I signed the contract, I said that I might not participate in those activities during the All-Star Weekend... and I didn't reject all of them. There will be a new product launch conference for sneakers on the afternoon of the 18th, and you will be there on the morning of the 19th." The endorsement of my peripheral products that I have invested in...

Money is endless. Last year’s All-Star Weekend was so busy. It was planned before the start of last season. At that time, there was nothing else to do. Work should be done. Now that I have you, I don’t want to work if I can’t. . "

   "You have a sweet mouth..." Anne-Hathaway rolled her eyes at Liu Xiu, then covered her mouth and laughed...

   After two days of taking care of the yard of the new house, Liu Xiu put this matter aside first, and will toss it later when he has time.

  February 17th, Liu Xiuxin's new year has arrived—24th birthday!

  Liu Xiu got up early, went to help her mother, uncle, Qinger, and Anne-Hathaway, and prepared a large table of dishes. Without inviting anyone else, Liu Xiu celebrated this birthday with her family.

  In the afternoon, he brought his family to the Portland City Hall. The mayor, the vice president of the team, the head of the Oregon Department of Tourism... a bunch of people came and held a press conference.

  The Mayor of Portland announced that today, February 17, will be a new holiday, Portland Warden's Day.

This matter has been informed to Liu Xiu a long time ago. It is not a big deal. It is not even a legal festival. It is just a festival that may be marked in city manuals, travel guides, etc. He did not do publicity or show off. things.

  On the one hand, it is because this is the treatment that many players have had. Jordan has 3 festivals in Chicago, and Magician and Bird are similar in Los Angeles and Boston.

   In addition, he suggested to the city hall to name the festival with "General", but was rejected. The reason for the rejection was that no one would think of him on "General's Day"...

  …

  The 4 days of pleasant rest time passed in a flash. On February 18, Liu Xiu brought a large family and came to Houston on the "Rose Bay Prison" lent to him by the boss.

  The family went sightseeing, got in the car to sleep and got off the car to take pictures. Liu Xiu started his work here-to promote the warden's third-generation war boots and peripheral products.

   Liu Xiu turned down many commercial activities. Those sponsors were not very happy, but the sneaker endorsement brand must be very happy. His interaction with fans in promotional activities is obviously more active and enthusiastic than in the past two years.

  In the past two years, the daily work schedule of the All-Star Weekend ranged from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night. Even if I wanted to interact more with fans, I was powerless. Physical fatigue was fine, but mental fatigue was the most difficult to solve.

  In the evening, Liu Xiu brought a whole family to the All-Star Weekend to watch the triathlon.

  Yesterday’s rookie game, Liu Xiu’s family watched the live broadcast. Iguodala scored 30 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, leading the sophomore team to easily beat the rookie team 106-96 and won the rookie game MVP.

  This rookie game was not as exciting as Liu Xiu expected, and it was the kind that I didn't regret at all if I didn't watch it live.

  There is no qualitative difference in talent between the 2004 class and the 2005 class. There is Paul in the 2005 class and Howard in the 04 class. The 04 class who entered the NBA a year earlier showed a huge overall strength advantage.

This is the disadvantage of the rookie competition after the rookie challenge. The talents of the rookies must be significantly better than the talents of the second-year players, such as the 2003 and 02, 01 and 00. There is a qualitative difference in talent. Make up for the strength gap brought about by a year of professional basketball experience.

  After arriving at the scene, Liu Xiu saw many teammates also coming.

  Although Ray Allen is a maverick and difficult to get along with, as long as his teammates came to Houston, they all came to the scene to cheer for him.

  How difficult is it to get along?

  Liu Xiu is considered the player in the team who has had the most contact with Ray Allen, but in front of the camera, Liu Xiu warmly greeted him, and Ray Allen just hugged him lightly with one hand, as if the greeting was over.

   And when Nate Robinson greeted his teammates who came to cheer for him, the level of cumbersomeness was similar to that of Little Momonga and Iverson... Liu Xiu was definitely not envious of Little Tudou who grabbed the camera, absolutely not!

  As in previous years, Liu Xiu saw a lot of stars joining in the fun, such as Iverson, Kobe, Tracy McGrady, Carter, Bosh, Yao Ming... There is no society, my brother Dong.

   Liu Xiu thought at first that the league put Kobe at the small forward position to make room for Nash to start the All-Star, but now he finds out that it should not be, it should be to prevent Anthony from being selected as the All-Star starter.

  At 8 o'clock in the evening, the triathlon began, first of all was the skills challenge.

  Different from the players watching the excitement on the sidelines, Liu Xiu took it very seriously.

  As soon as the Skills Challenge started, he received a system prompt, paid 3000 healing points, and started collecting training materials for the Skills Challenge.

  He has already won the MVP of the Rookie Game and the MVP of the All-Star Game. If he can win all three championships in the three events, he will be able to get a piece of advanced equipment.

  The equipment such as 'Little Overlord's Knee Pads', 'Big Black Bear's Ankle Pads', and 'Shoelaces to Prevent Shoes from Being Stepped Off' are all very helpful to him, so the new equipment is naturally not to be missed.

  I collected the training materials of several participating players last year, and I plan to collect some more this year to learn from each other's strengths and prepare for the future preparations.

This year he received invitations to both the Skills Challenge and the Three-Point Contest, but he declined both. Firstly, the team is too busy this year and has no time and energy to prepare for the competition. Also, the preparation for the Slam Dunk Contest is still far behind. At least a few more bounces are needed...

  There are 4 players participating in this year's Skills Challenge, including James, Wade, Paul, and the defending champion Nash.

  No matter how you look at it, Nash's skills crushed his opponents, and Nash set a new record for this competition with a time of 25.8 seconds in the final last year.

  Thus, Nash, who got the No. 1 pick in the preliminaries and was the first to play, announced the end of the game in advance with a time of 52.8 seconds.

   There was a situation where the game time was too long and the result was canceled directly, but among the players with achievements, Nash, who set the best time last year, set the worst time this year. The previous worst time was 51.7 seconds...

   Not surprisingly, no one scored worse than Nash in this year's preliminaries! But what is surprising is that the other contestant who was eliminated was not one of Janeway, but rookie Paul!

  (end of this chapter)