The Godfather of Basketball

The visit to the White House will last half a day, during which the president will basically accompany them all the time.

After chatting about some NBA topics in the reception room, President Bush then led them to the main entrance.

The reporters there were already in place and waiting.

This is the most important part of the visit to the White House. The president will give a speech congratulating the champion team, and the Rockets will also present some gifts to the president.

Journalists will record this historic moment.

"A small episode happened in the reception room today. I mistook Rockets coach Tang Tian for a player." President Bush mentioned what happened before in his speech.

"But Coach Tang is right, it's not my fault, after all he is so young and I look forward to seeing him again next year."

"Though it probably won't be here next year."

Bush's humor immediately made the Rockets behind him laugh, and the reporters below also recorded this classic scene with laughter.

After Bush's speech, Yao Ming, on behalf of the Rockets, presented a Rockets jersey with his name on it, which was also the only Rockets jersey he received during his tenure.

After the press conference, Bush also had lunch with the Rockets in the White House State Dining Room.

At the dinner table, the team members looked excited and cautious, and they could be regarded as enjoying the treatment of heads of state.

Tang Tian was the calmest one. After all, he knew in his heart that he would probably come to this place often in the future.

After the visit to the White House, the Rockets are even more proud.

After another wave of 6 wins and 1 loss in early February, before the All-Star Game, the Rockets' record reached a terrifying 46 wins and 6 losses, beating the next-door Celtics (44 wins and 9 losses). Ranks first in the league.

The excellent record allowed the Rockets to shine in the next All-Star.

Although Tang Tian did not become the head coach of the Western Conference due to the restrictions of the rules (the head coach of a team cannot serve as the All-Star coach consecutively), the Rockets still participated in this year's All-Star Game held in New Orleans.

Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady continued to be the starters of the Western Conference team, and Billups was also selected for the reserve list due to his stable performance.

Novak is in the 3-point contest for the second straight year.

Pietrus will also participate in this year's dunk contest.

The Rockets also played in multiple players in the rookie game.

In the first-year team, Marc Gasol, Sun Yue and Scola played.

In the second-year team, Millsap and Novak also occupy two positions.

There are 18 people in the two teams, and the Rockets accounted for nearly one-third.

Such a ratio can already be described as "Rocket Special".

The week before the All-Star Game, when Tang Tian was studying tactics in the office, Pietrus came to him and said he hoped he could give him some advice on dunk moves.

This question brought up many memories in Tang Tian's mind, and he didn't hide it, and gave Pietrus all the good ideas in his memory.

After hearing this, Pietrus was extremely excited and put himself back to practice in the training hall the next day.

Tang Tian didn't bother, he didn't need to be a coach in this All-Star Game, he just had to be a spectator with peace of mind.

Swift is going on a national tour, and Hathaway is also preparing for a big runway show in a few months. At first, he thought he was alone, but he didn't expect that the day before the All-Star Game, the "widow sister" Scarlett But Li asked him out.

It's really boring to watch the All-Stars alone, and Scarlett used the reason of wanting to know more about Swift, so he couldn't refuse.

On February 19, 2008, American time, the NBA All-Star Game kicked off at the New Orleans Arena.

The focus of attention on the first day is naturally the rookie game.

Although the first-year team has three strong points of Durant, Horford and Gasol, it cannot stand the stronger second-year team.

In the end, with 33 points and 12 rebounds, Millsap overwhelmed teammates Roy and Daniel Gibson and became the MVP of the rookie game.

Other Rockets players also played well.

Gasol scored the first-year team with 28 points and 13 rebounds, quite like last year's Millsap taste.

Sun Yue contributed 15 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals. Scola scored 16 points and 6 rebounds. Novak charged for the three-point contest, hitting 6 three-pointers and contributing 18 points.

Not long ago, Yi Jianlian, who won the best rookie of the month in December in the East, also contributed 12 points and 3 rebounds to the first-year team, and he is in good condition.

In Millsap's acceptance speech, thanks to Tang Tian was naturally indispensable.

When the live camera was shown to Tang Tian on the sidelines, Scarlett, who was smiling and tilted her head to look at Tang Tian, ​​followed her into the country, which immediately attracted whistles from the fans.

Not long ago, she enjoyed the treatment of bending over and holding hands at Swift's concert, and now she appeared on the sidelines of the All-Star Game with Scarlett. Tang Tian is going to become the goddess' "public lover".

The first day of the All-Star game ended, but like last year, the three-point contest and dunk contest on the second day attracted more attention.

This year's three-point contest lineup is more luxurious than last year's.

Kapono, Daniel Gibson, Peja Stojakovic, Nash, Nowitzki, Steve Novak, are not only good three-pointers, but also shining stars.

The intensity of the competition is also higher than in previous years.

Gibson and Kapono both scored 21 points in the preliminaries, and Peja even scored 22 points.

Novak played as the finale of the defending champion, and the pressure was great.

However, he continued yesterday's excellent touch, and finally withstood the pressure to get the same 22 points as Peja.

4 20+, this is the first time this kind of grand occasion has appeared in the three-point contest!

And because of the same score, Gibson and Kapono will have an extra game.

In the end, Kapono withstood the pressure and defeated Gibson's 18 points with 19 points. He did not disappoint the fans like last year, and finally reached the final to have a "enemy of life" contest with Novak.

In the finals, he was the first player to play even more. He scored 25 points equal to Novak's record last year, stunned the audience.

Bosh made a gesture of holding the championship on the sidelines, announcing Kapono in advance as the champion of the three-point contest.

Peja, who followed the debut, performed abnormally under great pressure and only scored 16 points.

In the finale, Novak made only 2 of 5 shots in the first point, which caused an uproar at the scene.

However, after that, he recovered his touch, played flawlessly, suppressed first and then raised, and finally scored an incredible 26 points!

When the last bouquet fell into the bag, the fans went completely crazy!

Breaking the record for two consecutive years, Novak's performance is absolutely superb!

At the end of the game, Kapono smiled and hugged Novak. He had nothing to say when he lost to such an opponent.

After Novak won the championship, he also became the sixth consecutive player to win the three-point shot contest after Bird, Hodges, Price, Hornacek, and Peja.

A soul-stirring three-pointer contest, the fans on the scene watched with enthusiasm, and this excitement did not disappear with the end of the three-pointer contest, because what will be staged immediately will make people even more excited dunk contest.