Chapter 371 All-Star Weekend

Bojan's championship was unexpected, but it also gave the Pelicans a new harvest at the All-Star Game.

A player's strength needs a stage. Ariza's injury previously gave Bojan the opportunity to enter the starting lineup, and his performance was good.

Now, he has won the three-point contest in a record-breaking way, and his strength has been further recognized.

The Pelicans give other teams the feeling that they are even stronger than before.

After the three-point contest was the dunk contest.

In history, the 2016 dunk contest can be compared with the 2000 dunk contest, but perhaps because of Tang Tian's time travel, Gordon did not participate this year.

In the end, LaVine was invincible like last year, easily defeating others to achieve a back-to-back dunk contest championship.

With the end of the dunk contest, this day of All-Star Weekend also came to an end.

Then, there was only the All-Star Game on the last day.

After the dunk contest ended that night, Tang Tian received an invitation from Kobe, inviting him to go out for something to eat.

Tang Tian first sent Olsen back to the hotel, and then went to meet Kobe.

This is Kobe's last season, and also Kobe's last All-Star Game.

Tang Tian had given Kobe a lot of helpful advice before, and the two were also good friends off the court.

The two talked a lot after sitting down.

"I still have to thank you for the advice you gave me before. That was a very important reason for my decision to retire. I want to start a family life."

Kobe's words during the chat made Tang Tian laugh and cry.

Kobe did not suffer a serious Achilles tendon injury as he did in history, so theoretically he would not retire at this time.

Tang Tian didn't want to make Duncan retire early because of himself, but now he has indirectly made Kobe retire.

"But I will continue to watch you. The future of this league will be yours."

Kobe's next words made Tang Tian laugh even louder.

"You want to learn from Tim and treat me like LeBron?"

Tang Tian said to Kobe with a smile.

Duncan once said to James that the future is yours, but the whole world knows about it.

Kobe also laughed, but shook his head.

"Whether it's LeBron or Stephen, they all have too much to prove. You don't need to. You already won two championships from the start.

And after you arrived in New Orleans, it was like building a pyramid, laying the foundation step by step. You will create an unprecedented great pyramid.

But LeBron has always taken shortcuts, and Stephen last year seemed to suddenly have a hanging garden, but that's already the most they can have.

Your pyramid is about to be completed, and in the future you can stand on the top of the tower and look down on this league."

Kobe's next words were very philosophical, but also very realistic.

And he really understands basketball. What he sees is not who was the champion last year, who will be the champion this year, but the way Tang Tian and the Pelicans are growing.

Just like he said, he sees Tang Tian's constant progress in strength, and the continuous improvement of the Pelicans' lineup.

His description is also very appropriate. The pyramid is the most stable building. Only with a solid foundation can the highest peak be created.

This is much more stable than James, who is constantly forming a Big Three, and Curry, who suddenly rose up because of the small ball era.

"Haha, I accept this wave of business mutual praise between friends."

Tang Tian said with a smile, raising his glass of red wine.

Kobe shook his head, but still raised his glass and drank with Tang Tian.

He wasn't just flattering. He used to think that Tang Tian had a chance to get close to him, but now he thinks that Tang Tian has a chance to surpass him and get close to Jordan.

On the last day of All-Star Weekend, the All-Star Game officially kicked off at the Air Canada Centre.

Before the opening, at the All-Star entry ceremony, Kobe made a final appearance, drawing explosive cheers from the fans at the scene.

This is the last time they will see Kobe on this stage.

But even in Kobe's retirement season, the last one to appear was Tang Tian. As the new All-Star vote leader, it wouldn't be appropriate not to appear last.

The cheers at the scene also reached a new peak.

Tang Tian's punch to Pachulia caused him a lot of criticism, but the voting results show that in the face of his current super popularity, those are nothing.

After all, Kobe experienced the Eagle County incident, and it did not prevent him from becoming the second shooting guard in history.

What Tang Tian did to protect his teammates was nothing, but his actions made him have many hardcore fans.

After the warm-up, the starters from the East and West also came out one after another.

On the Eastern side were Lowry, Wade, George, Anthony, and James.

On the Western side were Curry, Tang Tian, Kobe, Leonard, and Durant.

James won the jump ball against Durant, officially kicking off the All-Star Game.

George came up and received a pass from Wade, hitting a three-pointer.

The Pacers' record this season is average, but George's personal condition is very hot.

Curry dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and gave the ball to Kobe.

In 2003, it was Jordan's last All-Star Game.

Everyone knows that Jordan only scored 20 points in that game, and Kobe's last three-point attempt caused a foul and dragged the game into overtime, stealing the victory that the East had in hand, and making Jordan's last dance not perfect.

But probably not many remember that Jordan got the most shots in that All-Star Game with 27 attempts, which was the respect of other players for the god of basketball.

Now that Kobe is about to retire, Curry is doing the same thing.

But Kobe doesn't seem to be doing what Jordan did back then. He directly passed the ball to Tang Tian.

He used to be a very paranoid person, but Tang Tian changed him.

Just like he said to Tang Tian yesterday, he thinks the future is Tang Tian's, so he gave Tang Tian the opportunity.

Kobe didn't say it, but Tang Tian knew what he was thinking, and he also knew that since Kobe chose to do this, if he didn't accept it, he wouldn't be giving Kobe face.

He caught the ball and faced Wade, shaking and then hitting a turnaround fadeaway.

Scoring with a pass from Kobe in Kobe's way is the best way.

Sure enough, Kobe laughed when he saw it, and the fans at the scene cheered.

Perhaps there are no words, and no additional explanations, but this is a kind of inheritance, the inheritance of historical shooting guards.

Lowry's outside three-pointer missed, Leonard grabbed a long rebound, dribbled the ball for a fast break, and turned around to see Tang Tian, who was fast breaking, and directly threw the ball.

Tang Tian caught the ball and threw off Lowry, scoring with a one-handed dunk.

George received a pass from James and broke through with a dunk in return.

Turning back, Curry broke through and directly passed an alley-oop to Tang Tian, who jumped up and slammed a one-handed alley-oop.

At the beginning of the game, Tang Tian scored 6 points with breakthroughs and shots.

Curry has never had a strong desire to score in All-Star Games. Kobe wanted to pass the ball to Tang Tian for inheritance, and Leonard was Tang Tian's former little brother.

Except for Durant, all five starters on the Western side wanted to pass the ball to Tang Tian. He took a few too many shots tonight.