A heart-stirring competition, a highly valuable Three-Point Contest championship.

During his championship speech, Tang Tian also showered Curry and other opponents with praise.

Good games require good players, and also good opponents.

This has always been his attitude at the All-Star Game.

Facts have also proven that it's the right approach.

Following the Three-Point Contest was the Slam Dunk Contest, with Thunder youngster Diallo ultimately leaping over O'Neal to become the new dunk king.

But that result was actually no longer important; after the game, fans would be talking about the unique and creative Three-Point Contest.

This year's All-Star Weekend already had enough with that.

The individual competitions concluded on the second day, followed by the All-Star Game on the final day.

Because the two teams were evenly matched on paper after the draft, this All-Star Game was highly anticipated.

But one interesting thing was that on the betting websites, Tang Tian's MVP odds were 1 to 1 before the game.

In other words, they believed Tang Tian would 100% win the MVP.

This was simply impossible before!

But it wasn't their fault; they had been burned too many times before.

Tang Tian already had five consecutive All-Star MVPs, and this year he was having the best season of his career.

If it weren't for internal regulations, they wouldn't even want to put Tang Tian on the court.

That night, the Boston All-Star Game was held at the TD Garden.

The arena was packed, and the Celtics fans' faces were filled with excitement.

After acquiring Walker this season, everything had been going smoothly for them.

This was fully reflected in the player introductions.

Walker received even louder cheers than James and Durant when he was introduced.

Of course, Tang Tian was the most popular.

Tang Tian's influence and popularity had already become a phenomenon.

As the last player to be introduced, he simply waved his hand and pushed the atmosphere to a new high.

After the introduction ceremony, the players began their final warm-up before the game.

It was at this time that a strange phenomenon occurred: Durant seemed to be in a world of his own.

On Tang Tian's team, besides Horford in the starting lineup, everyone else either had a good relationship with Tang Tian, or naturally, a bad one.

Even the bench was the same; Butler, Davis, and Drummond were his hard-training brothers, needless to say.

The remaining players, Beal and Russell, didn't have much interaction with him either, and the last one was Westbrook…

While the others were chatting during warm-up, he seemed very isolated.

At this time, some Lakers fans on the online forum began to feel sorry for him, and then started criticizing Tang Tian.

If Durant had gone to Giannis's team, James, Curry, and Harden would have been there.

In comparison, that would have been heaven, while this was simply hell.

Durant was in for a rough time at this year's All-Star Game!

Fortunately, the warm-up time was limited, and the head coach of Tang Tian's team was the Lakers' Vogel.

After a brief tactical arrangement, a short whistle sounded from the sidelines, and the All-Star Game was about to begin.

The starting lineups of the two teams entered the court one after another.

For Tang Tian's team, it was Walker and Tang Tian in the backcourt, Durant and Leonard on the wings, and Horford at center.

For Giannis's team, it was Irving and Harden in the backcourt, DeRozan and James on the wings, and Giannis at center.

Amidst the cheers of the fans, Giannis won the tip-off against Horford, officially starting the All-Star Game.

Harden was very aggressive, driving to the basket with the ball right from the start.

But Tang Tian played seriously, blocking his shooting angle, and his final layup failed to go in.

Tang Tian secured the defensive rebound.

He dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, shifting past DeRozan and driving straight to the basket.

Giannis's team also played seriously, collapsing in from both wings to force Tang Tian to pass.

Tang Tian didn't force a shot, and made a signature behind-the-back pass to the weak side.

Durant happened to be there.

Tang Tian's pass was comfortable, and Durant received it very comfortably.

"Swish!"

A signature outside pull-up jumper.

Durant scored the first points for Tang Tian's team.

There was a stir on the sidelines.

Actually, from the warm-up before the game, fans had been paying close attention to Durant and Tang Tian.

To be precise, it should be that after Tang Tian first selected Durant, fans were very concerned about how Durant would play on Tang Tian's team.

The result that no one expected was that the first basket for Tang Tian's team came from the Tang-Durant connection!

Giannis received a pass from James in the frontcourt and threw down a flying dunk in response.

Cheers erupted in the arena.

The game was being played in Boston, which was like the East team's home court, and Giannis was now the new number one player in the East.

Of course, the most important thing was that his physical talent was truly drool-worthy.

Walker cooperated with Leonard in the frontcourt, but Leonard's outside shot didn't go in.

However, Horford boxed out Giannis and grabbed the offensive rebound, flicking the ball to Tang Tian.

Tang Tian cut straight to the basket, looking like he was going to dunk, but at the moment of take-off, he made a cross-court pass.

The ball flew to the left side at a forty-five degree angle.

Durant was standing there again.

And he was open again.

The arena was in an uproar.

Tang Tian… seemed to be setting up Durant?

"Swish!"

Durant's outside three-pointer went in again!

He had scored 5 consecutive points after the start of the game.

And they all came from Tang Tian's assists!

The fans on the online forum exploded.

"Am I watching a fake All-Star Game?! Why is Tang constantly setting up Durant?!"

"I don't understand either. Actually, I didn't understand why Tang picked Durant first!"

"No, no, it should be earlier. I remember there was a report saying that when the Pelicans and Lakers first played each other, Tang praised Durant."

"Is it that hate at the extreme turns into love?"

…

Fans continued to complain on the online forum, while Tang Tian and Durant continued to cooperate.

Most of the time, Tang Tian drove to the basket and passed out to Durant.

But those who understood the game, or those who watched the game closely, would realize that this wasn't about setting up or not.

It was simply because of the two players' styles.

Tang Tian preferred to break through, while Durant preferred to shoot.

Both players also had very high basketball IQs. Tang Tian's passing was very timely when he was double-teamed, and Durant wasn't just a shooter waiting for the ball; his off-ball movement was very good.

In other words, the two players' styles were quite compatible, and they were also exceptionally in sync.

The fans on the online forum belatedly realized this.

Thinking about it carefully, the Lakers' core style of play this season was also like this: James breaking through, Durant shooting.

Now that the person breaking through had become the stronger Tang Tian, Durant would naturally shoot even more comfortably.

But after realizing this, their expressions were like this: (⊙﹏⊙), or like this: (；一_一), or even like this: (个_个).

Originally, Tang Tian and Durant were irreconcilable on and off the court, but the first time they cooperated, the effect was so good.

This really made people not know what expression to make.

Especially the fans of the Pelicans and Lakers, who were all ready to criticize the other side, but found that they couldn't seem to bring themselves to do it.