NBA: Goat is actually me
Chapter 99 All-Star Game is coming
Chapter 99 All-Star Game is coming
The 1988 NBA All-Star Game was held in Chicago. This was Meng Jin's first time participating in the All-Star Game on home soil, so he was still looking forward to what would happen next.
He got up very early on Saturday morning as his schedule for the day was very full.
He had to be interviewed by reporters first, then take photos with the Eastern Conference All-Stars, have a short practice in the afternoon, and a dunk contest was waiting for him in the evening, followed by a celebration event.
As soon as Meng Jin went out, he felt something was wrong and a cold air hit him in the face.
Last night, the temperature in Chicago dropped to minus 23 degrees Celsius. Meng Jin quickly turned around and put on a coat, and also grabbed a knitted hat and put it on his head.
When Meng Jin drove to the entrance of Chicago Stadium, he saw a spectacular scene.
Dozens of tents of various sizes were set up at the entrance. As soon as Meng Jin walked into the gymnasium, he couldn't help but complain: "Hey! Did we accept a group of refugees at the entrance?"
Meng Jin complained loudly, attracting the attention of people around him. A young white man came over and said, "Hey, Meng, hello, I'm Rick Welts, the chief marketing officer of the NBA."
Meng Jin smiled and stretched out his right hand: "Hello Rick, oh! I think you need a heater because your hands are no longer warm."
Rick Welts looked a little embarrassed: "I think those people outside need it more."
"Why not let them in?" Meng Jin asked.
Rick Welts looked up at Meng Jin. His words sounded a bit unreasonable, so Rick Welts explained the reason to him.
The Chicago Stadium is too old. Built in 1929, the stadium has neither a restaurant for VIPs nor a place for 693 media reporters to work.
Therefore, the league decided to set up tents outside to provide food and move the media to rented trailers in the parking lot. Although each tent outside had heaters, they were useless in the severe cold.
After hearing this, Meng Jin became the embarrassed person.
Rick Wertz's words can be simply translated as: What a crappy gym? There's not even a restaurant or a place to work!
Before coming, Rick Welts' goal was to make this All-Star Game a "superstar" one. After coming, he made some minor adjustments to his goal, which now just meant that no one would freeze to death.
Meng Jin chatted with Rick Welts for a few words. The chief marketing officer was very optimistic about Meng Jin. The marketing officer's task was to be responsible for promoting the NBA. Meng Jin now has a lot of traffic. The league's traffic is driven by the traffic of stars, otherwise the NBA would not have launched the star-making plan.
Rick Welts secretly told Meng Jin that he hoped Meng Jin would be the champion of the dunk contest that night. Although Jordan is now the most popular player in the league, he has already won the dunk contest championship, and winning another one would not be a big deal. Fans would think that he was performing normally and that this is what he deserves.
Meng Jin is different. If he not only wins his first slam dunk contest championship, but also defeats his teammate Jordan to win the championship, it will be a very hot topic. Rick Welts has even asked his staff to write the manuscript, waiting for Meng Jin to win the championship.
Meng then went into the media area to be interviewed by reporters. When they separated, Rick Wertz quietly asked, "Meng, what moves have you prepared tonight?"
Everyone has a gossipy heart, and Rick Wertz is no exception.
Meng Jin smiled and said, "Dunk from the three-point line."
Rick Wertz's jaw dropped: "Are you serious?"
If someone else said this, Rick Welts would definitely laugh it off, because anyone who has ever touched a basketball knows that this is impossible. But when these words came out of Meng Jin's mouth, Rick Welts was actually shaken. For a moment, he almost believed what Meng Jin said. After all, he had only been in the NBA for half a season and had already demonstrated many incredible moves.
After a few seconds, Rick Wertz reacted and smiled: "You are kidding me, okay, you have to keep it a secret and give everyone a surprise, I know that."
Meng Jin appeared to be indifferent to the dunk contest, but in fact he had secretly prepared a few moves. They were not very difficult, but they were things that people of this generation had never seen before.
After being interviewed by reporters, Meng Jin took a group photo with the Eastern Conference All-Stars.
Moses Malone was injured, and Robert Parish was selected as an All-Star. Although Dominique Wilkins' starting position was taken away by Meng Jin, the coach selected him into the substitute list.
Meng Jin was standing in the middle of the second row. Barkley sighed when he saw him: "Damn, the tallest player on our team is actually an outside shooter!"
Everyone laughed. The official height of Robert Parish and Ewing is 213CM, but they look a little shorter when standing next to Meng Jin. Meng Jin is like a magic mirror that exposes the true colors of all the dishonest centers in the league.
From the filming to the later training process, Meng Jin and Isaiah Thomas did not say a word. The grudge between the two was too deep. After all, Isaiah Thomas was directly knocked out by Meng Jin on the court, and this hatred is lifelong.
The same goes for Larry Bird and Danny Ainge. Seeing that their teammates were so hostile to Meng Jin, McHale didn't feel comfortable taking the initiative to say hello to Meng Jin.
Wilkins did not communicate with Meng Jin either. He believed that Meng Jin had taken his All-Star starting position and during training he was always thinking about how to defeat him in the dunk contest.
In just half a season in the league, Meng Jin has offended a lot of people. He is a popular figure among women and a great enemy among NBA players.
During training, Jordan played and played with the superstars. It took Jordan four full years to finally join the "Superstar Brotherhood" as he wished. You should know that when he first entered the All-Star Game in his rookie season, Jordan was targeted and excluded by everyone and finally got a pitiful 7 points.
Meng Jin next to him looked lonely, and most of the All-Star players ignored him. His situation was a bit like Jordan's rookie period.
Fortunately, there is Barkley, a lively guy. He has been telling jokes around Meng Jin, sometimes complaining about Jordan's protruding ears, and sometimes saying that "Magic" Johnson and Isaiah Thomas must be having an affair. The two of them kiss each other every time they play, which is very disgusting.
Meng Jin also complained about Jordan's signature tongue-sticking action. He said that he once saw Jordan lick Ewing's armpit with his own eyes.
The two said a lot of similar things and laughed their heads off. Soon it was night, and before the game started, everyone observed a moment of silence for "Pistol" Pete Maravich, the legendary star who died of a heart attack a few weeks ago.
Unlike the usual moments of silence, tonight's moment of silence was in the form of cheering, and all the fans stood up and cheered for Pete Maravich.
After the moment of silence, the All-Star Game began, with the first event being the Bird Show-Off Contest.
Bird's addiction to sex was clearly back tonight, as he went on stage wearing only a training jacket.
However, this is not his most pretentious thing.
The most impressive thing about Bird tonight was that he was still 8 points behind Dale Ellis when he shot to the second-to-last point.
When shooting the last ball at the last point, Bird had miraculously tied the score by scoring consecutive goals.
For the last ball, Dale Ellis, who was watching the game a few meters away, was very nervous. At that moment, he did not realize that he would become the background of a classic scene.
Bird took a three-point shot from the corner, and without waiting for the basketball to fall, he pointed his finger to the sky to celebrate.
"Shh!"
The moment the basketball went into the net, the whole stadium was boiling.
Not far away, Meng Jin shook his head and said, "This guy is pretending again."
Jordan next to him smiled and said, "Meng, you have to teach him a lesson next time we play against the Celtics."
Jordan would not have thought at this moment that Meng Jin would beat him up before beating up Bird.
After Bird lifted the three-point contest trophy, it was time for the dunk contest that fans were most looking forward to.
This year's dunk contest includes Jordan + Meng Jin + Wilkins + "Glider" Drexler + "Potato" Webber. It is no exaggeration to say that the attention paid to this dunk contest is higher than that of the main competition.
In the past, dunkers would hold back in the preliminaries and then show their best moves in the finals. This year, they will have to go all out from the beginning, otherwise they may not even make it to the finals.
Before the game started, Jordan and Wilkins both showed angry looks.
Jordan wanted to defeat Wilkins. The two had competed in the 1985 Slam Dunk Contest. Jordan lost that year and Wilkins won the Slam Dunk Contest championship.
Although Jordan won the Slam Dunk Contest last season, Wilkins did not participate last year, so it does not count as revenge.
Wilkins wanted to take revenge on Meng Jin for taking away his All-Star starting spot.
Among the three people, only Meng Jin's eyes were innocent.
Audis Smith was the first to appear on the stage. There were a total of 7 people participating in the dunk contest. In addition to the five great players mentioned above, there were two more people who made up the numbers, Audis Smith and Cosey.
Audis Smith's first dunk was a one-handed slam dunk after he jumped and drifted to the other side of the basket, "looking back at the moon". The ball looked average and the dunk was not crisp enough, so he only got 40 points.
Cosey's dunk was similar to Smith's, the only difference was that his finish was a back dunk, and the referee gave it 41 points.
The third player to appear was Webber, a player that fans were looking forward to very much. However, his physical condition was obviously not in good shape as he had just returned from knee surgery.
Webber failed in his first dunk, but then he used a simple two-handed dunk and finally completed his first dunk. The judges gave him 34 points.
Even Meng Jin thought that the score of 34 was too high, because this move was the kind of civilian dunk that everyone can see in every game.
After Weber finished the dunk, the noise at the scene suddenly became louder.
Meng Jin is here!
Meng Jin touched the soles of his shoes with his left and right hands alternately, and then made a 360-degree dunk by throwing the ball to himself and catching it.
Meng Jin thought he could just dunk casually in the preliminaries, but when he finished dunking, everyone at the scene widened their eyes and opened their mouths.
Dick Stock, the CBS commentator for this dunk contest, exclaimed repeatedly that it was incredible!
After calming down a bit, commentator Dick Stocker spoke again: "Meng used his ultimate move right from the start! He may not have understood the rules. The dunk contest has three rounds!"
Commentator Dick Stock didn't know that he was the one who didn't understand the situation.
The ultimate move he mentioned was just Meng Jin's warm-up move.
(End of this chapter)
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