The 2021-22 All-Star season officially ended today.
As a golden age that coincides with the 75th anniversary of the NBA, if you have a full score of 10 points, you can score an 8 points. The main deductions are against the not-so-intense All-Star Game, as well as the dunk contest that is completely watered.
However, if you look at the whole process, you will find that there are still many highlights worth remembering this year:
At the 75th event, we saw many old immortals who had been hidden for many years, the four major centers who had been blessed, Garnett and Ray Allen who maintained their perfect bodies, and Michael Jordan, who would be the focus of the whole audience everywhere.
They are a piece of history and the youth of many people. It's good to see that they're all still there.
In the All-Star Game, two children born in Akron become the protagonists. Curry scored 16 three-pointers to score 50 points, a well-deserved MVP that incidentally completely refurbished the All-Star three-point record. But the game ended with a rollover shot by LeBron.
Curry's firepower sustained the whole field, LeBron made a final decision, and the two greatest players of the era reaped the victory in the way they were best at.
The three-point contest ended with Downs' record 29 points, and he (2m 13) was just 2 centimeters away from becoming the highest three-point king in history (Nowitzki 2m 14).
But the good news is that Curry (28), who broke the record by him, will not rekindle the momentum and return to the three-point game next year.
After all, as long as there is a record of three-pointers, we are used to being this elementary school student.
LeBron James hug Michael Jordan.
For many years, the two seemed to adhere to the tacit understanding of "the king does not see the king", and the interaction in public was extremely rare. But today the two, perhaps the greatest men in NBA history, embraced each other.
One all-star, with so many highlights, is enough.
First, the biggest winner - Curry, everyone wants him to take mvp
50 points, including 16 three-pointers. Curry, the first third-pointer in history, became the star of this year in front of Reggie Miller and Ray Allen (who could not have come by Bird) in the way he did best.
However, the high score of 163-160 can also be seen that this is a basically undefended "superstar exhibition game".
Before this game, the league was among the superstars of Curry's level and age,
LeBron already has three All-Star MVPs and Durant is the 2019 AMVP
Paul took it in 2013, and brother alphabet also got addicted to it last year.
Even the absent Thick Brow, Leonard, and Owen have taken it,
Although Curry has never been absent from an All-Star since 2014, he has never had the opportunity to touch the trophy.
So, in order to avoid his regrets like the mvp in the finals, both the opponent and his teammates are happy to complete him, boom.
The first section is still quite humble, 2,
The second quarter feels up, 6 of 7,
In the third quarter, there are 5 in a row, and 7 in the last 10,
In the fourth quarter, he made up another one, and finally another "riot" out of the sky, he often showed a throw when he warmed up, and 50 points were in hand.
He also broke a bunch of All-Star three-point record:
All-Star halftime three-point record (8)
All-Star three-point record in a single quarter (6)
All-Star 1st three-point shooting (47)
All-Star 1st three-point shooting in a single game (16)
In the end, he lifted his first All-Star MVP Trophy amid all-time boos from Cleveland, who made them sworn enemies?
In four years of riding battles, Curry and the Warriors stole three championship trophies from the people here. Although he was Akron's child, he was also a sworn enemy of the Knight, and this was LeBron's territory after all.
Just like at the Philadelphia All-Star Game twenty years ago, the fans who had just been defeated by the Lakers finals booed Kobe Bryant.
This is the most appropriate tribute to the mortal enemy.
Second, the biggest focus - LeBron's next stop, is it coming again?
In terms of network popularity alone, LeBron is the first person in NBA history. His every move can cause an uproar on the Internet.
At the All-Star Game in his hometown, he was still the biggest focus.
Not just because it ended up with a rollover shot that ended up with him, but what he said throughout the All-Star Weekend:
Is it decided that 4.0 is coming?
The Lakers' messy record and poor reinforcements this season seem to indicate that his relationship with the Lakers has ended. After all, the first few times in the Heat and cavaliers, when he won the championship and could not go any further, he would release the wind in advance, so that the public would be mentally prepared in advance to avoid the huge public opinion storm brought about by the first decision in 2010.
This time he "blew the wind" like this:
Talk about Cleveland
"We have three All-Stars here, me, Allen and Garland." (Don't think of yourself as an outsider at all)
Talk about regression
"Everything is unknown, but this door is not closed" (Lakers Chrysanthemum a tight)
Talk about the future
"I'm going to spend the last year of my career on the same team as Brownie (the eldest son), and I'm willing to do anything for that" (buy one get one free, choose a small one, give a big one?). ）
If you witness LeBron's decisions one, two, and three, you will understand that he has begun to sing "Good Heart Breakup" to the Lakers in advance.
And the next stop is undoubtedly the knights.
They have the "three highs" (Allen, Mobley, Markkanen) that are drooling across the league today, star guard Garland, who has just been named an All-Star, and very healthy salary space.
Now the only suspense remains:
In the end of the season, the Cavaliers got James, who still had a one-year contract in advance through a trade, to impact the championship,
Or in the summer of 2023, choose a small one and sign a large one?
Third, the biggest losers - the Lakers, Paul and the dunk contest
Therefore, the Los Angeles Lakers are undoubtedly the biggest Loser of this All-Star Game.
While brushing the team and the stars gather together to enjoy the event, they not only have to bear their bad record of tenth place in the West, but also worry about the playoffs. LeBron, the only all-star selected, also frequently sent autumn waves and broken links with other teams, which is really a green hat running around the street.
The season is over, and next season, whether LeBron is there or not, they will have to bear the huge salary of the strange young master Wei with a huge salary of $47 million, the fragile body that may fall at any time, and the almost poor rotation lineup.
Won the championship, in exchange for a chicken feather in the next few years, whether it is worth it or not is only known to the Lakers management itself.
Of course, if you want to talk about the most unlucky individuals in the All-Star Game, you have to count Chris Paul.
Other players came over to join a party and play for two days. As a result, Paul actually injured himself this weekend, fractured the thumb of his right hand, and was injured for 6-8 weeks.
He wasn't seen in the regular season this season.
Originally, the Suns were 48 wins and 10 losses to rank first in the league, and for the first time before the All-Star Game, they became the biggest favorite to win the championship in the power list, and they were preparing to do a big job.
As a result, Paul fell again, just like the fifth game of the 2018 Western Conference Finals.
Why does God put Paul down every time he is closest to the championship?
Playing and playing, we all hope that "Grandpa St. Paul" can recover as soon as possible, and do not repeatedly be deprived of the hope of impacting the championship by injuries.
But this all-star dunk contest is really speechless.
Cole Anthony, Toscano Anderson, ObiToping and Jaren Green. Four raw melon eggs with a career of no more than three years contributed to one of the most tedious and low-level performances in the history of the dunk contest.
Anthony is not known for dunking in the Magic, and although Anderson and Topping have contributed to the game in recent years, the lack of talent is lackluster when it comes to the dunk competition stage that requires higher technical level and visual impact.
What people are most looking forward to before the game is this season's Rockets star Jarlen Green, who has always been recognized as the most physically energetic young man with the "little Kobe" city, is the biggest hit.
As a result, his inability to buckle has become the biggest joke. If it weren't for Scotty Barnes, who "shot less than my grandmother", he would have become the biggest "comedian" of this All-Star Weekend.
Although Topping won the final with a 47-point dunk, the overall decline in quality was a foregone conclusion.
Even Pierce, whose career is not known for dunking, this year's 44-year-old, complained on the sidelines:
"I'm better at going up and down than they are now."
Of course, the most engaged is Wade, who works as a commentator on the sidelines.
In the face of the powerless performance of these four young people, the "Ninth Master" directly reversed the legendary nine points into six points, failing!
In fact, for the lackluster of this year's dunk contest, the most responsible person is probably The Flash.
The nine-pointer given to Gordon two years ago once again extinguished the world's hard-won enthusiasm for the dunk contest.
As strong as Gordon but without a dunk championship, the real dunk masters in the league are now full of doubts about the credibility and gold content of this game, so the leaders of the younger generation such as Morant, Wiggins, and the recently rising Edwards and Cuminga are not interested in it.
Even Morant's casual performance of dunks in the All-Star Game is better than the dunk contest.
Before Lavin and Gordon came out in 2015-16, the dunk contest was reduced to a stage full of antics, tributes and performances. The art and beauty that truly belonged to the dunk has long gone, and it is the hard performance of these two young people that breaks through themselves and allows the public to regain their enthusiasm for the game.
And this hard-won reputation, but fell on the "nine points" of "The Flash" that made people scratch their heads, which is probably the biggest stain on Wade's career.