With 16 three-pointers, Stephen Curry seemed to have eight times the mirror in the NBA All-Star Game, and the sharp sword cut the historical record. Behind every record is a legend, and the CBA All-Stars are no exception.
In February 2007, the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the Northern Small Chinese New Year's Eve, the Meihu Stadium in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, was bustling, and the 06-07 CBA All-Star Game was in full swing. Wang Shipeng of the Guangdong men's basketball team scored 18 points in the first quarter of the game with 6 shots, kicking off the night.
Wang Shipeng's three points were already destined to be the protagonist of that night.
Six months before the All-Star Game, the Chinese men's basketball team traveled to Sapporo, Japan, to compete in the World Championships, and the 23-year-old Wang Shipeng went out with the team again after the Asian Championship the previous year. From Dandong, Liaoning to Dongguan, Guangdong, Wang Shipeng has played for Hongyuan for 6 seasons at this time, and is also the main player of the 3 consecutive championships.
Dapeng spread his wings and fled, and in the 05-06 season before that, he averaged a career-high 13.2 points per game, with 3.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.3 steals. In the three years since Guangdong won the championship, he threw a total of 52 three-pointers in the playoffs with a 41.9% shooting rate, and was the Guangdong team and the important outside shooter of the Chinese men's basketball team at that time.
Although he has been selected for the national team, under the aura of Du Feng and Zhu Fangyu's "Fengyu Combination" and super popular star Yi Jianlian, Wang Shipeng was actually the most dim star in Guangdong at that time, and 2007 was also the last time their four stars joined hands to enter the CBA All-Star Game. Before Yi Jianlian was about to leave the Hongyuan Dynasty, fate tested a star who could fight a hard battle for them.
In 5.8 seconds, the Chinese men's basketball team fought slovenia to the end in the group stage of the World Championships, and although Yao Ming cut down 36 points and 10 rebounds, China still fell behind 75-77. The opportunity seemed to be still in hand, but I didn't know who could hold it, the ball was sent to the hands of 23-year-old Wang Shipeng, who flew as fast as he could, killed the front, faced the two defenders, and threw the ball out without hesitation.
After the whistle was suppressed, Wang Shipeng defeated Slovenia.
The most thrilling scene in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team was created by Wang Shipeng, who only scored these 3 points in the whole field. Over the past many years, no one can tell whether it is this big heart's super killer three points that have created the reputation of Wang Qi's hardcore shooter, or whether his shooter instinct that has always ignored it has achieved this recorded three points in history. In short, since then, no one has said that Wang Shipeng is a nameless person.
Half a year later, in the All-Star Game, fans are eagerly looking forward to Wang Shipeng's three points. Interestingly, he did not participate in this three-point contest and has never touched the three-point king in his career. However, in the main game, Wang Shipeng can play a big game, 6 three-pointers in the first quarter, and in the last quarter, he scored 3 more three-pointers when he was behind, reversed and opened the point difference in one fell swoop, and finally picked up the only All-Star MVP in his career.
Wang Shipeng scored 30 points in the whole game, all from outside the three-point line, and 10 three-pointers also set a record for the CBA All-Star Game. The record was held for 12 years from 2007 until 2019, when Jimmer Fredette, who made 11 three-pointers, met Joseph Young, who scored eight three-pointers.
Don't be mistaken, these two foreign aides actually played for the South End at the same time in the 2019 All-Star, but the two did become rivals in the end. They competed for the All-Star MVP, and the Lonely God blasted 11 three-pointers, breaking Wang Shipeng's record and scoring 39 points, while Joseph Young just got one more point than him and stole the MVP with 40 points.
By the way, the three-point score in the North and South Divisions this year was a staggering 72-18.
Just as Curry's 50 points failed to break the NBA All-Star single-game scoring record, the CBA's All-Star record naturally exceeded Joseph Young's 40 points. The earliest record comes from the 1997 All-Star Game, and it is also the first time in CBA history that all-stars have been turned into "weekends", the first time to set up an MVP for the main game, "China Jordan" Hu Weidong is brilliant.
Hu Weidong, who is 198cm tall, has a very good-looking style and is a Chinese representative in the world basketball trend led by the scoring guard. The year before that All-Star game, he had just finished the 95-96 regular season MVP of the first year of the CBA, averaging 27.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.1 blocks per game.
That summer, Hu Weidong and the Chinese men's basketball team played against the Lakers in the NBA Summer League, with the 13th pick in the first round in 1996, and later one of the representatives of the world's basketball scoring guards, rookie Kobe Bryant is in the lineup. The 26-year-old Hu Weidong and the proud son of heaven Kobe, Hu Weidong came off the bench and scored 30 points with 6 three-pointers, and Kobe Bryant scored 36 points.
Lao Hu left a lot of wonderful shots in that game, chasing kobe bryant, back-to-back single Kobe bryant back hit, fast attack to catch the ball and easily dunk. Hu Weidong is indeed a score guard lineage from Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and others, with a slender body and a wild and flowing style of the ball, and indeed a circle of fans.
In 1997, Hu Weidong also left a record of 42 points at the All-Star Game.
That scoring record lasted longer than Wang's three-pointer, until 2011, this time between Stephen Marbury and Quincy Dolby. Two players from Brooklyn, New York, crossed the ocean to meet in the CBA, Marbury is still looking for a place to stand, and Dolby has been hailed as the strongest foreign aid in Xinjiang's history.
The game was inextricably beaten, with Marbury, who had won MVP the previous year, scoring 30 points again, but 0-of-10 from three points, while younger brother Dolby was at the peak of his form and scored 44 points, breaking the record left by Hu Weidong. In the final moments, Dolby fouled Marcus Williams, and the Southern Zone won by one point, and Dolby took an All-Star Game MVP to the playoffs.
As mentioned earlier, Wang Shipeng was holding the three-point record of the CBA All-Star Game at the time, and Dolby got the single-game scoring record, and the two met in the Finals. Dolby slashed 53 points on 10-of-17 three-point shooting in the first game, breaking yao Ming and Liu Yudong's record of 49 points in the Finals, which is the only 50+ in the CBA's history Finals so far, and 10 three-pointers are also unmatched.
This series is destined not to belong to Dolby, just like facing the difficult situation in Slovenia, Wang Shipeng stepped forward. Xinjiang, who won the first game, led by a maximum of 18 points in the second leg, but Wang Shipeng and Leicester Hudson dominated the game in the last quarter, and although Duby still took the most 36 points in the game, Wang Shipeng contributed 32 points to the tit-for-tat, and Guangdong reversed successfully.
Wang Shipeng averaged 22.8 points per game and won the MVP of the finals.
Dolby failed to break the Hongyuan Dynasty, lost games, won the record, but he also made everyone remember his ability to cut points. A year later, he joined Zhejiang in the 12-13 season, scoring 75 points in a single game against Shanxi, breaking the record of 71 points set by former Shandong foreign aid Andrew Emmett at that time.
The record of 75 points did not last long, and just two years later, as a foreign aid to the Zhejiang team, Eric McRoome scored 82 points in a single game. The point-cutting masters will naturally show their killer skills in the CBA All-Star Game, and the lonely god who broke Wang Shipeng's record mentioned above is the only player in the CBA to score 70+ twice, tied for second in history with Dolby's 75 points, and it is Joseph Young's 74 points after him.
However, the CBA All-Star Game's all-time single-game scoring record does not belong to one of these people, just four years after Dolby, Shanghai men's basketball foreign aid Michael Beasley scored 59 points at the 2015 All-Star Game, shooting 27 of 33 and shooting 5 of 6 from three points. As the NBA draft pick, Beasley's talent has never been forgotten, and he is indeed talented.
The most interesting thing is coming, just like Fredette's 11 three-pointers can't get the MVP, the All-Star Game scoring record does not belong to the Shanghai men's basketball team, a year later, Shandong foreign aid scored 63 points, 19 rebounds and 13 assists, creating a super triple-double in the CBA All-Star Game, and this player is Beasley who changed the court. It's just that this record, like Emmett, belongs to Shandong and waits for future generations.
Later, Beasley returned to the location of the 2016 All-Star Game and won the CBA championship with Guangdong.
Records are meant to be broken, and that's true of the NBA, and so is the CBA. Before Curry, the NBA All-Star Game had fewer than 10 three-point records in a single game, and in the era of three-point waves, it was only a matter of time before the three-point wave was destined to be broken. Of course, people did not expect that Curry was really interested in harvesting this honor in a big show.
In contrast, the CBA All-Star Game's record of 11 three-pointers and 63 points is much more difficult than the NBA, but it is not something that cannot be expected. Shanxi's former coach created a new personal career height of 13 three-pointers in a single game last season, and this season he has hit at least 8 three-point performances in three games, and he has reached 45.8% of three-point shooting rate for three consecutive years.
Before the end of the second stage, Jiang Weize scored 9 three-pointers in a single game against the original coach's Shanxi team. Another example is Wu Qian, although his overall three-point shooting rate is not as good as the top two, but his career has also hit more than 8 three-pointers in a single game, and last year's All-Star Game was when he shot 7 three-pointers to take away the MVP, and once hit 5 three-pointers in a row in the third quarter.
The three-point record may be very promising to be broken, but Beasley's scoring record is probably an unattainable height. Just like the NBA All-Star 52 points record set by Anthony Davis, you can eat cake, have a high success rate, be physically fit, and have a chance. Of course, otherwise, learn curry and see who can have the super feel of winning the lottery on that day.
In a little more than a month, the CBA All-Stars are coming, what are you waiting for, vote to go!