The 28th CBA All-Star Weekend is about to begin, and the Xiamen Phoenix Stadium will also officially open. In addition to the participating players, Yao Ming, president of the Chinese Basketball Association, Liu Yudong, Wang Zhizhi and Zheng Haixia, who were inducted into the China Basketball Hall of Fame, basketball stars Sun Jun and Zhu Fangyu, will participate in this Chinese basketball feast.
This year's Xingrui tournament will be divided into two games, the CBA Xingrui first-year team against Peking University men's basketball team will be the first to play tomorrow afternoon, Xiamen junior Lin Wei, who plays for Nanjing Tongxi team, will represent Xingrui's first-year team, and Shanghai team Li Hongquan, Liu Zhengqing and Cheng Wangfan will be selected for the first-year team. At 19:15 on March 25, the second Star Race will be played between the CBA Star Sharp sophomore team and the college student team, and Du Bochao of Xiamen University will be selected for the college student team.
The preliminary round of the individual events will also be staged on Saturday night, and this year's individual competitions are also very interesting. Allen Guo and Xu Jie failed in the last All-Star Skills Challenge, and this time the two made a comeback. Regardless of the attention that comes with the two, Allen Guo's ability to control the ball and Xu Jie's speed can increase their competitiveness in the skill challenge.
The names of interior players such as Hu Jinqiu and Jiao Boqiao also appeared in the list of participants in the skill challenge, and defending champion Wang Yibo also participated again, as well as college player Zhou Ziang.
The list of participants in the three-point contest has not changed much from last year, and the Guangdong team has replaced Hu Mingxuan with Wang Xinkai. Zhou Qimo of Huaqiao University will participate as a college player, and he will replace the injured Wang Fanyi to represent the college student team in the Star Race.
From the available data, Jiang Weize of the Jilin team shot 43% from three-point range and averaged 3.8 three-pointers per game, ranking first among all participating players, followed by Yuan Shuai by a narrow margin. These two have a stable mentality and rich experience, and it depends more on the scene.
Shanghai player Dai Hao will appear in the dunk contest against Zhang Zhenlin, Zeng Fanbo, Ni Yongkang and university player Yang Hao. Zhang Zhenlin won the Slam Dunk Contest in his rookie season, and the previous All-Star missed due to injury, and this edition is striving to win another championship. It is not easy for Dai Hao to break through between Zhang Zhenlin and Zeng Fanbo, and college player Yang Hao is even more menacing.
Yang Hao is 1.79 meters tall and comes from Zhengzhou University. In the 2023 China Collegiate Basketball League (CUBAL) All-Star Night Dunk Contest, he was the tallest of all the team members, but this did not affect the excitement of his dunk performance, he showed "two-handed turn reflexive dunk", "stacked arhat dunk", "Yue Ren crotch dunk" and "Aaron Gordon Yue Ren turn dunk", the last three moves can be called the top difficulty in Asia. Therefore, he won the 2023 CUBAL All-Star Game Slam Dunk Contest championship without suspense and launched an all-star attack.
The individual finals will be played Sunday night, and the highlight of the CBA All-Star Weekend will also be played on Sunday night. The starting players of the South Zone Star Team are: Yi Jianlian (South Zone Ticket King), Wang Zhelin, Hu Jinqiu, Zhao Rui and Hu Mingxuan. The starting lineup of the North District Star Team is: Zeng Fanbo, Zhang Zhenlin, Abdul Shalamu, Guo Allen (North District Ticket King), Zhao Jiwei. Wang Shilong and Yang Ming each led a team.