Scottie Pippen is the crown prince of the NBA, and he is the kind of crown prince whose time to ascend the throne has already been determined.

However, with Scottie Pippen officially taking office, the NBA has entered the Pippen era from the David Stern era, which still caused a lot of repercussions.

Not to mention the outside world, even within the league, even in the two All-Star teams, most of the All-Star players are convinced that David Stern said when he finally left that the NBA is no longer satisfied with pursuing extreme commercial interests, but

Instead, he began to pursue the meaning and value of basketball itself.

Similarly, David Stern said that in the future, the league will no longer regard the commercial interests of team owners as its only interests, but will consider the competitive needs of fans, players and the NBA. This is also quite thought-provoking.

Lian Lian.

"Yes, do you think the league will start to encourage more normal physical confrontations between players during this All-Star Game?"

After Pippen's inauguration ceremony, Kobe's eyes were shining.

Ye Si nodded noncommittally after thinking for a while.

As players of his and Kobe's level, of course they know that there are always two voices within the NBA.

One is the former NBA prince joke group, hoping to increase the commercial appreciation of the NBA, and even sacrifice some things for the sake of commercial interests, appreciation, and even storytelling. Making money is the most important, but basketball and

You don’t need to care too much about the bottom line of competition.

This is the loudest and most mainstream voice among the top brass within the NBA. Even if the joke has gone away, this voice is still the loudest.

After all, the bosses don’t care whether such extreme pursuit of maximizing short-term profits will harm basketball. Most of them are not players, coaches, or fans. What they want is financial reports and the ever-increasing broadcast fees.

Noisy topics and traffic, the rest is irrelevant.

Another voice is what Pippen and other more professional basketball practitioners want to see, that is, the basketball game is not a single game, nor should it be a single game. The basketball game is a game where the winner is determined by scoring.

That's right, but you can also win by scoring more points than others, or you can win by letting your opponent score less points. These two statements may seem a bit confusing, but it is the fact.

You must not sacrifice many essential factors of basketball for so-called commercial interests.

By then, the artificial prosperity may have made the fans tired of it after one or two seasons, and the players will complain.

In fact, this kind of voice only appeared in David Stern's later years.

It only came about after David Stern supported Pippen.

In fact, even David Stern used to be a supporter of the first voice.

In addition to Ye's absence, David Stern was almost overwhelmed by the Pistons and Spurs.

At that time in the NBA, you really had nothing to eat, so who would talk to you about your ideals?

Who told you about the long term?

Even if it's poison, it needs to be done first.

But later, God's calculations were not as good as those of humans, and the NBA came up with a Yes.

Let the entire NBA be full.

That is to say, only when you have eaten and drank enough can you be qualified to talk about the long-term development of the NBA and basketball, and only then can you carry out the construction of concepts, spiritual civilization and the like.

If he hadn't really fed the NBA owners so much that they didn't even support or oppose it, David Stern wouldn't have been able to convince all the first voices and let Pippen come on stage.

Of course, Ye Si knew these things, but he only knew that he had never been involved in such things.

But he knows that David Stern's emergence means that the NBA is indeed likely to take a turn.

At the very least, the NBA will no longer see endless changes that benefit offense.

Even in the future, for the sake of balance, the NBA may even implement some old rules in the NBA retroactively, and even introduce some rules from FIBA ​​or NCAA, so that it will not only stop pressing the offense, but may even

Will increase defense.

Ye Si does not think that he is a very smart person. What he can see clearly can naturally be seen by others.

After all, this is what the players and fans want.

Now, more and more fans and players are tired of the endless referee whistles on the court and the endless controversies caused by the whistles.

Since David Stern said that they have heard the voices of the players and fans, they will naturally make changes.

"Yes, if this year's All-Star League encourages stronger confrontation, you will have no chance of winning this game!"

The expression on Kobe's face was very confident.

Yes, of course, understands Kobe's confidence.

After all, according to outside experts, how can the quality of the Sonics' fifteen players compare with the quality of the league's fifteen players?

The intensity of the game increases just because the consumption of the game increases. It is difficult for the SuperSonics to maintain the same strength for 48 minutes, but the alliance team can. Their fifteen people can be divided into three groups of five players, five up and five down, without losing strength.

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But not supersonic speed.

Therefore, after Scottie Pippen's inauguration ceremony, the faces of the league's All-Stars looked very expectant.

On the SuperSonics side, the players' faces were as solemn as Jordan's on the other side.

After Pippen's inauguration ceremony, at nine o'clock in the evening, the skills competition on the second day of the NBA All-Star Weekend kicked off.

Because this year's All-Star Skills Competition added a heads-up competition, the shooting star of the previous competition was cancelled.

At the same time, the time for the skills competition on the second day was also advanced by half an hour.

After all, tonight's final one-on-one competition is five versus five, which is quite time-consuming.

Compared to yesterday's Rookie Challenge, today's All-Star Weekend Skills Competition is undoubtedly more eye-catching.

It can be said that the All-Stars of the two teams will appear in tonight's game.

More importantly, the NBA finally has a heads-up game!

In this one-on-one competition, it can be said that the fans and even some players have been shouting for who knows how long.

However, because some top stars are not too brave to participate, this competition has never been able to appear.

After all, if there are no top singles players to participate, there is no point in holding this competition. Even if a group of rookies fight to determine the one-on-one champion, the final one-on-one champion in the NBA is a role player in the regular season, then wouldn’t the league

Want to be embarrassed?

The title of duel king is different from the three-point king, dunk king and skill king. This is not a title that can be taken away by role players.

To put it simply, having this title taken away by a role player is an insult to this title.

Therefore, this game is designed for the stars of the league.

If the participation of celebrities is not high, the league will not be able to hold such a game even if other spectators shout loudly.

But this year is different. No one from the Sonics or the league is afraid of fighting.

It can be said that this time all the singles players in the league are very enthusiastic about this game.

In this case, fans will of course be extremely looking forward to who the NBA's singles king will be.

Even if Ye Si has the highest voice, he still needs to be crowned.

Of course, tonight's All-Star Skills Competition and the heads-up competition are the center of attention, and most of the fans at the scene and in front of the TV are here for this.

However, the heads-up competition is the finale.

There are also skills, three-pointers and dunks ahead.

The first competition to be staged was the skill competition.

Representing the SuperSonics in the skills competition are Rondo, James Harden and Reggie Jackson, while representing the league are Rose, Irving and Wade.

In terms of the level of players, the two teams are not on the same level. Rondo's historical status is not comparable to that of Ross, Owen and Wade. Of course, this is a joke.

The two teams are indeed not on the same level. Regarding the betting odds for this game, all three SuperSonics players have the lowest odds for winning the championship.

Because the betting company didn't believe that Team Yes had any hope of winning this matchup. If they couldn't win the matchup, they wouldn't be able to advance to the finals, and naturally they wouldn't be able to win the championship.

The reason why the Sonics are so miserable is of course because of the skills competition. Rondo's reputation is too great!

Facts have proven that the predictions of these experts are sometimes quite accurate.

Rondo led the charge on behalf of the Sonics, while Rose led the charge on behalf of the Alliance team.

With Rondo’s historic passing, historic ball control, and historic shooting percentage, wouldn’t this matchup have to be easy to win?

But the facts are always somewhat different from the data. All the data seems to be due to Rose's Rondo, who was defeated by Rose as soon as he came up.

It took Rondo 45 seconds to complete the entire set of skills. This result is already very good for Rondo.

But Rose finished in just 28 seconds.

The difference in performance is not an exaggeration to say that it is three levels behind.

Therefore, when Rondo, who came on the court with great momentum, was defeated so easily by Rose, the audience and even the SuperSonics fans burst into laughter.

"Rajon doesn't really think he can beat Rose, does he? No way?!"

"Hahahaha, Rondo without the Yes cat bell is like a postman who can't go to work. The Rondo we are familiar with is currently 'sleeping' in his den and has not appeared."

All of a sudden, all kinds of sarcastic voices appeared.

Fortunately, Rondo is already very familiar with this kind of battle.
To be continued...