On February 14, 2009, Saturday, US time, at nine o'clock in the evening, the US Airways Arena in Phoenix was already packed.

What is being held here tonight is the group competition of the skills competition on the second day of the All-Star Weekend.

In the history of All-Stars, the skills competition on the second day has always been quite popular.

Even without the addition of Ye Si and the reforms of David Stern, the popularity would still be there.

In this year's skills competition, Ye Si did not participate in any of them.

However, he is the leader of the Yes team in this year’s skills competition.

In this year's skills competition, the players participating in the skills competition will be divided into Yes team and Yao team. They will compete in groups first and then win the individual events.

Participants in the Skills Battle can be players from two teams, the Rookie Game and the All-Star Game. As long as the league agrees to participate, they will be automatically assigned to Team Yes or Team Yao based on which team they come from.

Those who do not participate in the skills competition of the Rookie Game and the All-Star Game will be drawn to join one of the two teams.

There are four players participating in the Skills Challenge this year, namely Derrick Rose and Westbrook of the Yes team and Rajon Rondo and Wade of the Yao team.

There are six players participating in the Three-Point Shootout Contest this year, including Afflalo, Quentin Richardson and Dirk Nowitzki from the Yes team, as well as Wang Shipeng and Arena from the Yao team.

Si and Nick Young.

There are also four players participating in the dunk contest this year, namely Derrick Rose and Ibaka from the Yes team, and Howard and Jr. Smith from the Yao team.

As the six players participating in tonight's skills competition, Rose, Westbrook, Afflalo, Quentin Richardson, Nowitzki and Ibaka sat next to Yez, while others came to cheer them on.

The All-Stars are sitting further back.

Except for O'Neal, of course.

O'Neal is always in front of everyone.

A shot like that this afternoon could only hit this fat guy for a while. Ye Si has now ignored this shameless fat guy.

When you care about the shame of a "shameless" person, you have actually lost.

Because the league and the whole world are currently hyping up the feud between Team Yes and Team Yao, it can be said that many people are curious about how intense today's skills competition as a prelude to the All-Star Game will be.

However, the game on the court now is not a competition between two teams. The main game on the court now is the shooting star game.

The game is over, and David Stern is presenting the award to the victor, Detroit.

After the shooting star competition awards are over, the skills challenge competition between Team Yes and Team Yao will begin.

Rose and Westbrook, who were sitting next to Yeez, were already a little eager to try.

Of course, Wade and Rondo on the other side are also eager to try.

Wade's eyes kept drifting towards James.

Rondo's eyes kept drifting towards Ye Si.

snort!

You actually didn’t choose the second master to join the Yes team. Ye Xiaojiu, tonight, the second master will make you regret it first!

This is Rondo's first All-Star game.

But this All-Star Weekend did not allow Rondo to feel any glory as an All-Star starter.

Damn it, not only did the second master have no glory, he was also ostracized after joining Yao's team!

Although there are still a few good people in Yao's team who don't exclude him, but to be honest, when most people are ostracizing you, what's the use of having one or two good people?

Why did the second master face such treatment when he participated in the All-Star Game for the first time?

It was all Ye Xiaojiu’s fault!

The more he thought about it, the angrier Rondo became. Damn it, the second master wants revenge!

After the shooting star game ended, the skills challenge began immediately. After the on-site draw, Wade was the first to appear, followed by Westbrook, then Rondo, and finally Rose.

"The game is about to start, what will happen tonight?"

"Will O'Neal and Garnett have another conflict?!"

The four players participating in the skills challenge have not yet started competing. O'Neal and Garnett are already pointing at their opponents' noses and 'squirting' at each other at the center line of the court.

The two have now become tough representatives of their respective teams!

Ye Si withdrew his gaze from the two people showing off and focused his attention on Wade.

Wade is the former champion of this competition and is quite strong. He can be regarded as the strongest player among the four.

However, when many experts evaluated the skills challenge before the game, they still felt that the strength of the two sides was evenly divided.

Wade is very strong, but Rondo is unknown.

The rules of this competition are that two teams compete against each other. If the players of the winning team enter the finals, their teammates may be held back. The strongest player may not even advance to the finals.

This kind of competition is cruel, but it also requires the contestants to go all out from the beginning without any reservations.

You can't control the results of your teammates, but you can try your best to get better results. Even if your teammates want to hold you back, they can't!

Therefore, Wade, who was the first to appear, was quite fierce. Wade's rhythm was very fast this time, and both dribbling and passing were successful in one go. Even the shot in the middle was completed in one go. The whole process was smooth and seamless.

There was a delay. When Wade completed the entire process and the final score showed 23.35 seconds, along with Garnett thumping his chest, O'Neal yelling in annoyance, and the audience's admiration, Ye Si was also quite surprised.

“A nearly perfect result!”

"Dwyane, congratulations, you have created a super result that is less than four seconds away from Yes!"

Wade was very excited after completing the game, but when he was caught by Barkley to congratulate him when he came down, Wade's excited face turned dark.

Damn it, is this congratulations?!

However, Yes’s time of less than 20 seconds is indeed magical and unrealistic!

"Dwyane, congratulations!"

"Great job, Dwayne!"

"We will definitely win this time!"

After dealing with Barkley, Wade returned to his side's bench and felt what real welcome was.

Except for Rondo, who looked disdainful, everyone was congratulating him. It would be great if there was LeBron here at this time.

Unfortunately, LeBron was chosen as a hostage by Yes.

Wade was the first to play, and his score of 23.5 would generally put a lot of pressure on the players who played later.

"Don't be stressed."

"I won't feel pressure."

Ye Si looked at the cool turtle boy and nodded.

The stubbornness on his face told Ye Si that he was indeed not under any pressure.

Westbrook does have no pressure, but his results are worse than many players when they are under pressure.

In addition to no mistakes in dribbling, I made two passing mistakes and two shooting mistakes. The final score was 37.5...

Too rough!

So much so that after Westbrook's game ended, the audience burst into laughter, but Westbrook's face remained stubborn as he left the field amid laughter.

On the sidelines, Garnett was beating his chest and beating his chest even more vigorously, while O'Neal next to Garnett, who was almost excited by Westbrook's performance, was kneeling with his head in his hands.

Got off.

"Hahahaha, Shaq, no one can stop us from winning this game!"

"Victory belongs to us, and the championship belongs to Dwyane!"

The championship belongs to Nima’s Dwyane!

Rondo passed by Garnett and O'Neal and cursed in his mind.

Even if you break your sternum, Wade still won't win the championship!

Old guy, you don’t know anything about the second master’s strength!

The results were so bad, many people sitting around wanted to comfort Westbrook.

But looking at the stubborn look on Westbrook's face, no one who wanted to comfort him knew what to say.

This guy's psychological quality is great!

Even Kobe was secretly amazed.

Ordinary young people have brought trouble to the team, and few can look like this. There is no frustration, no annoyance, and the face is still high-spirited and unwilling to admit defeat. It is the same as if I hit the iron 30 times but still have to take the third shot.

The look of eleven times!

Looks a lot like someone like Ke!

The fans in the audience only stopped laughing at Westbrook after Rondo came on the court.

And when Rondo came on the court, the audience couldn't laugh anymore.

When Rondo's game ended, there was no laughter, no crying, or even any sound from the audience!
To be continued...