The Fifth Point Guard

On February 9, the Rookie Challenge, which debuted as an appetizer, took the lead in the Phillips Arena in Atlanta.

The two sides staged a passionate dunk performance and a wonderful three-pointer performance without defense.

In the end, the second-year team headed by Gasol, Arenas, and Richardson outperformed the first-year team without Yao Ming by a 132-112 victory.

Shentong and Jefferson's good buddy Arenas scored 30 points in this game and won the title of Most Valuable Player.

He scored 23 points in the second half relying on precise three-pointers, leading the second-year team from trailing by 12 points in the first half to leading by 20 points in the end.

In this game, Arenas seemed bent on expressing himself, making 5 of 6 three-pointers in the second half.

Especially 5 minutes before the end of the game, he scored 3 three-pointers in a row within 90 seconds, helping the sophomore team to establish a 119-107 advantage, and established the final victory.

Arenas' partner Richardson in the Warriors' backcourt also performed well, frequently performing dunks with Arenas' assists.

The two cooperated tacitly inside and outside, and scored 42 points together in the second half alone!

In addition, the Nets Jefferson also performed well, he contributed 21 points for the sophomore team, Gasol scored 17 points.

The sophomore team's 132 points in this game broke the rookie game's scoring record.

In the first-year team, Butler, who played for the Heat, scored a team-high 23 points, Stoudemire of the Suns also scored 18 points, and his dunks were impressive, and Gooden of the Grizzlies scored 16 points.

After the Rookie Challenge comes the Skills Challenge.

This Skills Challenge is the first new project launched during the All-Star Weekend.

In the end, Jason Kidd of the Nets came out on top and won the first Skills Challenge.

The game requires players to complete a layup, dribble through obstacles, pass the ball in various ways, and then complete a three-point shot within a certain time limit.

The player with the least amount of time wins.

All four of today's contestants are point guards.

The game was divided into two rounds. In the first round, Kidd of the Nets and Payton of the Sonics defeated Parker of the Spurs and Marbury of the Suns as they wished, with scores of 31.3 seconds and 35.3 seconds respectively.

In the final, Kidd successfully passed the first four parts, but he did not hit a three-pointer in the last one, but he still skillfully completed all the projects in a total time of 35.1 seconds.

It is worth mentioning that his time in the two races proved that he is very stable, with a difference of only 0.2 seconds between the two rounds.

Payton's performance was not stable enough. He was the last to play, and he stumbled on the pass as soon as he came up, and missed 3 times. Although he finished well in the following games, he still lost with 40.3 seconds.

After the game, the winning Kidd said happily to the camera: "I can finally win something during the All-Star Weekend."

Next up is another game of All-Star Weekend, a three-on-three half-court exhibition game.

The game is clearly about entertainment.

friendship first, competition later.

You want to let the amateur hard-core football representatives in some communities go up to play, and if you accidentally knock down the old people, they will not kill you.

The members of the Los Angeles team include "Magic" Johnson, Leslie of the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks, Jaric of the NBA Clippers, and movie star Kutcher.

The members of the Atlanta team include former Hawks star Wilkins, Swopes of the WNBA Houston Comets, Terry of the NBA Hawks and movie star Muniz.

In the 8-minute game, the Atlanta team took the lead.

Movie star Muniz took the lead with a three-pointer, and then Wilkins, who was known for his dunk ability in the NBA before, showed his dunk stunt in front of the audience.

With Atlanta leading 15-12, "Magic" Johnson put on a show with two consecutive layups, and then Jaric made another 3-pointer to give Los Angeles a 19-15 lead.

In the end, Keuchel's layup made Los Angeles' score 23 points.

Atlanta lost 19-23 despite Wilkins scoring one more goal at the end.

Wilkins scored the highest among all players, scoring 9 points on 4 of 16 shots.

After the entertainment program and exhibition game, the progress of the day began to enter the dinner.

The first staple is the three-point shooting contest.

This competition is divided into 2 rounds, the top three players in the first round can enter the second round finals.

The Magic's Pat Garrity played first, but he was obviously a little nervous and only scored 13 points.

The second player to play was David Wesley, who played even worse, 1 point less than Garrity.

Immediately after the appearance was Peja, who lost to Shentong last year. This season, he made 40% of his three-pointers in the regular season.

The good competitive state is reflected in this game.

Peja played normally and scored 19 points.

The fourth player to play is white forward Brent Barry.

Barry performed very well and finally scored the same 19 points as Peja.

Immediately afterwards, Wesley Pearson of the Grizzlies played. He hit two key goals at the last moment and beat Garrity of the Magic with 14 points.

The last player to play was Antoine Walker, one of the twin stars of the Celtics.

Walker is a neurotic player outside the three-point line.

Just like in the just-concluded three-point game, he scored a game-low 7 points.

Well, at least better than Michael Jordan's 5.

After the first round of competition, Peja, Barry and Persson entered the final round.

Persson made his first appearance in the second round.

He withstood the pressure, performed bravely, and scored 20 points!

When Pearson was off the court, he was warmly embraced and cheered by Gasol, Gooden, Battier and other Grizzlies teammates.

It looks like Persson is very promising for the title.

But Peja, who played next, immediately kept the suspense of the championship.

He also scored 20 points.

Barry, who was the third to play, was obviously under a lot of pressure in the face of two 20-point scores. In the end, he scored 17 points and was the first to be eliminated.

Due to the situation of the same score in the second round, Peja and Persson needed an extra round in the end.

Peja, who was the first to play, did not perform as well as the previous two. He did not show a very good state and only scored 13 points.

However, after Peja negotiated with the referee, everyone found that there was a problem with the scoring equipment on the spot, which affected Peja's performance to a certain extent, so the referee made a judgment that Peja could re-shoot, but he had to wait for Pell. Sen's shot ends.

Persson scored 16 points for the third time. This result is a bit embarrassing, but if the referee does not let Peja vote for the second time, Persson has actually won the championship.

But there is no way, Peja has another chance, he has to wait.

In the end, Peja, who withstood the pressure and competed for the second time, got a high score of 22 points, and finally got his wish and won the championship of the three-point contest!