January 31, 2023.
The NBA officially selected the best players in the East and West this month.
The best player of the month in the East is Antetokounmpo, and in the West is Wang Yi.
Wang Yi has won the title of Best of the Month for three consecutive months.
Today, he has grown from the player who was thought to only talk big words to a star.
Although he has not participated in an All-Star game, he is already regarded as an All-Star by many people.
There is only one All-Star Game between him and a true All-Star.
Moreover, his performance in the past three months has been much better than that of most true All-Stars.
Judging from the current All-Star voting situation, there is no problem for Wang Yi to enter the All-Star Game.
James currently leads the league with 2.05 million votes.
Ranking second was Antetokounmpo with 1.83 million votes.
Wang Yi did not make it into the top ten.
However, specifically in the Western Conference, Wang Yi ranked seventh with 1.44 million votes.
This was enough to guarantee him a spot in the All-Star Game.
Since the number of votes in NBA All-Star voting has shrunk in China, it can be said that it is difficult for Chinese people to enter the NBA All-Star Game.
It’s not easy for Wang Yi to finish seventh in the Western Conference.
At the same time, in order to expand the influence of the NBA and allow the NBA to open up the market in China again, they also invited Wang Yi to participate in the All-Star Game Skills Challenge, Slam Dunk Contest and Three-Point Contest.
In other words, Wang Yi participated in all events of the All-Star Game except for not participating in the Rookie Challenge.
When the media learned that Wang Yi had participated in so many projects, they remembered the joke Wang Yi had made before.
He doesn't want much.
Skills Challenge Champion, Slam Dunk Contest Champion, Three-Point Contest Champion and All-Star Game MVP.
So many media started to make noise.
But they're more of a tongue-in-cheek kind of way.
Winning one of these championships is not too difficult.
But if you want to win the Skills Challenge, Slam Dunk Contest and Three-Point Contest, players must reach the league's top level in dribbling, shooting, dunking and three-pointers.
How many people can do this?
Even Jordan, Kobe and James couldn't do it.
And the last All-Star game mvp.
There are so many great players in the All-Star Game, and the situation on the field changes rapidly. No one knows who will win the MVP award until the end.
Therefore, it is actually the most difficult to win the All-Star Game MVP.
If Wang Yi wants to do all of this, it will be an almost impossible task.
This year’s NBA Rookie Challenge is scheduled for February 12th.
The next day, February 13th, was the skills challenge, three-point contest and dunk contest.
The Skills Challenge was basically nothing to watch. When Wang Yi stepped on the floor before the Skills Challenge started, he signed out a Skills Experience Card.
As a result, he easily won the championship.
But no one thought that this was just the beginning.
The second event is the three-point contest.
This year's three-point contest was participated by 8 people including Seth Curry, Wang Yi, and Nick Young.
It's Nick Young, not Trae Young.
When Wang Yi stepped onto the court floor, he did not receive any system prompts like before.
I think it may be because his three-point ability has been maximized, and there is no need to obtain other bonuses.
So he still easily won the three-point contest.
At this time, the media began to get excited.
Many media brought up what he said before about winning all the championships.
Of course, like every arrogant statement made by Wang Yi before, it still has a mixed reputation.
At least two-thirds of the fans sneered at his wild words.
"Winning all the championships, are you kidding me?"
"Does he think he's a god?"
"Even the God of Basketball has never done it."
"This guy wants to be famous out of his mind."
There is also a third of the fans who have a spectator mentality towards this matter.
Of course, they don't think Wang Yi can really win all the championships.
But now he has won two championships, which is unprecedented.
If I could win even one more championship, that would be exciting enough.
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A total of 6 people participated in the dunk contest this year.
They are:
This year’s rookie, white Joseph, has a jump of 115 centimeters;
The African boy is also a rookie: Zubal, a dark and skinny guy with a jump of 113 centimeters;
Both of them are rookies who just joined the NBA this year, and apart from being good at jumping, they basically have no strengths. They usually play garbage time roles in the team.
So the audience is not very familiar with them.
Even the commentator Reggie Miller had to look at a teleprompter to pronounce their full names correctly.
There is also an old acquaintance, Aaron Gordon.
After Aaron Gordon lost the Slam Dunk Contest by 9 points to Wade in the 2020 Slam Dunk Contest, he was extremely disappointed with the Slam Dunk Contest and announced that he would never participate in the Slam Dunk Contest again.
And claimed that the NBA owed him two dunk contest championships.
But after playing in the NBA for so many years, he basically failed to win any honors.
He is now nearly thirty years old.
It's almost past its peak period.
He doesn't want to remain so unknown in the NBA.
So he came to this year's dunk contest again.
At this time, in the players' locker room.
When Wang Yi came in, the other five people, including Aaron Gordon, just glanced at him.
Everyone is a competitor and there is nothing to talk to.
The African boy Zubal and the white man Joseph were talking in the corner.
Zubair patted Joseph: "You and I have always been marginal players, and we usually don't have many opportunities to perform. But this dunk contest is an excellent opportunity to perform."
Joseph understood at once and looked at Wang Yi.
He replied in a low voice: "You mean, step on this Chinese to get to the top?"
"Clever! In the past three months, this guy has been in the limelight and attracted too much attention. If we can defeat him, it will definitely attract a lot of people's attention."
Zubar's small eyes were full of light.
Joseph stretched out his fist and touched Zubal: "I have been practicing dunking a lot recently, let's see tonight."
Wang Yi didn’t know what these two guys were talking about.
But seeing these guys casting unkind glances at him, he shook his head slightly.
It seems like I have to spout some trash talk to stimulate them.
Wang Yi has also read the information of these guys.
Especially Aaron Gordon's dunk battle with LaVine was a classic;
There is also the black guy Zubal, who has taken many dunk videos, and the dunks of this guy in the videos are definitely top-notch.
Faced with such a guy, Wang Yi has no chance of winning the championship.
But by stimulating them first and letting them make mistakes, you will be more likely to win.
Thinking of this, Wang Yi glanced around.
Then he smiled and said, "You should feel lucky."
Everyone was stunned.
Chapter completed!