On February 18, Beijing time, the second day of the NBA All-Star Game in the United States, Bucks Damian Lillard scored a beautiful goal in the three-point battle to help the team win the championship.
Next, there was an even more exciting battle between men and women, with Warriors star Stephen Curry defeating women's basketball star Yoonescu with an extraordinary consistency.
The eight players competing in this year's three-point contest are Malik Beasley of the Bucks, Jaylen Brunson of the Knicks, Tyrese Haliburton (Pacers), Damian Lillard (Bucks), Lauri Markkanen (Malcanning), Cavaliers Donovan Mitchell, Karl Anthony Towns (Minnesota), Trae Young (Hawks).
According to the competition system, the three-zone competition is divided into two games, and the three people with the best results in the preliminary round advance to the finals, and the one with the highest final score is the champion; In the event of a tie, overtime will be played until the winner is determined.
Trae Young took the lead in the preliminaries, and he didn't perform well from the start, missing the first four shots, but then he started to get into the groove, and in the final round, he scored another consecutive goal to score 26 points.
The second to play was Mitchell, and this time his performance was average, although he also had a three-point shot, but his three-point shooting percentage was not high, so he only scored 21 points.
The third was Haliburton, who scored in quick succession at the start of the game, drawing high-decibel cheers from the home fans. Unfortunately, Harry only got 26 points in the end, just like Touyan.
The fourth was Beasley, who didn't have a strong presence, and he scored 20 points at the end.
Downs, who came out in fifth, had a rhythmic shot, scoring back-to-back points in the last place, and after the buzzer, he scored 26 points to tie Haliburton and Young.
The sixth player was Bronson, who was the core player of the team and had a worse shooting than the others. Although he tried his best to score 24 points, he still couldn't catch up with Haliburton, Blowing Young, and Downs, the three most powerful players, and unfortunately was eliminated.
The seventh player was Markkanen, who wasn't fast on the field, but he was fast, and Markkanen scored 25 points in this game, but he still couldn't win the championship.
Lillard, the overall champion of the last three-point contest, had a strong first round as he withstood the pressure to score 26 points. So, in the first round, all four got the same score and needed to play overtime.
Extra time is still the same rule, but each person can only play three balls. In the end, Lillard and Towns each scored 16 points, Young scored 15 points, and Haliburton scored only 12 points, and was sadly sent off the court.
In the final game, Downs came on, and his one-point shooting percentage was average, but a lot of the shots were hit, and in the end Downs scored 24 points. However, Downs then made a mistake and was deducted 2 points, which became 22 points.
Trae Young was not far behind, and despite his ups and downs, he still scored 24 points.
Lillard was the last to play, with 24 points, which he did in the front four cars. But this time, Coach Li gave him a small surprise, he didn't shoot in the first four times, but he quickly adjusted, scored the last goal with a whistle-pressing method, and won the championship.
After Lillard won the championship, this year's three-point battle is not over, and another more eye-catching men's and women's battle is the final curtain. Curry and Ionescu, the two players with the highest three-point shooting percentage in the world today, had a unique game in this game.
Curry once scored 31 points in a three-point shootout, the best in NBA history. Ionescu's performance was even more impressive, as she scored 37 out of 40 in last year's WNBA three-point contest.
At the start of the game, Ionescu was the first to come out, and she started with a series of throws that made everyone look sideways, and although her subsequent performance declined, she still scored a high score of 26 points.
But Curry came on in the second half, and he used his shooting talent to the extreme, which was slow at first, but later on, his shooting became more consistent. In particular, the two 45° fixed points, as well as the flower ball on the last car, were four in a row, and finally scored 29 points, and also successfully won this men's and women's battle.