End of a awesome weekend

Waddup,people???!!!

Last weekend,i turned the TV on to watch the 58th NBA All-Star weekend..it is an annual event for the NBA players,which will be held in different place each year..and for this year's All-Star game,the hometown for Steve Nash's Phoenix Suns was the host for the game...it was very interesting weekend event to be watched..lots of NBA's superstars and superstars from all over the country came to watch the biggest event of the year besides the finals,for basketball fans..hehehehe

well,back then,on the saturday night,before the big game on the day after,there was a few events that night,such as,3-points shootout,slamdunk contest and others..btw,before that night,there was NBA All-Star Celebrity Game and a few more events,but i don't wanna talk bout it,b'coz it damn BORING!!! and i bet,u wouldn't know who are playing on court:-)

well,back to the NBA All-Star Saturday Night.....

The first event was the 'Haier Shooting Stars'...it was a four-team matchup..and the objective is to shoot basketballs from 6 different spots..and the order are as follows:
Shot 1: 10-foot bank shot from right-side angle (Player A)
Shot 2: 15-foot shot from left side-angle (Player B)
Shot 3: NBA 3-point shot from top of the arc/straight on (Player C)
Shot 4: 18-foot shot from right-side baseline (Player A)
Shot 5: NBA 3-Pt. shot from left side angle (Player B)
Shot 6: Shot from just inside half-court/straight on (Player C, Player A, Player B, repeat)

the participating team that night were :

• Team Phoenix(Leandro Barbosa,Dan Majerle,Tangela Smith)
  
• Team Detroit(Arron Afflalo,Bill Laimbeer,Katie Smith)
  
• Team San Antonio(Tim Duncan,David Robinson,Becky Hammon)
  
• Team Los Angeles(Derek Fisher,Michael Cooper,Lisa Leslie)

Each team is given two minutes to complete the course. The clock will be started at 0:00 and count up, and stopped by the referee's whistle when the team makes Shot 6. If a team doesn't complete all six shots as of the 2:00 mark, the horn will sound and their score will be based upon the total number of shots completed.

The two teams with the fastest times advance to the final round. In the case of a tie, a shoot-off will be used to break the tie. The clock will be reset (a time limit of 1:00 will be imposed) and the team that makes Shot 6 in the shortest amount of time will, depending on the round, either advance to the finals or be declared champions.

A referee will be on-court to pass judgment on any violation of the rules. At discretion of the referee, instant replay may be consulted for clarification of rules compliance.

The team from Phoenix was almost perfect in the eighth annual Haier Shooting Stars competition at All-Star Saturday Night. But almost doesn't count, and Team Detroit came away with its second win in the last three years.

Phoenix hit its first five shots and made it to halfcourt in just 14 seconds, but the halfcourt heave was the team's undoing. The three shooters from Phoenix -- Leandro Barbosa, Dan Majerle and Tangela Smith -- needed more than 20 attempts there before Majerle finally sank one. By that time, Team Detroit was celebrating its victory.

Detroit needed 13 attempts to get through its first five shots, but only seven from halfcourt as the Shock's Katie Smith drained her third try from long distance. Smith helped her coach, Bill Laimbeer, become the first person to win a second Shooting Stars title. He teamed with Swin Cash and Chauncey Billups when Detroit won in 2007. Smith and Laimbeer were joined by Arron Afflalo this time around. They completed their final round run in a time of 58.4 seconds.

"I'm happy Katie got some more hardware," Laimbeer said afterward. "She has collected a whole bunch of gold medals with a WNBA championship and MVP. Now she has got another one."San Antonio, the defending Shooting Stars champions, was eliminated in the first round when David Robinson, Tim Duncan and Becky Hammon needed 15 attempts from halfcourt before Hammon sank one. They finished in 1:06. Los Angeles had a strong start, completing its first three shots in just four attempts, but needed 16 tries from halfcourt. The L.A. team of Derek Fisher, Lisa Leslie and Michael Cooper finished fourth with a time of 1:16.

Next,was the 'Playstation Skills Challenge'..it was an event to evaluate skills of the players to the highest level!!!(i guess)..All they have to do was to pass through a few obstacles and 'roadblocks' in the fastest time and win!!! Sounds easy,right??hehehe

The challenge is won by Chicago Bulls' guard,Derrick Rose..Finishing off his winning time of 35.3 seconds with an emphatic double-pump reverse dunk, the Chicago Bulls guard became the first rookie to win the PlayStation Skills Challenge when he defeated New Jersey's Devin Harris in the championship round.

"It means a lot," Rose said of the win. "I'm a part of history with some of the greatest players in the league that have won this award."

Rose, who leads all rookies with 6.3 assists per game, finished the course 4.4 seconds faster than the Nets' point guard did.

Rose also breezed through his first round with a time of 33.3 seconds, 3.3 seconds ahead of Harris, 4.2 seconds ahead of Cleveland's Mo Williams and nearly a quarter of a minute faster than San Antonio's Tony Parker's 50.8 seconds. The Spurs' point guard now holds the dubious distinction of having the two slowest times ever recorded in Skills Challenge history. In 2003, Parker finished the course in 45.5 seconds.

Rose, however, made his two runs look easy, never using more than two attempts at any station in either round. He admitted, however, one station proved to be a little nerve-wracking."The bounce pass," Rose said. "I knew when I got those two in, the crowd got to me and I came up a little short on my jump shots. I was scared a little bit."But the bounce pass was the hardest thing."

In the championship round, Harris found the top of the key jumper to be the most difficult. Harris has shown an improved outside shot this season, but his stroke left him when it counted. He needed four attempts to sink the 20-footer.Rose needed only two shots to complete the shooting station. And despite needing two passes to get through the outlet station, Rose had plenty of time to measure his funky dunk. Rose said he was inspired by a two-time Skills Challenge champ to finish off his win with flair."I always saw D-Wade [dunk] at the end," Rose said.Maybe next year, Rose can be the first player since Wade to go back-to-back."I really can't wait," Rose said. "Of course the season isn't over with, but next year -- this summer, I'll work harder, work on my weaknesses and just go hard throughout the whole summer."