An hour after the All-Star Game, there was no hot search on the topic of CBA. Yao's pre-match fears became a reality. Allen Guo's Weibo is like a dumb firework, hanging alone on the upward trend list: "Another year of wasting all-stars." This top star who was absent due to injury tore the gorgeous curtain of Chinese basketball in just ten words - when the emotional performance hit the lack of star taste, when the grassroots counterattack could not hide the weakness of the main game, the CBA All-Star table "30th anniversary dinner" finally became a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for insiders to drink themselves.

First, the sentimental card played a spark, but it did not illuminate the starry sky

This year's All-Stars have really put a lot of money on "good-looking". The 39-year-old Chen Dengxing flew over 7 people to win the championship, making the NBA dunk king Diallo a background board. This former bank clerk, with the wrinkles on his forehead and the scars all over his body, earned a perfect score of 50 points, which is more enthusiastic than any script. In the tribute session of the three-point ball competition, Zhu Fangyu raised his hand to hit the three points, which took people back to the exciting moment of the Athens Olympics in a trance. These deliberately designed "memory killings" have become the most realistic portrayal of the competitive spirit. Commercial packaging has also played a new trick. The short video platform broadcast the players' breakfast meeting 24 hours a day, and Zhao Jiwei's daily life made millions of netizens call it "real". When Zeng Fanbo's 8-shot 7-shot burst highlights went viral on social platforms, CBA seemed to have touched the doorway of the traffic era: the star is not a sculpture on the altar, but a living person.

Second, the main competition has become "the emperor's new clothes"

But all the hard work came to naught when the whistle blew. Behind the score of 159-136 in the North Zone and the South Zone, there is the tacit "tacit ball" of the players. When Yang Hansen easily dunked unguarded, the boos from the audience were harsher than applause - the VIP seat of 1,880 yuan was actually bought for a high-level shooting training. This embarrassment reflects a deeper dilemma. Zhu Fangyu's 15-time All-Star and 25-point record in the three-point contest has not been broken, and Wang Zhizhi's 930,000 votes have become a swan song. Today's CBA All-Stars, Shen Zijie, Abdul Salamu and other powerful factions frequently fail to be selected, but it is the players who are selected by "team balance" that cause controversy. When the college players can beat the professional teams, the league's star-making ability has turned red.

3. Breaking the circle requires "real knives and real guns"

Yao Ming's expectation that "I hope there will be people discussing All-Star in a week" may really only become an expectation. It also exposes the traffic anxiety of the professional leagues. But the popularity is not planned, but played. All-stars need entertainment, and they need to play hard. Everyone remembers O'Neal dribbling under the crotch at the NBA All-Star level, and also remembers Brother Alphabet's real defense against James. We were moved by the victory of the slam dunk contest by Jin Hong, and we also admired Chen Dengxing's efforts today. The embarrassed smile when Jin Hong failed to dunk 4 times is not a portrayal of today's all-star feast. If those celebrities who scored 6 points and 5 points go up to comfort Jin Hong and give him an encouragement and hug, are you still afraid that there will be no heat? Sincerity is always nirvana, but sincerity is never designed, but from the bottom of the heart.

What CBA needs is not more lighting effects, but the courage to be more serious in the spotlight. If the slam dunk contest becomes a China-Japan-South Korea dunk ring match, the All-Star game becomes a domestic player against foreign aid, and the former coach and the sharpshooters from Asian countries compete for three points, the tension of competition will naturally bring a topic. Give the champion of the individual competition a million bonuses, and let the MVP of the rookie game go straight to the national team training camp - when honor and interests are linked, who will be perfunctory?

Thirty years ago, Hu Weidong used the Olympic quarterfinals to lay the legend of the golden generation; Nowadays, the CBA has no shortage of arenas comparable to the NBA, and there are many exquisite business plans, but the only thing missing is the "true" ruthlessness and sincerity. When the 39-year-old Chen Dengxing is still betting his career on a dunk, young players should understand that the real star flavor is that fans still remember you doing your best in a certain moment ten years later. After all, the basketball court is never a reality show stage, but a blood-boiling battlefield.