Larry Bird in 1986 was at the peak of his NBA career, and it was a year in which both the Celtics and he were at their best.

They will have the best record of the regular season and win the championship.

Bird will also be crowned regular season MVP and Finals MVP again, pushing his basketball career to the highest peak.

This All-Star three-point contest is just a small episode in his prime.

Even so, this coquettish and confident white player still left that classic "fight for second" famous saying.

In the locker room, everyone else was stunned, after all, they all knew how good Bird was, and if you talked back, you would be humiliated.

Only Li Liang muttered: "I'm here to fight for the first." ”

Li Liang thought that it would be like the last mission, no matter what he said, the NPC would not respond.

Unexpectedly, Bird glanced at Li Liang and said, "The first is here, I think the second is more suitable for you." ”

Bird actually talked to himself, and of course Li Liang would not be afraid in the system, and sneered: "I'm sorry, I don't have the word second in my dictionary." ”

"Okay, then we'll see you on the field, nameless boy." Bird looked a little angry, and directly called Li Liang a nobody.

Li Liang didn't reply, because he noticed that another line of words popped out of the system in front of him, [rage +20, from Larry Bird]

It turns out that this anger value can also be obtained in the system, and it seems that this all-round king training ground is really open.

Li Liang is now particularly looking forward to what kind of reward he can get after completing this task.

You may be able to redeem such rewards at the Redemption Center.

After fighting in the locker room, I still want to see the real chapter on the field.

The staff went into the locker room to greet everyone to warm up.

The 1986 Three-Point Contest was the first of the NBA's All-Star Weekend, so many of the league's top shooters wanted to participate.

People like Danny Ainge of the Celtics wanted to participate in this tournament, but they were ignored by the league.

In Stern's eyes, the person he really likes is Larry Bird.

Bird also lived up to expectations, winning three consecutive three-point contests since 1986, achieving a legend in the three-point contest.

And Li Liang's task is to make the legend shattered, which is obviously not a simple matter.

A total of 8 people participated in the three-point contest, in addition to Bird, they were Dalley Ellis of the Dallas Mavericks, Eric Floyd of the Golden State Warriors, Clegg Hodges of the Milwaukee Bucks, Norm Nixon, guard of the Los Angeles Clippers, Kyrie Maisey of the Chicago Bulls, Trent Tucker of the New York Knicks, and Leon Wood of the Washington Bullets (and later the Wizards).

Of course, an extra Li Liang who came in through the back door was added to the task, bringing the total to 9 people.

Everyone else wore their own team uniforms or sports jackets, except for Li Liang, who wore a white jersey without any logo.

The standard configuration of the 80s, small tank tops, small shorts, stockings and Converse shoes, this system is quite careful.

Because of one more person, the game went on three rounds, 9 into 5 in the first round, 5 into 2 in the semi-finals, and then the final round.

As in the following three-point contests, there are five balls in five positions, the last of which is a flower ball, 1 point for a normal ball, 2 points for a flower ball, and a perfect score of 30 points.

When Li Liang saw the requirements of this task, he knew that the difficulty was really not small, and he had to defeat Bird.

Although there will be no direct confrontation between the two, the psychological pressure can be imagined against a historical superstar and trash talk king like Bird.

Moreover, the atmosphere of the scene is extremely realistic, and there is no difference from the real environment.

The Dallas Reunion Arena is not the same as the old-fashioned arena of the 1950s.

In 1986, the NBA had entered modern basketball and began to have live television. There is a large electronic screen overhead in the arena, which can accommodate more than 20,000 spectators, and the floor is waxed and smooth, and the atmosphere is warm, which is very different from the current NBA arena.

Under such an atmosphere and pressure, it is a great test of people's psychological quality and on-the-spot performance.

Li Liang knew that this was fake, but when he thought that he was going to stand on such a court in the future, he was still a little nervous in his heart.

The first round started quickly, and Li Liang was the last to play, which was a good position, and he could wait for everyone else to finish their pitches and see the score.

The NBA only introduced the three-point line in 1980, and the three-point line was just an opportunistic way to score at that time, and it had not yet become an important tactic.

In 1986, players in the NBA played basketball without a three-point line since childhood, so shooting three-pointers was a new thing.

Bird is already the leader.

He shot 82 of 194 three-pointers in 82 games a season, shooting 42%, which is quite a high shooting percentage today, but the number of shots is far from being compared to now.

And others are even worse, like Noam Nixon, a veteran champion guard who once played for the Lakers, threw 100 three-pointers in his entire career to participate in the three-point contest, purely to catch ducks on the shelf.

Sure enough, Nickson, Wood, Floyd, Massey and others, 25 balls, some of them couldn't shoot for a minute, let alone score.

Tucker and Ellis performed well, scoring 19 and 17 points respectively, while Bird was average and scored only 16 points.

The Bucks' Clegg Hodges was stunned in the first round, and he scored a high score of 25 points!

This was really the pinnacle of his debut, and in the first round of the first three-point contest, Hodges scored 25 points.

This record was held until 2012, when all the competitors were able to tie the score but not break it.

Bird looked stunned, and Li Liang's eyes widened, this Hodges looked mediocre, skinny, and his shooting was so accurate.

Li Liang didn't know enough about history, and this Hodges later went to the Bulls and played a key role in the Bulls' first three-game winning streak.

And he, like Bird, won the three-point contest three times in a row from 1990 to 1992, and he is also a three-point maniac.

Finally, it was Li Liang's turn to appear, he took a deep breath, stood at the first shooting point, the bottom left corner, and looked at the timekeeper next to him, ready to start his challenge.

The timer begins!

Throwing 25 balls in five points in one minute is more difficult than most people think.

Li Liang's shooting foundation is quite good, and like most Chinese players, although his physical fitness is average, his shooting feels soft and his technical movements are in place.

Li Liang usually trains Li Liang to shoot the most, so he can keep hitting 100% free throws in the NCAA arena, and his shooting base score is also very high.

But the NCAA's three-point line is different from the NBA, the NCAA's three-point line uses the old FIBA standard, that is, 6.25 meters, while the NBA is 6.71 meters at the bottom corner and 7.24 meters at the top of the arc.

For Yuantou, every extra meter is a world of difference.

Of course, Li Liang realized this early, so he usually conducts ultra-long three-point training, so the three-point line in the NBA is not so difficult.

He started to take the ball and his shooting movements were quite standard, standard one-handed shots, right hand shots, left hand ball, knee slightly bent, leg power transferred to the hand, and the ball was thrown.

"1 point, 2 points, 3 points, 4 points, flower ball...... Unfortunately, it didn't hit. ”

The first point Li Liang threw well, but the flower ball of this ABA was a little slippery and not easy to throw.

In the second point, Li Liang got 3 points, and in the third point, he got 3 points, which is already 10 points, and there are still two points in the end.

At this time, Li Liang felt that something was wrong, first of all, the continuous shots made his physical fitness decline a little, but this was not the most critical, he found that the shooting time seemed to be a little insufficient!

"Oops, it's too late." Li Liang watched several people overtime and didn't finish throwing before, but now he didn't know until he knew that 1 minute passed quickly.

In a hurry, Li Liang accelerated his shot, but his movements were a little deformed, and his hit rate plummeted.

The fourth point is not scored, and the last point, three points can be entered into the next round, and 13 points are OK.

As a result, at the last point, when he hit two shots and had two balls left, the time was up and he only scored 12 points.

He tied for fifth with one other player, but both were eliminated and missed out on the next round.

[Unfortunately, the mission failed, please keep up the good work]