Pierce Nest played in the hotel for two days to rest, and today he is finally willing to come out and accompany Zhang Hao to participate in the slam dunk contest! This morning, I have to find a park with Zhang Hao to practice cooperation.

Betting on his mother that he would definitely stand on the final stage of the slam dunk contest, Pierce said that he did it!

When Zhang Hao and Pierce went out to find the park to practice cooperation after breakfast, they saw Ricky Davis in the park closest to the hotel, and the other party saw the two of them coming, and immediately stopped practicing.

I don't want my opponent to know in advance how they want to buckle.

Simply, the two chose to go back to school to practice.

The process of practicing was very simple, and it ended quickly, so simple that Pierce couldn't help but complain: "My role is so small? Just standing there? Can't you design me a little more movements......"

Seeing that Pierce turned on the chatter mode again, Zhang Hao complained: "Why don't you turn 360 degrees in the air and hit the ground with a crotch?" ”

Pierce felt that his young heart had been stabbed: "If I can jump up and turn around 360 degrees and pass the ball in place, can't I go to the slam dunk contest myself?" ”

Pierce felt that Zhang Hao's belly was getting worse and worse, and the frequency of knife insertion surged! I thought it was only an occasional knife at the beginning, but now it's several knives every day!

I didn't do much training, I had to save my physical strength today, and in the final of the slam dunk contest in the evening, if I had a chance to enter the second round, that is, the tiebreaker, then at least 4 difficult dunks should be dunked, and 6 into 3 would not be so easy.

If it was the original Zhang Hao, he was not interested in the slam dunk contest, and he only knew that he was good at bouncing, but he didn't know how good it was, but now he knows that his bounce is top-notch, and there are so many dunk moves available...... Of course, you have to recharge your energy and work hard, and it won't be good if you don't train for this day.

went to the billiard room near the school to play Black 8 for a while to kill time, and at noon, Zhang Hao and Pierce were about to find a place to eat two burgers, and happened to meet Aprily Clark who came out of school for lunch at noon.

After saying hello, April-Clark said enviously: "I really envy you, Paul, you have been admitted to the University of Kansas, and it is very easy for Aix to go to college...... I still have to revise for next month's exams. ”

"Didn't you say you wanted to learn how to repair cars?" Zhang Hao asked, and then said poorly: "Beautiful auto mechanic, I have money to buy a car and ask you to repair it." ”

April-Clark couldn't stop laughing when she heard Zhang Hao's words, and responded: "I also want to go to a junior college and earn money early, but my mother wants me to learn drama and try to see if I can be admitted to USC." ”

"You look so beautiful, I will definitely buy tickets to support the drama...... Do you also act in dramas? ”

"Aix, I've acted in the school play! I also invited you to watch, you ran to train and didn't come! ”

“…… Haha, April, it's nice today. ”

"Yes, it's good, it's been raining since the morning today."

"Will you come to see the slam dunk contest at night? If you come, I'll ask someone from the club to take you to the sidelines. ”

"Of course I'm going to ...... your game"

Pierce next to him watched Zhang Hao chatting so well with the school's tennis girl, feeling like a light bulb, unable to plug in the words, and his heart was infinitely sad...... Isn't it 100 million points thinner than him, and isn't it 100 million points more handsome than him? A little more cheerful and there are chicks circling around?

This is the way of the world! It's full of malice!

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On April 28, 1995, the McDonald's High School All-Star Slam Dunk Contest arrived.

The Slam Dunk Contest is an event that always gets more attention than other games, and McDonald's puts it in the finale, playing further back than the High School All-Star Game, and has been the main event since the beginning and has been promoting it since the end of January after the high school leagues in each state have ended.

By now, the attention in the United States has not been low, and most of the series of the first round of the NBA have not received as much attention among communities as this slam dunk contest.

After Carter and Zhang Hao's dunk was edited into the sports news of American cable television, many people in the United States knew about Carter as a high school student, and Zhang Hao also attracted the attention of many people.

Especially in the Chinese community, Zhang Hao's popularity has increased greatly!

The Lakers didn't play today, they just grabbed home-court advantage from Seattle and returned to Los Angeles, they don't train at the arena when they don't play, their home arena has business almost every day, except for their games, most of the time they have to be rented out, they have long been used to it.

However, in the afternoon, many Lakers players still came to the Great Western Forum arena to see the players in tonight's slam dunk contest.

Zhang Hao and Pierce came to the Great Western Forum Arena with their teammates at more than three o'clock in the afternoon, before them, Inglewood High School already had some students arrive first, McDonald's did not play the set of selling tickets, and it couldn't sell much, compared with the publicity expenses they invested, one or twenty dollars a ticket, and they couldn't earn much back, and it was even more embarrassing if they couldn't sell out, so they sent tickets to those students, and there was a certain amount of money spent in their store to send tickets, Inglewood High School, Students from famous Los Angeles high schools such as Southern California High School can basically get tickets as long as they register in advance.

"Pure public welfare" is also a gimmick made by McDonald's.

This time when he came to the Great Western Forum Arena, Zhang Hao was actually invited to be interviewed!

It's obviously very different from the treatment at the tryouts!

However, the interview was a group interview, and the 6 players who participated in the slam dunk contest were interviewed together, asking some questions that were not salty or light, and the answers were also because of the different personalities of each person, such as Ricky Davis and Desmond Mason were very direct, and Carter could more or less see the potential of the human spirit, although he couldn't look down on the other 4 opponents except Zhang Hao, but he spoke very measuredly.

It's Zhang Hao, very direct: "I want to take the first." ”

This surprised the reporters of several media outlets, in the media industry, everyone needs to be contacted, because of China's growing strength, the United States began the first trade suppression and economic sanctions against China after the Cold War...... Chinese students, Chinese actors, Chinese athletes, they all have contact, and their inherent impression of the Chinese is - subtle.

Other players who don't have so much experience don't think there's anything wrong with Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao's dunk on the day of the trial is qualified to compete for the championship, but the media is really surprised.

It seems that this Chinese player is a little different from other Chinese athletes!

When Zhang Hao got the feedback he wanted from the reporter, he nodded silently in his heart, this is what he wanted.

The character should be set up, after entering the 90s, there are too many international students coming out of the country, he has to show something different from other domestic athletes, maybe this interview has little impact, he is just a small role in the group interview, but the person is set up well, and he plans for the future.

However, Zhang Hao was not asked a few questions in this interview, and was still skipped, after all, this event is mainly a promotional activity in the United States, and people pay more attention to American high school students.

After the group interview, each participating player was called by McDonald's to record a short video of self-introduction, just half a minute, a one-sentence self-introduction, plus a few poses to take photos, or take a dunk action, because Zhang Hao's dunk in the selection match is very beautiful, so the pose or dunk action in the back is exempt, just put the dunk on it at that time.

The main thing is to introduce yourself, you can follow the template given, or you can come by yourself, of course, McDonald's thinks it's no problem.

Zhang Hao originally planned to follow the template, but McDonald's asked Zhang Hao to say a Chinese introduction, and give subtitles when the time comes...... This made Zhang Hao a little surprised, and suddenly, Zhang Hao had a flash of inspiration and said according to his own thoughts.

McDonald's was still very cautious in the stage of the rapid decline of Sino-US relations after the Cold War, and specially found employees who could speak Chinese during the shooting, and listened to Zhang Hao say that there was no problem, and ended this simple recording.

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At 7 p.m., Zhang Hao and 11 other players who were going to play tonight, as well as the co-partners of the 6 players who participated in the slam dunk contest, entered the court of the Great Western Forum Arena.

Looking at the more than 17,000 spectators at the scene, in addition to the players on the sidelines, the school team members, some school leaders, and some celebrities...... All the spectators behind the front row wore T-shirts given by McDonald's, which is also one of the conditions for watching the game for free.

So many viewers don't charge money and put T-shirts upside down...... Zhang Hao felt McDonald's wealth.

So many viewers...... Zhang Hao felt a little dry.

It turned out that the feeling of playing under the gaze of so many spectators actually made his blood boil!

Looking at the cameramen at several passages of the stadium, Zhang Hao reacted that the live broadcast in the United States began!

Zhang Hao worked hard to calm himself down, and at this time he had to be even more calm, and dunk his own good dunk, he was just a person who could live a little more than a year and half of his body was in the ground, and the core goal tonight should be to dunk a full score.

At 7:40 p.m., the live broadcast signal of the American cable TV station was connected, and the host on the court began to say advertising slogans to promote McDonald's......

The first thing that started was the three-point contest, this ...... Zhang Hao felt that Carter could win the championship directly, and the level of several participating players was probably acceptable, and Pierce was not bad compared to them.

The first three points are not so important in this year, especially at this point in time of the NBA playoffs, and now it is at the climax of the iron-blooded era set off by Pat Riley, and the three-point game does not work in the NBA playoffs, and the attention is naturally low, not to mention high school students, college students do not have too many special training three-point shooting.

Half an hour later, after the crowd dozed off and waited impatiently, the three-point contest was finally won, and Michael Dixon, a 19-year-old senior at Seattle's Washington Federal High School, won the championship.

After the simple award ceremony of the three-point contest, the style of painting has obviously changed!

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