20. Goodbye to the NBA Slam Dunk Contest! (Ask for collections, ask for recommendation votes)
Hundreds of students from Inglewood High School cheered wildly, and the other audience members also gave enthusiastic cheers and applause.
And Inglewood High School's sworn enemy, Southern California High School, many people had the same expressions as Xiang Yu, their faces were dark, and they were talking about Carter and Desmond-Mason in one ear after another......
Looking at Zhang Hao, who was celebrating with his teammates, Carter was unwilling, but helpless.
In the last dunk, after Zhang Hao's free throw line changed hands and dunked successfully, Carter knew that this time he was defeated!
This is the first time since Carter was able to complete a dunk that he has lost to his peers when competing for a dunk, and even, since he entered high school, he has never lost, even if a physical fitness player who is a few years older than him has compared him to dunk, he has never lost.
Lost this time!
On Zhang Hao's side, the subtitle prompt appeared after the judges scored.
"Slam Dunk:
Goal: Zhang Hao, a special signing player, won the championship of this year's McDonald's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest for High School Students. (Completed)
Rewarded: Bronze Medal: Slam Dunk Master.
Because Zhang Hao, a special contracted player, failed to get all the full points for dunks, the additional reward was not obtained. β
It was too late for Zhang Hao to be happy to get a medal or to be annoyed that he didn't get the 15-day lifespan, seeing Zhang Hao and April-Clark pounce on him, Zhang Hao decisively passed by Pierce and hugged April-Clark to celebrate.
Pierce froze with his arms outstretched...... Thousands of alpacas are rushing endlessly in my heart......
After being restless for a while, when it came to the award ceremony, Larry Nance, the champion of the NBA's first slam dunk contest, handed the championship trophy of the McDonald's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest for high school students to Zhang Hao.
There is also an envelope, which is a prize, Zhang Hao pinched it, it was not very thick, and it was estimated that there were hundreds of thousands of beautiful knives.
Looking at the different expressions of several high school students, Julius Owen, who had passed the age of confusion, smiled and said to several people: "You are all very talented, but you are still too young now, don't limit your eyes to this competition, of course, this competition is great, but it is only because of you that this competition seems great."
If one day, you show up in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, I hope I'll still be a judge, and if I'm 20 years younger, I'd really like to compete with you......"
Hearing the words of this celebrity, Zhang Hao, who was extremely excited to win the championship, dissipated a lot of joy with pride, not being hit, but having a longing, and then a small victory...... Not so excited.
"yes, it's just a slam dunk contest for high school students......"
On Carter's side, his helplessness was more like a frustration, and he had never suffered a setback in this regard, and then he felt frustrated.
Julius Irving's words made Carter wake up suddenly.
He's still young! If you can't defeat Zhang Hao now, it won't be possible in the future.
Desmond Mason had 10,000 alpacas running through his heartβas if I could win these two monsters in a few years.
Others, reactions are different, Dean Grove and Jonathan Simon are dreaming of entering the NBA, they have a deep sense of their level of strength in this McDonald's High School All-Star Weekend, they have always been regarded as geniuses, they don't seem to be so good, at least, not as good as they thought they were before, but when they heard Julius Irving's words, they suddenly figured it out.
In the history of basketball, there has never been a shortage of players who were very good in high school but withered in college, and there is no shortage of players who showed their potential in college.
There are even cases where the undrafted player plays in the NBA and gets a high salary.
They have infinite momentum because they are young!
ββ¦β¦ I really hope you all make it to the NBA and appear on the stage of the dunk contest again," Julius Irving, the first celebrity in NBA history to carry the torch of the era superstar, said this, naming him: "Aix, Vince, I should have given you another 10 points, but ...... Stay in the NBA. β
After saying that, Julius Owen left with several old teammates and old rivals.
Looking at the back of Julius Irving's departure, Zhang Hao said to Carter: "The NBA slam dunk contest in the new century, let's compete again!" β
It's 1995, Zhang Hao's goal now is to live longer, and it's only a matter of more than ten years to be a player, he wants to finish college, preferably with coaching-related majors, video editing, sports colleges...... Both.
After 4 years in college, they happened to enter the NBA together in 1999, which was Zhang Hao's idea.
Carter also rekindled his fighting spirit: "See you in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest!" β
Desmond Mason felt neglected, and he wanted to shout: And me!
Julius Owen's words became a source of motivation for Zhang Hao to work harder.
Everyone is still a teenager.
The future is infinitely better.
Maybe there's a chance to meet again in the ring!
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The reporters invited by McDonald's pushed everyone else, including Carter, around Zhang Hao, who won the championship tonight.
Zhang Hao experienced this battle for the first time in his two lives, and was dizzy by the reporters' questions, and thanked his classmates, teammates, coaches, and the organizer McDonald's...... And so it passed.
I thought about how to pretend to be forced if I really won the championship...... The head went completely blank.
After being interviewed after winning the championship, Zhang Hao was taken by the person in charge of McDonald's to a lounge in the Great Western Forum Arena.
Leaving the group of reporters, Zhang Hao finally recovered from that "big scene".
The producer of McDonald's told Zhang Hao that he needed to shoot a short commercial for McDonald's next, which was known when he signed up, McDonald's would select a few people from the players in the All-Star competition to shoot commercials, and there was no money to take it, if you want to play NCAA, then you can't get money, and you can only get the prize money of the All-Star Game, the three-point contest, and the dunk contest.
After agreeing on the filming time, there is nothing to do, and the next thing McDonald's needs to do is to make good use of the resources created by this slam dunk contest to promote it among the student community and the unexpected and surprising Chinese community groups that can try to further develop.
Just as the matter was almost said and the brief exchange was about to end, a staff member came in and whispered a few words to the producer, who was obviously a little excited, asked Zhang Hao to wait a while, followed the staff out, and entered the lounge with a cameraman and an Asian face who was supposed to be a reporter.
This person, Zhang Hao recognized it at a glance, and Xu Jicheng, who will be very famous in the domestic basketball commentary industry in the future.
"Aix, this is the foreign affairs correspondent of the Sports News Department of the China Xinhua News Agency, and he wants to conduct an exclusive interview with you......"
The producer introduced Xu Jicheng's intentions, Zhang Hao was very surprised, he participated in a high school student's competition, and there were reporters in China who came to interview, or Xinhua News Agency.
Because Zhang Hao didn't know about American high schools in China until he didn't know about it, even after more than 20 years, he didn't know about it, such as Jeremy Lin in the future, before participating in the draft, except for some fans who paid special attention to the NCAA, not many people in China knew about Jeremy Lin's existence, and many people didn't know that there was such a person until Jeremy Lin played Lin Crazy.
And Jeremy Lin was actually very strong in high school, and he was a California high school student like him Zhang Hao for a while, and he also won the California High School Student of the Year once, but in the same way, Jeremy Lin didn't get a basketball scholarship until he was a freshman at Harvard.
In this year, a reporter in China actually interviewed him as a high school student...... Even if he wins the McDonald's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest for high school students, it is only a game for high school students, and some people may know about his existence from newspapers and advertisements placed by McDonald's, but the influence will not be particularly great.
After all, it's just a game for high school students.
McDonald's erected a billboard behind the place where Zhang Hao was sitting, although this interview was only a small report of the evening newspaper's sports newspaper, but the original McDonald's high school students all-stars did not have any news in China, and McDonald's still attached great importance to it.
Once you've set it up, start the interview.
"Hello, Aix, I'm Xu Jicheng, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, thank you for accepting our interview......"
Xu Jicheng speaks English.
There was only one person's visit, Zhang Hao was much calmer, and replied in Chinese: "My name is Zhang Hao, I know Chinese, I only came to the United States to study at the age of 15." β
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