Bill. Simmons was indeed stupid, he didn't calculate that Link would really participate in the slam dunk contest!

In the beginning, he scolded Link for being a soft egg because of this matter. As a die-hard fan who has been watching live games with his father since he was a child, Simmons knows the NBA too well. He believes that in this day and age, it is impossible for a famous superstar to take risks in the slam dunk contest.

However, Link's decision took Simmons by surprise.

What level of star is Link? Not even halfway through the season, Link has already amassed a bunch of accolades.

No. 1 in the 50 Stars of the New Season, the league's longest opening streak, three Player of the Week, two Player of the Month, and only the fifth player in history to record a triple-double in the Christmas game......

You know, this season's regular season hasn't even played half of the season, and Link's honors can already be listed. If we wait until the end of the season to come back to the statistics, Link will definitely have a lot more honors than he does now.

It is such a guy who has already made a name for himself that would choose to participate in the slam dunk contest!

Link's courage is beyond Bill's. Simmons' imagination.

Now, Bill. Simmons had to seriously consider one question, "What if Link actually wins the slam dunk contest?" Do you really want to wear women's clothes!? ”

Simmons is also one of the best sports columnists in the United States and even in the world, and he is a figure with a head and a face. It would be a shame to wear women's clothes in front of everyone!

Simmons now just wants to slap himself, and he said the bet of wearing women's clothes in the first place.

The mouth was cool for a while, but I didn't expect to cause such a big trouble.

But after calming down, Simmons found that things were still turning around!

Not to mention whether Link can win in the end, even if Link wins, Simmons still has a chance to cheat.

Last season's All-Star Game, the rules of the Slam Dunk Contest were revised. The number of participants has increased from four to six, but the competition is no longer played by individuals, but by teams of three players and by divisions.

After the two teams dunk, it is not the individual score, but the team with the higher score of the three players combined.

In other words, last season's slam dunk contest did not have a dunk king. At the end of the day, it was the Eastern Conference Stars who won the game, not any one individual.

Simmons found the cut, ready to drill the horn tip. This year's All-Star, even if Link wins, it will be a Western Team victory, not a personal victory for Link.

Link is not the king of dunks, and that's Simmons' excuse for refusing to wear women's clothing a month and a half later!

Simmons laughed, lamenting his astonishingly high intelligence.

Want to fix me? You're still too young to Link! Simmons hacked the old spicy Isaiah. Thomas has been doing nothing about Thomas for so many years.

How could a young Chinese player bring down Simmons.

But as the saying goes, plans don't keep up with change.

Just a day after Simmons made up his bad idea, the league official released the news again.

"The NBA All-Star Games have canceled the East-West confrontation system and returned to the previous individual system. This year, the dunk contest will feature just four people, each representing themselves. ”

Simmons couldn't help but shiver as he looked at the message on his phone.

Is this playing with me!?

The new system has only been implemented for a year, so why change it!

The brutal truth is that the league did revise the format again because Link was going to participate in the slam dunk contest.

Last season, why did the league change the Slam Dunk Contest and other individual competitions to East-West confrontation? Isn't it because there are no big-name stars involved, and there is no stimulation point, so you can only innovate in the rules.

Since there are no stars participating in the slam dunk contest, change the "individual first" format to "team first".

In this way, wouldn't it be possible to cover up the shortcomings of the lack of star flavor?

But now that Link has announced his participation in the slam dunk contest, the dunk contest suddenly has a star. There's no doubt that a "team-first" format isn't in the best interest.

People came to see Link win the championship, not to see Link dragging two teammates who didn't know who it was to win the championship. What people want to see is Link abusing the other three challengers, or the three challengers making Link overturn.

There is no doubt that only the traditional rules of the slam dunk contest can best stimulate Link's commercial value.

Therefore, the league is equivalent to making a special trip to modify the format of the slam dunk contest for Link to maximize benefits.

For such a change, fans applauded. Simmons was the only one who suddenly felt hopeless.

The league has already paved the way for Link, and all Link has to do is win the championship with all the anticipation.

Bill. Simmons' excuse for exculpating himself was instantly inapplicable. Moreover, he had no other excuse to find.

As Link said in an interview at the Toyota Center yesterday, "You've got nowhere to run, bastard!" ”

Simmons is still figuring out a way, and he believes there must be a way. But silently, Simmons has also ordered several sets of women's clothes......

Well, be prepared.

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Link is going to a slam dunk contest, which makes all the fans very excited.

Fans who like Link are eager to see Link's explosive performance at the Slam Dunk Contest. And for fans who hate Link, this is a chance to witness a superstar overturn in the slam dunk contest.

No matter which group of people it is, this year's slam dunk contest is well worth watching because of Link's participation.

This is perhaps the first time in history that the league has made a slam dunk contest a high-profile by just announcing one person who participated in the slam dunk contest.

As this matter continues to ferment, a hot topic is also involved.

"There are many players in NBA history who have played in both the three-point contest and the dunk contest, but no player has ever won both the three-point contest and the dunk contest at the same time. So a month and a half later, will Link be able to make history again? ”

As soon as this topic was raised, it was widely discussed.

There are a lot of people in NBA history who have participated in both the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest, but they usually only dominate one of the events.

For example, Ray. Allen, who participated in the three-point contest five times in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2011, won the three-point contest in 2001. He gives the impression of being a three-point shooter, and there is nothing wrong with participating in the three-point contest.

But actually Ray. Allen's first single challenge when he was young was the Slam Dunk Contest, but he was invited to participate in 1997 and unfortunately went out in the first round and never participated since.

Another example is Brent, who created the legend of "white people can fly". Barry, who won the slam dunk contest in 1996 with a free throw line dunk, became the first white player to pull off such a difficult maneuver in the dunk contest. In 2003, Barry also reached the final of the three-point contest strongly, and was very close to winning the double title. However, in the final, Barry unfortunately withdrew from the championship race with 17 points, and unfortunately failed to make history.

Link's good brother Paul. George has also tried his hand at the three-point contest and the dunk contest in recent years, but he has not achieved any decent results in either event.

The only person in NBA history who can do the "first" in two events is the "old rascal" Michael. Jordan.

Jordan won the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest in 1987 and 1988, and he was absolutely dominant in the Dunk Contest and set a record of "No. 1 in the league" in the 1990 Three-Point Contest.

Jordan scored only 5 points in the three-point contest that year, the lowest scoring record in the All-Star three-point contest so far. The two-time slam dunk contest champion and the record of the penultimate three-point contest is all Jordan can do.

It can be seen that it is not easy to dominate in both events at the same time. Every athlete has their own specialty, but few athletes are truly proficient in everything.

Link has won the three-point contest once before, and he has also broken the three-point contest scoring record. If Link wins the slam dunk contest again this time, it will really set a record that is impossible to break.

Now, fans around the world are waiting for Link's performance in the slam dunk contest a month and a half later. The Dunk Contest hasn't garnered so much attention since 2000.

Before the game even started, the slam dunk contest was already saved by Link.