Zhang Wei didn't bother to pay attention to what happened in the final later, he only remembered that Dalle Ellis won the final championship with a score of 21 points, which was a very scummy score in his eyes.

An hour later, the "slam dunk contest" that fans are most concerned about began, and he had to discuss with the other judges about the scoring criteria for the meeting.

The five judges of this year's "Slam Dunk Contest" are all heavyweights: "Koala Baby" Zhang Zhu, "Big Bird" Larry Bird, "Iceman" George Gervin, "Dr. J" Julius Owen, and "Sky Hook" Kareem Jabbar.

Fans can see from the age of these judges that except for Zhang Zhu, the remaining four are superstars who are a generation earlier than Jordan, because the superstar of the same era as the gang leader is not qualified to rate him.

Zhang Wei is of course an exception, he is a "god" in the field of dunking, not to mention Jordan, even if he calls "Dr. J" and "Human Movie Essence" together, he dares to sit in the middle of the five, and then while picking the mud, he said in a disdainful tone: I'm not targeting anyone, I mean everyone here is mud.

Today, he sat in the middle of the five judges, and he sat on his own initiative, without asking the opinions of the other four at all.

If it had been someone else, Larry Bird would have kicked the stool over.

But in front of Zhang Fu, he wouldn't do this, and he wasn't even qualified to sit next to Zhang Fu, so he saw that Bird consciously sat on the rightmost seat, and the person seemed very quiet.

Next to Zhang Qi sat "Dr. J" and "Tiangou", and "Big Bird" and "Iceman" sat on both sides, and everyone consciously found their place to sit.

Don't look at it as a trivial matter, but successful people often have one thing in common, that is, they can put themselves in the right place, that is, they are self-aware.

"Big Bird" is crazy enough, but he will also be crazy at different times, places and occasions, do you think he is so crazy everywhere?

Zhang Qi is the same, last year he didn't sit directly in the middle of the position, when he gave in to the other four people once, but no one including Jordan pretended to be a big brother in front of him, so he sat on it, and he didn't plan to let it in the future.

Then turn the camera to the contestants on the field, Jordan was the focus of attention as soon as he appeared, the audience in the stadium laughed and cheered, and the five referees all showed a smile that was not too big to see the excitement.

But these laughs are not malicious, everyone is joking more, and few people will take Jordan's dunk seriously, just like someone kissing the ass of a donkey in the future, this is more like a comedy, isn't the purpose of the All-Star to entertain the public.

The six players participating in this year's "Slam Dunk Contest" are still mainly newcomers, namely: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Ray Allen, Eddie Jones, Antonio McDèce,

Zhang Wei felt that this year's "Slam Dunk Contest" was not much better than last year in terms of lineup, so Jordan didn't mention it, and it is estimated that his fans will be scolding him. But looking at the other players in the competition, it seems that there are no eye-catching guys?

He has an impression of these people except Maddy, Ray Allen, Kobe and Jones are not amazing bounce guards, especially Ray Allen, he may not even have the elegance, why did he participate in the "Slam Dunk Contest" for two consecutive years?

Kobe Bryant and Jones know best, these two are not the best in jumping, but they are good in the air, and they may be able to recover some disadvantages in terms of skills.

But he really doesn't know about this Maddie, the information shows that he should be the best one among the outside players this year in terms of jumping, but what is the core strength, whether the waist and abdominal strength are enough, and how is the technique...... He didn't know any of that.

McDyce is a rare interior player in the slam dunk contest, but he is completely a player who plays fast and falls quickly, so can he perform a high-scoring dunk?

In general, Zhang Qi is not optimistic about these people, as for Jordan, people are here to fulfill the gambling contract, do you really expect him to dunk at the free throw line?

"I think it's hard for him to jump 60 centimeters now."

Bird had a good personal relationship with Jordan, so he was the first to start complaining.

Zhang Wei agreed, Jordan rarely takes off now, and dunks are even rarer, most of them use layups to end the offense, and dunks are basically fast breaks or to avoid blocks, otherwise do you expect a 35-year-old guy to always fly around in the sky?

"Leon, your bounce stats have always been a mystery, now can you tell us a clear number?"

Abdul-Jabbar, who is most familiar with Zhang, asked a question that fans were most interested in.

Zhang's height and bounce data have always been erratic, and different media will have different versions, although they are roughly the same, but sometimes a few centimeters can be far away.

"It's hard for me to answer that, especially since the level of jumping varies depending on your weight and physical condition. But I can tell you that when I was in the slam dunk contest, it was the best time for me to bounce. At that time, my vertical bounce was 98 cm, but it never exceeded 100 cm. As for now, as my weight rises, I can only guarantee a vertical bounce of more than 90 cm. ”

Zhang Yu is still confident in his bounce, although he is still a little worse than Jordan and Wilkins at the peak, but at least he is better than Kobe and Jones in front of him, and he is by no means inferior to the skinny Maddie.

"Lose 20 pounds and you'll be more than 1 meter."

Dr. J got to the point, just looking at the data, you may feel that Zhang Fu's jumping ability is not up to the historical level, because the vertical jump of 1 meter is the dividing line between the historical level and the super first-class.

In the history of the NBA, players who bounce more than one meter vertically can be counted by hand, and most of the players who can be called spring people have a difference of a few centimeters from their vertical bounce of 1 meter, which does not seem to be much, but this is a level difference.

But the problem is, you have to look at people's weights first!

Can O'Neill's vertical bounce of 89cm and Garnett's vertical bounce of 95cm be the same?

Even if Zhang Qi weighs 240 pounds in his first season, he can jump to 98 centimeters at such a tonnage, which is simply demonic!

These judges chatted and chatted and turned into a sycophant conference, Zhang Fu listened to it of course secretly cool, but the time was almost up, and the six contestants had already entered, including Jordan, who pretended to be just a crowd of onlookers on the sidelines, and the two feet of the helper also stepped into the field.

I have to say that the footage at the scene is very malicious, and it is a close-up shot that can even be seen in Jordan's micro-expressions.

At this moment, except for the blind man, everyone can see the thick embarrassment on the face of the gang leader.

"It's hard to do!"

Jordan secretly tried the feeling during the warm-up, but it turned out that the height of people jumping casually was seventy or eighty centimeters, and he had already used all his strength to not be as high as others jumping casually, which was a bit embarrassing!

"What am I going to do? Is it really just two deductions to deal with? ”

Jordan has a lot of mental activity at the moment, and he has added a lot of drama to himself, he really doesn't know what to do now?

Before the game, his agent gave advice: just pretend to be sick and fool around, no one should care if he is really sick. Those who are looking for trouble are black fans, and normal fans can understand his difficulties. Besides, he has already participated in the three-point contest, is it really impossible for him to even participate in the dunk contest? (It's not black Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang didn't get black at all, and I don't think he was a stain in the later stage, he deserved more)

Jordan meant: You still have to participate in the competition, but the first jump will lead to problems, as long as you limp and give up the game helplessly, even the black fans should be embarrassed to say anything, right? After all, he's got a lot of age here.

However, what he didn't expect was that a certain slut would give him spoilers as soon as he came up.

"Hello everyone, this year I am here to explain the scene again." Zhang Fu, like last year, in addition to serving as a judge, everyone also wants to hear his poisonous tongue, so this year he continues to serve as a commentator. "Now that the players on the pitch are warming up, we saw Michael in the middle of the six players. As for why he appeared on the field, everyone should know why. My advice before the game was not to be pushy, and no one would be able to compete with a bunch of lads at the age of 35. That bet was just a joke from the start. However, I underestimated Michael's seriousness, and he insisted on being willing to gamble. Still, I don't think he should risk an injury to play. If a while, he first ...... Well...... I mean...... I'll feel guilty if he has an accident for a while. ”

Zhang Yu almost said, "If he had an accident at the first button", although he closed it in time, everyone still guessed what he originally wanted to say.

Jordan naturally heard it, and it hurt in his heart!

Made, how is he going to act now?

That bastard did it on purpose, right?

Zhang Yu really didn't mean it, he just opened his mouth a little faster.

Jordan's heart began to fight again, can he still be injured as planned for a while?

To be honest, he still cares too much about face when he thinks this way, and he also underestimates the sanity of normal fans.

Those black fans, they won't spray you because you have a reason, they spray people completely to vent the dissatisfaction in their lives, so no matter how beautiful things are, they can find black spots.

But most normal fans will understand that although there is no specific standard for a person's quality, "tolerance" is definitely an important trait, and the opposite is "mean", and it is strange that people with yin and yang weirdness can have high quality.

Jordan just thought too much, he didn't have to get hurt at all, just abstain and be done. No matter how smart you are, you can just scold - "The koala baby is a bastard, the identification is complete", but there is really no need to be so entangled.

In the first dunk of the preliminaries, Jordan was scheduled to be the first to play.

Some of the fans of the gang leader may scold that this is deliberately difficult.

But in fact, the league's arrangement is quite considerate of the elderly, and if Jordan is arranged to be the last to play, it is called deliberately making things difficult.

Everyone knows that it is difficult for the 35-year-old Jordan to perform a wonderful dunk, and arranging for him to be the first to play will reduce some embarrassment.

The game was about to start, and Jordan, who was embarrassed, suddenly had an idea, just like the protagonists in the game will suddenly have an IQ at a critical moment, and he also thought of a way at an urgent moment.

Jordan interrupted the game before dunking, and then called the staff to lower the basket by 10cm under the bewildered expressions of everyone.

"Damn, so witty?"

Zhang Fu was shocked, everyone knows what Jordan is going to do, but no one complains, is it possible that people are 35 years old and compete with a group of you young people on the same stage, shouldn't there be this 10cm concession?

Jordan's standing touch height is 269cm, the NBA's basket is 305cm, and theoretically you have to jump 36cm to touch the basket and 50cm to dunk. Now the 10cm reduction is not to say that the 10cm bounce requirement has been erased, but the effect of this 10cm is to make all of Jordan's dunks much easier, and now he can easily make those movements in the air that he can no longer do.

In fact, many people don't know that in most street basketballs, the height of the basket is 2.95m, so that more streetball watches with a height of about 180cm can perform fancy dunks, which is one of the reasons why NBA players despise these streetball players.

Jordan can't do a lot of actions to dunk the 3.05m basket now, but the 2.95m basket is completely different, and he even has to take out his famous work in the first dunk - free throw line dunk!

"Madison Garden" exploded in an instant, and even the judges began to shout for Jordan!

This is a memory of an era, Zhang Wei had a photo of Jordan's "air walk" in his room when he was at school, and he also shouted hysterically for Jordan's dunk at the beginning.

At this moment, everyone seems to have returned to the 80s, and the back in front of them is still the back, and the domineering No. 23 jersey is still in front of them.

Jordan retreated all the way to the backcourt, and then began to accelerate, the action was so familiar, everyone was staring at the free throw line, and at the moment no one except the trolls cared about the height of the basket.

Unfortunately, Jordan jumped with his whole foot over the free throw line, but it didn't matter, no one asked him to jump like he did when he was younger.

Everyone only saw Jordan's whole body jumping high like an air hammer, and by the way, he spit out the tongue that disgusted and feared countless players, and his body was still like walking in the air, and finally dunked the ball in with one hand, and the whole stadium turned into an erupting volcano at this moment!

Zhang Yi was the first to hold up the 50-point sign, and the other four judges followed, with five perfect points making Madison Square Garden really want to explode!

The five competitors on the sidelines were convinced, they didn't have the confidence to perform such a dunk at the age of 35, even if it was a 2.95-meter basket.

After Jordan completed the dunk, his face also blossomed, and he also didn't think that lowering the basket by 10cm was a very shameless thing, at least it was much better than pretending to be injured and abstaining, and he was confident that he would fight with others at this height.

He was right, except for some brainless trolls, few people would really complain about the height of the basket, and even many people thought that it should be lowered by another 10cm to be fair.

The second appearance is Ray Allen, I saw him jump high and turn 180 degrees in the air to dunk with one hand, although the completion is very beautiful, but the five referees present only gave a low score of 7-9 points, mainly because the stretch is not enough, the time in the air is also a little worse, the whole dunk seems to be relatively hasty, and of course it is not to mention elegant.

"The core strength is not good enough, and the bounce is a little worse."

Zhang Qi is still very accurate to see this, Lei Allen's athletic talent obviously belongs to the realm between quasi-first-class and first-class, and the real height is only about 193cm, which is also a very embarrassing height.

The third appearance was the defending champion Kobe Bryant, who dunked the ball in the air after changing hands behind his back, but the first move was complicated and unsuccessful, and it was not until the third time that the difficulty was lowered, and the highest score given to him by the five referees was 8 points.

"The starting height is not enough, and the strength of the waist and abdomen needs to be strengthened."

Zhang Mao's ball shows that Kobe's waist and abdomen strength is not so strong, but considering the age, it is still understandable, most people have to improve a little bit, Jordan may not be as strong as the current Kobe when he is 19 years old.

Needless to say, Eddie Jones and Antonio McDyce's dunks, one of them is more than flowing but lacks a sense of power, and the other is bounced and powerful, but the time in the air is seriously insufficient, and both have their own serious flaws.

"I don't pick it up!"

Zhang Qi couldn't help but start pretending to be forced, but these players did disappoint him, and there was hardly any player who had both a sense of elegance and power.

The last one to appear is Maddie, the only name that Zhang Yu has to turn over the information to know, he really didn't know who Maddie was before this, and he didn't have this person in his impression at all.

Maddie's run-up distance is very long, and Zhang Yi thought he wanted to pay tribute to Jordan at first, but it turned out that it was a big windmill dunk after catching the earth, but unfortunately the first dunk ended in failure.

However, this dunk made Zhang Fu's eyes shine, because this young man jumped high enough, and his waist and abdominal strength were a little stronger than Kobe, the key is that he is tall, which gives him the ability to complete complex and difficult dunks.

But this little guy obviously lacked skill in the next few trial dunks, he had some problems throwing the ball, and it dragged on for a long time until it was barely completed in the end, and in the end the five judges only gave 7 to 9 points.

The lowest score is still given by Zhang Mao, who let Maddie grind for half a day to complete, like this kind of dunk that fails too much, he will not give a high score.

"This kid has good athletic talent, he has height and core strength, but he looks a little stupid, and his basic skills still need to be honed."

Zhang Mao's evaluation is still a bit poisonous, but he is not wrong, Maddie is also a high school rookie, but his basic skills are far less solid than Kobe Bryant, who has a father from the NBA, and at this stage, he only has body and no skills, so he can't play.

Kobe Bryant is much stronger at this point, his father knows how to train his technique and body, it can be said that Kobe Bryant has had an NBA player by his side since he was a child, and his basic skills are naturally much better than those of players of the same age.

At the end of the first round of the preliminaries, Jordan contributed the only perfect dunk.

In the second round of the preliminaries, Jordan still played first, but he obviously stayed strong with this dunk, who made the full score of the first dunk enough for him to easily enter the finals, so this ball only used an ordinary windmill to deal with.

But the ball was too perfunctory, and after one completion, the five judges collectively complained: "No good, No good." ”

Ray Allen gave up directly in the second round, and he was disheartened by the fact that he was basically at the bottom for two consecutive years, and the second dunk was also perfunctory, becoming the first player to be eliminated.

Kobe Bryant also didn't come up with creative new moves, Zhang Yu could see that he didn't practice at all before the game, and it is estimated that his energy is focused on how to become the main force as soon as possible, how can he have time to practice dunking! What's more, practicing dunks is at risk of injury, so this year's Kobe Bryant didn't prepare seriously at all, and participated in the game just for commercial influence.

The dunks of the others did not make a splash either, and the flaws of the first dunk continued, and it was Jordan, Maddie and McDies who finally made it to the finals.

As soon as the preliminaries ended, the enthusiasm of the fans declined, and after thinking about it carefully, everyone found that not counting Jordan's "feelings" dunk, the strength of this session seems to be worse than the previous one. Last year, at least there was a treasure playing atmosphere by Finley and others, although the excitement was not enough, but it was interesting enough, which fully explained what the spirit of entertainment is.

But what about this year?

If it weren't for Zhang Yu forcing Jordan up, it would really be nothing to see at all.

"We want to see baby koalas!"

"Leon, let's do it again!"

"We're going to have a baby koala!"

"Kobe Bryant, Maddie is stupid!"

“……”

The fans started to do things as soon as they were free, especially the ones who were swearing.

Zhang Wei has actually been secretly happy in his heart, if it weren't for the lack of these people, how could he seem to be awesome? How could he become more and more mythologic?

The fans in the stadium began to clamour, and the final naturally started early.

Jordan was the first to play this time, this time he took out his classic action of the year "kissing the basket", but this time it was obviously much lower than the vacancy in 87 and 88, and the action was far less than stretching back then, but the "feelings" were still useful, and the fans still applauded.

Zhang Yu stopped giving face this time, and began to mock: "Michael, why do you come and go with these three tricks, is the next button going to be '45 degrees inclined windmill in the air'?" ”

Jordan's face suddenly sank again, because his last action was indeed this, and now he was sure that Zhang Qi before must have deliberately found fault.

Zhang Yu is still not finding fault, he still remembers that Jordan made a total of three free-throw line dunks in 88, and it was maddening to repeat it like this, which also made him disgusted by this action, and his admiration was instantly reduced by half.

The fans at the scene were also silent, and they did not react to Zhang Zhu's caustic evaluation, because Jordan did go back and forth on these three tricks.

Zhang Fu was different back then, when he participated in the "Slam Dunk Contest", he did not have a single repetitive action, not only all the dunks were the first, but even the dunks during the warm-up were the first and did not repeat, and all the actions were full of difficult + creative dunks, otherwise why would he be a god in a fight.

Therefore, his "meanness" comes from his own strength, and he is qualified to find fault with Jordan's dunk repetition is too high.

This time, Zhang Qi only gave 5 points, and he felt that the dunk was not at all passing, even the 35-year-old Jordan did not pass.

Jordan finally understood that Zhang Qi was ready to wait for him to enter the finals before making trouble, no wonder his previous performance was completely malicious, it turned out that the trap was waiting for him here.

Maddie's first dunk in the final was a windmill dunk after turning 360 degrees in the air, but this action took three more times to complete, and the first pull rod was pulled below the waist, and the last completion was discounted, the highest score given by the five judges was only 9 points, and Zhang Yu gave the lowest score of 7 points, but the total score was also 7 points higher than Jordan's 33 points.

Last off was McDyes, who had a long run-up and finally took a step from inside the free-throw line for a dunk.

However, this tribute is aesthetically tired even to the fans, and who knows why these people like to imitate Jordan's free-throw line dunks?

This time, the judges only gave him a 6-8 points, and Zhang Fu also gave him the lowest 6 points.

The koala baby was too lazy to evaluate at this time, he only gave a slanted look of contempt, what did he mean to analyze for himself.

Soon, the final came to the final dunk.

Jordan decided not to give Zhang Wei another chance to add fuel and vinegar this time, and he directly completed all the games with an ordinary two-handed heavy buckle - no more playing!

Now the fans are embarrassed, they don't know whether to boo Jordan, or to encourage Jordan to be 35 years old and brave enough to participate in the slam dunk contest.

Zhang immediately made a gesture that made people applaud, and he gave Jordan a 9 for this dunk, which is his highest rating today.

"Look, these are hypocrites."

The fans didn't know whether to applaud his rating or applaud Jordan, anyway, the applause only started after he scored.

Zhang Wei hated his actions in his heart, and if it was changed to a year ago, he would definitely give a super low score.

But now he resisted the urge to give a high score, and he can already guess that tomorrow the major media will definitely write countless touching and heartfelt inspirational essays about Jordan's slam dunk contest journey and his rating.

Maddy, who appeared in the second game, was confident when he saw this, although Jordan scored 43 points on this dunk, but the two dunks added up to 76 points, and he only needed to score 36 points to win the championship.

Maddie had confidence in his heart, and his last button was a two-handed windmill that threw and buckled.

Zhang Zhu's evaluation of him after the dunk was that his body could allow him to score 50 points, but his dunk was limited by creativity. This pass to his two-handed windmill was not surprising to show off his bouncing ability. Seven is already the highest I can give, and none of it comes from creativity. ”

McDyess was the last to play, and Zhang Mao's previous evaluation can be applied to him.

He ran along the baseline during his movements, first put his hands on a dunk after jumping, retracted the ball to his waist after reaching the highest point, and then raised it to dunk successfully, but due to insufficient air stretch, this dunk only scored 42 points.

There is no doubt that Maddie won the championship of the "Slam Dunk Contest" and is a high school student "Slam Dunk King".

At this time, fans finally discovered that the "dunk king" of the past three years was actually won by high school rookies, does this mean: Will it be the era of high school rookies in the future?

After the game, Zhang Fu's final comment was a prophecy: "I don't want to evaluate this slam dunk contest at all, but I can guarantee that this slam dunk contest will directly lead to the obvious suspension of the slam dunk contest......"