Chapter 374: Xinke Slam Dunk King

Of course, the biggest attraction of the slam dunk contest is the amazing dunks, the six dunks who participated today are eager to try it on the sidelines, and the live DJ also randomly interviewed these players.

On All-Star Weekend, the tall man was the first person to be interviewed.

"Hey Gao, are you ready for this? What kind of action are you going to play? The DJ asked with a smile as he held the microphone high.

"To be honest, before today, I had never practiced dunking in particular, my dunks were usually improvised, you know, I was just a rookie compared to them" The tall man pointed to the other dunks around him.

"But you always have to plan ahead, you can't make a decision when you're in the air, it's too short," the live DJ asked nondeotently.

"Haha" Gao Dazhuang replied with a smile: "I will have a general idea before I get the ball ready to jump, I have prepared a few crotch change dunks today, and I will also try to jump from the top of the restricted area, but I don't know which one I want to use now"

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The slam dunk contest is also divided into two teams, east and west, where the winner is determined first, and then the two teams with the highest scores will PK.

The West is led by defending slam dunk contest champion Jeremy Evans of the Utah Jazz, while the Clippers' "Blood" Eric Bledsoe and the Nuggets' "Half-Man" Farried have shown off their extraordinary athleticism and dunk skills on the court;

And the three generals in the east are not small. The Brooklyn Nets' tall and strong team does not need to be introduced too much, and whether it can monopolize all the laurels in all All-Star games has become a major attraction of this game; The Pacers' Gerald Green once participated in the slam dunk contest, and his "blowing candle dunk" is very creative and memorable; And the Raptors' Terrence Ross is a new generation of dunkers who has repeatedly performed in the regular season.

The judges were the Rockets five: Tomjanovic, Yao Ming, Mutombo, Olajuwon and Drexler.

The first to play was Gerard Green of the Eastern team.

"Oh" to the cheers of the crowd, Green and his teammate Paul George on the Pacers made their way to the center of the court.

It seems to be a duo show!

Sure enough, Green started sprinting to the basket from outside the three-point line in the bottom corner, and Paul George threw the ball on the rebound at random.

The "snap" ball hit the edge of the rebound and bounced back, and Green, who was in the air, dunked the ball into his hands.

After receiving the ball, Green made a fold in the air. Pick up the basketball with both hands and buckle a big windmill. With a "clang", the ball slammed into the basket.

"Oh~~" There was a cheer and warm applause in the Toyota Center arena.

"50", "50", "50"....In the cheers of the fans, Drexler took the lead in raising his 10-point card, followed by Tomjanovic, Mutombo, and Olajuwon all raised the 10-point card one after another. Yao Ming looked at the seniors left and right. also slowly raised the 10-point sign in his hand.

50 points!

Gerald Green immediately raised his hands in the air. Greeting the enthusiastic fans in the arena and scoring a perfect score for the first dunk, Green undoubtedly got the dunk contest off to a good start.

The second player to appear is Raptors rookie Terrence Rose.

"When" Terrence Rose goes straight to the basket when he gets on the game. The tall man didn't even see Terrence Ross in action before he dunked, but his dunk bounced off the basket.

He smiled embarrassedly after making a mistake in the first dunk, and ran to the top of the three-point arc to do it again.

This time, Gao Dazhuang saw Rose's movements clearly, his dunk action was very difficult, and it was also a dunk that turned in the air, but while he turned in the air, he wrapped the ball around his back, and then pulled up a high dunk.

Rose's dunk didn't go well, and after five attempts, he finally got the ball in, but to his surprise, the jury five also gave a perfect score of 50.

Obviously, this 50 points exceeded everyone's expectations, but the fans at the scene still gave Rose an extremely warm applause for his dunk.

The third appearance is the "upstart" of this year's All-Star Game, Gao Dazhuang, who made the cheers in the arena reach a climax as soon as he appeared.

Although he has been with the Houston Rockets for less than two months, he has clearly made a good impression on Houston fans.

After greeting the enthusiastic fans who were playing almost half of the home game, the tall and strong took the ball with both hands and started to run from outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle, and in just one second, the tall and strong increased his speed to the extreme.

The moment the "pop" rushed into the paint area, the tall and strong stepped into the air, jumped high, and the tall and strong took the ball to the step, and then went around the overhead.

At this time, Gao Dazhuang's bounce height had reached its peak, but Gao Dazhuang did not make a shot, but at the moment when it slowly fell, Gao Dazhuang collected the ball, and a big windmill buckled, smashing the ball to the basket.

"Bang dang", the tall and strong hit the hand.

"Beautiful", "Wow", "Tall and Strong"...... The huge cheers and applause represented the attitude of the fans.

10 points! Yao Ming was the first to show his attitude, holding up a 10-point card, followed by Mutombo, Olajuwon and Drexler all holding up a 10-point card, but Rockets meritorious coach Tomjanovic only picked up a nine-point card.

49 points!

Gao Dazhuang scored 49 points in the first round, which is also a very good result.

The first to appear in the West was the Nuggets' dunk - "Half-Orc" Faried.

However, his first move was more conservative and unusually simple, he smashed the ball to the rebound, caught the rebound, and then turned around to dunk after receiving the ball in the air.

But it was such a common action in the game, and Faried also missed the first dunk, and the ball smashed into the front of the basket and bounced out.

Although Faried completed the dunk on the second attempt, his score was not high, and Mutombo even gave it only seven points. In the end, Faried scored only 39 points.

The second player in the West was Suns big man Bledsoe, who stepped down to change hands for a dunk, and although his bounce height and dunk power were excellent, he failed to dunk several times in a row.

In the end, he ended the round with a simple backhand dunk.

39 points! The judges gave the same score as Faried.

In the end, it was the defending champion Evans who came out, still a matching performance.

Evans sat NBA legend Mark Eaton on a chair on the court and lifted the ball to the top of his head.

Evans jumped from beyond the three-point line and leaped high over Eaton's head to pick up the basketball and dunk a backhand.

This is also very difficult. Evans also succeeded after several attempts. But he ended up with a good score, 47 points!

At the end of the first round, Green and Rose in the East had 50 points, and Tall and Strong had 49 points. Farried and Bledsoe in the West are on 39 points. Evans was 47 points.

The second round begins. Green was still the first to play.

He cut the Nets first, and even wanted to perform the double dunk stunt of the legendary "Goat" on the streets of Brooklyn, New York: after dunking the ground, he caught the ball in the air and dunked again.

Obviously, this dunk is very difficult. Green failed to dunk several times until the end of the allotted time, and finally scored a 35-point consolation point.

However, in the last showman's chance, Green finally managed to hold the ball tightly, but it was too late.

The second appearance was Tyrence-Rose of the Raptors, who caused a cheer from the fans as soon as he appeared, and it turned out that he was wearing a No. 15 jersey of the Raptors.

The jersey belongs to Raptors legend Vince Carter, and it's clear that Rose is paying homage to Carter.

With a "clang", Rose folded in the air after receiving a pass from his teammates, and dunked with his back.

Although the dunk was flashy, it wasn't too difficult to complete, and in the end Rose scored 47 points!

The third player in the East is tall and strong.

"Huh" Gao Dazhuang took a deep breath near the three-point line, and then slammed the ball to the ground, and at the moment when the ball rebounded, Gao Dazhuang also galloped towards the basket.

"Bang" rushed into the penalty area, jumped high, picked off the ball with one hand in the air, and after turning 180 degrees in the air, he sacrificed the ball with both hands and smashed the ball to the basket.

"Bang", the tall and strong dunk is successful.

"Oh~" The whole arena cheered, the tall and strong dunk had both difficulty, skill and strength, and finally the tall and strong scored a 49 points again.

The two 49 points also allowed Gao Dazhuang to surpass Rose, successfully lock a spot in the finals, and also brought his goal of sweeping all individual events of the All-Star Game one step closer, and the fans in the Toyota Center also cheered loudly with great excitement.

Next, the Western team's Faried scored a perfect 50 points with a dunk that caught the ball and rebounded the ball.

Bledsoe also succeeded once, smashing the ball to the ground, folding it in the air after receiving the ball, and dunking with both hands, also scoring 50 points.

Defending champion Evans, on the other hand, scored 47 points after three attempts, but his excellent performance in the first round allowed him to represent the West.

Gao Dazhuang and Evans finally met in the finals, while the other dunks said goodbye to the arena regrettably.

Bledsoe, who was eliminated from the competition, said with frustration: "I couldn't catch the ball at all today, I tried to adjust it on the second dunk, but it still didn't work, when I couldn't hold the ball, the ball flew everywhere. ”

Green also said regretfully: "Normally I don't dunk, that's what I'm good at, but tonight, these dunks just don't go in." ”

"I originally planned to dunk with Lowry and DeRozan," Rose said with regret, "Lowry sent DeRozan an empty pass, DeRozan jumped up to catch the ball, threw the ball, and I took the ball and changed hands under my crotch to complete the dunk, it's wonderful, right, but I've been eliminated early, which is a pity."

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With the fans cheering, defending champion Evans was the first to play.

Evans first pushed a clothed obstacle onto the field, "What is this?" Not only the fans, but even the judges are asking each other.

"Bang Dang" Evans scored a dunk over an obstacle after a run, the action was very simple, but the obstacle left people in suspense.

However, when Evans then uncovered the black cloth, it turned out to be a large oil painting of himself jumping over the oil painting dunk, and Evans finally signed his name on it.

This slightly hilarious performance won a burst of laughter from the fans.

Then, Gao Dazhuang came out, he started from under the basket and walked to the bottom corner three-point line, slowly counting his steps, and about a meter away from the three-point line, Gao Dazhuang stopped.

At this moment, all the eyes of the audience were focused on Gao Dazhuang, and after a short adjustment, Gao Dazhuang moved, only to see that he instantly increased his speed to the extreme, and then took off into the air and spun in the air.

An ordinary mid-air spin dunk?

Just when everyone was almost disappointed, a tall man who faced the basket again after a 360-degree rotation still didn't make a move, and his body continued to rotate in the air, like a spinning top.

"Oh~" At this time, a huge exclamation resounded through the stadium, 360 degrees, 540 degrees, 720 degrees, after Gao Dazhuang rotated in the air for two full turns, Gao Dazhuang sacrificed the ball with one hand.

"Bang dang", the tall and strong smashed the buckle.

A full 720 degrees! And only more, not less, although the height of this tall and strong jump is not very high, but the strong speed ensures that the tall and strong spin in the air for more than two full turns.

The huge cheers from the fans also shifted the pressure completely to Evans' side.

Evans' second move was to leap, this time with a teammate sitting in the middle of the court tossing the ball, and as he crossed, he dunked it in the air with one hand.

Although the completion was wonderful, the applause was obviously weaker than the slam dunk just now.

"High", "High", "High", ...... In the neat cheers of the fans, Gao Dazhuang will complete the last dunk, this time standing at the top of the arc of the front three-point line.

Charge, run, sprint, jump!

An ordinary dunk? Of course not!

"Smack" tall and strong feet have risen in front of the free throw line, jump dunk in front of the free throw line!

"Wow", pay tribute to Jordan!!

The tall and strong slam dunk adopts Jordan's classic action of sliding from the free throw line in the dunk contest, except that the tall and strong jump height is not as high as Jordan's, but its sprint speed is faster.

With a bang, the tall man slammed the ball into the basket with one hand in a nearly 45-degree angle, although the ball lacked a trace of elegance, but it was really jumping and finishing in front of the free throw line.

The tall and strong dunk also made the audience stand up excitedly, and the DJ on the scene also excitedly chanted Jordan's name......

Both dunks were successful, but according to the rules of the NBA All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk Contest, the winner of the two finalists will be voted for by fans.

Voting is 60 seconds long and can be done via SMS, Twitter or on the NBA's official website, after a one-hour voting.

"I announce that the winner of this year's NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest with 76% of the votes is ......" The presenter raised the trophy in his hand and came to the flattered tall man and said: "Gao ~ Da Zhuang from the Brooklyn Nets!! (To be continued......)