The dunk contest is an extremely important event of the NBA All-Star Weekend, second only to the All-Star Game, which was established since 1984 and has shaped countless super dunk wizards, in the past 20 years, there are only 170cm tall "potato" Webb has won the championship, let people see "I can, infinite possibilities", and Wilkins, who is known as the "essence of the movie", has made a comeback after five years, and there are basketball gods Jordan and Jason? Richardson's title defense.

The rules of this tournament are very simple, the game is divided into two rounds, of which each person slams three times in the first round, the three players with the highest total score advance to the finals, the highest score can play the last in the finals, and each person deducts twice in the final stage, and the champion with the highest score.

In the past, in 1994, there were six players participating in the slam dunk contest, and the order of appearance was determined by lottery. In the first round, each person dunked three times, and the three players with the highest total score advanced to the finals, and the players with the highest scores could play the last in the finals. In the final stage, each person will be deducted twice, and the winner with the highest score will be the champion.

However, the rules were gradually improved, and the players returned to the four-player ranks, with a total of four players playing, and last year, in 2007, in order to make the dunk contest more fair and just, the league introduced new rules, first, a player must complete a dunk action within two minutes.

The reason for this rule is that Robinson did 17 moves in the finals of the 2006 Slam Dunk Contest to succeed, which is a bit speechless.

Second, the 2007 Slam Dunk Contest will introduce a video playback mechanism to create conditions for judges to score more accurately.

Finally, there are new rules in this year's slam dunk contest, and this rule has changed a lot, which directly affects the competition for the dunk king.

In the new rules, the rules of the first round remain the same, and the four team members take turns to dunk, and the judges score. Each judge gives a player a full score of 10 points for a dunk, and the maximum score given by the five judges is up to 50 points, which is often referred to as "perfection".

Two dunks in the first round, with a single player scoring a maximum of 100 points and a minimum of 60 points. If the dunk fails, there is a chance to make a dunk, but the ball that has already been dunked cannot be dunked again, and the judges' powers end here.

Starting this season, the judges in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest only have the power to decide who will make the finalists. After entering the final finals, the player with the lowest score in the first round will play first, and the two will take turns to dunk, and after completing the two actions respectively, fans can finally decide the championship through mobile phone text messages and voting on the NBA official website. In other words, in the final, the judges' votes are no different from the fans' votes.

The referees of this year's slam dunk contest are star-studded, and the five judges are Flyer Jordan, Dr. J Irving, Kobe Bryant, Malone, Wilkins, except for Malone, the other four people have won the dunk king. Although Malone has not won the dunk king, he was also a brave dunk player in the early part of his career, and there is no pressure to be a judge of the dunk contest.

The first to play was Moon who had been on the Harlem basketball team, and the first dunk really released a peaceful light like the name "Moon", after he started running on the right wing, he first threw the ball and smashed the ground and then received the rebound ball and turned to dunk, his action was very stretched, like the moonlight shining on the earth, but the difficulty was not very great, at least for the five judges, this dunk was really decent, and finally scored 46 points, only Dr. J gave him a perfect score.

Jordan looked at Irving's perfect score and smiled: "This score really surprised me, you know, I feel like I can do such a move even if I take off my suit and play now." ”

Owen shrugged, "I just think this kid needs encouragement." ”

Moon is not easy, and it is a miracle for him to be able to establish himself in the NBA, and his career experiences combined can be written in a novel.

The second appearance was the Monster, Howard stood behind the rebound, he hit the ball on the back of the rebound first, and then immediately jumped in the air and stretched his arm behind the rebound to dunk with one arm. However, he didn't succeed the first time, and after thinking about it, he gave up his previous plan, and the second time he took a steady approach, his head stuck behind the rebound, and he stretched out his long arm to dunk the ball.

The idea of this ball was good, Jordan and others applauded, and they all gave him a top 10 points, and Howard got the first perfect score.

Chamberlain was the third to play, and the moment he got the ball, the Chinese fans in the stadium began to cheer like boiling water. At the heart of the sound, Chamberlain raised his hand high, pointed at the fans and gave a thumbs up, and then slowly dribbled forward with the ball ugly and clumsily.

There is no doubt that Chamberlain is indeed not very skilled with the ball now, but compared to the average interior player, this is already very good, and four months of hard work is not in vain. But for fans who have just watched the Skills Challenge, this dribbling position is obviously ugly.

Seeing Chamberlain's dribbling posture, Malone smiled and said to a few friends: "If his dunk is as bad as his dribbling, then should we sympathize with this international compatriot and try not to give him zero points?" ”

Kobe Bryant shook his head and smiled: "No, I'm going to give him zero points, you don't stop me, I have to get revenge on him, this guy has beaten me three times, this bastard!" ”

The referee's words had no effect on Chamberlain, he walked into the three-point line, put away the ball, leaned over, and accelerated directly to the peak like a cheetah and rushed out.

In direct contrast to the previous slow motion, Chamberlain was so fast when he ran forward that the fans felt that they lost the shadow of Chamberlain.

Striding into the basket, Chamberlain's legs were bending downward, and his body soared into the air like a dragon out of the sea, and his body jumped so high as if he was about to break through the roof of the gymnasium and fly.

It only took half a second for Chamberlain's eyes to be at the level of the hoop, and just when everyone thought he was going to dunk, he was still rising!

His lips were level with the hoop, and Chamberlain's head leaned lightly against the hoop and kissed the hoop with his lips. Then he pulled his body back, and his slender and powerful legs bent back to form a perfect strong bow, and he used the basketball in his hand as a sharp arrow, and dunked the ball into the hoop fiercely and gracefully.

At the same time, Chamberlain tore his hands the hoop and pushed his powerful waist forward, so that his declining body gained a stagnant gap. The gap was as short as a hundredth of a second, but it was enough to get it, and he leaned his head up again and kissed the hoop with his lips!

After landing, many fans who were far away did not know what was happening in the road, and they hurriedly raised their heads to look at the big screen above the stadium.

When everything was parsed in slow motion, a brief silence was followed by a tsunami-like shout, and almost all the fans held up their scoreboards, and they all held up '10' points.

Jordan stood up with applause, he raised the scoreboard in his hand, and naturally gave a ten, Kobe Bryant followed closely and also gave ten points, Irving and Wilkins had nothing to say, and also gave ten points, but Malone, who was the last to score, gave Chamberlain nine points.

Seeing Malone's scoreboard, Chamberlain almost scolded angrily, fucking it seems that the hatred between him and Jazz is over to death, and the elite of this dog day is still stuck with him.

Not only Chamberlain, seeing Malone give nine points, the fans at the scene booed fiercely, and nearly 10,000 fans gave him a middle finger.

Chamberlain looked indifferent but greeted the whole Malone family in his heart, Howard stood beside him with a smile and stretched out a dark finger and said, "Almost, boy, you almost have the same score as me." ”

Chamberlain pouted, "That's a shame." ”

Howard was depressed, and he exclaimed, "Isn't it a shame that your score is lower than mine?" ”

Chamberlain shrugged indifferently and said, "What's so shameful about this? I'm definitely the dunk king anyway. ”

The first round finale was played by defending champion Gerald Green, who just celebrated his 21st birthday on the 26th of last month, and this appearance also came with the help of a birthday cake - he lit a candle and placed it on the neck of the basket, a teammate smashed the ball to the ground behind the basket, Green caught the ball with both arms and dunked it while blowing out the birthday candle.

It's a good dunk idea, and it fits in well with the founding purpose of the All-Star Game, which is to have fun with the people. It's just that Chamberlain's double-kiss frame dunk is in front of Zhuyu, and the famous referees don't appreciate it very much, and they don't give a full score according to the applause of the audience, but only give 45 points - Malone gave a perfect score, but Jordan only gave 8 points.

According to the rules of the slam dunk contest, defending champion Green was the first to play in the second round, because he scored the lowest score in the first round at 45 points.

This time his dunk was quite creative, he found a partner to sit on an elevated frame in front of the rebound, when Green started and threw the ball over the basket, so that Green jumped up and caught the ball and dunked the ball in a big windmill action, but the referees seemed to be determined to deal with him today, and only gave him 45 points, this time even Malone didn't give him a full score.

Chamberlain hugged his arms to watch the judges score, and he whispered to Howard: "Do you know why these guys give Green such a low score?" ”

Howard shook his head, and Chamberlain pouted: "They don't want to see us juniors break too many records, who made Green the dunk king last season?" These old guys don't want to see a second reigning slam dunk champion. ”

Howard suddenly realized, nodded and said, "I think so too." ”

Chamberlain asked, "Do you really think so?" ”

Howard nodded, and then Chamberlain had a malicious smile on his face, and pulled Kidd, who was watching the game with his head cocked behind him, and said loudly: "Do you know why the judges gave Green such a low score?" Howard said it was because these old guys didn't want to see the second defending dunk king appear, they deliberately suppressed Green, and the superstar suppressed the newcomer! ”

Hearing this, Howard wanted to cry without tears, how could there be such a cheap person in the?

Kidd is a big mouth, and it will not be long before Chamberlain's words reach the ears of reporters, and then the whole world will know everything.

Howard wanted to settle accounts with Chamberlain, and as a result, Moon started to play, and Chamberlain began to prepare as the third person to appear.

In the second round, Moon made the much-talked-about "one step from the free throw line" move, first affixing a white tape to the free throw line and calling for Capono, who had just been crowned the three-point king. Capono stood under the basket with the ball, and Moon jumped empty-handed to receive Capono's pass and dunk in the air.

This slam dunk gimmick is also full of joy, but unfortunately the first time Moon did this action failed, the pass that Capono gave him made him dunk on the hoop, and Chamberlain was happy to shout in the back: "Be careful of spraining your waist!" ”

After the failure of the first move, Moon's second move was actually not really completed, on the one hand, he "jumped the line" during the jump, and the slam dunk action was not clear, so he only scored 44 points in the end, and the total score of the two rounds was 90 points, which was lower than Green's 91 points, and he was almost eliminated.

Chamberlain was the third, receiving two balls from the referees, then throwing a flying kiss at the five rating judges in the air, grabbing a ball in one hand and running to the basket.

Striding to the free throw line, Chamberlain stepped into the free throw line with his right foot half a step, roared angrily, stomped his feet on the floor, and the force penetrated his legs from the soles of his feet through his ankles, and then the wild force filled his whole body like a flood, and flew diagonally towards the hoop with him.

Facing the hoop, Chamberlain was getting closer and closer, and when the hoop was within reach, he slammed his right arm forward and smashed the ball into the hoop. Immediately, he grabbed the hoop with his right hand and tore it forward, so that his body, which had begun to fall, began to rise again.

Chamberlain's exposed arms were as muscular as rocks, and he grabbed the ball with his left hand and slashed it above his head, smashing it into the hoop again.

In the face of the tsunami-like 'slam dunk king' sound of the whole court, Kobe, Jordan and other four people happily gave 10 points, and Malone lived up to his name as a tough guy, gritted his teeth and gave another nine points, so that Chamberlain's final score was still 49 points.

Chamberlain couldn't make an indifferent expression now, he gritted his teeth and looked at Malone, secretly determined to meet the Jazz team again in the future, and they couldn't blossom if they didn't bloom.

However, after two rounds of dunks, Chamberlain outscored Moon's 91 and Green's 90 with 98 points, and he could advance to the finals no matter how Howard played.

But Howard's performance was an eye-opener for Chamberlain, and he finally began to be cautious, and Howard was eligible to compete with him for the dunk king, because this guy was not only brilliant at dunking, but also full of entertainment spirit, and before dunking he brought in a phone booth, and then changed his clothes in the phone booth and ran out wearing a superman standard suit.

Howard knows a thing or two about entertaining, and his move has earned him a huge amount of popularity, with fans shouting, "Super-man!"

Seeing this scene, the judges laughed, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, as long as the fans like Howard, the most popular dunk king must still be his.

After the monster put on the Superman cloak, he put a white tape on one step behind the free throw line — that is, the same as Moon before him — and slammed the dunk after catching the rebound, and the referee gave him another 50 points. Although Howard does not have an obvious action of touching the basket in terms of details, the bouncing effect of jumping high combined with the stretch of the red cloak is very expressive.

In this way, it was Chamberlain and Howard who finally reached the finals.