Slam Dunk Contest!

In 1984, the NBA "borrowed" from its now-vanished old rival, the ABA, to create an adrenaline-pumping format that has evolved several times into one of the most important events of All-Star Weekend.

Dr. J and Lary Nance's inaugural battle, a free-throw line jump-and-glide dunk that surpasses human limits; Dominique Wilkins and Jordan's feud of the century, each winning two slam dunk kings; Potato's strong outburst of Webb, Kenny Walker, De Blanc and Cebarros; Brent Barry: "White Men Can Fly"; Kobe Bryant's youngest slam dunk champion; In the end, until Vince Carter descended to earth and instantly crushed all the dunk masters throughout the ages, the dunk contest entered its heyday.

Superstars, dunks, physical performances, incredible creativity and daring, unprecedented and wonderful movements, all of these make up the final form of the slam dunk contest and make the fans addicted.

For a while, the slam dunk contest has even faintly surpassed the All-Star Game and become the top priority for fans during the All-Star Weekend.

However, after Carter, there was no dunk.

UFO's dunk beyond everyone's imagination, although the moves are not novel and chic, but it combines power, air, and beauty to the extreme. To this day, many fans who missed the grand slam dunk contest will search the Internet to find the highlights or videos of that year's slam dunk contest and relive the different shocks that Vince Carter once brought to people.

As an aside, if there is one of the most tragic contestants in the history of the Slam Dunk Contest, who would it be?

The answer may be varied, for decades, there have been many players who have participated in the slam dunk contest, and everyone will have their most impressive competition, and naturally there will be the most impressive loser.

Keel porridge personally thought. Larry Hughes definitely has what it takes to put it on this list.

Gui is the king of steals, Larry Hughes's concentration and persistence have always been criticized, the offense and defense are not a match, and the chain drop at critical moments is also one of his trademarks. The Cavaliers, who once wanted to train him to be Pippen next to LeBron, suffered a lot from him.

When it comes to dunks, it's not that Larry Hughes is bad, in fact, if you look closely at Larry Hughes's game, you can find that he is a player second only to Gasol who "has not reached the BT level of running and jumping but is extremely obsessed with dunks". With his style of the game and obsession with dunks, it's understandable to be named to any slam dunk contest, and it's no surprise that he's lucky enough to take a spot.

It's just bad luck. What he participated in was the pinnacle battle in 2000.

Larry Hughes finished sixth in that competition, so how many people did they participate? Six.

No. 5, one of the North Carolina Flyers and one of Jordan's successors, participated in the slam dunk contest in his rookie year, losing to Brent Barry and Mike Finley. He won the 1993 McDonald's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest and was still in North Carolina in February 1995 against his old rival Duke Blues. made a shocking "mid-air dodge two-man block backhand dunk", and this dunk was voted the best dunk in North Carolina history.

Yes, you read that right, the best dunk in North Carolina history is not MJ. Not VC, but Steakhouse Starkerhouse.

4th place, tenderloin...... Ricky Davis, the egoist who was separated by Nash's brutal rage in the ring. throwing a triple-double to his own rebounds, and "LeBron is a good helper found by the boss to assist me" and other embarrassing things, not to mention in dunk kung fu. Davis doesn't lose to any slam dunk master.

The third place, the righteous Bo Yuntian boss Francis, who is familiar to Chinese fans, the king of vertical jumps, has a terrifying jumping power of 110 cm, which is enough to go down in history as a tomahawk dunk master, so there is no need to introduce more.

The second place, also the superstar Maddy who is also loved by Chinese fans, not to mention it.

The first place is naturally the peak of the world and dunk - Vince Carter.

Yes, Larry Hughes participated in one of the most under-the-radar backgrounds in history when he participated in a slam dunk contest that would make anyone who saw the list and scold "X you X".

Now searching for the video highlights of the 2000 slam dunk contest, unless it is Carter's solo show, otherwise, many videos will appear in Maddie's "receiving my cousin's pass and the two-handed windmill in the air", Francis's "I fly a little higher, and no one will see me", Ricky Davis's "I'm here to make up the numbers, but I'm serious", and even occasionally there will be a wonderful preliminary dunk screen from Stark House.

What about Larry Hughes?

Not at all.

On the basketball court, what is a tragedy? Become a background? Fenced? Shot in the face? Unguarded fast-break layups don't score?

NONO, LARRY HUGHES TELLS YOU THAT THE REAL TRAGEDY IS THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW HE SIGNED UP FOR ONE OF THE MOST BRUTAL AND GREATEST DUNK CONTESTS IN HISTORY......

Back to the point.

"Andrey, show it off! Keep your mind calm! ”

Chen Mu and his teammates and coaches cheered for Iguodala on the sidelines, and according to the agreement, Chen Mu and Iguodala cooperated with him in the second deduction of the preliminary round, playing a less physically demanding, but relatively novel trick.

And if Iguodala successfully enters the final, Chen Mu will go on the court again to cooperate with him for the second time and challenge Iguodala's physical limits.

The 2007 Slam Dunk Contest was a rule change because the last edition of the last edition Potato Robinson lost a lot of time and expression by missing seven consecutive dunks. Two deductions were completed within two minutes in the preliminary round, and the two with the highest total score entered the finals.

The first to take the field was Gerard Green.

The audience held his breath, and the nine-finger dunk jumped from the right side, received the rebound ball from his teammates smashing the frame of the board, and wrapped the ball around the right side of his body in the air, gliding and dunking successfully.

"48 points!"

The referee quickly scored, someone deducted a high score on the first ball, and the fans cheered, it seems that not only the three-point contest, but also this year's slam dunk contest is also full of good players!

Green dunked the second dunk, arranged the opponent Robinson under the basket to cooperate, sprinted and jumped over Robinson head-on, and covered his eyes with one hand and dunked it. This time the move won the full house again, but Robinson was shorter, and in the end Green failed to get a perfect score, 47 points are also good, a total of 95 points, and the finalization is almost certain.

"Excellent flexibility and aerial ability!" A veteran like Barkley, who has experienced strong winds and waves, also nodded frequently. He complimented: "Gerard Green played quite well, I'm afraid the defending champions will be under a bit of pressure!" ”

The second to play was Howard, who, as a center, struggled to compete with the small guys in terms of aerial visuals, and even if he had a fairly BT vertical jump ability, he also suffered a loss of height. In a half, the right side of the run was very strong, but unfortunately it lacked creativity and only scored 43 points. The judges' scores made "Superman" smile wryly, who made the slam dunk contest for so many years, and the creativity has been almost exhausted. Everyone's aesthetic fatigue is it!

The second dunk is more controversial, Howard's teammate Nelson passed an empty assist, Howard jumped and dunked with one hand, but the other hand slapped the basket, at first glance it seems nothing special, and there is no difference from the dunk in the official game, the audience is not interested, and the judges also shook their heads and just wanted to score. As soon as the TV camera followed, the audience suddenly erupted in cheers.

I saw that the rebound was high, close to the upper edge, and a big head sticker with Howard's signature smile appeared!

Teammate Nelson immediately brought a ruler and tried to get everyone's attention while gesturing. As soon as the camera lens was pushed, everyone suddenly realized:

This Howard, while dunking, put his own big head sticker at the extreme height!

Many fans began to call for high scores. This action is not difficult, but it shows Howard's terrifying ability to take off, and the idea is quite novel. It is worth giving some encouragement on the score. It's a pity that the judges don't seem to be too interested in this kind of behavior, and the score given is even worse than the first deduction, 42 points, a total of 85 points in the two rounds, and Howard's place in the finals is in jeopardy.

Next, it's Iguodala.

"Don't make a mistake in the first button, there's not enough time, I can't jump, I don't care if the second buckle doesn't work~"

Chen Mu had already come to the sidelines to prepare, and Iguodala had a laughing quarrel for a while, and the Philadelphia dunk general made an OK gesture and started to perform with the ball.

Starting at the top of the arc, jumping in a big step inside the free throw line, and pulling the lever slightly with both hands in 360 turns, Iguodala's first move is relatively safe, not super difficult, and there is not much new. Fortunately, with Howard's first dunk in front, the judges were still impressed by Iguodala's superhuman physique.

Looking at the replay again, the advantage of Iguodala's body flexibility is fully revealed, and the air posture is not as powerful as that of his predecessor Carter, but it looks chic and elegant, especially the small lever after the turn, under the slow-motion replay, it is like "Eh, I accidentally jumped too high, it's really not difficult to buckle directly, just add a move to yourself in the air and then buckle", the fans cheered, and the judges were also very face-saving, and finally scored 9 points, 45 points, but not lost.

"Chen, ready!"

The first button worked well, Iguodala's confidence increased, and Chen Mu looked at each other, and the two came to the court together.

Seeing Chen Mu on the field, the fans were stunned, and then many fans laughed out loud, only to think that Iguodala chose to help for the sake of brotherhood.

Historically, most of the dunk helpers in the dunk contest have been based on their own team's point guards or outside cores, why? Because the outside players generally have good passing skills, they don't steal the spotlight when they cooperate.

In the last slam dunk contest, Iguodala cooperated with Iverson, even Iverson, who was falsely criticized as a "cancer", his passing skills were also the top of the top, and the pass after the rebound was just right, Iguodala received smoothly and stretched the dunk.

In the current basketball circle, everyone knows that Iguodala and Chen Mu have the best relationship, but the helpers of the slam dunk contest? No matter how good Chen Mu's passing is, he is also a big forward, how can he compare with the old point guard Miller?

"Called ...... Chen? What kind of calculation is Andre playing?? ”

Even Chen Mu's brainless fan Barkley couldn't understand this play, and shook his head again and again: "Passing kung fu, Miller is a cut above Chen anyway, he used to be the king of assists, why didn't Andre let Miller help?" ”

"Over here, over here in a moment."

The fans in the stadium continued to talk about it, all whispering suspicions, but on the court, Chen Mu and Iguodala confirmed their positions as if no one was around, and they didn't care about everyone's opinions.

"The first point is here, and then you take the ball from here and do the X cross."

Iguodala repeatedly confirmed with Chen Mu until Chen Mu nodded heavily, stretched out his finger and pointed to the little time left before giving up, holding the ball and walking outside. This lengthy preparation and confirmation made fans even more suspicious, what are these two young people doing?

"X cross? What the hell is this? Kenny Smith heard the conversation between Chen Mu and Iguodala from the headset returned, and asked puzzledly, "Charles, have you ever heard of this kind of thing?" ”

"Never." Barkley immediately shook his head in denial.

"Alright, here we go!"

Chen Mu stood near the three-second zone, facing Iguodala, he actually put on a one-on-one heads-up defensive posture, in the noise of the fans, Iguodala began to dribble, and sprinted to the bottom line with an acceleration.

This move made Barkley even more dumbfounded, his fat head shook desperately, and he said in surprise: "Defense...... Defend?! These two imps are not mistaken, right?! It's a slam dunk contest, and they're actually playing one-on-one bullfights here?!! (To be continued......)