Chapter 661 Li Liang's Dunk Contest

This year's slam dunk contest follows the trend in recent years, there are no big-name players participating, and all participants are young people who want to show their skills on this stage.

A superstar in the slam dunk contest was Dwight Howard. His Superman cape and Nate Robinson's Kryptonian became the last bright memories.

Players participating this year include Plumlee, Antetokounmpo, Oladipo and Zach LaVine.

When a 7-foot white center like Plumlee comes to participate in the dunk contest, he basically just makes up the numbers and goes through the motions.

After all, in the slam dunk contest, the taller you are, the more disadvantaged you are.

For example, Howard won the slam dunk contest back then, not because of his movements, but more because of Superman's gimmicks.

The competition rules are also different from last year.

Last year, in order to carry out reforms and changes, in addition to having a competition between the East and the West, we also conducted online voting to select the slam dunk champion.

What's the point of choosing online after everyone has deducted it?

It is to give the result on the spot, strike while the iron is hot, and think that the president will be elected?

Therefore, this year's competition process has changed back to the traditional one.

The NBA has made a lot of reforms in the All-Star game system. Basically, the more changes are made, the less people will watch it. After all, what fans watch is not the rules, but the stars.

As expected, Plumlee was eliminated early, along with Antetokounmpo.

The finals became a battle between LaVine and Oladipo.

In the end, LaVine was obviously superior and won the slam dunk contest with 94 points in two dunks.

In the preliminaries, LaVine's two dunks scored 50 points, which can be said to be quite impressive.

Although LaVine is not a superstar, his performance in dunking has added a lot to the dunk contest.

Li Liang looked at the end of several competitions, thinking that by the looks of it, the slam dunk contest might have to be saved by Lao Tzu.

He thought that if he practiced hard for a while, improved his physical fitness, jumping, core strength and so on, he would be able to participate in the dunk contest one day.

If that day comes, people will definitely question how Li Liang's genes are made up.

Other people's exercise is exercise, and your exercise is evolution.

But what Li Liang didn't expect was that his first slam dunk contest would come so soon.

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After leaving the Barclays Center at the end of the game, many players were ready to enjoy the night in New York.

If the All-Star game is held in a place like New York, it will be very popular among the players, and wine and sex are always indispensable.

Similar to the World Cup, every time it is held there, the local service industry will usher in a vigorous spring breeze.

Li Liang wasn't interested, and even if he was, who asked her to bring her manager along?

It doesn't matter, anyway, I went back to the hotel to sleep, and went to find Old Bill for training in my dream.

After entering the system, click on the task and come to the training center.

Li Liang saw Bill Russell standing in the center of the field waiting for him.

But he didn't wear a jersey, nor did he wear a coach's uniform, but a suit.

Li Liang was very surprised, "Are we going to do any strange training today?"

Russell stepped forward and said, "Bruce, do you think your abilities are increasing too slowly?"

Li Liang thought, damn it, you all know this, did the system read your mind?

It's normal to think about it, this black technology system is attached to him, not to mention mind reading, he probably has already built a large database belonging to him, and he even knows how many milliliters of fart he farts every day.

"Yeah, that's what I think, Bill, can you...don't be so cruel?"

Li Liang is not a center after all, and although Russell was a center in the 1960s, his physical fitness is really at a historical level.

Even if he is translated to the current NBA in the 1960s, he will be a very good defensive center.

The point is that Russell is really smart, and he has seen through some of Li Liang's tricks.

Seeing what Li Liang said, Russell smiled and said, "Today is a good opportunity to increase your ability with one. I wonder if you dare to accept this challenge."

Li Liangdao: "Tch, I don't dare to do anything, it's just a task."

Russell nodded and said, "Then you accept the next task, then get ready."

[Task: The first slam dunk king, time: January 28, 1984, location: McNichols Gymnasium in Denver, USA, task requirements: replace Julius Erving on the stage, and win the first NBA slam dunk contest in 1984 Laurels, task rewards: +10 for attacking/dunking ability, +10 for countering/dunking ability, task difficulty: normal. 】

Li Liang was dumbfounded when he saw it, and asked him to participate in the slam dunk contest?

Before he could react, the scene around him changed from the training hall to the red floor of Denver's McNichols Gymnasium. The surrounding noise was deafening.

To be honest, the NBA game scene in the 1980s was much noisier than the current NBA.

Because before Stern started to "gentrify" in 1984, basketball was still a street and working-class sport, much like football.

In football-crazed countries like the UK, football is for the working class, and the middle and upper classes should watch tennis and equestrian.

The same is true of NBA basketball at the beginning. The earliest prototype of basketball league was played among factories and enterprises.

It’s just that in the 1980s, there was a division of development, and basketball and football were commercialized, but football still maintained a rougher nature because of its huge size, inertia, and extremely scattered competition.

The NBA in the United States has become more refined and heavy-duty, relatively speaking, it has lost a lot of wild and primitive atmosphere.

Li Liang fully experienced this wildness during the mission, and this feeling of coming to the McNichols Gymnasium was reinfused into the physical senses.

This was the last All-Star game before the Stern era.

After Stern's arrival, NBA basketball will be tied to the cart of commercialization, marketing and globalization, and will be killed on the road of expansion.

The All-Star Game is one of the most important weapons for commercialization.

Before Stern came, the NBA's All-Stars were actually dying.

The players didn't like it, the fans didn't like it, and this slam dunk contest is one of the few decisions that can turn the situation around-of course, this venture was also copied from the ABA.

The ABA held its first slam dunk contest in Denver in 1976.

The player who won the championship at that time was Dr. J, Julius Erving.

After 8 years, Irving's iconic afro has become a simple crew cut.

The great first-generation flying man in the history of professional basketball is already at the end of his career.

And his participation in the dunk contest is highly anticipated. Even if he is 34 years old this year, Irving can still fly.

It's just a pity that in the final of the slam dunk contest, he only scored 25 points because of the flying second dunk. It is a pity that he lost the game and did not win the slam dunk contest.

It can only be said that the rules of the slam dunk contest at that time were too rigid, only one success was allowed, and multiple attempts were not allowed.

Otherwise, according to the later rules, like Nate Robinson who can count even a dozen times and get the feeling, Irving has already won the championship.

And Li Liang's mission this time is to ensure that Owen gets the much-anticipated champion.

But Owen can fly, can you Li Liang fly?

Li Liang observed himself and found that he already had Owen's body!

That is to say, he is equivalent to manipulating Irving to participate in the game.

Fortunately, this system is quite smart. I know that if I go directly to Li Liang, I probably won't be able to pass the preliminaries.

It doesn't matter, since I have Irving's dunking ability, it's up to Li Liang how to dunk and how to dunk in a variety of ways.

For Li Liang, who has the memory of the slam dunk contest in later generations, this is really a piece of cake.

Besides, Irving only made a mistake once. If he didn't make a mistake, he would have won that championship.

"Are you all ready? Okay, come on, first, Cooper..."

The referees on the sidelines began to let the players take turns to appear on the field for the preliminaries.