One Year Left to Play-Chapter 39 - 12: Champion!
years old, 193 cm, 85 kg, with such a physique, even his jumping could dominate in the NBA, but age and physical condition still limit too much.
The dunk just now was the most challenging and visually appealing dunk he could perform.
If this dunk can’t even surpass Zhang Hao... Carter is also quite helpless, this opponent is too strong!
Zhang Hao came onto the court, Carter’s dunk just now put a lot of pressure on him!
You can clearly see the shadow of the future dunking God!
Amidst the cheers of the live audience, Zhang Hao retreated to the midcourt and began to accelerate his sprint!
At this point, the audience’s cheers stopped, gradually becoming silent, afraid of affecting Zhang Hao’s dunk on the court.
Zhang Hao rushed to the three-point line to grab the ball, took a small step with his right foot, heavily stepped out with his left foot, his left heel just barely touching the free throw line, and jumped with all his might!
In the air, Zhang Hao did his best to lean his body forward, stretch out his limbs, transferred the ball from his right hand to his left hand, then moved it under his right leg back to his right hand as he began to descend, and slammed the ball towards the hoop... It went in!
The audience, who had been holding their breath for a few seconds, immediately erupted in wild cheers!
A few judges stood up, Julius Erving directly slapped the table, muttering "Oh my god," he really regretted that if these two had been born ten years earlier, they might have faced off in the NBA dunk contest, he really wanted to compete against these two and was looking forward to their complete body growth dunk performance after four or five years.
However, thinking of this, Julius Erving couldn’t help but smile, getting into the NBA, how could it be so easy?
The few Lakers players present tonight, even the weakest one among them, during high school might not have been weaker than the strongest high schooler on the scene.
Any NBA player was the strongest player in their city during high school or college, at most having peers of equal strength.
Desmond Mason, on the other side, looked at Zhang Hao hugging a slender and pretty female classmate, and was ridiculously envious, jealous, and hateful!
Carter stood with his hands on his hips, shaking his head helplessly. This dunk, why didn’t he think of trying it?
This guy’s performance on the free throw line really outshone Carter’s windmill!
Another round of 10s!
Next up was Desmond Mason, he had no expectations, threw the ball against the hoop and dunked it on the rebound, scoring 42 points.
For Carter’s last shot, another windmill, a bilaterally rotated 270-degree windmill jump, but although it was beautiful, it was identical to the one from the selection, if his body were stronger, it would look better, showcasing the features of rotating different angles better, more aesthetically pleasing, but he couldn’t do it now, it looked no different from the selection dunk, and compared to the previous standing windmill, it was much worse, scoring 44!
The other four judges all gave 9 points, Julius Erving only gave 8!
It wasn’t that the dunk was bad, but it was too similar, not offering anything different.
Back on the court, Zhang Hao felt victory was in his grasp!
In the dunk duel against Carter, Zhang Hao was confident of his victory! The feeling was simply delightful!
Carter loved to showcase his jumping and core strength too much, always thinking about turns, windmills, when there were clearly more ways to be used... but maybe that’s Carter’s pride, perhaps he disdains doing more intricate moves, wanting to break the dunk limit from a singular side.
Zhang Hao thought he guessed Carter’s thinking.
But Zhang Hao was different, using whatever dunk looked good, whatever movement suited him.
Pierce made another dazzling appearance!
Pierce stood a step inside the left boundary of the three-second zone, placing the ball above his head, holding it with both hands, Zhang Hao started sprinting from outside the left boundary, leapt from half a meter behind Pierce on the left boundary!
When he reached Pierce’s head, Zhang Hao grabbed the ball with his left hand, immediately swung it under his right leg to catch it with his right hand, fully extending his body, and swung his right hand from below upward as he descended... smashing it into the basket!
A between-the-legs transfer hand double pump dunk!
Besides Julius Erving who gave a 9, the other four judges all gave 10s!
Zhang Hao’s two dunks in the decisive match, in the judges’ eyes, slightly edged out Carter!
Zhang Hao 99 points, Carter 94 points, Desmond Mason 88 points...
Champion crowned!
Hundreds of students from Inglewood High School erupted in excitement, while the other spectators also gave warm cheers and applause.
Meanwhile, on the side of Inglewood High’s arch-rival South California High School, many looked as though they’d eaten crap, faces darkened, whispering that Carter and Desmond Mason were really useless...
Looking at Zhang Hao celebrating with his teammates, Carter felt unwilling, yet there was nothing he could do.
After Zhang Hao’s free throw line between-the-legs transfer dunk succeeded on the previous attempt, Carter knew that he had lost this time! 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
This was the first time since Carter could dunk that he lost to a peer in a dunk contest, even after entering high school, he hadn’t lost, not even against physically stronger players a few years older than him in dunk contests.
This time he lost!
On Zhang Hao’s side, a subtitle appeared after the judges scored.
