Chapter 205 The Finals Begin

The finals were about to begin. Because the two had the same score in the preliminaries, their order of appearance was the same as in the preliminaries.

LaVine would dunk first, Tang Tian would follow.

LaVine's expression was still incredibly relaxed.

Although Tang Tian's performance tonight had far exceeded his expectations, he was still confident.

In the realm of dunking, he was at the very peak.

The expectation in the eyes of the fans at the scene was also very high.

The dunks in the preliminaries had already whetted their appetites, and the finals would only be more exciting than that.

"I'm wondering if they're going to start dunking from the three-point line."

Barkley was also stirring up the emotions of the television audience from the commentary booth.

The fans on the hotline were also quite lively, discussing the topic.

"Kuroko's Basketball," the Japanese anime, was also frequently mentioned, with Kagami Taiga's "air walk" being a dunk starting from the three-point line.

However, these discussions soon stopped because LaVine was about to start his dunk.

For his first dunk in the finals, he changed his starting position again, neither from the side nor the front, but chose behind the basket.

Moreover, it was a move with a toss.

In a dunk contest, the move with a toss is directly one level more difficult because it is related to the strength of the toss and the height of the ball after it bounces.

The ball was thrown, landing one step away from the baseline.

The ball bounced up, and LaVine ran out as well.

The ball was tossed a little low, but after LaVine caught the ball, he jumped into the air and flew to the backboard, directly covering up this small flaw.

He also turned around while stuffing the ball between his legs.

"Boom!"

Behind-the-back toss, 360° turn, between-the-legs dunk!

A dunk with a max difficulty coefficient!

The moment the ball was dunked in, a large number of fans at the scene cheered and stood up.

LaVine's body was light, and even though he dunked such a difficult dunk, he still gave people the feeling that he still had energy to spare.

Moreover, LaVine also had a calm face after dunking. Except for when Towns came over to bump him, he smiled, but he didn't show any excitement.

This also made the fans at the scene even more excited.

Calm and composed.

LaVine's dunk was really too strong!

The pressure was all on Tang Tian's side now.

Although Tang Tian's two dunks in the preliminaries were beautiful, and although Tang Tian was very popular, the fans were still worried about him.

Strictly speaking, a dunk contest is about difficulty and aesthetics, and LaVine has both.

Moreover, that dunk just now was much more shocking than Tang Tian's two dunks in the preliminaries.

In comparison, Tang Tian's first dunk relied on creativity, and his second dunk relied on sentiment.

If he wanted to defeat LaVine in the finals, Tang Tian had to come up with an even more impressive dunk.

Tang Tian got up, attracting everyone's attention.

However, after he got up, he didn't go directly to the court, but went to the judges' table.

The audience looked curious.

When O'Neal got up and walked onto the court, the cheers at the scene were already unstoppable.

Obviously, he was going to have O'Neal as an assistant!

Speaking of the previous dunk contest, Tang Tian had also invited O'Neal to be an assistant.

At that time, for the dunk over five people, O'Neal stood in the very center.

However, this year there was only O'Neal, and no one knew what Tang Tian was up to.

After O'Neal communicated with Tang Tian, he walked to a position about one meter away from the front of the basket, lowered his head, and held the ball with both hands behind his head.

This stance and the way he held the ball had ignited the emotions of the fans again.

The difficulty of this dunk looked the same as LaVine's dunk just now, it was max level.

Compared to LaVine, Tang Tian was closer to the audience. At this moment, before the dunk, he waved to signal the fans to cheer louder.

The cheers at the scene were layered, overwhelming.

Tang Tian rushed in from beyond the three-point line.

He jumped into the air one meter away from O'Neal.

After getting up, his two feet slowly spread apart, and he flew horizontally over O'Neal's head like a hurdle.

At the highest point, his head was already above the basket.

A dunk over O'Neal, beyond the rim!

This action alone was already worth a perfect score!

But this was not the end. At the same time as flying over, Tang Tian took the ball from behind O'Neal's head with his left hand, and then did a between-the-legs switch.

When he flew to the front of the basket, he slammed the ball heavily into the basket with his right hand.

"Boom!"

The moment the ball was dunked in, the fans' cheers went up another decibel.

"50 points! 50 points!"

The audience even started chanting 50 points in unison.

The difficulty and visual impact of this ball were too great.

Tang Tian seemed to be dunking in the air!

Carter even "snatched" the 10-point牌子 (páizi, sign) from Thompson next door and stood up, holding it high.

LaVine and Tang Tian, the difficulty and viewing of the dunks were higher than the other, this was really pushing this dunk contest from classic to epic.

O'Neal laughed after being "ridden," turned around and shook hands with Tang Tian.

The Big Shark would never be dunked on, Nate Robinson secretly dunked on him once, and he chased him all over the court.

But he was dunked on by Tang Tian twice in a row, and he was still happy, it could only be said that he was a true Tang fan.

Because O'Neal was a judge, the judges gave the final score after he returned to the judges' table.

50 points, no suspense.

LaVine and Tang Tian, both scored 50 points for their first dunk in the finals.

This game might really be heading for overtime!

LaVine's second dunk.

The eyes of the fans at the scene were about to pop out.

The second dunk was even more important than the first.

LaVine finally had a trace of nervousness at this time. He took a deep breath, and then took the ball and walked to the center court position.

This position made the fans' eyes full of anticipation, could it be...

LaVine rushed in, and when he rushed into the three-point line, he took a big step forward, stepping on the free throw line and jumping into the air.

Sure enough, it was a free throw line dunk!

The free throw line is always the most impressive thing in a dunk contest.

Tang Tian had also used it when he participated in the dunk contest last time.

As long as the body is stretched out and the dunk is successful, it will definitely be a perfect score dunk.

With LaVine's body, this was also inevitable.

However, this didn't seem to be all.

After LaVine flew up, he didn't pull the ball up directly, but first down, and then swung it up in a circle.

He was... going to do a free throw line windmill!

All the fans at the scene were stunned, how was this possible!

"Boom!"

But it was possible!

LaVine completed the free throw line windmill in one go!

"God!"

Even the always calm Breen couldn't help but blurt out the two words.

"It's over, it's really over this time!"

Barkley jumped directly onto the stool and shouted at the camera.

In NBA history, there had never been a dunk that exceeded the free throw line.

But LaVine did it, he was undoubtedly the strongest dunker in NBA history!

Just like Carter back then, he had raised the difficulty and viewing of the dunk contest to a new dimension!

LaVine would be the champion of this epic dunk contest!