Pierce stayed in the hotel for two days to rest, and finally came out today and accompanied Zhang Hao to participate in the dunk contest! This morning, I had to find a park with Zhang Hao to practice and cooperate.

He swears to his mother that he will definitely stand on the final stage of the slam dunk contest, and Pierce said he did it!

If you practice cooperation, you will definitely not be able to go to the Great Western Forum Arena. When Zhang Hao and Pierce finished breakfast and went out to find the park to practice cooperation, they saw Ricky Davis in the park closest to the hotel. When the other party saw that they were coming, they stopped practicing immediately.

They don't want their opponents to know in advance how they will detain them.

Simply, the two chose to go back to school to practice.

The practice process was very simple and it ended quickly, so simple that Pierce couldn't help complaining: "I have so few scenes? Just stand there? Can't design more movements for me..."

Seeing Pierce turning on the chatterbox mode again, Zhang Hao complained: "Why do you want to pass the ball with a 360-degree spin in the air? "

Pierce felt that his young mind was stabbed: "If I could jump up and turn around 360 degrees and pass the ball in place, can't I participate in the dunk contest myself?"

Pierce felt that Zhang Hao's blackness was getting worse and worse, and the frequency of inserting the knife increased sharply! I remember that I only used one knife occasionally, but now I have several knifes every day!

I didn’t do much training and I had to save my energy today. In the final of the slam dunk contest at night, if I had the chance to enter the second round, that is, the decisive game, then at least 4 high-difficulty dunks were destined, and 6 to 3 was not that easy.

If it were Zhang Hao, who was originally not interested in the dunk contest, and only knew that he was good at bounce, but he didn't know how good it was. But now he knew that his bounce was top-notch, and there were so many dunk movements available... Of course, he had to accumulate his energy and work hard, and it wouldn't be so good if he didn't have to do this day of training.

I went to the billiards room near the school to play black 8 and spent the time. At noon, Zhang Hao and Pierce were about to find a place to eat two burgers, and happened to meet April Clark who came out for lunch after school at noon.

After saying hello, April Clark said enviously: "I really envy you, Paul, you were admitted to the University of Kansas, Aix, you are very simple to go to college... I still have to review the exam for next month."

"Didn't you say you want to learn how to repair a car?" Zhang Hao asked, and then said poorly: "Beautiful auto repairman, I have money and I specially buy a car and ask you to repair it."

April Clark laughed when he heard Zhang Hao's words and replied: "I also want to go to junior college and can earn money early, but my mother wants me to learn dramas and try to see if I can get into USC."

"You are so beautiful, I will definitely buy tickets to support you when you perform a drama... Can you also perform a drama?"

"Aix, I have performed the school drama! I also invited you to watch it, did you go to train or not!"

“…Haha, April, the weather is good today.”

"Yes, it's pretty good. It's raining since the morning."

"Will you watch the evening slam dunk contest? If you come, I will let the club take you to the sidelines."

"Of course I have to go to your game..."

Pierce next to him watched Zhang Hao chatting with the beautiful tennis girl at school so excitedly. She felt like a light bulb and couldn't insert it. She felt extremely sad inside... Isn't it a little thinner than him, and isn't it a little more handsome than him? If she is a little cheerful, there will be a girl around her?

This world that depends on your face! It’s full of malice!

...

...

On April 28, 1995, the match day of the McDonald's High School Student All-Star Dunk Contest was here.

Events like the slam dunk competition will always receive more attention than other competitions. McDonald's put it in the finale position, and it will be further behind the high school student All-Star Game. It has been focusing on this event from the beginning, and it has started to promote it since the end of January after the high school student leagues in various states ended.

Up to now, the attention across the United States has been quite high. Most of the first round of NBA series have not been as high as that among the various communities.

After Carter and Zhang Hao's dunks were edited into the sports news of CNN, many people across the United States knew about Carter, a high school student, and Zhang Hao also attracted the attention of many people.

Especially in the Chinese community, Zhang Hao's popularity has increased greatly!

The Lakers have no games today. They just got the home advantage from Seattle and returned to Los Angeles. When they didn't have a game, they didn't train in the stadium. Their home stadium has business almost every day. Except for their games, they have to rent out most of the time. They have long been used to it.

However, in the afternoon, many Lakers players came to the Great Western Conference Forum Arena to see the contestants of tonight's slam dunk contest.

Zhang Hao and Pierce came to the Great Western Forum Arena with their school teammates at around 3:00 pm. Before them, some students from Inglewood High School had arrived first. McDonald's did not play with the ticket sales set, so they couldn't sell much. Compared with the publicity costs they invested, they couldn't make much money. It was even more embarrassing to sell them. So they gave tickets to those students, and they also gave tickets to their stores. Students from famous high schools in Los Angeles such as Inglewood High School and Southern California High School can basically get tickets as long as they sign up in advance.

"Pure charity" is also a gimmick created by McDonald's.

This time when he came to the Great Western Forum Arena, Zhang Hao was actually invited to be interviewed!

The treatment is obviously very different from the selection competition!

However, the interview was a group interview. Six players who participated in the slam dunk contest were interviewed together and asked some questions that were both salty and unpretentious. The answer was also because everyone's personality was different. For example, Ricky Davis and Desmond Mason were very direct, while Carter could see more or less a talent for a person's talent. Although he looked down on the other four opponents except Zhang Hao, he spoke very well.

However, Zhang Hao was very straightforward: "I want to win first place."

This surprised several media reporters who interviewed were very surprised. In the media industry, everyone needs contact. As China becomes increasingly powerful, the United States began its first trade suppression and economic sanctions against China after the Cold War... Chinese students, Chinese actors, and Chinese athletes have contact. Their inherent impression of the Chinese is - implicitness.

Other players who have not had such rich experience do not think there is anything wrong with Zhang Hao. Zhang Hao's dunk on the day of the selection match was qualified to say that he would compete for the championship, but the media did find it unexpected.

It seems that this Chinese player is a little different from other Chinese athletes!

When Zhang Hao got the feedback he wanted from the reporter, he nodded silently in his heart. This is what he wanted.

The character design needs to be established. After entering the 1990s, there were too many international students in China. He had to show something different from other domestic athletes. Maybe this interview had little influence. He was just a small role in the group interview, but the character setting was well established and he had made plans for the future.

However, Zhang Hao was not asked a few questions in this interview, but was still skipped. After all, this event is mainly a publicity event in the United States, and the people pay more attention to it is of course American high school students.

After the group interview, each participating player was called by McDonald's to record a short video of self-introduction. In just half a minute, a sentence of self-introduction, a few poses to take photos, or a dunk. Since Zhang Hao's slam dunk was very beautiful in the selection competition, the subsequent pose or dunk movement was eliminated, and the dunk that was then placed directly.

The main thing is to take a self-introduction sentence, you can follow the template given, or you can do it yourself. Of course, McDonald's thinks it's okay.

Zhang Hao originally planned to say it according to the template, but McDonald's asked Zhang Hao to introduce it in Chinese and give subtitles at that time... This surprised Zhang Hao a little. Suddenly, Zhang Hao had a light of inspiration and said according to his own ideas.

McDonald's was still very cautious in the period when Sino-US relations declined rapidly after the Cold War. During the shooting, he specially found a Chinese employee. He heard what Zhang Hao said, and ended this simple recording.

...

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Zhang Hao and 11 other players who were going to play tonight and the cooperation partners of 6 players participating in the slam dunk contest entered the stadium of the Great Western Forum Arena.

Looking at the scene, there were more than 17,000 spectators, except for the sidelines, the school leaders, and some celebrities... All the spectators behind the front row were wearing T-shirts given by McDonald's, which was also one of the conditions for watching the game for free.

So many viewers don’t charge money and even put on T-shirts... Zhang Hao felt McDonald’s wealth.

With so many viewers... Zhang Hao felt a little bored.

It turned out that the feeling of playing the game under the gaze of so many spectators actually made him excited!

Looking at the cameramen at several passages of the stadium, Zhang Hao realized that the whole American live broadcast began!

Zhang Hao tried hard to calm himself down, and at this time he had to calm down. He dunked his well-trained slam dunk. He was just a person who could live a little more than a year. His core goal tonight should be to deduct a full-point slam dunk.

First, the live atmosphere guided performance. McDonald's invited two people to talk about talk show announcements. At 7:40 pm, the live broadcast signal from CNTV was connected, and the host on the court began to say advertising slogans to promote McDonald's...

The first thing to start was the three-point competition, this... Zhang Hao felt that Carter could win the championship directly, and the level of several participating players was probably acceptable, and Pierce was not inferior to them at all.

The first three-pointers are not so valued these days, especially at the NBA playoffs. Now it is at the climax of the iron-blooded era set off by Pat Riley. Three-pointers don’t work in the NBA playoffs, so the attention is naturally low. Not to mention high school students, college students don’t have many special training in three-point shooting.

Half an hour passed, and after watching the audience, they were dozing off and impatient, the three-point contest champion was finally released, won by Michael Dickson, a 19-year-old senior high school student at Washington Federal High School in Seattle.

After the simple award ceremony of the three-point competition, the style of painting became obviously different!

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Chapter completed!