2021 All-Star Weekend will be held in Atlanta on March 8, Beijing time, the NBA recently announced the list of judges of the dunk contest, 5 judges are the past dunk contest champions, it is worth mentioning that there is also an old acquaintance of Sichuan fans in the list, he is the "Eagle King" Josh Smith who played for the Sichuan men's basketball team in the 2016-17 season.
Sichuan men's basketball team veteran "Eagle King" Josh Smith infographic
In last year's dunk contest, Wade gave Gordon the last 9 points caused great controversy, and this time the NBA selected a group of "professional" judges to score, also to ensure the fairness of the game. The five judges of the All-Star Dunk Contest were Dominique Wilkins, winner of 1985 and 1990, Albert Webb of 1986, Dee Brown of 1991, Jason Richardson of 2002 and 2003, and Josh Smith, winner of 2005. Wilkins is known as the "essence of human cinema", his dunks are extremely ornamental, he has twice won the dunk king, and is known as the originator of violent dunks. In the 1988 dunk contest, although Wilkins lost to Jordan, many media and fans believe that this is a "black curtain", which is enough to see Wilkins's strength. Little Potato Webb is the shortest dunk king in history, he is only 1 meter 7 tall, but with a surprising bounce, he dunked the basket effortlessly, and finally defeated Wilkins with a 360-degree reflexive two-handed dunk in the air, winning the 1986 dunk championship. Dee Brown was the dunk king of 1991 when he impressed fans with a blindfold dunk. Richardson was a famous dunkman in the early 2000s, and the crotch change dunk became a classic.
And Josh Smith, Chinese fans, especially Sichuan fans may be more familiar, he played for the Sichuan men's basketball team in the 2016-17 season, which is the second season after the Sichuan men's basketball team won the CBA championship in record, the original team used a combination of foreign aid was the champion Haddadi and Harris, but Harris had a broken palm in the second game of the season, and the Sichuan team facing huge performance pressure could only temporarily find Josh Smith to replace. Originally, the team and fans had high hopes for Josh Smith, thinking that he could turn the tide on the inside with his strong athleticism, and the second game of Josh Smith's arrival, the game against Guangdong cut the amazing data of 41 points, 19 rebounds and 5 blocks, but he was extremely unstable since then, he liked to shoot outside the three-point line, the shooting rate was only 29%, and the free throw shooting was as low as 48%, in the 26 games of the Sichuan team, Josh Smith averaged 30 minutes per game. He averaged 18.8 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2 blocks, 3.2 assists and 3.1 turnovers per game. In the beginning of February 2017, he was cut by the Sichuan team and replaced by foreign aid Harris, and the Sichuan team finally reached the playoffs that season.
Red Star News reporter He Pengnan
Edited by Ou Peng
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