As a top-ten superstar in league history, the spectacle of leaping over Shaquille always drew the fans' attention with ease.
Besides, O'Neal was not exactly someone who enjoyed being jumped over and dunked on.
Only at the All-Star Game did they get the chance to "set someone up" as their backdrop~~
Back then, Chen Xi's former teammate Diallo had pulled off something similar in the Slam Dunk Contest.
And Jaime Jaquez Jr.'s first dunk tonight was much the same.
In fact, his performance was even worse than Diallo's.
When Diallo leaped over Shaquille back then, he had also completed a one-handed cheater dunk.
Jaquez, on the other hand, merely sprinted in with the ball, leaped over Shaquille, and finished with a one-handed slam dunk.
And while he was airborne, he even used his left hand to brace himself slightly against Shaquille's back, which was an obvious deduction.
In a competition tonight whose level was clearly higher than previous All-Star Games, a dunk of this caliber might not earn the respect of all five judges.
And that was indeed the case.
The five judges gave scores of 47, 47, 45, 47, and 46.
Jaquez's first dunk ultimately scored only 46.4 points.
That was not a high score. Faced with it, Jaquez had to be under considerable pressure.
It meant his second dunk had to be spectacular enough to seize that slim chance of advancing...
The second player to appear on court was Chen's old friend, Jaylen Brown.
For his first dunk, Brown chose to pay tribute.
Starting from around the three-point line, Jaylen Brown dribbled into a quick burst, reached a spot one step inside the free-throw line, took a Two-Foot Jump, then swung the ball into a Windmill Dunk with both hands in midair before finishing with a right-handed One-handed