An Unbreakable Record

Bill Simmons was genuinely stunned. No matter how he calculated it, he had never expected Link to actually enter the Slam Dunk Contest!

From the very beginning, he had called Link a coward over this. As a die-hard fan who had gone to games with his father since childhood, Simmons knew the NBA inside out. He believed that in this day and age, no established superstar would dare take the risk of entering the Slam Dunk Contest.

Yet Link's decision came as a huge shock to Simmons.

What level of star was Link? Before the season had even reached its halfway point, Link had already amassed a long list of honors.

Number one on the new season's Top 50 Players list, the league's longest season-opening winning streak, three Player of the Week awards, two Player of the Month awards, the fifth player in history to record a triple-double in the Christmas Day Games...

The regular season was not even halfway over, yet Link's accomplishments already made for quite a list. By the time the season ended, that list would undoubtedly be much longer.

And this was precisely the kind of accomplished, famous player who had chosen to enter the Slam Dunk Contest!

Link's courage far exceeded Bill Simmons's imagination.

Now, Bill Simmons had no choice but to seriously consider one question: "What if Link really wins the Slam Dunk Contest? Am I really going to have to wear women's clothes!?"

Simmons was, after all, one of the most outstanding sports columnists in America and even the world. He was someone with a reputation to uphold. If he really had to wear women's clothes in front of everyone, it would be unbearably humiliating!

Simmons only wanted to slap himself now. He had been the one to propose wearing women's clothes as