After his sweet trip through the New Orleans French Quarter came to an end, Link called for his driver to pick him up. But instead of heading straight back to the hotel, he went to a local high school gym.
The moment Link walked through the gym doors, he spotted a skinny young man with a head of silver hair warming up.
Seeing Link enter, the man put down the basketball and greeted him.
"Nervous, Link? The competition's about to start."
"With you here, everyone else should be the ones feeling nervous. How's New Orleans? Pretty distinctive, isn't it?"
Link smiled and hugged the silver-haired young man. It was obvious that Link was much taller than the guy in front of him. A 2.03-meter basketball superstar naturally looked enormous next to an "ordinary person" who stood 1.85 meters tall.
Yet it was hard to imagine that a guy who was only 1.85 meters tall—just two centimeters taller than Chris Paul—could actually become Link's dunk choreographer.
This was the incredible Jordan Kilganon, a professional dunker, a man who had broken free of gravity itself.
That was right: a professional dunker. Strictly speaking, Jordan Kilganon was not a professional basketball player, because he hardly ever played games. In his own words, "Playing games drains too much of my energy and keeps me from focusing."
But how could someone who did not play basketball games make a name for himself in the basketball world? Through dunking!
All of Kilganon's training and performances focused solely on dunking. He trained six to nine hours every day, and nearly all of it revolved around dunks.
He did not need to practice dribbling, memorize hundreds or thousands of plays, or worry about his shooting accuracy. Every bit of his energy went into dunking.
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