NBA: Yao Ming at his peak returns to his rookie season

When people get ruthless, they can even take advantage of their own people!

Yao Ming's powerful dunk left Garnett and Jermaine O'Neal straddling his legs.

I'll fucking kill you! My dignity!

Garnett completely exploded, the veins in his neck bulging. The bastard's trash talk from last time was still ringing in his ears, and it had bothered him for days.

Now they've delivered another humiliating act of crawling between someone's legs!

Seeing the murderous glint in Garnett's eyes, Yao Ming quickly raised his hand: "Kevin, I didn't mean to! Really, that shot just came out of my hand!"

"Shut up!" Garnett roared. "You just wait!"

Amidst the laughter of the entire audience, the offense and defense shifted.

The top scorers for the Western Conference team are O'Neal with 18 points, Yao Ming with 14 points, and Garnett with 12 points. As the game enters the second quarter, the others have already consciously withdrawn from the battle.

The Eastern Conference team is having a bit of trouble. The highest scorer was Iverson with 21 points, which was also the highest in the game, followed by McGrady with 18 points, and finally Jordan with 12 points.

Iverson had 9 shot attempts, while McGrady and Jordan both had 7. McGrady also attempted two three-pointers.

Jordan's shooting touch was really cold today, missing many shots at the basket.

The East team was on offense. Iverson drove to the basket and passed the ball to Jordan, who went for a layup. Iverson abandoned his fancy moves and opted for a more conservative layup.

But Marbury on the Western side seems to have gotten into some kind of madness.

He rushed up and delivered a huge block!

Yao Ming picked up the ball and launched a fast break, while Jordan, whose shot was blocked, didn't say much and turned to run and defend.

It's worth mentioning that Jordan had a really bad shooting night, but he defended exceptionally well, even in an All-Star game.

Before the game, Yao Ming introduced two national team players who briefly used acupuncture to block the pain in Jordan's knee, allowing Jordan's athletic ability to recover temporarily.

He had been guarding Marbury quite a bit anyway.

But I have to say, Marbury's emotional intelligence is really low.

This is Jordan's last game, what else could he be upset about?

Before Yao Ming could even complain, the Western Conference substituted Marbury for Bryant, and then the court became even more lively!

Kobe's opening line was: "You're as soft as an old lady, Mike, are you really that old?!"

An enraged Kobe could not tolerate Jordan becoming like this.

Miraculously, he suddenly regained his touch, coming out with two crazy inside dunks. Facing McGrady's symbolic defense, Kobe berated McGrady until his veins bulged.

Since they met when McGrady was drafted, Kobe and McGrady, two geniuses with very different personalities, unexpectedly hit it off. Kobe never trash-talked McGrady!

He's such a demanding person that he'd criticize Shaq for not training hard enough, but if it were McGrady who didn't train, Kobe might have bought him some fruit.

Friendships often defy logic, and McGrady's personality seems to share some similarities with O'Neal's.

They all have that childlike personality.

Kobe was swearing, McGrady felt hurt, and before Jordan could even unleash his full potential, McGrady started scoring like crazy!

Yao Ming looks like he's just there to retrieve the ball.

Both players had ridiculously high shooting percentages, and their scoring rate kept increasing as the game progressed!

Almost everyone else was just running back and forth.

The turning point came at the end of the second quarter, when Kobe and McGrady seemed to recover from their overexcitement, and their scoring frequency and pace slowed down.

Kobe Bryant threw out a three-pointer from outside.

DUANG!

I didn't win.

Yao Ming grabbed the rebound, and Brad Miller tried to steal it, but Yao Ming simply shook him off and slammed it home!

Trying to steal points like this during an All-Star game is clearly just a psychological tactic.

If Yao Ming can't even hold onto this ball, all his previous efforts will have been for nothing!

but!

Yao Ming overlooked the fact that the Eastern Conference team's rim was overworked for a long time in the first half of the game, and O'Neal, who didn't start, vented his frustration on the rim.

They launched a fierce attack for almost a quarter of the game.

With Yao Ming's current physique, he can unleash a powerful dunk right away.

The basketball hoop finally roared in anger.

The suspension behind the backboard collapsed completely with a strange sound.

Yao Ming was also thrown to the ground because of this accident.

The fans in the stadium screamed and roared.

The reporters were snapping photos like crazy!

This has never happened before in the history of the All-Star Game!

Of course, the person most dumbfounded right now is Yao Ming. He is well aware that since 96, the league has redefined the standards for all basketball equipment.

The reason is that O'Neal broke too many things.

While this may seem like a publicity stunt, it's actually quite unsafe for the players.

Since then, no basketball hoops in the league have ever broken.

Yao Ming currently weighs only 280 pounds, far less than his peak weight. After all, this is in pounds, not kilograms. At his peak, Yao Ming weighed approximately 300 kilograms, which translates to about 320-340 pounds.

So this basketball hoop was made with substandard materials?

Actually, he guessed correctly.

The 02-03 All-Star Game was held at the Hawks' home arena.

The stadium is indeed a new stadium.

However, the basketball hoop they used was an old-fashioned one.

Many of the Hawks' equipment from the OMNI era suffered from serious durability problems due to environmental factors, so the renovation in 99 cost a considerable amount of money.

Note that this is a large sum of money.

They don't rely entirely on sponsorships like the Spurs.

This basketball hoop was a brand new product purchased during the OMNI era. The arena was treated with brand new moisture-proofing, and it didn't have the previous problems. The Hawks wanted to save some money.

And that's how it became what it is today.

The fans were in an uproar. O'Neal almost popped his eyes out, while Yao Ming was at a loss as he got up.

Kobe was incredibly excited, letting out a lot of the breath he'd been holding in, and immediately patted Yao Ming on the shoulder: "That was fucking cool! My god, besides Shaq, you're the first person I've ever seen shatter a backboard!"

No, I didn't do it, don't talk nonsense, I won't pay you!

Yao Ming's inner thoughts are very rich.

However, the expression on the surface still looked like it was about to turn into a meme.

The game was suspended for a long time.

The Western Conference players surrounded Yao Ming, chattering excitedly, while O'Neal clutched his head, saying, "Impossible! He doesn't have that kind of strength! The new backboard is much sturdier!"

He was thinking of trying to break another one later.

Yao Ming gave a high-EQ response: "It must be because you guys dunked too much today, especially Shaq. My God, he dunked almost ten times. Of course, the basketball hoop would break down."

Kobe wanted to say, "No way."

After all, O'Neal dunks a lot every year, but I haven't seen any other basketball hoops get damaged. At this moment, O'Neal stood up excitedly: "Although you are still young, you are very sensible, Yao Ming. That's right, just like you said. Shaq's strength is absolute, but you are indeed, well, not bad either."

Young O'Neal was really awkward.

It took 10 minutes to replace the basketball hoop. The Hawks were sweating profusely as they replaced the new hoop, while their management was sweating and trying to figure out how to avoid paying the fine.

Pause back.

Yao Ming did not play because he had just fallen, and the first half ended with Kobe Bryant's airball.

The score was 55-51, with the Eastern team trailing by 4 points.