By Dan Woike | The Athletic, 2026-02-15 01:23:33
加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德——在全明星周六之夜，你永远不知道会看到什么，尤其是当这项压轴赛事在过去十多年里一直无法吸引联盟顶级球星参加时。
你会看到一位 NBA 年轻球员职业生涯辉煌的起点，还是他未来未竟生涯中的第一个高光时刻？又或者，这仅仅是一个转瞬即逝的瞬间，成为一个关于扣篮大赛的冷知识答案，最终淹没在那些损害了这项赛事名声的平庸回忆中？
凯沙德·约翰逊 (Keshad Johnson) 凭借 2026 年扣篮大赛冠军赢得的“15 分钟名气”，在他目前仅有 257 分钟上场时间的 NBA 职业生涯中究竟处于什么地位，目前还无法定论。
约翰逊是一名落选秀，通过双向合同打拼，最终与迈阿密热火队签下了一份正式合同。在直觉穹顶球馆 (Intuit Dome) 举行的全明星周六之夜上，他以舞步跳向了冠军宝座，击败了圣安东尼奥马刺队的新秀卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant)。
“这里就像我的家一样，”出生于加州奥克兰的约翰逊说道，“这是西海岸，我们有自己的腔调，有自己的风格。我觉得自己宾至如归，所以当我看到大家、看到球迷时，这就像我的梦想成真了一样。”
“一旦你身处梦境，你就能掌控它，你可以在梦里做任何事。我觉得球迷们都支持我。我只是做了我该做的，全力以赴，发挥出自己的水平。”
然而，比赛的结局却令人扫兴。
布莱恩特需要得到 47.6 分才能获胜，但他几乎没能在 90 秒的规定时间内完成扣篮。他多次尝试胯下换手接打板空接扣篮失败。在再次失手前，他甚至还浪费宝贵时间与 NBC 评论员文斯·卡特 (Vince Carter) 交流，这迫使布莱恩特最后不得不仓促完成一个平淡无奇的扣篮，以避免得零分。
“这可能是我这辈子练得最多的扣篮了，”布莱恩特说，“我从 14 岁起就开始练这个扣篮。只是今晚运气不在我这边。但这很正常，这就是生活的一部分。”
布莱恩特的这一扣仅得到 43 分，确保了约翰逊获得胜利。
波特兰开拓者队的达米安·利拉德 (Damian Lillard) 赢得了三分大赛冠军，而由杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson)、卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns) 和阿兰·休斯顿 (Allan Houston) 组成的纽约尼克斯队赢得了投篮之星大赛 (Shooting Stars contest)。
约翰逊在整个比赛过程中努力调动气氛，在扣篮前后翩翩起舞。他在决赛开始时完成了一个胯下换手接空接扣篮，并以一个罚球线内一步的单手扣篮结束了比赛。
布莱恩特拉开了比赛序幕，他迅速穿过烟雾缭绕的球员通道登场，第一扣就完成了一个底线 360 度大风车扣篮。
约翰逊则与说唱歌手 E-40 一同出场，他飞过这位说唱歌手完成扣篮，并对着镜头摆出姿势。
布莱恩特凭借比赛中首个完美的 50 分赢得了第一轮，他那记充满力量感的空接单手大风车赢得了评委德怀特·霍华德 (Dwight Howard) 和多米尼克·威尔金斯 (Dominique Wilkins) 给出的满分。约翰逊则凭借一个底线反手扣篮锁定了决赛席位。
奥兰多新秀杰斯·理查德森 (Jase Richardson) 是两届扣篮王贾森·理查德森 (Jason Richardson)（2002 年、2003 年）的儿子，他紧随布莱恩特登场，并一次性完成了首扣：自抛自接后的双手反手大风车。作为参赛选手中身高最矮的一位，理查德森在第二次尝试 360 度空接时重重摔倒。好在他没有受伤，并最终完成了一个双手 360 度扣篮，但仍被淘汰。
洛杉矶湖人队中锋贾克森·海斯 (Jaxson Hayes) 似乎找错了起跳点，他冲过了罚球线，最后以一个简单的单手扣篮结束了首轮第一阶段。在第二扣中，海斯先是抛球并轻点球给自己，随后在完成扣篮的过程中将球从腿下绕过。这是他在第一轮得分最高的一扣，但不足以让他进入决赛。
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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Keshad Johnson soars past Carter Bryant to win underwhelming NBA Slam Dunk contest
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — You never know exactly what you’re going to see at All-Star Saturday night, particularly with the anchor event repelling the game’s best players for more than a decade.
Will you see the start of something for a young NBA player, the first highlight in the unwritten career that will follow? Or is this a one-of-one moment, the answer to a trivia question about a dunk contest that blends with the other forgettable ones that have tarnished the reputation of the event?
Where Keshad Johnson and his 15 minutes of fame from winning the 2026 Slam Dunk contest fare against a career that has spanned over 257 minutes of NBA action hasn’t yet been determined.
Johnson, an undrafted player who worked his way from a two-way deal to a standard contract with the Miami Heat, capped All-Star Saturday at Intuit Dome by dancing his way to a championship over San Antonio Spurs rookie Carter Bryant.
“This is home to me,” Johnson, an Oakland, Calif., native, said. “This is the West Coast. We’ve got a swag. We’ve got a flavor. I felt like I was at home, so when I saw everybody, saw the fans, it is like what I dreamed of.
“Once you’re in a dream, you control your dream, you can do anything in your dream. I felt like the fans were with me. I just did what I did, put my best foot forward, did what I could do.”
The ending was anticlimactic.
Bryant, needing a 47.6 to win, almost failed to make a dunk in the 90-second time period. He repeatedly missed a dunk where he attempted to put the ball between his legs before throwing himself an off-the-backboard lob. He wasted precious time talking to NBC analyst Vince Carter before missing again, forcing Bryant to rush a final underwhelming dunk to avoid being shutout.
“That’s probably the dunk I did the most out of all the dunks I did today in my life,” Bryant said. “I’ve been doing that dunk since I was 14 years old. Just, the ball didn’t roll my way tonight. No, but it happens. It’s a part of life.”
Bryant’s dunk scored just 43 points, securing Johnson the win.
The Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard won the 3-point contest, and the New York Knicks team of Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and Allan Houston won the Shooting Stars contest.
Johnson tried to bring energy throughout the contest, dancing before and after his dunks. He put the ball between his legs off a lob to start the finals and capped his competition with a one-handed slam from inside the free-throw line.
Bryant opened the contest, quickly entering the floor through the smoky locker room tunnel and connecting on his first dunk, a baseline 360-degree windmill dunk.
Johnson hit the court with rapper E-40, jumping and dunking over the rapper while posing for the cameras.
Bryant won the first round with the first perfect 50s of the contest, his powerful lob and one-handed windmill earning 50-point scores from Dwight Howard and Dominique Wilkins. Johnson cemented his spot in the finals with a baseline reverse dunk.
Orlando rookie Jase Richardson, the son of two-time dunk champ Jason Richardson (2002, 2003), followed Bryant and also made his first attempt: a two-handed reverse windmill off a bounced lob he threw himself. Richardson, the shortest competitor in the contest, took a nasty fall while attempting a 360 lob on his second attempt. He avoided injury and completed a two-handed 360 before getting eliminated.
Los Angeles Lakers center Jaxson Hayes seemingly missed his mark and ran past the free-throw line before a simple one-handed dunk ended the first stretch of dunks. On his second dunk, Hayes started by lobbing the ball and tapping it to himself before he put it underneath his leg on the way to the dunk. It was his highest-scored dunk in the first round, but it wasn’t good enough to move him into the finals.
By Dan Woike, via The Athletic