39-year-old Chen Dengxing topped the World Slam Dunk Competition, jumped far ahead of Jordan, resigned from the bank to practice dunk

On July 6, "Chinese Slam Dunk Emperor" Chen Dengxing won the World Street Ball Championship Slam Dunk Contest with three full points, filling the gap for Chinese people to win the championship in this event.

Chen Dengxing won the championship. Chen Dengxing is 1.76 meters tall. He is a non-athlete and is praised by the "dunk emperor" in China. Chen Dengxing stood and touched his height 2.26 meters, and the maximum touched height of one foot reached 3.62 meters. The vertical bounce of 1.36 meters is 16 cm higher than that of Jordan's 1.20 meters.

Chen Dengxing touched the high Chen Dengxing first entered the audience's attention in 2016. In the era when the self-media network was not developed, a video of kissing the basket became popular in major basketball forums. At that time, Chen Dengxing was 30 years old and worked as an employee in a bank in Hangzhou. Dunking was just a hobby.

Chen Dengxing kissed the basket According to Chen Dengxing's recollection, the bank's monthly salary before its debut was only 1,500 yuan, and the monthly rent for three people in Hangzhou was 400 yuan. In order to facilitate practice of slam dunk, he exchanged a pair of sneakers for a portable basketball stand. Every night after the auntie finished dancing in the square dance, he would come to the square to practice dunk with the basketball stand on his back. At that time, the domestic dunk circle was in its infancy. Chen Dengxing saw his own potential and the development opportunities of the dunk sports. He took the initiative to resign from a formal bank employee who had worked for five years and switched to a professional detergent. The photo below of Chen Dengxing touches the rebound top is the earliest folk dunk team in China, "Dunk Team MIC". From left to right, there are still Ai Zhiyuan, Wang Heng, Cha Tianyi, Han Yuyang, Chen Dengxing and Zhu Yanmiao. They are veterans of the domestic dunk industry. The AirChina and DK dunk teams that are popular on the Internet all come from here.

Dunk Team MIC Chen Dengxing has participated in the CBA slam dunk competition twice. In 2021, he lost to Zhang Zhenlin with 1 point and ranked second. Four years later, Chen Dengxing made a comeback and easily won the championship with full scores. Like Yi Jinhong, he realized his dream of the CBA slam dunk competition.

Chen Dengxing CBA Dunk Competition

Now, under the leadership of Chen Dengxing, more and more domestic private dunks will go to the world stage and compete on the same stage with world-renowned players. After years of hard work, Chen Dengxing also owns a Dk Slam Dunk Park basketball hall in Hangzhou with an area of ​​over 2,500 meters, and has more than 2 million fans on social media.

Chen Dengxing's slam dunk in his own stadium

If he had not resigned from the bank, Chen Dengxing's living conditions might not be bad, but Chinese dunks would not have developed to their current heights. Starting today, please call Chen Dengxing the "God of the Slam Dunk World".