The 2000 Summer Olympics have been forever memorable due the thunderous dunk Team USA Vince Carter flushed over French big man Frederic Weis. To this day, it is by far one of the most disrespectful dunks to take place during a game.
Details about Team USA’s bet with each other were revealed by former NBA player and current TNT analyst Kevin Garnett. As per Yahoo Sports, Garnett shares how the 2000 Olympic team made a $1 million bet that would be awarded to the player that could successfully dunk over Chinese big man Yao Ming.
Yao at the time was 7 feet 6 inches tall and about 300 pounds and as per the report, Garnett mentions they all tried to dunk on Yao but none were successful,
“First of all, people didn’t know, we had a bounty out on Yao Ming. The whole USA team had a bet. We had a million dollar bet on who was going to be the first person to dunk on Yao Ming. None of us did. We all tried to dunk on Yao, but he would block it or we would miss. So, the first thing I thought of when I saw Vince dunk over Frederic was oh sh-t, you won the million dollars. But then I realized it obviously wasn’t Yao. I pushed Vince, and if you look at the clip, he almost punches me in the face by accident. But my first thought was, oh sh-t, you won, you got the million.”
Carter’s dunk over Weis was a great consolation prize even though he wasn’t able to secure the $1 million from the bet.
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