Videos: Chinese could use some good dunkers in the CBA All-Star dunk contest

You must give kudos to the CBA (Chinese Basketball Association) for trying to mimic the success of the NBA All-Star game festivities by hosting their own CBA All-Star game and skills competition and for introducing cheerleaders to the Chinese sports fans.

The CBA has the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest. The contestants of the slam dunk contest is only for Chinese players.

However, there has been some epic failures in the Chinese version of the NBA slam dunk contest. At this year’s dunk contest, a chinese player attempted to jump over 5 guys, but fall over them and lands on his face.

The winner was Zhai Yi, a third-string guard for Shanghai, and even the champion’s dunks weren’t pretty. The contest was sponsored by shoe company Li-Ning, and for his first dunk, Zhai hoped to slam the ball while sticking a sneaker to the backboard. The shoe stuck, but the ball didn’t go in. He eventually put it in on his third attempt, the shoe hovering as a mute witness to his failure.

Zhai’s second dunk was more successful, and just as unimpressive. Taking a cue from Blake Griffin skying over a Kia, Zhai dunked over a tiny little go-kart shaped like a sneaker. Except he sort of jumped around the front of it, even though it was only about 18 inches high at that end. He also needed three attempts. This was one:

Second place, went to Sen Tiangui for trying (and failing) to dunk over an oversized novelty inflatable rice ball, performed after serving the judges some rice balls. (Happy Chinese New Year!) He would get it on the second attempt, and receive 48 out of a possible 50 points.

Gao Shang, who tried and failed seven times to complete a boring prop-less dunk, received 30 points anyway and took third.

It might be asking too much for a Chinese Spud Webb. But there is hope. Like this 5’7″ Chinese guy named Cheng Teng,

or this 6’0″ Chinese guy,