2000 Team USA Had $1 Million Bounty For Dunking On Yao Ming

The dunk comes at the hands of Vince Carter who dunked over Frederic Weis at the 2000 Olympics and still lives on as one of the most disrespectful dunks ever.

However, during an interview with Alex Wong of Yahoo Sports, former NBA superstar Kevin Garnett revealed some unknown information about the dunk. Specifically, he revealed that the team took out a bounty for the person who could dunk on NBA Hall-of-Famer Yao Ming, who was there representing Team China.

“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.”