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" Either you play with a sense of urgency, or you will be leaving. It's that simple." Joe Dumars
Ok Joe it's time to prove it!!!!!!

also missing: darvin ham ;D

i don't understand it either...guys like lebron could (if this is even possible) increase their marketability even further. why this is so unappealing to so many players baffles me

It's the event that "makes" a reputation (or destroys it in the Birdman's case). Guys like LeBron and Kobe having nothing to gain by entering this, and losing just makes them seem like chumps.

You'll notice that most of the guys competing are young bucks and not participating in the big All-Star game.

Don't sleep on Hakim Warrick, he's got game. One of those under sized power forwards that can jump out of the gym.

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

It is a shame that the Dunk contest is looked down upon by todays NBA superstars. It was never that way with all NBA superstars back in the day.

Lebron was already King of the world so he saw no need to be embarass if he would lose in the Dunk contest, but it would be nice if he had at least compete in one.

The Dunk contest has lost alot of luster and most of the players who don't compete say that there is not enough dunks to go around its all the same. Well that is just an excuse and when it comes down to it, it is why the Dunk Contest has lost its luster. Its for the new guys on the block to try to make a name for themselves ala Fred Jones, Josh Smith(last year champ), and Jason Richardson.

R.I.P. Slam Dunk
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ton/index.html

"The dunk is dead. Not dead as in disappeared, of course, but dead as in ho-hum, so what, who cares? It died of natural causes -- it just grew old and tired, and far too commonplace."


The NBA makes millions off of guys who dunk. They made the NBA into a giant by selling fans the images of guys like Jordan Vince Kobe Lebron all soaring through the air and throwin down nasty dunks. Almost every basketball poster I have ever seen in my life was of a guy dunking. The majority of basketball cards are the same way. Air Jordans little pic of Jordan dunking sold millions of shoes. Why not put the contest on life support and pay the guys enough to bring back the big names.

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" Either you play with a sense of urgency, or you will be leaving. It's that simple." Joe Dumars
Ok Joe it's time to prove it!!!!!!

I can't stand Vince Carter or Richard Jefferson, but I'd definitely go out of my way to watch them in the Dunk contest.

I'm simply floored that the total purse in less than 90K -- the league probably makes twice that with the first row of VIPs sitting courtside.

Here's a random Slam Dunk contest fact I just learned via Wikipedia: "Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are the only players to have won a NBA championship and a Slam Dunk championship." Who knew?

hmm..I was thinking Dr. J...

but then I rememberd that he hadn't actually won a slam dunk contest.

Another weak outing. The dunk contest should not be aired live period If they want to get people exited about it they need to edit the whole dunk contest down to just the made dunks, they could have more people in it and it would still be on the air about the same time. Dont get me wrong the dunks were nice but dont show me 12 trys for 1 dunk. Nate did not deserve to win by what I saw AI2 should have saved the behind the backboard dunk for last. In general I wish I had just watched the highlights at NBA.com and saved myself 2 hours.

If you block out the 20 missed dunks, there were some pretty good ones in there. AI's behind the backboard was amazing. And Nate Robinson's dunk over Spudd was equally good.

The between the legs and the windmill are dunking cliches at this point.

I think Iguadala's dunk might have been the best EVER!