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Showing posts with label Dunk Contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dunk Contest. Show all posts

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Outdoing Blake Griffin’s Car Dunk

Dunk Contest First
It didn’t take long for some to surpass Blake Griffin’s dunk during the Dunk Contest of All-Star weekend when he jumped over a car. If you watched the contest, or any new Kia car commercial, you know that Griffin for his final dunk and set it up just out from under the rim, the sun roof then opened and a grinning Baron Davis popped his head out of the opening, holding the ball and ready to toss it to Griffin. While the car was getting set up, an entire choir (not just a few people, an ENTIRE CHOIR) lined up at half court and began to sing ‘I Believe He Can Fly’ and Griffin began to back up, ready to start his run. Finally, he started his sprint and just as he reached the car Davis tossed the ball up and Griffin jumped over the

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Nate Robinson’s 3 Straight Dunk Contest Victories


         I know this is a little late in comparison to the 2010 SLam Dunk Contest, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t still be said. If anyone is less deserving of just one dunk contest trophy, let alone three, it’s Nate Robinson. If you break down the three contests in which he won, he only really deserved to win the 2009 competition, still arguable though, when he beat out Dwight Howard. Here is a breakdown of the 3 he won.
2006 Dunk Contest
In the end, the two best dunkers made it to the the finals, Nate Robinson of the Knicks and Andre Iguodala of the Sixers. But in the finals, injustice occurred. I have to make a side note about the 1st round though: In my opinion, Dala’s second dunk, an alley-oop