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Our Jack Winter and Spencer Lund are in Toronto for NBA All-Star Weekend. Here, they discuss last night’s remarkable Slam Dunk Contest.
Jack: If you were really paying attention, the best Slam Dunk Contest ever shouldn’t have been a surprise.
Aaron Gordon’s first dunk on an absolutely electric All-Star Saturday night wasn’t anything like his following five. The judges granted him a 45 for a relatively routine near-360 Eastbay, and the Air Canada Centre crowd was merely impressed as opposed to outright amazed.
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I was begging for more. I still believe Gordon should have won the contest. And was a lil robbed from his last dunk. It may not have had the soaring grace of LaVine’s, but the sheer power and strength to do a tomahawk+pump combo is so difficult to pull off.
Plus, I wish the scoring was changed a bit. When you have a guy that had not only the best dunk not only in the contest, but possibly in history (seated dunk over phunkeeduck no less), as well as the most creative dunk in the contest (phunkeeduck spin assist), it’s heartbreaking not seeing him walk away with the trophy.
Nonetheless, they are both including all of us that witnessed it live were all winners.
The best NBA dunk contest ever? lmao..it was good and fun to watch but best ever? no way..I will say it was the best I’ve seen in a long time though.
Yea, if you’ve been alive more than a couple decades, you’d know for sure this was not near the best contest ever. In fact, only one guy was doing anything we hadn’t seen before. Gordon amazing and was robbed.
what was better than it and please dont say the words Micheal or Jordan cause his dunk contest are severely overrated
@Worldtour, well for starters the 2003 dunk contest, Richardson vs Mason, and the 2000 dunk contest Carter vs Mcgrady, I would mention Jordan vs Wilkins but you told me not to mention Jordan..oops I just did, but anyway those are just off the top of my head.
@scrapdo I agree 100 percent!
You old timers need to smarten up. Stop pretending the 360s and tomahawks of the 70s and 80s were better than what you saw last night…you’re only lying to yourselves.
@CC902 Damn right. I’ve seen every one of these since the mid 80’s, and there is absolutely NO comparing any of them to last night. I’m as nostalgic as the next old fart, but last night’s contest was the best ever. Not even close.
@CC902, Lol..old timers? I’m 26..but I’ve seen better, I just named them up top..like I said it was the best dunk contest I’ve seen in a long time but best ever? that’s a bit hyperbole.