<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">You gotta love Dwight Howard. "The Kid" wants to participate in the slam-dunk contest in Houston this season.</div> http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/4992274 i dont know doesn't seem like a good idea. i mean amare has better dunks and even with nash helping they weren't that good. power dunkers don't do that well in the comp.
As long as he doesn't embarrass himself, let him do it and let him have some fun. It's really only about having some fun, I don't think it's so much about winning it. When participating and showing some good dunks, he can only win in terms of increasing his popularity. Besides, I think he mentioned this after he had some fun with reporters during training camp. He jumped and barely kissed the rim, so he joked that he's the only one who can do a kiss dunk and he's going to show it at the dunk contest. I believe it was something along those lines. So maybe it was only some joking with the reporters, who knows.
As long as he doesnt pull a chris anderson he will be fine. I lost all respect for that man after what 7 attempts. Dwight can be like amare was last year in the contest. Any national exposure is good for dwight.
he's got no chance if Josh Smith comes back or VC comes back which is still a possibility, it'll cool to watch him htough because power dunkers aren't seen very much these days.
If Dwight Howard does participate in the dunk contest, I honestly dont believe he will be on top. But props to him he is one of the few players that actually "Want" to participate in that.
I think he'll be another Amare dunk contest wise, have a sub-par performance the first time then a couple years later just amaze them.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting smokrockz:</div><div class="quote_post">As long as he doesnt pull a chris anderson he will be fine. I lost all respect for that man after what 7 attempts. Dwight can be like amare was last year in the contest. Any national exposure is good for dwight.</div> What happened to Andersen in the dunk contest? I never saw it and I didn't hear what dunk he was trying or what happened. I just heard he missed aload of dunks. If someone has a clip or a link to it that would be great. And someone please explain what happened.
^^^u dont wanna know what happened but w/e. He tried the same dunk like 7 or 8 times in a row but would always miss he started gettin booed and it was hilarious.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting playmaker15:</div><div class="quote_post">^^^u dont wanna know what happened but w/e. He tried the same dunk like 7 or 8 times in a row but would always miss he started gettin booed and it was hilarious.</div> Was it a hard dunk? What kind of dunk was it?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting B-22:</div><div class="quote_post">He has a better chance in the three point competetion.</div> I actually started laughing when I read this. I think it is cool that he is entering and I hope he pulls off something amazing so he can get some recognition from the media.
Yea what B-22 said. I dont think he'll get an invite considering Andre Iguodala didnt get one and look at Iggy, he facials someone like every 20 minutes.
Why wasn't he invited? i would have rather seen howard than hakim, only because i dont know much about him.
Dwight wouldn't do well in the contest, tall guys don't really have the finese to do through the legs and windmills.
They should let dwight go it would be interesting to see if he could do something other than just power dunks
