<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy, the reigning T-Mobile Rookie of the Year, and Seattle SuperSonics guard Kevin Durant, the second overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, lead a list of 18 players selected for the 2008 T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam on Friday, Feb. 15 in New Orleans. The participants in the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam were selected by the NBA’s assistant coaches, with each team submitting one ballot. The head coaches for the Rookie and Sophomore teams will be the lead assistants from the 2008 NBA All-Star Game coaching staffs. The T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam will be televised live nationally on TNT and also will be broadcast live on ESPN Radio, while NBA.com will make live audio available to fans in multiple languages. Forward/center LaMarcus Aldridge, Roy’s teammate in Portland, joins him on the Sophomore team, which includes Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Daniel Gibson, Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar, Memphis Grizzlies forward/guard Rudy Gay, Toronto Raptors forward and the first overall selection in the 2006 NBA Draft Andrea Bargnani, and a pair of Utah Jazz teammates – guard/forward Ronnie Brewer and forward/center Paul Millsap. The Rookie team features Durant’s Seattle teammate Jeff Green at forward, as well as Atlanta Hawks forward Al Horford, Houston Rockets forward/center Luis Scola, Memphis Grizzlies guards Mike Conley and Juan Carlos Navarro, Milwaukee Bucks forward Yi Jianlian, New Jersey Nets forward/center Sean Williams, and Toronto Raptors forward/guard and former D-Leaguer Jamario Moon, also a participant in the 2008 Sprite Slam Dunk competition.</div> Source This was a no-brainer. Go Rondo!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (David_Ortiz @ Jan 31 2008, 12:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Anybody know what the rest of the events will look like? (3pt shootout, dunk contest, skills, etc.)</div> The dunk contest contestants are Gerald Green (defending his title), Rudy Gay, Dwight Howard, and Jamario Moon. Nothing else has been announced yet, but the All-Star game reserves will be announced tonight on TNT between 7-8 pm.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticBalla32 @ Jan 31 2008, 01:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (David_Ortiz @ Jan 31 2008, 12:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Anybody know what the rest of the events will look like? (3pt shootout, dunk contest, skills, etc.)</div> The dunk contest contestants are Gerald Green (defending his title), Rudy Gay, Dwight Howard, and Jamario Moon. Nothing else has been announced yet, but the All-Star game reserves will be announced tonight on TNT between 7-8 pm. </div> Funny how you put (defending his title), like he wouldn't be a contestant if he wasn't a champion from before. Howard is the NBA little bitch. "Please, I wanna go back to the dunk contest so i can lose to King Gerald... again!"
High5 give me a break. If Dwight won it last year, I would have put those same parenthesis around it. And yes, actually - Gerald would be left out of the dunk contest this year if he lost last season because he doesn't play enough to get in period.
