Please complete this sentence: The NBA dunk contest has become...

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  1. alex42083

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    It's gotten to the point where the actual spectacular dunks get no crowd reaction and thus, make it seem lame, when they don't have any theatrics or props.
     
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    staged.

    They had too many do-overs, and the lack of penalties for using the do-overs. I guess you'd call it the Rudy Fernandez/Chris Andersen
     
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    Agreed. It was obvious Blake was going to win (his dunks were impressive, but they acted like he did stuff never seen before. It wasn't that impressive. Take out the car, and it's a routine dunk, barely a 40), and imho, you could tell McGee knew it for his last dunk. like inside he was thinking "fuck this. just get it over and done with"
     
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    I seen a street player named Demetrius "hooks" Mitchell dunk over a car before, and he was 5'8". So not really impressed by Griffin's car dunk.

    I thought DeRozan had the best dunks. His first one got a low score but it had a lot of difficulty to pull off. Don't know why they gave such a low score.
     
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    Yeah, instead of Magic it was Kenny Smith and Dwight Howard. That's a phrase the NBA might look into what the meaning is. It was "back" like 2 years after they got rid of it.
     
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    in agreement as well. Griffins first attempt was more impressive than the make. Derozen's Windmill crap was nasty.. the Live angle didnt make it look that impressive, but the side angles did. And Ibaka's was great and given Sh*t results.
     
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    while that is impressive.. I still feel compelled to say F AND 1 and the crap they have put into young kids' minds about what the game is about.
     
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    Lol the Gospel thing was so stupid.

    Fun contest though.
     
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    I started thinking the dunk contest was stupid when they started using a bunch of big men for it. Outside of Derozan, every dunker this year was a PF/C. Thats not exciting to me. I miss the days when it was guard and wings. I don't give a shit about seeing guys like Dwight Howard dunk.
     
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    did you see the show that Brent Barry hosted, where he ripped on Dwight Howards "dunk" where he just threw it in?

    I think there is a growing backlash against the NBA for how things are being done.

    It might be seen through rose colored glasses, but you have the ASG being played at a city that doesn't even have an NBA team, it's being hosted in LA for the second time AND it's turning into a big MTV/Entertainment Tonight/Hollywood Gossip show.

    How about you make it for NBA fans, not the shit they do it for?
     
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    This is how you dunk over a car:
    [video=youtube;-HUH1fb70Pg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUH1fb70Pg[/video]
     
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    I liked it both as a commercial and as a dunk, very good form.

    But since KIA is the Official Automotive Partner of the NBA, it seems the dunk was designed by the NBA and assigned to Blake Griffin to perform in exchange for a guaranteed win of the contest. Stern would not embarrass KIA by allowing their "commercial" to lose.

    The contest, like the standings and crucial games, is pre-determined.
     
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    This was all true a few years ago, so they dumped the dunk contest.

    Stern did this without preceding it with a fake public debate. He did not create a constituency to back up his good decision. A few idiots cried in surprise, and since Stern hadn't organized any true believers, there was no resistance to bringing back the dunk contest.

    After being forced to reverse that good decision, Stern made the same P.R. mistake in a bad decision, the plastic ball. So he lost on that, too. Stern doesn't know how democracy works. A smart dictator creates a ruling class of true believers before making a change, to back him up. Otherwise, opponents will reverse the change. Stern is a moron, in both his good and bad decisions.
     
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    easy... The NBA dunk contest has become a Commercial. Next thing you know there's going to be special effects.

    Really? Looked pretty standard to me. If it wasn't for fan voting, no way he would have won.
     
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    The realpolitik of the dunk contest.
     
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    I'd love for the skills and three point contest to be a team event. Each team sends one representative for each one. Round One is divisions, Round Two is conferences, Round three is the Finals. You can run the preliminaries earlier in the day.
     
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    If I hadn't just repped you for the team-foul-only idea in the other thread, I'd rep this. MaxieP for commissioner!!
     
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    The idea used to be for each team to send a player, except for a few teams that didn't have a player really really good at the skill (dunk, 3-point, etc.). So if there were 17 teams in the league, about 14 players would be nominated. Then for unknown reasons, the number would be whittled to about 10 and the contest would be on.

    Now, despite double the teams, there are half the contestants in the dunk and 3-point contests.

    I'd like to see literally the 50 or so best 3-point shooters. All the way back to its incepton, I have found that contest dramatic, and the All-Star Game a bore that I turn off. As usual, I skipped the latter this year.
     
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