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    Harry N. Lloyd
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    The NBA Dunk Contest

    It hasn't been real exciting for many years, but this year seemed lame.

    2 channels over I can watch 16 year old girls 50 feet in the air doing triple flips with 4 rotations on skis.

    At the dunk contest, a player spins once and puts the ball between his legs and its supposed to be breath-taking. Hmmmm?

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    Played out they should abolish it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry N. Lloyd View Post
    It hasn't been real exciting for many years, but this year seemed lame.

    2 channels over I can watch 16 year old girls 50 feet in the air doing triple flips with 4 rotations on skis.

    At the dunk contest, a player spins once and puts the ball between his legs and its supposed to be breath-taking. Hmmmm?



    Never thought of a comparison like you used.

    You're right, some things like you mentioned above seem much more impressive.

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    Last years tip two dunkers were light years ahead of guys like Jordan and Vince Carter

    only good year I can think of in over a dozen years

    didn’t see last night yet

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    Last years tip two dunkers were light years ahead of guys like Jordan and Vince Carter

    only good year I can think of in over a dozen years

    didn’t see last night yet
    Almost all of today's dunkers are light years ahead. It's just not new anymore so it's not exciting. Most ideas have been done. Go look at the years Kobe won, and what they deemed exciting then because it was still new. Athletes evolve just like everything else and get better over time.

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    ESPN shows highlights of dunk after dunk every night of the season.

    We get it--they jump up and slam the ball through the hoop. At the all-star game they do a spin and slam the ball through the hoop.

    The entertainment value ain't what it used to be.

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    A couple years ago, some dude ran along the baseline, jumped from one side to the other, below back board and slammed it down.
    Had to duck his head on the way by, then re-extend.
    First time ever I was totally shocked by what a human could do. Matrix shit.

    With the exception of the final, the 3 point shoot out was a bag O` bricks.

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    They actually cancelled dunk contest after kobe won it was definitely not new then.

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    I watched the travel channel

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    Anyone doing dunks from the free throw line or further away? Maybe they should tape some lines down behind the free throw line, going back every 6 inches or so.

    Make it like a long jump style track event; who can dunk from farthest out.


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    I can watch the whole contest on instagram in less than 3 minutes

    Why watch an hour long bs on TNT?

    Terrible dunks this year

    Smith Jr had a good one that was sbout it

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    The thing I remember most about the dunk contest in recent years is Aaron Gordon getting totally robbed in 2016.

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