God, the NBA Dunk Contest was garbage this year.

Did anyone WATCH this thing? Man, we go from Dwight Howard two years ago, Josh Smith a few years back, HELL EVEN LAST YEARS! to THIS?  
 
Ugh, this is what happens when you get a bunch of disinterested rotation players (Minus Gerald Wallace, though he was terrible too) involved in something which is SUPPOSED to help their career, yet they turn around and just think they can go out and do whatever. Shannon Brown probably would have been something special had he nailed the first dunk he attempted, and then after he missed, re-tried it instead of settling for something less. DeRozan's windmill was SO generic (how they gave that a 50 I have no idea), and it was only Nate who was seemingly into it (GO KNICKS!). 
 
I don't know -- I bet there are a lot of disappointed people considering how much the NBA marketed the FUCK out of it this year, mainly with those terrible rap commercials. :/ I don't know, what did you guys think?

The star power needs to assert itself in more events, for what is the NBA anymore if not a showcase of athletic anomalies?
 
LeBron and Howard need their own dunk contest, just the two of them.

isnt that only in the nba live games?

wow. i now feel like a total fool. *sadface

" The star power needs to assert itself in more events, for what is the NBA anymore if not a showcase of athletic anomalies?  LeBron and Howard need their own dunk contest, just the two of them. "

You're on a gaming website and you wasted time you could of been playing something watching that garbage? The dunk contest has been a joke since Vince Carter's antics. Even though they tried to hype Dwight Howard's dunks the last couple years they weren't anything special. I get it. You're really tall and you can jump really high.

Hmmmm, I didn't watch it. 
 
I sort of hate the NBA, anyway.

" You're on a gaming website and you wasted time you could of been playing something watching that garbage? The dunk contest has been a joke since Vince Carter's antics. Even though they tried to hype Dwight Howard's dunks the last couple years they weren't anything special. I get it. You're really tall and you can jump really high. "

" @Dr_Feelgood38:   If Cavs win the title this year, he'll be there for life. If they don't, he's coming here to New York.   I mean, I don't really CARE either way, mainly because we didn't draft the guy or make him a star; I'm always more partial to the home-bred Knicks like David Lee, Nate, you know, the guys we actually drafted (even though the suns initially drafted Nate). It'd feel cheap to me. Yeah, sure, the Knicks would instantly be a 50+ win team, but because we PAID off the best player in the league. :/ He should stay in Cleveland. "

" @Sir_Ragnarok:   Man, that'd be a hell of a team actually. Baron Davis, Eric Gordon, LeBron, Camby, and Kaman. Hmm, one can dream right? "

I was playing Splosion Man. I don't know about dunk contests,  but everybody loves donuts. I know I do.

I haven't watched a dunk contest in like, forever. This post made me want to look back.
 
 

I think that after the extremely lackluster contest this year will prompt some more star-power to show up next year. 
 
Oh and  
 
@Claude said:

" I haven't watched a dunk contest in like, forever. This post made me want to look back.
 
 

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The last two years have been great, this one was very unimpressive. Lebron pulling out and the lack of props took away a lot of potential for 2010.

" @Sir_Ragnarok:   Let's hope Griffin isn't injury prone. "

The only thing I saw was the 3-point shootout, and that was because a Warrior was in it.
They hype the All-Star game way too much.  I think I'll wait til March and get excited over some college basketball.

" @Hunkulese said:

" You're on a gaming website and you wasted time you could of been playing something watching that garbage? The dunk contest has been a joke since Vince Carter's antics. Even though they tried to hype Dwight Howard's dunks the last couple years they weren't anything special. I get it. You're really tall and you can jump really high. "

Vince Carter's antics?  Not sure what you mean by that but Vince Carter's slam dunk winning competition was awesome!  And this is coming from someone who absolutely hates the guy. "

Yeah, it really did suck this year. But I'm really happy that Nate won again. And I'll second that, GO KNICKS! I still don't understand why Lebron, for whatever reason, refuses to participate.  Sucks that Gallo lost the 3 point shootout though.

Just watch the 2000 Dunk Contest with Carter...proof that nothing else will every be worthy

" @FartyMcNarly: You are so lame, >_< "

Agreed, there was only 1 good dunk 

Yeah, man. What a let down. Shannon Brown was the biggest disapointment. That guy is a dunking machine, but he didn't appear to put any effort at all into his dunks. After missing the 360, he just did a basic dunk where he switched hands, followed by a standard alley-oop. And man, he was the favorite to win!
 
DeRozan's 2nd dunk, the alley-oop pass off the backboard which received a 50 was good, but it didn't deserve such a high score. Also, I thought his windmill was one of the worst I've ever seen. There was hardly any extension with his arm whatsoever. Pitiful, man. I don't know much about Gerald Wallace, but I don't think he should have even been there, though I suppose he's a better choice than Eric Gordon on the Clippers (that's his name, right?). 
 
This year, I gotta give it to Nate Robinson. I agree that he was the only one who really seemed to put effort into it. Last year, I didn't think he should have won. Dwight Howard bringing out the extra high rim (What was it? 12 feet?) was just insane. I also loved his phone booth entrance. That's the kind of flair the Dunk Contest needs. He had great dunks last year. Robinson was awesome as well, but for one of his dunks, he used a teammate as a bench to dunk from further. Man, I don't think that should be allowed. Because of that, and the awesomeness of the 12 foot rim, and the fact that Howard let Robinson dunk over him, I think Howard was the true winner and a class act. 
 
Man, Shaq tried to rally together a superstar slam dunk contest a couple months ago as a fundraiser for Haiti. He was calling out LeBron, Kobe, Vince Carter, and any other superstar that thought they could challenge them. That would be so sick, dude. That's what the people want to see. Oh, and LeBron, you're lame. After the 12 foot rim, you said you'd sign up for this year, but you punked out. We were all witnesses.