Years where the player with the best dunk didn't win the Dunk Contest

[coolhandsteve]

People would think the player with the best dunk would also have the best performance and win, but that's not always the case. Might not be usually the case really. Discuss

[BasedTom]

iguodala

[AnaheimLakers24]

Ibaka

[Lebron23]

Demar Derozan

[SugarHill]

derozan

[JimmyMcAdocious]

JRich. ****ing kidding me with Fred Jones. **** you and **** everyone.

[Rake2204]

JRich. ****ing kidding me with Fred Jones. **** you and **** everyone.That's a good one. Jones' dunk was one of the weirdest moments in contest history. Everyone seemed to react as if he didn't just complete a one-handed bounce dunk that's usually a piece of every dunker's starter kit. It was one of those few times where you could actually believe a lot of the people who objected by saying, "Wait a second, even I could do that!"

[TheBigVeto]

The one when Nique got robbed by Jordantards.

[SugarHill]

That's a good one. Jones' dunk was one of the weirdest moments in contest history. Everyone seemed to react as if he didn't just complete a one-handed bounce dunk that's usually a piece of every dunker's starter kit. It was one of those few times where you could actually believe a lot of the people who objected by saying, "Wait a second, even I could do that!"
looking back, yeah it seems pedestrian but for some reason when I saw that for the first time, it felt like he stayed in the air forever. I didn't even object. I was like yeah that was nuts :yaohappy:

[Rake2204]

The one when Nique got robbed by Jordantards.Similarly, I'll have to go back and check, but I think Terence Stansbury's Statue of Liberty dunk may have been the best of 1985 (some may prefer Jordan's original free throw line or Orlando Woolridge's clunky-but-historic between-the-legs). Wilkins seemed to win by inundating the field with an endless stream of great dunks, though sometimes they don't always cross over into the singularly legendary realm.

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Also I like Green's cupcake dunk the best of 2008.

[Young X]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygk2JfqOolM

[kennethgriffin]

every year jordan won... that free throw shit was an overrated spam that wasnt even original

[To4]

JaVale McGee

effin blake didn't deserve that win.

[Rake2204]

Off the cuff, I'd tentatively throw this together, with a few obviously up for really easy debate:

1985: Winner - Dominique Wilkins; Best Dunk: Terence Stansbury Statue of Liberty/Orlando Woolridge between-the-legs/Michael Jordan Free Throw Line (though Wilkins had had some nasty windmills and 360's, so it's up for debate)

1990: Winner - Dominique Wilkins; Best Dunk: Kenny Smith's bounce reverses & 360's/Shawn Kemp's bounce windmill (not caught by broadcast so kind of imagined, ha)/Scottie Pippen's free throw line

1992: Winner - Cedric Ceballos; Best Dunk: Larry Johnson's jackhammer 360 (was in the driver's seat all night, ultimately lost after missing his first two final round dunks)

2004: Winner - Fred Jones; Best Dunk: Jason Richardson's off-the-backboard between-the-legs

2006: Winner - Nate Robinson; Best Dunk: Andre Iguodala's behind-the-backboard oop

2009: Winner - Nate Robinson; Best Dunk: Mayyybe Dwight Howard's side-of-the-backboard one hand punch

2010: Winner - Nate Robinson; Best Dunk: DeMar DeRozan's side backboard windmill

2011: Winner - Blake Griffin; Best Dunk: DeMar DeRozan's reverse lob wrap


JaVale McGee

effin blake didn't deserve that win.Always believed Griffin was the rightful winner of that contest. DeMar DeRozan could have bumped him from the Finals and I wouldn't have been mad, but I think it was a little bit of a toss-up between those two in the first round (especially with the many misses on DeMar's relatively unexciting first dunk). Griffin had the crowd behind him after his first attempt and that may have given him the small edge to move to the final round, but that's kind of how the dunk contest works - it's not just which dunks, but how they're done.

As for the Finals, Griffin's car dunk may have been a sham, but JaVale McGee's last dunk was a weaker version of Fred Jones' routine self-bounce one-handed alley-oop. And Griffin's first final round dunk - the off-the-backboard honey dip, was superior to JaVale McGee's mere replication of Larry Nance's baseline swing dunk.

[Marchesk]

The one when Nique got robbed by Jordantards.

Nique lost to Spud too. :lol

http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/spudweb.jpg