Easy Solution to Fix the Dunk Contest

[LilEddyCurry]

Don't worry, Andrew Wiggins will save the dunk contest next year. But seriously they should get rid of the East vs West crap...

[BasedTom]

He's too worried he'd lose.

Fans vote = automatic victory. I don't even think they release the exact numbers or percentages, so it could very easily be rigged.

[TonyD]

I'm not against having a host but at least get a better one. Nick Cannon added nothing to the event, some random fan from the crowd would have probably been better.

Though I don't blame Nick Cannon, just whoever hired him. "Keep gettin' dem checks" Nick.

[Overdrive]

Make it an KO-tournament. I remember watching old contests and there was one, I think '90, where 10 or 12 guys participated that leaves a higher chance for good dunks.

Maybe make a deadline on Jan 15th and every projected playoff team has to send a player and do a KO-playoff format. So 1st seed sends a dunker vs 8th seed.

2 dunks each duell, miss the dunk no 2nd chance. Combined score counts. 5 judges 0-10 points each.

Make bigger rewards for the teams and players individually:

Dunk contest winning team gets the tie breaker against any team for example. Teams would make sure they send their best dunker.
Fans of teams who could care less about the contest would root for their guy simple, because it helps the team in the bigger picture.

Individual winner gets a first place MVP vote or something like that. Might sound stupid, because guys like Gerald Green might get a first place vote, other greats never got, but it might also get guys like Lebron joining.

[ImKobe]

6 players, 3 rounds, 2 dunks per round with 1 replacement dunk each round. 2 players eliminated in round 1 & round 2, final round between 2 players and the highest total score wins. That's all they need to do. No East vs West, no stupid freestyle. Just let each player get his.

[Cangri]

The max of 3 dunks was perfect, but I didn't understand why they let Paul George do another dunk after he already failed to do a dunk in 3 tries. If you put rules out, then they should enforce them.

[sd3035]

The original format was fine, just limit misses allowed to one per dunk, and limit the amount of props, each guy gets to use a prop for one dunk if they want