Who's going to watch the Dunk Contest this year?

[tgan3]

They should have a dunk HORSE contest, it would be fun.

Or they should get the best streetball dunkers vs the NBA dunkers kind of format. Would definitely up the ante of the NBA dunkers performance but nonetheless my bet on the streetballers everytime...

[CavaliersFTW]

Horse and one-on-one tournaments >>> dunk contest

[Demon Lizard]

I watch it every year. Why change now?

[KNOW1EDGE]

I will most certainly watch it.
Although I'm not expecting much.

I'm kinda just watching it by default.

I like the NBA. I like dunks. I like a few of the dunkers. There will be nothing else on TV. So why not?

[LAZERUSS]

I will most certainly watch it.
Although I'm not expecting much.

I'm kinda just watching it by default.

I like the NBA. I like dunks. I like a few of the dunkers. There will be nothing else on TV. So why not?

I would take "Modern Family" re-runs all day long over that nonsense.

[J Shuttlesworth]

Is it on Saturday? I'll be out that night, but might watch everything on DVR the next day

[UK2K]

Too much showtime, not enough dunking.

[L.A. Jazz]

Never watched it live and never will. the whole AS-weekend is a basketballfree-weekend for me. i dont care about meaningless pickupbasketball.

[rhowen4]

Seriously cannot be worse than last year.

LaVine and giannis will be exciting

[gts]

probably not.. didn't watch it last year and never regretted it for a moment...

it's just done, everything way to slam dunk a ball has been done a gazillion times

3 point contest is more enjoyable to me

[salwan]

He's a great dunking talent.

He would loose to J. J. Barea if Barea introduced an NBA cares childrens hospital choir to sing amazing grace while he barely clears the fender of a brand new Kia Sorento and finishes on a 9 foot rim.

Honestly.

repped

[QuebecBaller]

Horse and one-on-one tournaments >>> dunk contest

Do you remember when they did Horse in the all-star weekend?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVQIjJbY2m0

[Funnyfuka]

Doubt i'll even watch the ASG

same here. No grit no competition, challenge, no care, nobody wants to get hurt... makes no point at all.

[Rake2204]

They should have a dunk HORSE contest, it would be fun.

Or they should get the best streetball dunkers vs the NBA dunkers kind of format. Would definitely up the ante of the NBA dunkers performance but nonetheless my bet on the streetballers everytime...

I would not favor dunk H.O.R.S.E., for I think it would largely go against what dunking ability is all about (at least in the artistic form).

Dunk H.O.R.S.E. would be most similar to 2002, when the NBA introduced the dunk wheel. One style of dunker would perform a slam that isn't really something another style of dunker would be in position to complete and it'd just be like that over and over. I'd rather have Jason Richardson providing his own style as opposed to trying to emulate a free throw line dunk that's impossible for him to do. Ditto with Steve Francis being forced to replicate a palming Terence Stansbury slam.

Regarding the street dunkers, I touched on this earlier, but the league has enough trouble as it is to get players to put their reputations on the line for the dunk contest each year. Bringing in non-NBA folks who are borderline circus performers would likely not help the cause.

The players' union, for what it's worth, considers all those fears as legitimate. In labor negotiations, the one All-Star event it insisted the NBA could not mandate participation in is the dunk contest. The union bought into the players' argument that the event demands a lot of energy and puts stress on their legs—both preparing and competing in it—and therefore they should have the option to decline an invitation if they're not feeling up to it. Privately, one official admitted it's as much about protecting reputations as anything else.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...it-to-be-fixed

[SugarHill]

Yes, I will. I like Giannis, Dipo and Lavine.