A phone booth? In a dunk contest?
The NBA Slam Dunk contest has descended into farce:
Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson were the faces of this year’s contest, but the person I hold responsible for this Cirque de Ridiculous is NBA Commissioner David Stern. If he wants to make the Slam Dunk contest more entertaining, he should ask the contestants to try and top this:
See the difference?
Sometimes I wonder if I’ve become one of the people I accused of being stuck in the past when I was younger, but even a teenager should know that hopping out of phone booths, wearing capes and dunking green basketballs has no place in a Slam Dunk contest.
That said, this was kinda hot:
And on a completely unrelated note, what is going on at Duke? Actually, I know the answer. I’m going to try to phrase this delicately: Duke needs to recruit a different type of player. Jon Scheyer, for example, is the protoypical Northbrook, IL but he plays in the ACC now. Coack K … adapt.