FunkDoc1112
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A big reason the Vince Carter dunk contest stood out was because it had been trash for a solid decade (didn't even do it in 98) and he reinvigorated it.
There’s been a lot of revisionist history when it comes to the dunk contest
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FunkDoc1112
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Highkeys the 2010s had more good dunk contests than the 90s and 2000s lmaoMost people criticism about the ASG and the modern product are rooted in nostalgia. People only remember the highlights and the good moments. The ASG and Dunk contest was never great every year.
Another thing is the media and former players have spent the last 15 years tearing down the modern product and its players. So it was only natural that the fans did the same thing. The media spent years saying only rings matter now they get mad when players move accordingly.
Idiots wanna blame Bron for everything cause he’s an easy scapegoat. People need to stop comparing everything to Kobe and Jordan. Let the game move beyond them. What’s the point of doing the dunk contest when people are just gonna say someone from the past did it better?
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE
TO DO WITH THE 2020S?
Blame Derrick Rose too then
NO BRON WOULD HAVE GOTTEN
MORE STARS TO COME OUT
GOING FORWARD.
ONCE HE GAVE THE OK FOR
YOUNG STARS NOT TO COMPETE
THEY ALL FOLLOWED SUIT.
DUDES LIKE JRICH, DESMOND MASON, DWIGHT, BLAKE, WALL, OLADIPO, ZACH/GORDON HELD IT DOWN OVER THE YEARS
SO IM NOT SURE WHY PPL ARE
PRETENDING FANS SHOULDNT COMPLAIN
ABOUT SEEING G LEAGUERS AND BUMS
IN THE CONTEST.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
People have been complaining about the dunk contest for 15 years, don't like you don't remember.
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE
TO DO WITH THE 2020S?
WHAT PART ARE YOU
NOT UNDERSTANDING ABOUT BRON
GAVE THE YOUNG STARS THE OK?
NO ONE COMPLAINED ABOUT
THE LAVINE/GORDON CONTESTS.
NOR WALL, OLADIPO, DERRICK JONES
ROBBING GORDON ETC.
DaMos Supreme
All Star
Then it went back to being meh the following year, then the year after that was the spinning wheel nonsense (J-Rich first dunk contest). But the J-Rich and Mason contest from 03’ was pretty competitive and good.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
And again, just like I said about the Vince Carter shyt, a big reason why people liked the Lavine/Gordon contest was BECAUSE of previous years being terrible. Don't try to rewrite this shyt, we were all here in real time seeing people complain about the lack of stars, overuse of props, and fan voting in 2012, complaining about the lack of stars and good dunks in 2013 and 14, etc. Lavine and Gordon was like "Oh hey they finally got a good one" and then it went right back to being trash. This has how it's been since the 90s. Years of mostly bad contests, with a few good ones in between. Why the fukk else was Magic Johnson saying "The duink contest is BACK!" every year.
NO ONE COMPLAINED ABOUT
THE LAVINE/GORDON CONTESTS.
NOR WALL, OLADIPO, DERRICK JONES
ROBBING GORDON ETC.
Y'all got horrible ass memories man
Trippy as fukk seeing shyt I saw being complained about in real time now being romanticized lmaoooo. When Jeremy Evans won in 2012 people were declaring the dunk contest dead. And 2013 was seen as just aight and people were clowning James White for not even being able to dribbleExplain the rationale. Lebron is a "scared of competition" so he avoided the dunk contest. Wade, KD, Derrick Rose, Westbrook skipped it....becuz they want to be like Bron??
WHAT PART ARE YOU
NOT UNDERSTANDING ABOUT BRON
GAVE THE YOUNG STARS THE OK?
DaMos Supreme
All Star
Honestly I can’t recall that many competitive dunk contest in the 90’s aside from Shawn Kemp and Dee Brown. The two that Harold Miner won, I don’t recall being that competitive. The Cedric Ceballos one..?, JR Rider East Bay one, don’t recall if he won that competing with Baby Jordan or not. The Brent Barry one and Kobe one were mediocre at least, then it was cancelled in 98 for Two-ball, then the lockout the year after.
BRON GAVE THE OK
AND nikkaS FOLLOWED SUIT.
THATS WHY WE HAVEN'T
SEEN A ZION, ANT NOR JA EITHER
THE LEAGUE GOES AS THE FACE
OF THE LEAGUE GOES.
YOU CAN PLAY OBTUSE.
Leonard Washington
Superstar
Like a lot of us on here was around for all of this
and watching folks pretend it was all great is wild to see
Professor K.
rap game Paul Millsap
A big problem is this player archetype has generally gotten phased out of today's game in general. Zach and J Rich the only two who can shoot forreal on that list. Who could you even comp to a Desmond Mason today? That slasher above-the-rim 2 guard type isn't even in the league like that anymore.
All this talk about players we would like to see, most of them don't actually fit the mold of the dunkers that gave us classics.