I found an internet stream of the slam dunk contest and watched a little bit. But I turned it off after Dwight Howard brought in the second hoop and a telephone booth to put on a cape. How does that make for a better dunk? While I having enjoyed some gimmicks (Josh Smith donning a Dominique Wilkins jersey, Gerald Green's cupcake) Dwight Howard's superman routine is too silly. Looks like I'm not the only one who feels that way.
While Rudy Fernandez wasn't my first choice to be the fans dunker, I think that he did pretty well.
However, Kenny Smith really needs to get his act together. Basically everything I have read about the All-Star Weekend has been very negative of Kenny, and watching this clip shows me why. First are likely people in the arena who know who Rudy Fernandez is because 1)the Suns sold his draft rights to Rudy to the Blazers, 2)he torched the USA in the gold medal game of the Olympics including a dunk on/around Dwight Howard. Second, when Rudy did his tribute to Fernando Martin, Kenny and Reggie Miller starting talking about the show Martin instead of a tribute to a countryman. And then to top it all off he said that Rex Chapman did that dunk back in the 90s and that Rex did it better. Kenny, Rex never threw that ball off the backboard, and if you remember Rex got an unfairly low score when he did it too. And after Rudy's second dunk, which was nice although it took a while to get it right Kenny simply said "It's not going to get me out of my seat". As the kids like to say "Real recognizes real", Nate Robinson who ended up winning (although he dunk off of Wilson Chandlers back was stupid, everyone can do that) got out of his seat, and the fans booed the judges for the low score. That's real. Kenny you are not real. I think that Kenny was a bit bummed how the fan vote went.
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