Please complete this sentence: The NBA dunk contest has become...

[Rastapopoulos]

This is how you dunk over a car:
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[MARIS61]

The NBA dunk contest has become one of the most over-hyped events in all of professional sports. Blake Griffin jumped over the hood of a KIA Optima to dunk. Overall it was the BEST live KIA commercial in the history of the world, but as a dunk?

I liked it both as a commercial and as a dunk, very good form.

But since KIA is the Official Automotive Partner of the NBA, it seems the dunk was designed by the NBA and assigned to Blake Griffin to perform in exchange for a guaranteed win of the contest. Stern would not embarrass KIA by allowing their "commercial" to lose.

The contest, like the standings and crucial games, is pre-determined.

 

[jlprk]

This was all true a few years ago, so they dumped the dunk contest.

Stern did this without preceding it with a fake public debate. He did not create a constituency to back up his good decision. A few idiots cried in surprise, and since Stern hadn't organized any true believers, there was no resistance to bringing back the dunk contest.

After being forced to reverse that good decision, Stern made the same P.R. mistake in a bad decision, the plastic ball. So he lost on that, too. Stern doesn't know how democracy works. A smart dictator creates a ruling class of true believers before making a change, to back him up. Otherwise, opponents will reverse the change. Stern is a moron, in both his good and bad decisions.

 

[HailBlazers]

easy... The NBA dunk contest has become a Commercial. Next thing you know there's going to be special effects.

I liked it both as a commercial and as a dunk, very good form.

Really? Looked pretty standard to me. If it wasn't for fan voting, no way he would have won.

 

[Minstrel]

This was all true a few years ago, so they dumped the dunk contest.

Stern did this without preceding it with a fake public debate. He did not create a constituency to back up his good decision. A few idiots cried in surprise, and since Stern hadn't organized any true believers, there was no resistance to bringing back the dunk contest.

After being forced to reverse that good decision, Stern made the same P.R. mistake in a bad decision, the plastic ball. So he lost on that, too. Stern doesn't know how democracy works. A smart dictator creates a ruling class of true believers before making a change, to back him up. Otherwise, opponents will reverse the change. Stern is a moron, in both his good and bad decisions.

The realpolitik of the dunk contest.

 

[maxiep]

I'd love for the skills and three point contest to be a team event. Each team sends one representative for each one. Round One is divisions, Round Two is conferences, Round three is the Finals. You can run the preliminaries earlier in the day.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I'd love for the skills and three point contest to be a team event. Each team sends one representative for each one. Round One is divisions, Round Two is conferences, Round three is the Finals. You can run the preliminaries earlier in the day.

If I hadn't just repped you for the team-foul-only idea in the other thread, I'd rep this. MaxieP for commissioner!!

 

[jlprk]

The idea used to be for each team to send a player, except for a few teams that didn't have a player really really good at the skill (dunk, 3-point, etc.). So if there were 17 teams in the league, about 14 players would be nominated. Then for unknown reasons, the number would be whittled to about 10 and the contest would be on.

Now, despite double the teams, there are half the contestants in the dunk and 3-point contests.

I'd like to see literally the 50 or so best 3-point shooters. All the way back to its incepton, I have found that contest dramatic, and the All-Star Game a bore that I turn off. As usual, I skipped the latter this year.