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Monday, February 16, 2009

Reggie Miller has a point!

If anyone actually watched the NBA All-star weekend, more importantly Saturday night you'd would have realized the slam dunk contest was bad. While Nate Robinson was getting ready for one of his dunks, the very wise Reggie Miller brought up the 2006 Dunk Contest and happened to mention and scream "Andre Iguodala was robbed!" Three years later and I guess I'm still not over it. It's sad but I'm glad someone brought it up and whatever. Obviously in the grand scheme of things, being a dunk champion is like nothing; I'd rather have an NBA championship team [in the near future].



Actually Nate Robinson won again; he beat Dwight Howard with 52% of the fan voting, which I think is a stupid idea. The best dunker or performer won't win. Actually the judges don't seem to be much better as they all kissed Howard's ass with his first two lame dunks that earned him perfect scores. Rudy Fernandez is not my favorite player but I thought he had a couple of pretty difficult and impressive dunks, which he earned a 42 for each one. It's become so gimmicky and less about athletism and creativity of dunks. I loved the Superman stuff from last year; it was funny and the photos from it were awesome. Other than the fact that he didn't actually dunk it, it was funny. This year was a dud all around.

Nate Robinson leap-frogged Dwight Howard and used Howard's back to actually get over him. He used his own teammate Wilson Chandler as a step stool and he did regular dunks that look more impressive than they actually are because of his height, which I don't think should be a factor in the scoring. And Nate looks like 50 cent; he just annoys me all around. Howard said it best though.

The shorter man will win in a dunk contest because it looks real hard for him and easy for me.



I already talked about Howard but other than the dunk off the 12-foot basketball net, which he made look extremely easy and the bounce of the side of the backboard for the jam, he was pretty bad. I think the Superman thing is played out. Creativity people.

JR Smith: the only thing I have to say is...Sonny Weems? Seriously? Was the ball boy not available?

Rudy Fernandez got screwed big time. First the announcers mocked his throwback jersey. He was honoring Fernando Martin. Kenny "the dick" Smith than smartly said, "Ricky Martin?" Seriously, Class A tool. I also liked that he had Pao Gasol throwing the pass. At least it was someone we all know. His two dunks were so underrated; next year, if Lebron keeps his word and enters the contest, he'll win the whole thing because everyone's going to kiss his ass. It is what is though. I am officially over it. All it took was some vindication from Reggie Miller.

Lastly just for kicks. Can you guess who this little cutie turned out to be? No answer after the jump. Just guess and then scroll down.































It's Andre of course! Look what a cutie he was and still is! I think his ears were the same size then as they are now.

2 comments:

How do you spell retard? said...

I don't remember the Superman movie where he let some dude's balls make a clean sweep of his head.
/I always thought Superman was pretty lame
//Next year, rock the Wolverine claws, Dwight

Maria said...

Wolverine and X-men have always been cooler.

I just really do not like Nate Robinson.