Welcome to the retro-diary of last nights Lakers-Heat game! This lockout-shortened season has given us many horrible basketball games. It’s been painful to watch these teams grind out 80 points every night while the folks at ESPN pretend that nothing’s wrong and move us from one pitiful game to the next. This is the first game I’ve been excited for all season. Let’s hope it doesn’t disappoint.
8:00: TNT opens the telecast with a Rise Against song. Bad start.
For the past 2 years the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown has been labeled as the search for the "best amateur dunkers" in the country but it always turns out to be an exhibition for the best "contest/freestyle dunkers" in the world. The contest begins each year by hosting a local dunk contest in 8 cities where NBA legends like Dominique Wilkens & special guests judge amateur dunkers. The 8 event winners and 2 winners from an online submission contest go to…
Michael Jordan Owns The NBA Vertical Jump: Where's Carter and Kobe?
Turn the audio off on the mix above. The footage is worth watching
The LA Times released an article about the highest verts in NBA history. I have to stress NBA because I have a feeling that a lot of the YouTube sensations you are used to seeing…
The Showdown tour saved the best for the last. The final stop in Washington DC didn't include names you typically here in the "best" dunkers around like a T-Dub, Kenny Dobbs, Air Up There or Werm but it had a long list of great and underrated dunkers from 1-10 including Roscoe Johnson, Jonsey, Flyte, James Hinnant, Kid Dynomite, B-Hops and new comers like 5'8 Jerel Coles.
Roscoe, Jonsey and Flyte were near perfect until the semi-finals with 1 crowd pleasing…
Before I get to the contest I have to talk about Myree Bowden aka Reemix. At every event the Showdown All-Stars Reemix and Los put on a dunk exhibition. They usually kill it and make a few of the contestants either jealous or nervous but it must of been something in the water at the South Street SeaPort in NY that had Reemix jumping like he was possessed by every dunker to ever do the contest. For about 10 minutes he went through the A-Z of dunks including back to back…
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With most of the best dunkers competing in Houston last month, we were afraid we wouldn't see much competition in San Antonio but we were all in for a big surprise when the YouTube famous Golden Child & the 5'11 (White) NCAA dunk contest winner Jacob Tucker showed up.
Those two were clearly the favorites since they are capable of pulling off just about any dunk that's ever been done but during the warm-ups a 6'8 power dunker named Tripplay opened some…
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Yes it was hot as hell. Yes there were only 9 dunkers and yes only 2 of them stood out but the event is called a Showdown and this was one of the best showdown I have ever seen. The 2 that faced off were last year's Dallas winner Werm and past contestant from LA Air Dogg. These 2 have faced off numerous times in the last year with Air Dogg taking the last event they both did.
Despite rounds of great consistent dunks by Air Dogg again, Werm was on another…
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The Atlanta Showdown brought out the best in the competition because our guest judges included dunk pioneer and legends Dominique Wilkins & Darryl Dawkins. What many thought would be an event dominated by dunk vets like the YouTube famous & ex Sprite Showdown…
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Houston, Denver & Los Angeles are done & we have Atlanta, San Antonio, Miami, New York & Washington DC to go. Here's the top 10 dunks from the first 3 events which includes Sir Isaac, Air Nigeria, Kenny Dobbs, Exile and a lot of G-Smith.
Next stop is the ATL where we see the return of Troy McCray aka RudeBoi and Shane Wise aka Slam. We expect it to be a great…
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Welcome to the retro-diary of last nights Lakers-Heat game! This lockout-shortened season has given us many horrible basketball games. It’s been painful to watch these teams grind out 80 points every night while the folks at ESPN pretend that nothing’s wrong and move us from one pitiful game to the next. This is the first game I’ve been excited for all season. Let’s hope it doesn’t disappoint. 8:00: TNT opens the telecast with a Rise Against song. Bad start.8:05: Shaq talks about his problems…See More
