All-Star Saturday

He (Shannon Brown) lost the Slam Dunk Contest

He (Nate Robinson) won it by 0.9%


...over this guy:

...now onto the bright/good things that happened over the Friday/Saturday NBA festivities.

The HORSE contest was a ton of fun with some really cool trick shots but it was all cut short due to time restriction on the television and was turned into a three point contest between the last two (Omri Casspi being the only one out by that point) remaining contestants by the time that had to go into the "rush" mode. Of course K.Durant easily beat R.Rondo despite Rondo's surprisingly very good shooting.

The Skills Competition, which was won by one of the last Olympic torch bearers; just some twenty hours prior, can be summarized in this one photo below:

The Shooting Stars event was a 'yawn' as the team with the better shooters won, simple as that. And no, i will not be posting a photo of Kenny Smith on my blog!

Okay, for those that read this far there is a treat as you get to see the REAL Slam Dunk Contest that happened over the weekend at Dallas but was not televised. No, i am not talking about the D-League one, although that was still better then the NBA one even if only based on the final dunk. Anyways here it is:

P.S. i know i did not talk about the Celebrity Game, i just wanted to forget why i wasted that one hour of my life watching it...


MVP!!! MVP!! MVP! MVP? MVP?? MVP??? mvp...