Uh. Whoa. Shump and LeBron just putting on a show for the Magic faithful before the start of last night’s game.
Quick- Out of everyone on the Cavs, who wins in a dunk contest?
My top 3:
Shumpert
LeBron
JR Smith
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Top 10 NFL Players we’d like to see in a Dunk Contest
After Odell Beckham Jr. threw down that dunk last week on Instagram, we started to wonder what it’d be like if the NFL held their own dunk contest. So in honor of the NBA Dunk Contest this weekend and us missing football already, here are 10 players in the NFL we’d like to see in a dunk contest.
Odell Beckham Jr.
Obvious choice
NBA Equivalent: DeMar DeRozan
http://instagram.com/p/yp-92ROMi9/?modal=true
http://instagram.com/p/m3g_d7OMnH/?modal=true
Jimmy Graham
Former hoops player at The U. No brainer.
NBA Equivalent: Blake Griffin
AJ Green
Has the frame of a shooting guard. I bet he can CRAM it. Here he is from high school dunking in a game
NBA Equivalent: Paul George
Calvin Johnson
Obviously. I mean, look at what he can do in full pads. Violent dunker.
NBA Equivalent: Shawn Kemp
Patrick Peterson
May be the most athletic guy in the NFL. 38 inch vert at the combine
NBA Equivalent: Gerald Green
Jordan Cameron
He’d have Blake Griffin as his coach and he can do this. The crowd always loves the white guy.
NBA Equivalent: Isaiah Rider
JJ Watt
So he can break the backboard and then eat all the shards of glass just because.
NBA Equivalent: Dwight Howard (both Superman)
Gronk
Because you know he’d be begging all the judges to give him a score of 6.9
NBA Equivalent: Josh Smith
Dez Bryant
Would throw up the X after every slam
NBA Equivalent: Tracy McGrady
Justin Gilbert
He dunks better than he covers.
NBA Equivalent: Steve Francis
http://instagram.com/p/l8swvhue7X/?modal=true
Honorable Mention: Cam Newton, Terrelle Pryor, RGIII, Kam Chancellor, Antonio Brown, Kelvin Benjamin
There’s a campaign to get LeBron to participate in this year’s dunk contest (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KAG7kltnuE
Huh? Why? I know it’s for charity and blah blah blah but I have to admit, I don’t even want to see LeBron in the dunk contest. Did anyone watch the dunk contest last year? It was AWFUL. It was an East team vs a West team in 2 rounds, a freestyle round and then a head to head round. So we didn’t get one singular winner, we got a team of winners.
I don’t want LeBron to be relegated to this nonsense. He just turned 30, the dunk contest is for the up and comers. Yes, it is beneath him. Plus, the less jumping and running he does on All Star weekend, the better. Keep those springs fresh for April, May, and June.
The only thing that is going to happen is that LeBron will politely decline and then write a check matching whatever gets donated (I hope). Mark it down.
Also, odd strategy for the Boys and Girls Club to target LeBron James and put him on the spot when just a few years ago a certain made for TV announcement raised $2 million, and also saw $500K worth of computers from Hewlett Packard and $500K worth of gear from Nike donated to clubs across the country… but that’s none of my business…
(h/t WFNY)
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