2013-2014 NBA Thread - IND @ WAS and OKC @ LAC on ESPN

[suberzat1]

I was in first place for most of the year until Kevin Durant decided to turn into basketball Jesus, now I'm second

I dont know about you being first place for most of the year.....think I was but mad you got Wilson!

 

[herbshuttles15]

Gerald Green isn't in the dunk contest? He should be in every year.

 

[lynchpin33]

Barkley is something else, last year he killed Terrance Ross for doing variations of the same dunk (360 and windmill) and now he is on the bandwagon saying watch out for him....

 

[herbshuttles15]

Who gave Faried a logo

 

[tommyicerocking]

the amount of Nation Televised games the Bulls got this season is a tragedy 

 i ain't watching 

 

[coldcity]

The NBA announced the participants for the 2014 Slam Dunk Contest on Thursday, and with it a new set of rules for the February 16 competition. In an attempt to shake up a contest that has grown stagnant in the last few years, the league has completely reinvented it — and while the changes seem radical on the surface, they’re entirely logical and should make the dunk contest better.

For the first time, the dunk contest participants will be split into two teams: East (Terrence Ross, Paul George and John Wall) and West (Harrison Barnes, Damian Lillard and Ben McLemore). Rather than all of the dunkers competing against each other as individuals, they will be working in teams, with team and individual awards being given out at the end of the night.

The first round will be a so-called “freestyle” competition, where the dunkers on each team will have 90 seconds to pack in as many dunks as they can. It’s essentially a layup line, not too different from players’ pregame shootaround routines. The judges select a winning team, and that team chooses whether to go first or second in the next round.

The battle round is another clever twist. The three dunkers on each team will be paired off for a series of head-to-head battles, with the judges selecting a winner from each. When a dunker loses a battle, he’s eliminated from the competition, and the remaining contestants continue to go head-to-head until one of the teams wins three battles. That team will be the Slam Dunk Champions for the night.

The move to a tournament format not only keeps each individual matchup more compelling than just six dunkers playing every-man-for-himself, but the faster pace is a much-needed antidote to the excessive props that have ruined recent dunk contests.

Even the Dunker of the Night award (decided by a fan vote) isn’t much different from the winner picked in the dunk contest up until this year. The dunk contest is not doing away with an individual winner, as it seemed when they announced the rules. They’re just renaming the award.

The new rules represent a major shift for the dunk contest, but it’s hard to deny that it needed one. After several years of interminable prop dunks turned the dunk contest from appointment viewing to self-parody, competition desperately needed an injection of life.

The new rules should do just that.

 

[herbshuttles15]

Damn, China got a penalty box in their leagues. They don't play, you get T'd up and put right in jail on the sideline.
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This is great

 

[datznasty]

Oh y'all are right. New York, I'm probably in there then. I can't stop lol'ing every time I scroll by that Marbury photo

 

[coldcity]

Antidope is gonna have to suit up soon if the spurs keep losing players

 

[Humbled]

The NBA announced the participants for the 2014 Slam Dunk Contest on Thursday, and with it a new set of rules for the February 16 competition. In an attempt to shake up a contest that has grown stagnant in the last few years, the league has completely reinvented it — and while the changes seem radical on the surface, they’re entirely logical and should make the dunk contest better.

For the first time, the dunk contest participants will be split into two teams: East (Terrence Ross, Paul George and John Wall) and West (Harrison Barnes, Damian Lillard and Ben McLemore). Rather than all of the dunkers competing against each other as individuals, they will be working in teams, with team and individual awards being given out at the end of the night.

The first round will be a so-called “freestyle” competition, where the dunkers on each team will have 90 seconds to pack in as many dunks as they can. It’s essentially a layup line, not too different from players’ pregame shootaround routines. The judges select a winning team, and that team chooses whether to go first or second in the next round.

The battle round is another clever twist. The three dunkers on each team will be paired off for a series of head-to-head battles, with the judges selecting a winner from each. When a dunker loses a battle, he’s eliminated from the competition, and the remaining contestants continue to go head-to-head until one of the teams wins three battles. That team will be the Slam Dunk Champions for the night.

The move to a tournament format not only keeps each individual matchup more compelling than just six dunkers playing every-man-for-himself, but the faster pace is a much-needed antidote to the excessive props that have ruined recent dunk contests.

Even the Dunker of the Night award (decided by a fan vote) isn’t much different from the winner picked in the dunk contest up until this year. The dunk contest is not doing away with an individual winner, as it seemed when they announced the rules. They’re just renaming the award.

The new rules represent a major shift for the dunk contest, but it’s hard to deny that it needed one. After several years of interminable prop dunks turned the dunk contest from appointment viewing to self-parody, competition desperately needed an injection of life.

The new rules should do just that.

...wut.

could be half decent or absolutely horrible.

 

[Trillmatic90]

Wtf are they thinking? Dunk contest has always been every man for themselves.

 

[100027]

I like it.  It's not like the same old formula is getting anyone excited.

 

[pmatic]

Antidope is gonna have to suit up soon if the spurs keep losing players

He's got on his sleeves already.

 

[suberzat1]

He's got on his sleeves already.

 

[Trillmatic90]

Yea but the competitive element of it isn't there now.

 

[herbshuttles15]

There is still going to be a single winner

 

[sea manup]

joe johnson is without a doubt the worst 7 time all star in nba history

 

[Trillmatic90]

There is still going to be a single winner

True, I just don't like how there's teams now.

 

[grandtheftbike]

jkidd with the sippy cup

 

[lynchpin33]

After waiting 10 plus years to finally get James White in the dunk contest and being VERY disappointed, I'm looking forward to erase that performance he had last year....

 

[awwsome]

James White let us all down, dude wasted his prime dunking years in college/overseas

 

[black migo]

Dude always been a overrated dunker, having to run a 40 yard dash just to attempt a dunk is

 

[sea manup]

Dude always been a overrated dunker, having to run a 40 yard dash just to attempt a dunk is

 

[black migo]

cmon stop

 

[ill steelo]