Comments on: LeBron Doesn’t Reject Magic Johnson’s $1 Million Dunk Offer, Which Means It’ll Be Media Fodder for 11 Months

By: knifeyspoony

knifeyspoony — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:17:06 +0000

the Slam Dunk Contest is great at taking everything that makes slam dunks cool and replacing it with stupid contrived gimmicks.

By: SportsIndustrialComplex

SportsIndustrialComplex — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:01:40 +0000

He’s got Olympic Gold. What’s left for him?

7 more championships?

By: Jay V Of Considerable Influence

Jay V Of Considerable Influence — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:38:31 +0000

For what it’s worth, I usually enjoy the actual NBA game each year.

Agreed, it has surpassed the MLB All-Star Game as my favorite.

By: hussler2

hussler2 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:24:34 +0000

I’d prefer some type of 1-on-1 game (King of the Hill?) to the dunk contest.

By: chicago

chicago — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:22:15 +0000

Can’t we just get rid of All Star games all together? Sure it was nice 50 years ago when it was only time you get to see all the stars from all over the league play. But now, with all the league passes and the internet, it’s time to get rid of these silly exhibitions where nobody really tries.

For what it’s worth, I usually enjoy the actual NBA game each year.

By: Razor Shines

Razor Shines — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:07:26 +0000

Can’t we just get rid of All Star games all together? Sure it was nice 50 years ago when it was only time you get to see all the stars from all over the league play. But now, with all the league passes and the internet, it’s time to get rid of these silly exhibitions where nobody really tries.

I’d bet baseball’s and the NBA’s are huge money makers.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:06:11 +0000

By: chicago

chicago — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:05:42 +0000

Lebron being in it won’t magically fix the excessive amount of attempts that they allow and all the ancillary stuff they do to make it more of a spectacle than it needs to be.

Now this is definitely true.

By: José Pippen

José Pippen — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:05:01 +0000

James White is a better dunker than Lebron and he had a bad dunk contest. Lebron being in it won’t magically fix the excessive amount of attempts that they allow and all the ancillary stuff they do to make it more of a spectacle than it needs to be.

By: scripty

scripty — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:00:36 +0000

Lebron goes back to the Cavs, agrees to do the Slam Dunk contest, then blows out both knees on his first dunk attempt. I can see it now.

By: Milk Steak To Go

Milk Steak To Go — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:54:33 +0000

If you want name players in the contest, somebody has to be first to commit, right? Why not James?

Dwayne Wade would need to be in before Lebron commits.

By: Razor Shines

Razor Shines — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:54:26 +0000

They’d have to do the finals differently than this fan voting stuff. You run the risk of some guy pulling off a 720 through the leg over a teammate from the foul line and losing to a Lebron windmill or something.

By: chicago

chicago — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:53:57 +0000

All he’d have to do is sprint down court, jump from around the free throw line, cock the ball back (like that dunk at the end of yesterday’s game off the steal), and throw it down hard, and the the contest is his. Count me as one of the people that doesn’t get why he doesn’t just do it.

By: Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:53:29 +0000

Remember that time the NBA Dunk Contest sucked when Dee Brown or Cedric Ceballos won the contest? How about JR Rider? Yeah, me neither.

By: Some Random Old Dude

Some Random Old Dude — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:51:31 +0000

What if his signing on early was a selling point to the Westbrooks, Griffins and Durants of the league – the real stars?

If you want name players in the contest, somebody has to be first to commit, right? Why not James?

By: chicago

chicago — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:49:18 +0000

It’s like everybody’s looking for something to bash LeBron for…

Or he’s just an awesome dunker and everyone thinks it would be great entertainment to see him/durant/griffin compete against each other.

By: Razor Shines

Razor Shines — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:48:31 +0000

Seems like it would be even worse for his image to do it now. I will do the contest if and only if I get an absurd amount of money to throw down a couple dunks.

Fair point – he should give it to charity.

By: Liquor

Liquor — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:48:25 +0000

Barkley said it best when he said he owes it to the game. Not just him but others as well.

He doesnt owe the NBA shit.

If anything, LeBron has generated eleventy-billion dollars of advertising and name recognition for the NBA and deserves to be paid eleventy-billion dollars.
/duffy & Jmac logic

By: Dawgfather

Dawgfather — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:46:42 +0000

Seems like it would be even worse for his image to do it now. I will do the contest if and only if I get an absurd amount of money to throw down a couple dunks.

By: mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants

mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:46:23 +0000

Though by 1988 standards, he’s have looked okay.

if he would have been okay in 1988 he would win a modern dunk contest just by being the guy who makes a dunk on the first attempt,