How to Fix the Slam Dunk Contest

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Obscure Sports Quarterly found this 1/15/2008 on www.sportingnews.com [flag]
By Chris Mottram Our friend Dustin Canalin over at UNDRCRWN presented a simple, yet fantastic solution to improve the current state of the All-Star Weekend's dunk contest: "Take the best dunkers in the world, NBA or not, and put up a million bucks." This got us thinking: Who would be included in such a contest? My top three candidates would be as follows. The Air Up There: ... [link]

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Published 1/15/2008 by Gilbert at Obscure Sports Quarterly
... Chris Mottram with some creative ideas on how to fix the NBA slam dunk contest and more importantly, who should be in it. (The Sporting Blog) ...

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