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youtube.com - 2/17/2008

Sprite Slam Dunk Contest 2008 recap (video)

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Watch the top dunks of the Sprite Slam Dunk contest, including Dwight Howard's Superman and Gerald Green's Birthday Cake jam.

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Welcome Back Dunk Contest
Bleacher Report — One year ago, Dwight Howard jumped 12 ft. 6 in. and put a sticker on the backboard while completing the dunk. He had a dunk lined up for the finals where he would actually kiss the rim.  He was then eliminated because the "judges" felt that his dunk wasn't nasty enough. I was shocked, and so where his teammates.  Pretty much everybody felt that he was robbed. This year, Howard was back, with vengeance. He began by coming from behind the backboard, nearly hitting his head, and dunking it.  Sure, that's been seen before, but only when one person throws it to another, he did it ...

Reasons to Heart All-Star Weekend
ChicksInTheHuddle.com — You get to experience…. -Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic calling the Dirty Dozen Brass Band the “Dirty Brass Band” while reading the teleprompter like some braces wearing pre-teen in a “Hooked on Phonics” commercial. -Chris Paul being adorable - Tim Duncan ...

Super Saturday Night
Three Idiots on Sports — It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Dwight Howard Photo: Reuters After getting ChampBaby to bed Saturday night, I spent the evening flipping between ABC's showing of Miracle and the Slam Dunk Contenst on TNT. Yes, these are the exciting Saturday nights you experience ...

NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND: NO PAC-MAN JONES?
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — I missed out on yesterday's All-Star Game, and from what I've read the players seemed to care a little bit more than usual, with LeBron James and Ray Allen combining to hold off Chris Paul and the West in the final minutes as the East went on to win (LeBron took MVP honors for the second time in three years). I did, however, tune in for the Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday night, and like everyone else I'm amazed and terrified of what might happen if Dwight Howard's powers were harnessed by the forces of evil.  There's been some talk about how the Superman dunk wasn't a dunk because he didn't grab the rim, to which I say: open your ...

Guest post COW: Jama jumps into the fray
Randball — Jama has a lot to say about quite a great many things. But as a penalty for being late with his entry, he is sharing this space with Paul Paulos, who sent in the picture you see with the following information: “On a fishing outing near Helen Lake in the Wind River Range off Wyoming, I stopped to fish and get ...

The Highly Entertaining Dunk Conest
The Big Lead — We are occasionally prone to taking dissenting views (Jon Scheyer, John Hollinger, and Chad Johnson) and we feel that while blowing out the candle and the Superman cape made for great theater, Dwight Howard’s opening slam - the one where, starting from out of bounds behind the basket, he threw the ball off the backboard, caught it, and all in one swooping motion, like a Transformer coming to life, ducked his head under the basket and dunked the basketball - was the most impressive jam from Saturday night. A distant second - Gerald Green’s shoeless immitation of Vince ...

Dwight Howard NBA "Tip-In" Champion
Play is Under Review — It's a bird, It's a plane, No, It's a glorified "Tip-In"! Really, how do they consider it a dunk? You might call it a lay-up, but you can't throw the ball in the basket from that far away and call it a dunk.

Was that Stephen A. Smith callin' the dunk contest?
Construda — TNT NBA analyst Kenny Smith channeled his inner Stephen A. Smith on Saturday night while calling the annual dunk contest. Smith, who I think does a great job for TNT's NBA coverage, was out of control during the broadcast. The volume of his voice was near SAS levels. And some of Kenny Smith's comments were, quite frankly (pun intended), odd. It was certainly easy to marvel at Dwight Howard's breathtaking dunks and creativity, but Kenny The Jet was overbearing. Take a listen...

OPEN THREAD: Game 53 - Warriors @ Jazz
Golden State Of Mind — Warriors (W-L): 32-20 Jazz (W-L): 34-19 Time: 6:00pm PST TV: FSN Bay Area Radio: KNBR 680 With the Warrior's 5 day vacation coming to an end, (where they enjoyed some sun and relaxation), we now embark on the second half of the season. Tied in 7th place with Houston and Denver, it's now time to determine whether or not this season is a success. As cliché as it sounds, every game is do or die and unfortunately we have to square off with the one team I fear the most ... the Utah Jazz.     But before I begin, if you were on vacation, working, or stuck in a hole, then I ...

Top 10 Stories That Mattered In 2008 [Listicle]
We Eat Children — Previous Post: I Didn’t Get You Any Presents But Here’s A Bunch of Year-End Lists [Listicle] Top 10 Stories That Mattered In 2008 [Listicle] 2008 saw virtually every major sports and some of the minor ones (ie. swimming) hold it down with worthy historical moments. Here is a completely subjective and nonsensical countdown of the top sports moments in 2008. 10. Michael Phelps. Ears. Gold Medals. World Records.  9. What recession? The Yankees spent money like, well, the Yankees, dropping $420 million on three players. According to  Forbes Magazine , 16 of the 30 MLB teams are worth less than what the Yankees paid for Teixeira, ...