All-Star Weekend

Anyone who knows me knows I love basketball and the NBA. But i have to admit that the All-Star Weekend for the past few years has been kinda lame. Who doesn't think the game itself is a little bit of a snoozer most years but the extra stuff has been super lame. Especially the Slam Dunk Contest. I mean even one year Fred Jones won because he happened to get his dunk in the final round to go down but not because it was anything extremely spectacular. This year though, this year was different. Dwight Howard was awesome. The first round dunks were great by 3 out of the 4. Rudy Gay was kind of a disappointment but Howard made up for that. The Birthday Cake was great by Gerald Green only to be outdone by the Superman dunk by Dwight Howard. My only complaint about the final round is that Gerald Greens dunks were down right boring. Who cares if you can dunk it with socks and no shoes. BORING.

Howard did not disappoint. The one where he threw the ball in the air then slapped it off the backboard with his left and hand dunked it with his right hand was a sight to see. Kenny Smith basically had the best comment of the night when he said "the man is a video game, I have only seen that in a video game, no, I haven't even seen that in a video game.

It was also fun to hear that Deron Williams won the skills challange. He set the record for this competition too. Even more ironic it happened to be against Chris Paul in the final round. Those two will forever be compared with each other and this just added to the comparison talks.


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