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NR: ‘Cause they don’t want to look bad. They don’t wanna mess up their [sigh], I hate to say it, they don’t want to look silly, man. It’s about the reputation more than going out and just showing people that you’re human. It’s okay to mess up and fail at something. It’s more about having fun like you’re in the gym just dunking after you get done working out or you get done training, and you just throwing the ball up dunking in front of millions of people. That’s the difference.
They just don’t wanna look silly and I think that it’s kinda crazy that they don’t give the fans the opportunity to fall in love with their athleticism kinda like LeBron [James]. Somebody like LeBron doing it would make it so much more fun just because he’s in it. It don’t really matter if LeBron went and just laid it up, people would still be happy just because he’s in it. Kids will go back loving the Dunk Contest again just because he was in it.
So, we encourage guys like the Ja Morants, the Zion Williamsons, the guys that we really wanna see in the Dunk Contest. Shaedon Sharpe, he should be in it. Like guys that really have dunks, that really do dunks in the game. I don’t know if this Dunk Contest is gonna live up to what they expect because of the guys that are in it. I mean I’ve never seen [Jaime] Jaquez do any kinda cool dunks and to see that he’s in it, it’s questionable. I don’t know, I wanna see what he got. Never seen him dunk like crazy dunks before. It’s gonna be interesting to see what he brings to the table. He could probably be a jack of all trades, we don’t know, we never seen him do any crazy dunks yet.
I wanna see what Jaylen Brown got. I know he can dunk in games but does he have Slam Dunk Contest dunks? We already know what [Mac] McClung’s bringing. He’s been fantastic over the years, in-game and the Dunk Contest. And then [Obi] Toppin doing his famous between-the-leg dunk in the game. What more can you do, so we wanna see what you can do, and hopefully he don’t go stink it up.
We just hope for more creativity, we want more flash, and we want more fan engagement in the Dunk Contest. Get these fans involved.
