Saturday evening was once no longer that. Nevertheless it was once effective. Obi Toppin received, deserved to win, and deserved higher than having to respond to for the shoddy efficiency of his pageant.
The dunk contest remains to be higher than the three-point contest, which Reggie Miller spent such a lot time droning on about as a greater cap to the evening. We see three-pointers at all times, and despite the fact that the dunk contest was once a dud as a result of Jalen Inexperienced took the air out of the construction along with his a number of failed makes an attempt, Cole Anthony whiffed utterly, then Juan Toscano-Anderson bombed out within the ultimate.
There was once no drama, however that didn’t imply Toppin’s dunks had been awful. Taken out of the context of the loss of drama, the Knicks large guy’s spotlight reel suits in neatly with different performances through the years. It’s no longer an iconic efficiency like Jason Richardson’s display that Toscano-Anderson attempted to pay tribute to, however a forged evening of dunking, which was once all it took this 12 months.
No longer yearly goes to be Aaron Gordon vs. Zach LaVine, however the NBA normally is healthier at accentuating the certain than what TNT introduced on Saturday evening, which sounded an terrible lot like John Smoltz’s moaning in a baseball sales space about how issues was higher. Even a dud of a competition nonetheless has some superior dunks, and that may all the time be extra a laugh than gazing a number of men shoot open jumpers, an match that’s laborious to get zazzed up with neon inexperienced Mountain Dew balls price further issues.
Additionally, Gordon were given robbed in 2016, partly on account of one thing that still performs in opposition to Toppin: larger dunkers have a integrated downside of aesthetics as a result of what makes a dunk glance further cool is the semblance of defying gravity: the Jumpman silhouette sticks for your thoughts on account of how cool Michael Jordan appeared doing it.
Now, perhaps the Knicks may just get started giving Toppin some extra mins to do extra of his dunking in video games, which may be tops within the league.
