seeing the progression of the slam dunk contest these past few years (and the antics pulled off last weekend) it just goes to show what players have to do to try and receive attention in the slam dunk contest.
it's safe to assume that nobody will EVER come close to Vince Carter's slam dunk competition in 2000
He single-handedly destroyed the competition for every year beyond that. if you took what he did in 2000 and replayed it in 2001 all the way to 2011, i GUARANTEE you he would win out every single competition with those dunks. do you see how insane and creative those dunks are? NO jumping over a car. No two balls in your hand and dunking on two different basketball hoops. NO slapping on a superman cape and raising the basket 12 inches high just to show you can still dunk it. NO, Vince Carter dunked so believable that even in a regular game his dunks are legit. No Travelling, dribble two steps. no coasting in and just putting the ball in the hoop. His 360 Windmill dunk will forever live down as the greatest opening dunk in a competition EVER. nobody can top that. And then elevating so high that not only does he dunk the ball but his entire forearm as well?!?!?!
ever since 2000, the only way players can wow the crowd (which nobody is really wow'd anymore after vinsanity demolished the playing field) is to come up with stupid antics.
They should have retired the slam dunk contest after the year 2000 because nobody has had the entire nation going WHAT DID I JUST SEE?!?!?! since then at the competition. PERIOD
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The whole car stunt was ridiculous. It wasn't that impressive of a dunk and I'd argue for Blake Griffen to even dunk from that distance (which the distance wasn't that impressive either), you'd naturally have to jump the height of a car.
If he jumped over a van (and the tallest height of the van, not the pansy hood of the car), that'd be more impressive.
It just bugs me that the car stunt was a whole lot of show and no one seemed to notice that it wasn't really that impressive.
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