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Originally Posted by bigjbasketball
Except it kind of is the same thing. The dunk contest used to be cool because the best players and dunkers in the league actually competed in it. The last thing the all-star weekend needs is a bunch of nobodies that the average NBA fan has never heard of. Anyone can go on YouTube and watch cool dunks - if that’s what you’re interested in, then go watch that. The problem the NBA has is that they obviously can’t force the best players to enter, so they’re stuck using a bunch of fringe rotation players and a guy on a 2-way contract who has never actually dunked in a professional game.
You know why the 3-point contest was the best part of the night? Because you actually had stars and superstars enter the contest. That’s what people want to see. If you had Zion in the dunk contest, it doesn’t even matter if his dunks weren’t technically as good as some YouTube dunker, because he has star power, and that was severely lacking in everyone who was in this year’s competition.
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basically but how do you get back to superstar talent in the dunk contest? I don't think you can.