If you’re like most basketball fans, you probably think the dunk contest is getting more and more boring with each passing year.
It’s hard to blame you if you feel this way! The pacing is awkward, there are too many missed slams, and the props feel less unexpected and outlandish. It is always frustrating when the judges make careless mistakes and somehow it feels like the wrong guy always wins.
But the biggest problem of all is that we aren’t getting to watch the preferred dunkers throwing it down on this stage.
This year, we will see a lineup that is relatively underwhelming: Jericho Sims (Knicks), KJ Martin (Rockets), Trey Murphy (Pelicans), and Mac McClung (Delaware Blue Coats/Philadelphia 76ers).
For The Win’s NBA experts fantasized about a world with a much more thrilling group of dunkers competing for the crown. Here is what we all decided: