Today's Poll -- Dunk Contest

jr smith is going to suck in this. I mean yeah he is a great athlete but i don’t see him being creative at all. My prediction he does a between the legs dunk followed by some sort of oop to himself. Howard wins on his name alone(even though rudy steals the show with his inventive new dunks, but fails to complete most of them on the first try loosing the shock factor).

What a bunch of homers. NO WAY Rudy wins.

this contest sucks as a whole?

The NBA has better athletes, jumpers, and dunkers that this lot of guys. In the glory days, it was Air Jordan vs. The Human Highlight Show!!!

Why can’t we get the elite players to participate now? This cast has no major draw at all (obviously I’ll watch for our boy Rudy).

Nate? Really? We’re going to willingly watch THAT again? Really?

Dwight? Dude’s a beast for sure, and he’s got some vert… but he’s no acrobat. I don’t care to watch him faux-dunk in a costume again… that wasn’t that cool.

Rudy? I’m holding out hope that he’ll be creative enough to make it refreshing and fun to watch… cuz he ain’t bringing any raw athleticism and power to the show, that’s for sure.

JR? He’s the only one I can see doing something both freakishly awesome and creative.

One more thing… why hasn’t anyone tried to expand the spinning dunks? Surely someone can do a 720, right?

Last night I saw Nate Robinson on TV talking about how he was going to do rainbow dunk. Is that a joke? Maybe Brandon told him Rudy’s secret.

I’ll set the over/under at 9. My guess is 14.

howard may win it again, it’s kind of a popularity contest (most voted for all star) and he can do the most with the ball/backboard while in the air, but lil’ nate is the most impressive i think.

i hate how in talkin’ ball they were saying the all star game used to mean something, guys used to play hard. The all star game has never really meant anything, just marketing, a break, and a fun time. Was it really meant to gauge who was the best of the best when it was invented? Sure bird and magic played hard against each other, but they would have played that way in their driveway. Even if the game is more of just a break time and a fun weekend for athletes to recover, so what? Is basketball only about competition and who is “better”? Sometimes it just bugs me when old fat white guys sit around and proclaim that other people should work physically harder.

No, i’m not sorry for this diatribe.

yea thats right. On sportscenter he got 4% of the vote to Howards 66%.
SOMEONES gotta show the kid some love

He won’t deserve it, but everyone loves a little guy.

JR Smith as a dark horse. Sorry Rudy. :/

The skinny spaniard with the scruff and white-fro might get people cheering him on. It will be kinda like when that kid that plays four years of high school ball on the bench finally gets in, in the last game of his senior year.

The people WANT Rudy to win.

more than athleticism, in which case Rudy has a chance to win.

5/1 on Vegas bet for Rudy… I just want him to dunk on and/or over Dwight or a cardboard cutout of Dwight if he isn’t willing to participate…

but Dwight will win because of his name recognition….why does the crowd always go “oooooh!” when someone does a tomahawk? It’s really not that great. The post-dunk celebration is always the worse because the dunker will land, yell to the sky, pose and then eventually flex. After that, he’ll run to the sidelines and chest bump someone. The ladies in the audience will scream and swoon and the guys yell “You go Boy!” And will eventually want to develop a Bromance at some nightclub in Scottsdale and be part of the crew.

Is that the regular scenario, or is it just me?

I think he has something very weird planned which will blow the crowd away.

Howard won last year because of a very unimpressive gimmicky dunk in which he didn’t actually dunk the ball.

Dwight Howard will do a “phone booth” dunk, whatever this is. Maybe he just changes costume in a red phone booth.

I hope Rudy does some cool soccer tricks and doesn’t come out last or doesn’t end up embarrassing himself.

Definitely happy to see a Blazer in there although it’s the wrong one. And happy for the Rookie Challenge.

As Howard prepares for his dunk, he walks up near the hoop. In the meantime Rudy has grabbed a ball and is near the halfcourt line, along the sideline. As Howard stands near the hoop, Rudy comes flying in and dunks over Howard (again). He runs to center court and loudy shouts “Spain wins the GOOOOOOOOOOOLD!”

but i voted for Rudy… Spanish Soccer accents to dunking for the Win

if rudy pulls out those soccer tricks..hell win for sure

I’ll vote for him for any and every poll you ever place him in (as long as it’s favorable).

If I were a bettin’ man would I put my dollars on him? HELL NAW!

But I love me some Rudy! GOOOOOOOO Spanish Fly!