I was tempted to type a post consisting only the following words "Dwight Howard" for my entire post, but brevity is not my thing. Goodness, this was so exciting I forgot to drink my beer. Gerald Green wasn't bad either, Dr. J was right that the barefoot dunk didn't get enough credit. The Birthday Cake dunk was just surreal. Any other year and Green wins, he is Dwight Howard's Steve Francis when Vince won in Oakland. If you rememeber they had that dumb ass wheel of furtune dunk thing that year that screwed Stevie. I have never seen anyone jumb higher in person than Francis around that time frame. Back to Dwight though... seeing someone that big jump like that was just baffling. I can't imagine having been in person. He was compared to Shawn Kemp tonight, which I have done before, but this was something all together different. The Reign Man could get his head over the rim, but I really thought Dwight was going to start levitatitng David Blane style just to start messing with people.
Next year people are going to have to walk on water to get tens, or maybe just jump over a tank full of sharks with laser beams on their heads. If you didn't watch this years competition, get to YouTube immediately. People will have this shit posted in the next thrity seconds. I promise. Dwight Howard's first dunk from behind the backboard could only have been done by someone his size. He made being seven feet tall work to his advantage. Anyone who has ever watched this competition knows that this is the only time in basketball when being that tall is a disadvantage. Dwight did this after the NBA for whatever reason refused to move the goal up to twelve feet for the second straight year. David Stern needs to go ahead and announce that he will comply with any Dunk Contest realted request Dwight has for the rest of his career in a public statement tomorrow.
Really, if you can't appreciate this then to quote Charles Barkley you don't like at-a let-icks. At least twice I jumped off of my couch and yelled "That's not True, that's Impossible!" The Dunk Contest is back.
The dunk contest amazes me because I cannot even imagine having the at-a -let-ick ability to even begin thinking about doing anything that remotely looks what was done this evening. I could enter a drinking contest with them though. The Captain signing off...