Yesterday

Yesterday wasn't a great day. Georgetown lost. VT lost. It was an ugly day of college basketball for me, and I had one thing to look forward to...NBA Allstar Saturday Night, and you know what I think it delivered.

Up first was the Shooting Stars competition where my pick, Phoenix didn't get out of the first round. San Antonio's team won which consisted of Tim Duncan, Becky Hammond and David Robinson. It was kinda funny watching two 7 footers shoot threes and half court shots.

After that it was the Skills competition which consisted of Dwayne Wade, Chris Paul, Jason Kidd, and my pick Deron Williams. From what I read, D-Wade didn't even practice the course. My friends who were watching this were sure CP was going to win but I stuck with Deron and he pulled it out for me. So far I am 1 for 2.

Next up, the Three Point Shootout. This consisted of Dirk Nowitzki, Daniel Gibson, Peja Stojakovic, Steve Nash, Richard Hamilton, and Jason Kapono. The reining champion Kapono repeated with the victory, scoring an insane 25/30, while my pick "Boobie" Gibson got second place. I'm 1 for 3 tonight. But right now I'm calling it, Boobie Gibson wins it next year.

Finally, it came to what I was waiting for all night, the Slam Dunk Contest. It was Dwight Howard, Rudy Gay, Gerald Green, and Jamario Moon. Here are a few of the really good I enjoyed. First up is Jamario Moon. He does a nice lob to himself fully extends his arm, gets the ball, and brings it over and dunks it. He gets a decent score of 46/50. Next up is Rudy Gay who does a boring windmill dunk and gets a 37 for it. After Rudy, my pick Dwight Howard is up. He stands behind the basket, throws the ball against the back of the backboard, catches the ball, reaches under the backboard and jams it barely not hitting his head. I had never seen anything like it before, and he got a perfect score for it.

After him, Gerald Green brings out a surprise. It's a cupcake, with candle on it. His assistant, Rashad McCants (side note: for some reason my tv was on Comcast sportsnet today and there was a woman's UVA-UNC bball game. One player on UNC was named Rashanda McCants and I told my roommate that it has to be Rashad's sister, and I was right, sorry) puts it up on the back of the rim. He lights the candle. McCants bounces the ball Green runs up catches it, dunks it as he is blowing the candle out. The judges gave him a 46, but I think he deserves at least a 50 for the creativity of the dunk.

For they're second dunks noone really does anything extraordinary until the last person, Dwight. His assistant Jameer Nelson hands him what appears to be a wrapped red blanket. he shakes it out and you can see the little superman symbol on it. Howard takes off his jersey and under it is a superman shirt. After he dunked that you could tell it was over. In the next round, Howard dominates Green, and I don't feel like explaining more so here is a link to the entire contest(http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/nba/nbacom/allstar/2008/dunk_cutdown_080216.asx?siteid=silverlight',%20'http://www.nba.com/media/silverlight_400.jpg), and thats about it.