Judges were pretty biased. Serge deserved more points and the best dunks were by mcgee and derozan. Blake didn’t win on talent. Fan voting gave biber mvp over pippen. Another joke, I can understand it is for the fans and we want their bias to support the business, got no problems with it. As long we know who should have won the contest.

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Serge dunked the ball, leaving the court BEHIND the free throw line, and doesn’t win??!!

Even MJ and Dr. J started inside of the line.

I think that Ibaka was screwed. However, I also believe that once the finals were set griffin was the better dunker. Mcgee used all of his best dunks in the first round. His final dunk was just an average dunk that could have been done by dozens of players in the league. But Ibaka should have gotten a 50 on the first dunk for sure.

Brandon, while I mostly agree that McGee’s final dunk wasn’t all that spectacular, at least by the standards of the evening that night, I think he knew the contest was over as soon as Griffin made his final dunk. I mean, you’re already the hometown favorite, and then jump over a car with a choir singing in the background? Here’s your trophy, sir. And now our other contestant will perform his last dunk. Because, well, it says here he has to.

I think that’s about what it was like for him. He knew it was over, so he just did a nice little throw-down to polite applause, and walked off the court. I doubt that’s the dunk he originally had planned, but there wasn’t any point. I think he said later something about needing a boat or a plane to top what Griffin did. That’s about what it would have taken.

Griffin’s dunk by itself wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, which is actually kind of eye-opening when you’re talking about Blake Griffin and dunking a basketball. But the sparkle factor was off the charts.

Something else I’d say about Serge. Listening to that interview above, it strikes me how fast he’s picked up English. When he first got here he needed an interpreter almost all the time, from what I remember reading. Now, he sits there and answers all those questions with no help at all.

Then you stop and remember that he already knows three or four other languages, I think it is. Sort of takes the whole “dumb jock” thing and hurls it straight out the window, doesn’t it. In multiple languages no less.

I used to think Jeff Green had the best chance to best the Thunder’s next “big star” after Durant. And I still like Jeff Green. But then Westbrook stepped out of his phone booth and flew off toward All Star land. It’s still very early and he’s still very young, but I’m starting to wonder if Ibaka might turn out to be the Thunder’s Next Big Thing. You combine his compelling story with his play on the court – and maybe toss in a foul-line leap or two – you’ve got the makings of a pretty good Next Big Thing.