Skills Challenged NBA

1) Charles Barkley defends his title as the world's fastest "near 300" pounder. Bavetta never had a chance.


2) Non-Star game last night

Missed it.


3) 3 Point Contest

Finals were...

Sven Kapono, Diggler, and Gilbert Arenas. (Jet "Nashed" the first round.)

The Diggler got tired from all that shooting, finished third.

Arenas, maybe the only jump shooter to make it this far in a while, finished second.

And a damn Euro wins it! Kapono takes home the Damon-money.


4) TNT ran four dunks from years gone by...

Tom Chambers "Take-Off" Dunk was clearly the best.

MJ's awesome jam over Patrick second. Now that was a rivalry!

John Starks right foot/left hand dunk was nearly as good as the first two.

And Julius' wrist bone breaking dunk over the Lakers should not be shown anymore. He broke his fucking wrist, supposedly. And he IS Julius Erving: maybe there's five hundred ones just as good?


5) Slam Dunk Contest

Dwight Howard's dunks were ok, but lacked showmanship and originality. Get serious, kid.

Tyrus Thomas had a lot of flair and looked like he had some fun. Nice to see.

Nate Robinson improved on his title winning effort and made some great dunks: a-l-m-o-s-t went sideways on the one-handed one. Wow. And his "Statue of Liberty", with the assist coming from David Lee (David Lee had an assist?) was amazing. First time we've seen that. Great job.

Gerald Green, channeling Dee Brown, Paul Pierce, and Red Auerbach, wins it. As it should be: the C's can't win a fucking game, but they take the Slam Dunk. What a world. Gerald's win hopefully is a harbinger of good things to come for Boston's team. And we don't mean the lottery. There's a lot of games left to play and maybe win in the second half.