As promised, DeAndre Jordan finally participated in the Slam Dunk Contest on All-Star Saturday Night since being named an All-Star for this year’s game.
He was robbed.
And the contest wasn’t exactly as entertaining a battle as last year’s was.
DeAndre’s opponents, Derrick Jones Jr., Glenn Robinson III, and the 2016 champ Aaron Gordon, all had problems with execution. Dunks are less exciting when it takes you 3-4 attempts to land them. And it’s blasphemous towards the basketball gods to award someone points for a dunk they couldn’t pull off at all.