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CHICAGO — “C’mon man. What’re we doing?”
Aaron Gordon, now a two-time dunk contest runner-up, said it himself, following a bizarre, entertaining-as-hell marathon double-overtime dunk contest that concluded with his spontaneous scaling of 7'5" Tacko Fall, only to find out he lost, yet again. Gordon bowed out with a 47 on his sixth and final dunk, ceding the duel to Derrick Jones Jr., after stringing together perfect, 50-grade scores on his first five attempts. The crowd seemed to think Gordon had won it. He had not. “That should be a wrap,’ Gordon said.