LouisLitt wrote:dhsilv2 wrote:LouisLitt wrote:
There's a pretty stark difference between "99.9% of players can't dunk" and "I don't need a player to dunk every play for me to enjoy the sport". Also, Luka, Steph, and Jokic can all dunk.
Think of the biggest highlights this season, all dunks. Mostly from Ant.
I mean the NBA literally has an entire weekend that's being saved by a dunk contest.
Curry and that girl shooting 3's was the biggest event of the allstar weekend...
Does anyone watch the dunk contest? And Jokic's passes are easily half the top plays of this year.
It was a big event of literally one all-star weekend in the entire history of all-star weekends.
The dunk contest is the biggest event. Every year people pray we get a repeat of the 2016 dunk contest.
Jokic passes aren't the most watched plays of this year, dunks are. They always are.
MJ literally made an entire brand off the "Jumpman" and you're telling me they're not the most important aspect of the sport for marketability?
The 3 point contest in general is the bigger allstar weekend event. It's where actual stars compete, something they don't do in the slam dunk contest.
And I'm not saying nobody watches dunks. They make for some good entertainment sometimes. But the dunk contest doesn't generally have the top players, or even close to. There isn't anything new or exciting for people to do with dunks. And I'm tuning in to see a Jokic "sick pass" highlight reel 1000x before and ANT dunk video. And Ant's a pretty good dunker, but it's all stuff we've seen before. I've never seen the stuff Jokic is doing. Just like in 2016, I was watching Curry 3 point packages because I'd never seen someone shooting like that.
Again we just saw the most watched allstar saturday in like a decade, with peak views during the curry 3 point shooting.