McLemore WILL participate in the Dunk Competition

Post #1 » by **City of Trees** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 6:58 am

@James_Ham: Nothing official, but hearing strong rumors that Ben McLemore will participate in the Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star weekend.

That would be sick. ... sorry for the old school cut n paste, phone limitations.

Post #2 » by **pillwenney** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 7:04 am

Will be cool to have some level of representation at least.

blind prophet · Post #3 » by **blind prophet** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 7:25 am

They'll toss us a bone somewhere.

Thought maybe Jimmer would get a 3pt shot possibly.

SacKingsPejaFan · Post #4 » by **SacKingsPejaFan** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 1:20 pm

amazing if true. it's been way too long since a king was in one of these contests.

Post #5 » by **City of Trees** » Fri Feb 7, 2014 1:55 am

Its official. Ben is in the dunk competition

Post #6 » by **ICMTM** » Fri Feb 7, 2014 2:32 am

When was a King ever in the dunk contest? Spud Webb was a Hawk when he entered. Maybe Ben will win and get some swag...

ADoaN17 · Post #7 » by **ADoaN17** » Fri Feb 7, 2014 3:01 am

ICMTM wrote:When was a King ever in the dunk contest? Spud Webb was a Hawk when he entered. Maybe Ben will win and get some swag...

Kenny Smith and Gerald Wallace I think.

Kings2013 · Post #8 » by **Kings2013** » Fri Feb 7, 2014 3:17 am

Its funny because earlier in the season I was gun shy of him going to the cup because of a perceived lack of ability to finish. Hope he does well, I will be anticipating what he has in store for us

blind prophet · Post #9 » by **blind prophet** » Fri Feb 7, 2014 3:32 am

ADoaN17 wrote:
ICMTM wrote:When was a King ever in the dunk contest? Spud Webb was a Hawk when he entered. Maybe Ben will win and get some swag...

Kenny Smith and Gerald Wallace I think.

Terry Tyler, and I think he had the highest vertical at one time. The rumor was he wore leg weights religiously as a kid, not sure if that was true, but used to ball with his son back in the day.

SacKingZZZ · Post #10 » by **SacKingZZZ** » Fri Feb 7, 2014 11:24 pm

At least Kings fans have a reason to watch something at All star. Can't believe the best center in the league would be left out of an all star game. What a joke. All star games are a joke anyway, but they need to get over this letting sub par talent in because their teams are good. The day they stop letting fans vote in injured players on bad teams is the day the all star game shouldn't be about individual success. Just get over it already and bring it back to what it was back in the day. If not just take 3 guys on the 4 best teams in each conference. Couple years of that BS and a steep ratings decline and they'll realize that the all star game is to showcase STARS! Nothing more.

Post #11 » by **pillwenney** » Sat Feb 8, 2014 12:48 am

Normally I'd agree, but there was tons of deserving players out west this year. Nobody out west who clearly didn't deserve it.

SacKingZZZ · Post #12 » by **SacKingZZZ** » Sat Feb 8, 2014 2:57 am

Like I said, best center in the league being left out? I figured this kind of stuff was coming when the essentially eliminated the position.

sacking123 · Post #13 » by **sacking123** » Sat Feb 8, 2014 9:52 pm

SacKingZZZ wrote:At least Kings fans have a reason to watch something at All star. Can't believe the best center in the league would be left out of an all star game. What a joke. All star games are a joke anyway, but they need to get over this letting sub par talent in because their teams are good. The day they stop letting fans vote in injured players on bad teams is the day the all star game shouldn't be about individual success. Just get over it already and bring it back to what it was back in the day. If not just take 3 guys on the 4 best teams in each conference. Couple years of that BS and a steep ratings decline and they'll realize that the all star game is to showcase STARS! Nothing more.

Absolutely spot on.

Post #14 » by **ICMTM** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:33 pm

He'll get it on the back end as long as he keeps doing what he's supposed to do.

Post #15 » by **City of Trees** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:17 am

John Wall had the best dunk. McLemore second. I think the new format wasnt impressive. Ben didnt get many individual dunks to show his stuff.

Side note: Ben's dribble on that dunk over Shaq looked solid :lol:

blind prophet · Post #16 » by **blind prophet** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:34 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79-GH6x4iM[/youtube]

Kings2013 · Post #17 » by **Kings2013** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:23 am

I think he held his own with the entire act with Shaq, and its all about entertainment anyway

TrosstheBOSS · Post #18 » by **TrosstheBOSS** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:09 pm

entrance was funny and the ending with shaq putting a crown on his head very entertaining. Ben is a good young player.