On March 19 a forward of BC «Lokomotiv-Kuban» will participate in a slam dunk contest which is taking place within Russian Cup «Final Four». Our player has been invited as a special guest as he is the only NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner playing in our country.
One player from every Final Four team will participate also besides Green. The other participants are: Viatcheslav Zaitsev (BC Khimki), Pops Mensah-Bonsu (CSKA Moscow), Igor Tkachenko (UNICS Kazan), James White (Spartak St. Petersburg). The contest will start just after the third place game of Russian Cup Final Four, it’s about at 19:30 — 19:40 Moscow time.
According to reports of the press-service of PBC CSKA the participants will make two dunks each. They have 60 seconds to perform a dunk until a player has made a shot. The referees show their marks according to 10 point scale. Two best players go to the final round where they make two more dunks. If the score is even, they perform the third shot.
Should be more exciting than the NBA Dunk Contest....I know some people weren't thrilled with some of Green's tricks in the 2008 contest, but at the very least having him and White in the same contest should lead to some interesting stuff ending up on youtube soon.
