Nope, not fake. They agreed they would tie, check the tweets and articles. Wade clearly messed with them given the reaction by other judges, how he wanted to walk off, was smiling and cheering for his former teammate. He decided the winner by himself, so made it all about himself.
I personally thought Derrick Jones Jr should of won. Dude brought it and flushed with authority. The power of the slam is IMO overlooked and he punished that rim.
Good for Wade. The blame for this goes squarely on the other judges for trying to collude with their ratings.
It's just a made dunk we didn't count. You had sufficient time to overcome it. Durant was 10 feet out of bounds. Who cares? Just a foot. It's just a dunk contest. Who cares? It's just the Western Conference Finals? Who cares? Keep on defending the rigged, corrupt WWENBA .
Yeah, fancy dunking contributes nothing to the court as it can really only be done on fast breaks AND it just makes a dunk even harder to complete.
https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/02/1...dges-agreement-to-keep-dunk-contest-tied/amp/ Unfortunately, Wade didn't come clean. I would've had some respect for him if he came out and said he did, explaining why and that it was all in good fun or some ****. But to dance around it like a coward? Sad..
Chadwick Boseman had no business being a judge in an NBA dunk contest anyways. Pippen? Sure, get him in there for some Chicago nostalgia. Candace Parker? She's neither from Chicago nor does she play for an WNBA team in Chicago but sure we need some representation from the WNBA. Common? I'm fine with him because he's from Chicago (even though Pippen fulfilled this quota) but he actually plays basketball so I guess it's passable. Boseman......
It was a disgrace. But it was also a disgrace how the judges had colluded to fix the votes and the worst of all to have two co-winners. The dunk contest is a joke.
that was corny...the dunk contest is irrelevant...get over it AG only someone who hasn’t played a single meaningful NBA game would be making noise over coming in 2nd for the Dunk Contest D-Wade should tell this boy to go kiss his rings