GREAT ideas! I was actually contemplated doin a thread of this nature myself... The reward aspect is really the focal point I think... Make it a contribution to Boys/girls club of the players city they play for or hometown - or 50/50 split... Maybe require every team to submit at least 1 candidate - then voting to decide who participates... I think lengthening it would be good... then let tv trim it down...
How about we make it a real "Open Invitation" and invite non-NBA players. We just want to see awesome dunks, right. Open it to anyone. Their would be literally 100s of dudes practicing new dunks all year long. We'd have Sean White's of basketball in seclusion practicing secret new dunks for months. We'd see 720s; I guarantee it.
I still think the judges' votes should not be made public, just the combined total....all it takes is one soft judge who gives an average dunk a 10 to make the others also give it a 10, or at least a 9. Everything it screwed from there because judges don't want to be boo'ed. Some judges get swayed by crowd reaction and the crowd doesn't always understand what they just saw. Judges will be much more honest and give lower scores, which will help in a BIG way because the standards are set too low the way they give out 10s now. I like the idea of voting for players. They should make it more of a rap or dance battle atmosphere because that gets their competitive juices going and they'll try harder to win and bring their A game. Nothing like challenging someone one on one to bring out their best. PErhaps they could seed the players based on voting totals, so that you're more likely to still get the top two vote-getters at the end.
Eliminate props..... Most of them are stupid.. After missing the 1st attempt, no one cares anymore... loses it "wow" factor
So we shouldn't allow somebody who is 6'7", has a 38.5" vert leap and can throw it down with power? Got it.
I agree with this too. All dunks have been done before, yet people still cheer when they see them in the game. Why? Because it comes within the flow of the game. The problem is the dunk contest has become too staged. Now Dwight and Nate did good, but everybody else not so much. Look how long it took for the contestants to complete one dunk last night. You're building up (rather lamely) a dunk that lasts a few seconds. Two rounds. First round all contestants complete a predetermined set of dunks within a set time limit. And they get one chance. Or maybe like I saw them do in the (I think) best trick snowboard competition at Winter X this year...all the contests rotate around doing their tricks and they get as many chances as time allows. So they put like 10 minutes on the clock; it doesn't stop. One contestant does a dunk the next does one. And they all have to do, again, specific predetermined dunks in any order they choose. If they complete all dunks and there is still time they can go back and re-do a dunk to make it better. Then you have (unbiased) judges vote 3 through to the final round. The final round can be the same thing only they get 5 minutes to complete their best possible dunk of their choosing. Or in the final round there is no time limit and each player gets 3 chances to complete one dunk of their own choosing. Fans vote final winner. I like all the skills competitions, but they were just poorly hyped and the arena support from the fans was dismal. Poor presentation. Also didn't the 3 point contest used to have more contestants too? I thought in the first round two contestants competed at the same time on opposite ends of the court. I'd like to see that brought back. Maybe the 1st round they do that elimination style and the bracket is set by their season 3pt percentage. Then in the final round it's one at a time with the best score winning.
-make it 8 contestants: 6 nba players, dleague dunk champ, and streetball dunk champ -3 rounds: 2dunks in first rd and top 4 avg score advance to 2nd rd. 1 dunk in 2nd rd, top 2 advance. And 1 dunk in the heads up. If there's a tie in any rd, 1 dunk to decide the winner. -Judges vote rd 1 and 2, fans vote for the heads up. -1st place gets $1million and runner-up gets $500k
real easy. Make the dunk contest an elimination bracket with seeded contestants. 16 players, 4 seeds based on fan voting. So let's say Blake Griffin, John Wall, Lebron and Dwight Howard get seeded 1-4. 4 rounds, 1 dunk each round, 1 attempt only, so messing up and you are gone first round; quarter finals semi finals finals five judges, but judging is not based on 1-10, it is which contestant goes through based on the dunk of that round. So two players dunk and then judges determine who goes to next round. You have everything here, star power, competition, strategy, possible underdog winning, and fan interest from start to finish.
Integrate the dunk contest with the all star game. Only the dunk in the game counts. right now, the slam dunk show is only for acting, not much related with basketball game, not for professional basketball players.
exactly, the streetball champ would win every year...and bring creativity and hopefully inspire the NBA players to try hard not to lose. You give the streetball champ 25 free courtside tickets to give away to his best trash talking friends, to spice up things...stop the stupid commentating...just leave the mics open! and if the streetball player wins, he gets real prize money plus each NBA player has to donate $10k to a charity in his name...possibly an incentive not to lose. I'm telling y'all...we'd see Sean White creativity, stuff never before seen on TV.
