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When a dunk really isn't a dunk
By WesBloomquist in The Spiral
February 17, 2008

After sleeping on it and thinking about it non-stop on Sunday, I have to speak out on the NBA slam dunk contest on Saturday night.

First it was a great showcase of NBA talent, but it was also a sham.

It was a dunk by Dwight Howard that has me questioning the results. Howard took a bounce pass from just within the free-throw stripe and flew with a Superman cape toward the basket. Where he went wrong was that he didn't even dunk the ball.

He threw it through the rim because he wasn't going to be able to dunk the ball. Simply going from the name of the event, "slam dunk contest", you would think he wouldn't get any points. Instead he got a perfect score of 50.

Gerald Green got robbed in my opinion after having the most creative dunk of the night. He sat a cupcake on the rim, blew it out in midair and then slammed the ball through the rim.

I'm not looking for anything big to happen to overturn this decision. I'm just calling on Congress to investigate.  After all, how will we be able explain to the children what a legitimate dunk is.