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Dominique Wilkins Wants To See Changes After 2022 Slam Dunk Contest | The Steam Room
NBA legend Dominique Wilkins gives his take on the 2022 NBA Slam Dunk and talks about what needs to change. Watch highlights from Inside the NBA with Shaq, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson and more!
gdc615
March 4, 2022 at 8:53 pm
Imagine – Nique Jordan and Len Bias together in a dunk contest back in the 80’s
E. Burks
March 4, 2022 at 8:58 pm
The professional street dunkers are actually killing the dunk contest. We see the most incredible dunks on social media daily, nba guys are players first, not professional dunkers.
StressFree219
March 4, 2022 at 9:08 pm
Dont leave us chuck smh 😢😢😢🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Up North
March 4, 2022 at 9:14 pm
What killed the dunk contest is when a judge choose his former team mate to win vs the much better dunker.
jon w.
March 4, 2022 at 9:15 pm
You dont need changes..the contestants are corny
jon w.
March 4, 2022 at 9:16 pm
Leave the dunk contest alonr… and have king of the court…let the allstars do that..everyone wants that anyway
Micro Shaft
March 4, 2022 at 9:17 pm
💯 percent agree!!
A.J. Markus
March 4, 2022 at 9:30 pm
NBA playes need to be in the NBA dunk contest. I respect pro dunkers or street dunkers alot but if there not in the league they shouldn’t be involved. Only way to fix NBA dunk contest is to make prize money worth it. Millions not thousands.
Isaac Galera
March 4, 2022 at 9:37 pm
THE PUNTUATION (JUDGE) SYSTEM HAD TO CHANGE!
As a judge Its wrong you only have 5 points to evaluate (6 to 10) It should be (at least) a real 1 to 10. Or better a 0 to 50
Shivor Shank
March 4, 2022 at 9:43 pm
Rookies vs vets, almost like horse would do well
Alexander Mayang
March 4, 2022 at 9:56 pm
Some people are commenting that Wilkins dunks were boring…maybe by todays standards the types of dunks maybe…but that means you don’t acknowledge one of the most important part of dunking: the power. No one dunks with his intensity anymore, and it shows people don’t watch his highlights with right mindset.
Ron Corleone
March 4, 2022 at 10:00 pm
If the NBA wants star power in the dunk contest, adding street dunkers is the exact opposite way to go about it. NBA players are already to concerned with their image, brand, and possibly embarrassing themselves by competing in the dunk contest, adding street dunkers isn’t going to attract any star players considering the NBA players know they would absolutely lose to people that most of the audience have never heard of and aren’t even in the league. The only way to possibly attract star players at that point would to be to make it some kind of team event with one NBA player and one street dunker on a team but I don’t think many people are really interested in a team dunk contest as opposed to every man for themselves.
Once you start adding street dunkers to the NBA dunk contest you might as well just make it street dunkers only and then you run into the problem that it’s no longer an “NBA” dunk contest. I’m not saying I got the answer to fix the dunk contest, but I don’t think adding street dunkers is it. Personally I don’t even think that the dunk contest needs it’s biggest stars to be solid, they just need dunkers who are good, creative, and don’t miss a billion times. Until you get that, the only way to make the dunk contest easier to sit through is to put Barkley on commentary. At least they’ll be some good laughs throughout.
egg
March 4, 2022 at 10:24 pm
Maybe they could meet halfway? Like street dunkers vs nba players type of contest?
mike breidenbach
March 4, 2022 at 10:01 pm
Dominique Wilkins, class all the way!
King JappyJoe
March 4, 2022 at 10:03 pm
Wilkins was such a great speaker always I wondered why he didnt ever do more shows
WASD
March 4, 2022 at 10:22 pm
Dominique needa be the dunk contest president
Linker Casas
March 4, 2022 at 10:22 pm
Do a Tournament of Champions every 3 years. Consist of 3 tiers:
Tier 1: 3 winners of previous dunk contest
Tier 2: 2 more players who have got a minimum of 50 scores in previous three dunk-contests
Tier 3: 1 player who has the potential to be a champion and score perfect 50 caliber dunks.
If there were repeat champions, add an extra from the 2nd tier. If there isn’t 2 from tier 2, add one more from 3rd tier. Increase Price x3 🤷♂️
Kay Dee
March 4, 2022 at 10:23 pm
NBA players are already ducking the dunk contest, adding streetballers is going to shrink the NBA volunteering pool even more. Also we’re in the 3-point era, dunks were going to be on the decline regardless.
Angelo Bakil
March 4, 2022 at 10:27 pm
People don’t care about dunks anymore, they just want to shoot threes
Fakename70
March 4, 2022 at 10:28 pm
Any of you Jordan fanboys remember when ‘Nique was robbed by your hero and the judges at the Stadium in ‘88?
rod axel
March 4, 2022 at 10:38 pm
“what dunk contest?”😂
Carlos G
March 4, 2022 at 10:44 pm
If Barkley don’t get tf out here with that Kung Fu Panda shihh😂😂😂
swami539
March 4, 2022 at 10:48 pm
Thank Dwayne wade for this
Steve Deasy
March 4, 2022 at 10:54 pm
Dunk Contest:
4 Players, Round Robin of 3 rounds 3 minutes each. Half Court. Any non-dunk attempt is a turnover.
Awards:
– Top Dunk
– Top Block
– Rim King – with appropriate crown looking like an upside down hoop for the top overall performance.
smokey949
March 4, 2022 at 10:54 pm
Also the judging needs to be more talked about. The judging has to stop giving out 10s and they need more of olympic style of judging
quoc lien
March 4, 2022 at 11:07 pm
how about them clowns who just want to enter the dunk comp just to collect that payment whatever amount that is, thats just free money…and they not even interested in dunking, just rock up collect the payment…lame