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Competition may have lost its excitement
By Chris Sheridan The Associated Press
Dunking contest slammed
Don't tune in to the end of "All-Star Saturday" expecting to see the finals of the slam dunk contest. By that time, the dunkers will be done, and the guys who can't jump will be shooting 3-pointers.
MINNEAPOLIS — The NBA dunk contest has been slammed to secondstring.
In a move for which the NBA provided no explanation, the slam dunk contest was moved from the last to the next-to-last event on Saturday night. It will follow the rookie game and precede the 3-point shooting contest.
Rod Thorn, the NBA's vice president of operations, refused to specify the thought process behind the dunk contest's demotion.
"They asked us about it, and we said we didn't want to touch the format," McGuire said. "The sense was that there's more drama in the 3-point shooting contest. The dunk contest flows nicely on television, but it's been a little flat in the arena because it was too long."
"It's just something we decided to do," he said, straining to remain positive.
The dunk contests in recent years haven't lived up to the excitement level of the earlier Michael Jordan vs. Dominique Wilkins leapfests, and players have had to resort to gimmicks — Dee Brown pumping up his shoes, Cedric Ceballos wearing a blindfold — for an extra edge.
"The contest don't have the flair it had in the past. All the great dunks have been done," said Boston's Brown, champion in 1991.
Don McGuire, executive producer of TNT Sports, said it was a tacit admission by the NBA that the dunk
The rounds have been cut from three to two, and instead of having every dunk judged separately as in the past, this year's contestants will have 90 seconds in the first round to do as many dunks as they choose before being graded on the entire performance.
"It's lost some of its appeal," said Shawn Kemp of the Seattle SuperSonics. Kemp has been a contestant in each of his five NBA seasons. "There's only so many dunks you can do."
In an effort to speed up the event, the rules have been drastically changed this year.
Three of the six contestants will make the finals — in past years it had been two — and each dunk will be judged separately. The player with the highest-rated dunk will win the contest, even if he misses every other attempt.
In past contests, the dunk scores were totaled up, and missed dunks were especially costly. In fact, a botched dunk cost Larry Johnson the contest two years ago.
The contestants this year are: Kemp,
defending champion Harold Miner of
"The league has called me a few times to try and talk me into being in the dunk contest, but I had to tell them no. It's more important that I get my rest," Stacey Aumon of the Atlanta Hawks said. "I could probably win it right now if I wanted to do it. But after a while, it gets boring. You dunk so many times, you get tired of it."
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"If you're in the dunk contest, people expect you to dunk all the time," said past champion, Dominique Wilkins. "You're supposed to be the high-flying, windmilling dunk guy. But if you concentrate on that, you tend to overlook other parts of your game. It detracts from your overall game if all you are worried about is dunking."
Doug Christie of the Los Angeles Lakers pulled out Tuesday because of a sprained ankle. About six other players declined invitations, Thorn said.
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All-Star contest to feature top NBA shooters
By Chuck Melvin The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Remember that shot Michael Jordan made against the Lakers in the 1991 NBA Finals? The one where he floated down the lane, thought about dunking, changed his mind, kept floating, switched the ball to his left hand, flipped it off the glass and scored?
Mark Price can't do that.
But Price also points out that, awesome as it might have been, the shot counted for only two points — and Price could have gotten three just as quickly.
"I think more than any other shot, the three-pointer can really drill a team," said Price, the Cleveland Cavaliers' All-Star point guard. "If you're up by one point at the end of a game, and you come down and hit a three, all of a sudden the game's out of reach.
It's great, especially for a guy like me who can't go in there and excite the crowd with a dunk or something like that."
Price will be busy this weekend participating in the NBA's A&T Long Distance Shootout on Saturday and the All-Star Game on Sunday. It's his fourth appearance in the shootout — he finally won it last year in Salt Lake City, edging Portland's Terry Porter in the finals—and also his fourth year as an All-Star.
Competing against Price in the shootout will be San Antonio's Dale Ellis, the 1989 winner and the NBA career leader in three-pointers made; Chicago's B.J. Armstrong and Steve Kerr, the career leader in three-point accuracy; Philadelphia's Dana Baros; Phoenix's Dan Majerle; Milwaukee's Eric Murdock; and Sacramento's Mitch Richmond.
The contest has been held for eight years but has had just four winners. Larry Bird and Craig Hodges each won three times, and Price and Ellis each won once.
"It basically comes down to who's hot that night," Price said. "Last year, I had a blast winning it. I always said if I could get past the first round, I could
win it. The first round is the toughest,
because everybody's nervous."
After winning the contest, Price kept it up the next day by sinking a record six three-pointers in the All-Star Game.
The exposure he got that weekend helped him earn a spot on the All-NBA first team at season's end.
"To shoot like that during the game probably meant more to me than winning the shootout," he said.
Price has been shooting from long range as long as he can remember. His father, Denny, a former college coach who was once an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns, taught him the fundamentals, helping Price develop the textbook shooting style that has allowed him to compensate for his size.
"In high school (in Enid, Okla.), I scored a lot," he said. "Teams start playing you harder. You had to step out farther to get shots. That just never bothered me."
Price arrived at Georgia Tech at the perfect time, or so it seemed, because in 1982-83 the Atlantic Coast Conference became the first to set up a three-point line.
As a freshman, Price led the league
"If our pregame 'horse' games over the years are any indication, I won't have any trouble." Kerr said. "Danny (Ferry) and I really used to put it to Mark all the time. In fact, we worried about injuring his confidence. If those games are any indication, I'll handle Mark very easily."
The most intense competition Saturday may be between Price and Kerr, who were teammates in Cleveland for four years.
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Price recalls it differently.
"Everybody tends to block out the bad points in their life and remember the few good points," Price said. "Steve was probably just remembering the one or two times he did win. He seems to forget the hundreds of times he lost."
"I beat Michael Jordan out, which is my one claim to fame," Price said.
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"It would be interesting if you went and asked some of the coaches. I'm sure it had something to do with it," he said.
The conference promptly dropped the three-point shot, then restored it the year after Price graduated. Coincidence? Price thinks not.
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