Austin_Toros
02-18-2009, 04:02 AM
This is for you James White fans.
I just found this article that is about James White's free throw line dunk that won him the D-League dunk contest and includes a video of it (and also mocks Howard's dunk).
I don't know how to embed the video in this post so hopefully someone else can.
Read at: http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/17290/d-leaguer_shows_dwight_howard_how_the_free_throw_lin e_dunk_is_supposed_to_be_done
D-Leaguer Shows Dwight Howard How the Free Throw Line Dunk Is Supposed to Be Done.
When I look back at this year’s dunk contest, the only thing I’ll remember was TNT’s (and the judges’) blatant xenophobia towards Rudy Fernandez (http://ad.doubleclick.net/imp;v7;j;211237780;0-0;0;29237085;0/0;29947364/29965241/1;;%7Eaopt=2/0/ff/0;%7Eokv=;dcopt=ist;pos=top;sz=728x90;tile=1;%7Ecs =p%3fhttp://m1.2mdn.net/2007363/MLBInterstitialtemplate.html?t=20&cT=http%3A//ad.doubleclick.net/click%253Bh%3Dv8/37d8/2/0/%252a/h%253B211237780%253B0-0%253B0%253B29237085%253B255-0/0%253B29947364/29965241/1%253B%253B%257Eaopt%253D2/0/ff/0%253B%257Esscs%253D%253f&l=http%3A//www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/17259/dunk_contest_last_bastion_of_nba_xenophobia), who, despite two-minutes-plus worth of trying, converted the most impressive dunk of the night. None of the dunks from that point on was all that impressive or original. Especially not Dwight Howard’s “free throw line” dunk, in which a seven-footer took off from a foot inside the line and barely made it to the rim.
The night before, James White showed how it’s really done during the D-League Dunk Contest:
He actually took off from behind the line and flushed it with relative ease. And he’s about a half-foot shorter than Howard. I’d venture to say that’s the finest that dunk has looked since ... well, since MJ set the standard over 20 years ago. (Note: I realize Dr. J did it first, but MJ did it best.)
I posted this because it contains the video that people were looking for the other day :)
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I just found this article that is about James White's free throw line dunk that won him the D-League dunk contest and includes a video of it (and also mocks Howard's dunk).
I don't know how to embed the video in this post so hopefully someone else can.
Read at: http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/17290/d-leaguer_shows_dwight_howard_how_the_free_throw_lin e_dunk_is_supposed_to_be_done
D-Leaguer Shows Dwight Howard How the Free Throw Line Dunk Is Supposed to Be Done.
When I look back at this year’s dunk contest, the only thing I’ll remember was TNT’s (and the judges’) blatant xenophobia towards Rudy Fernandez (http://ad.doubleclick.net/imp;v7;j;211237780;0-0;0;29237085;0/0;29947364/29965241/1;;%7Eaopt=2/0/ff/0;%7Eokv=;dcopt=ist;pos=top;sz=728x90;tile=1;%7Ecs =p%3fhttp://m1.2mdn.net/2007363/MLBInterstitialtemplate.html?t=20&cT=http%3A//ad.doubleclick.net/click%253Bh%3Dv8/37d8/2/0/%252a/h%253B211237780%253B0-0%253B0%253B29237085%253B255-0/0%253B29947364/29965241/1%253B%253B%257Eaopt%253D2/0/ff/0%253B%257Esscs%253D%253f&l=http%3A//www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/17259/dunk_contest_last_bastion_of_nba_xenophobia), who, despite two-minutes-plus worth of trying, converted the most impressive dunk of the night. None of the dunks from that point on was all that impressive or original. Especially not Dwight Howard’s “free throw line” dunk, in which a seven-footer took off from a foot inside the line and barely made it to the rim.
The night before, James White showed how it’s really done during the D-League Dunk Contest:
He actually took off from behind the line and flushed it with relative ease. And he’s about a half-foot shorter than Howard. I’d venture to say that’s the finest that dunk has looked since ... well, since MJ set the standard over 20 years ago. (Note: I realize Dr. J did it first, but MJ did it best.)
I posted this because it contains the video that people were looking for the other day :)
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