Jaylen Brown was fairly the controversial determine in the course of the NBA Dunk Contest. Right here we had the largest identify in years delivering a few of the worst dunks in years. The sheer blandness of Brown’s makes an attempt was fairly perplexing.
The group is booing Jaylen Brown.
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) February 18, 2024
Amongst Brown’s many lowlights was him protecting his eyes after dunking the ball, in some kind of disastrous replication of former Celtic Dee Brown’s well-known dunk.
To make issues worse, Brown constantly obtained a few of the finest scores of the night time from the judges. Because of this, he grew to become one of many final two dunkers standing together with Mac McClung.
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than hypothesis unfold on-line that the NBA wished the largest star on this yr’s contest to win it.
This dunk contest is rigged. We’re storming Secaucus within the morning.
— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) February 18, 2024
Not solely is the dunk contest dangerous
It’s additionally rigged
Simply convey within the YouTube dunkers already
— Andrew Schlecht (@AndrewKSchlecht) February 18, 2024
But when the NBA actually was attempting to rig the competition, Brown was making their activity not possible.
McClung completed up with a powerful slam over Shaq — regardless of struggling to dwell as much as his efficiency from final yr — whereas Brown closed with yet one more very normal dunk, besides this time he wore a glove and dunked left-handed.
Brown was even booed by the group on a number of events, as followers realised they’d paid a sickening sum of money to observe an absolute disasterclass of a dunk contest. Even probably the most aggressive rig job wouldn’t have been ready swing this factor in his favour.
Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t the primary time there had been discuss of the dunk contest being rigged.
Within the months following Blake Griffin’s win in 2011, a memo leaked that appeared to substantiate the league had pencilled Griffin in because the winner earlier than the occasion had even began.
However no less than Blake nonetheless placed on a present, versus no matter on earth we simply noticed from Jaylen Brown.
Lord assist the dunk contest.
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