Jaylen Brown was fairly the controversial determine throughout the NBA Dunk Contest. Here we had the largest identify in years delivering a number of the worst dunks in years. The sheer blandness of Brown’s makes an attempt was fairly perplexing.
The crowd is booing Jaylen Brown.
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) February 18, 2024
Among Brown’s many lowlights was him overlaying his eyes after dunking the ball, in some kind of disastrous replication of former Celtic Dee Brown’s famous dunk.
To make issues worse, Brown persistently acquired a number of the greatest scores of the night time from the judges. As a consequence, 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 unhealthy
It’s additionally rigged
Just carry within the YouTube dunkers already
— Andrew Schlecht (@AndrewOkSchlecht) February 18, 2024
But if the NBA actually was making an attempt to rig the competition, Brown was making their job inconceivable.
McClung completed up with a formidable slam over Shaq — regardless of struggling to dwell as much as his efficiency from final yr — whereas Brown closed with yet one more very customary dunk, besides this time he wore a glove and dunked left-handed.
Brown was even booed by the gang 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 essentially 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 speak of the dunk contest being rigged.
In the months following Blake Griffin’s win in 2011, a memo leaked that appeared to verify the league had pencilled Griffin in because the winner earlier than the occasion had even began.
But at the least 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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