Three million people, voting via Twitter, elected Jeremy Evans as the winner of the dunk contest when he was chosen with 29% of the votes. The event, possibly one of the worst in history, had some (few) brilliant moments, and many dunks that will not exactly remain in the fans' memories. Neither the Jazz player nor his rivals Chase Budinger, derrick williams y Paul George They proved to be at the level of an event that even ended with boos.
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Of course, the mate that really gave him the prize was the one he got with the help of Gordon Hayward, putting two balls at the same time over his teammate in Utah.
Among his rivals, the mate with George's darkened pavilion, the help of Ricky Rubio with a pass against the side of the board for Williams, or Chase Budinger's dunk on the rapper Puff Diddy.
Surprise in the triple contest. Kevin Love, in his first participation, took the title in a test in which he demonstrated his consistency in the four rounds he had to compete. The player of the Timberwolves had to play two tiebreakers, winning in the final against Kevin Durant, scoring 17 points to the Thunder star's 14. In the final, Love and Durant tied at 16, eliminating the reigning champion James Jones who did not exceed 12.
In the first round, two of the theoretical favorites of the competition were eliminated. Anthony Morrow (who wore the deceased's shirt Drazen Petrovic), with 14 points, and Ryan Anderson, with 17. Mario Chalmers and Kevin Love, both with 18 points, played a 24-second tiebreaker that the Wolves pivot (5 points) won over the Miami point guard (4). Jones, with 22 points, and Durant, with 20, passed with more solvency.
Tony Parker won the Skills Challenge for the first time in his third participation, completing the circuit of the Amway Center in Orlando in 32.8 seconds, beating in the final Rajon Rondo (34.6) and Deron Williams, champion in 2009 (41.4).
They were eliminated in the previous phase John wall (he played a tiebreaker with Rajon Rondo by accumulating the same time, doing 45.4 seconds to the Celtics point guard's 27.3), Russell Westbrook (33.8) and Kyrie Irving (42.2) Deron Williams He went to the final with 28.3 seconds, and Tony Parker with 29.2
Allan Houston He proved to maintain his class and his privileged wrist, scoring key baskets for Team New York (formed by the retired ex-shooting guard, Landry Fields y Cappie Pondexter) defeated Team Texas (Chandler Parsons, Kenny Smith y Sophia Young). In the final, the New York team scored the six baskets necessary to pass the test in 37.3 seconds, compared to 47.6 for the Texan team.
The first teams to be eliminated were Team Orlando (Jameer Nelson, Dennis Scott y Marie Ferdinand-Harris), with a time of 1:04, and the current champion, Team Atlanta (Jerry Stackhouse, Steve Smith y Lindsey Harding), who needed 55.3 seconds to score all the baskets. In the first phase, New York went to the final with 38.7 seconds, and Texas with 42.7