Posted By Lynn Worthy, Sun Staff
Gerald Green officially ascended to the throne as the NBA’s Sultan of Slam, winning the 2007 Slam Dunk Competition at All-Star weekend in Las Vegas.
The Celtics 21-year-old second-year man was the only participant to earn a perfect score during the dunking festivities. He assuredly showed his share of creativity, enlisting props such as a table, Celtics captain Paul Pierce and a cardboard cutout of last year’s winner Nate Robinson.
Green even donned a Dee Brown retro jersey and re-created the former Celtics’ dunk from the 1991 contest with his arm covering his eyes (for the record, Brown covered his eyes with his right arm and dunked with his left). As a little added flava, Green also jumped over Robinson.
First they end the losing streak, now they’ve got the reigning DunKing. Who knew that the Celtics would all of a sudden become unstoppable?
I thought Green's "Dee Brown Retro" dunk was the best ever. It had everything...creativity, humor, symbolism & degree of difficulty. The biggest upset of the night was those clowns at the judges table not giving him perfect 10's for that one. They did give him a make-up call on the last one over the table, but there's no doubt which was the better and tougher dunk.
I bet at loeast half the judges would have needed a couple of takes to pull that one off...if they would have jeopardized their careers and reputations by trying it in the first place!
Is there a link you can provide with highlights of Green's dunks from the slam dunk contest?
Here ya go:
http://fsnnewengland.com/blogView.jsp?bcId=436&blog=8