J.R. Smith is Really Good at Dunking

J.R. Smith replaced Rudy Gay in the dunk contest for some reason, which even though I hyped the shit out of Rudy is still cool. J.R. Smith is really cool as he is really good at jumping and throwing basketballs through the rim at high velocities & he shoots an insane amount of bad three pointers. The coolest thing about his dunking capabilities is that he can jump off either foot, which is extremely difficult, like really really hard. I don't think I can touch the rim when I jump off my right foot & try to reach the rim with my left hand. I also am just as tall as Yao Ming, keep that in mind. So here are some dunk videos of J.R. Get excited!
Off the left foot
Off the right foot
Off two feet

Quick Dunk Contest Preview: Too Many Rudy's!

I am very excited for the NBA Slam Dunk Contest coming up this Saturday & as a result have been watching so many YouTube videos of sick dunks & last years contest & of Dwight Howard bench press 14 plates on both sides. So here is what I think will happen:

Rudy Fernandez: Voted in by the fans over my boy Russell Westbrook was a terrible choice by the NBA fans that vote for these things. Rudy is really good at finishing alley oops, speaking Spanish & saying "surprise". Here is Rudy's Sprite preview commercial, YouTube clip thing & as you will see he dunks the ball twice & they are dunks Danny "Kondor" Brown does when he plays Knockout/Bump. The only reason he is in it is because the Trail Blazers are team of the Internet because they are cool, young, good, half of the team blogs, one of them has a really terrible beard & wrinkles in his head & because Steve Blake plays/played more than Jerryd Bayless. The Internet peeps love them & thus voted for him.

Nate Robinson: He is really short & really good at jumping, but he doesn't have enough dunks in his arsenal to win a Dunk Contest (even though he did) & won't win in this year. It is always exciting when he dunks in games, but in the Dunk Contest he throws it off the backboard 15 times until he finishes his not that creative dunk. Now that I look at this video though, his between the legs one is pretty nice. I think Rudy beats him out to make it to the finals though.

Rudy Gay: This dunk is WAY UNDERRATED!!!! Chuck & Kenny shit on this dunk, but it is Departed sick, bro! Off some shit behind the backboard & then has to duck to avoid the backboard itself then windmill, MMMMMMMM!!! I am expecting big things from Rudy & look forward to four incredible OMG dunks from him.

Dwight Howard: The most creative Dunk Contest participant ever. The sticker dunk, the Superman dunk (which is unbelievable because of where he takes off & the fact that Jameer throws him the ball from way out of bounds & over the backboard, the timing OMG), the off the back of the backboard dunk (my fav), the unexplainable tap dunk, and every dunk he has on/over/on top/through people every night. He is the strongest human living with a smile that makes you want to buy Crest White Strips. No question in my mind he wins again & does some crazy shit.

Justin Darlington is the best dunker out of everyone in the world though (starts around 1:30)!
Why does YouTube give you the option of watching a higher quality video?

Josh Hussein Childress

I have a late addition to Biff's All-Cool Squad: special assistant Barry Obama. Not only does he rock a hella cool Josh Childress mini-fro, but he can also stroke it from deep.
Props to the Choom Gang for helping me with this post.

Super Bowl Lookalike Contest

There was nothing on TV tonight so I split my viewing time between Australian Open re-runs and UCLA vs. Stanford Women's Basketball. Also, "What Women Want" was on TBS again.
If you're going to come away from this stupid Super Bowl with one thought in your brain, it shouldn't be about Large Ben Roethlisberger being good at football, because he isn't, and he will never be on Tom Brady's level. The story that no one has talked about is that Ronaldinho has been moonlighting as a wide receiver for the Cardinals. I'm sure Chris Mortensen will read this blog and break the story. Here is the conclusive evidence:

The photo above is "Larry Fitzgerald, Jr."

This is a photo of Ronaldinho at the 2005 Exeter graduation. You can see he's showing his support for the graduating class by flashing the classic "Oh-5" hand gesture/gang sign.

And finally, this is a photo of the two of them side by side. Ronaldinho is on the left and Larry is on the right. They're twins.
Larry Fitzgerald, Sr. should write about that in his column in the University of Minnesota quarterly magazine.