Last week’s Wednesday Dunk Battle was one of the most hotly contested ever, pitting LeBron James and Blake Griffin (the two most prolific Wednesday Dunk Battlers of the season) against a sea otter and a guy who dunked through fire. The sea otter murdered them. But still, the idea is that the Wednesday Dunk Battle is HEATING UP, and this week we see who dares follow in Eddie the Sea Otter’s footsteps. Yes, LeBron James is in this one, too. Yes, I tried to see how many times I could write “Wednesday Dunk Battle” in one paragraph.
This week’s dunks:
1. Past-his-prime Kobe Bryant goes FULL PRIME on Josh Smith.
2. LeBron James runs a slant route en route to his one millionth alley-oop from Dwyane Wade.
3. Baylor’s Brittney Griner dunks on what might as well be everyone from Kansas State.
4. Louisville’s Chane Behanan uses the anger he’s felt trying to spell “Shane Bohannon” in his lifetime and brutally dunks over DePaul guard Worrel Clahar, who has NO IDEA what to spell.
You make the call. Please remember that your science is appreciated, and that voting in the poll below officially makes you a scientist. OF BASKETBALL DUNKS.
Dunk #1
Dunk #2
Dunk #3
Dunk #4
Vote now, please!
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Not his fault, it was a bad call bc the dude was standing on the circle, but #4 was called a charge. So I have to go with Kobe.
Behanan’s got overruled by a different ref to be a block. Box scores show And-One, foul on Worrel Clahar.
Well now I gotta change my vote.
*Puts down beakers/takes off goggles*
In my scientific opinion, I believe that Eddie the Sea Otter has made all other dunks look like sea junk. As long as he is an option in the polls, he WILL always win by default.
Voted for #4 because of Ong-Bak flashbacks.
Does anybody actually give a damn about Brittney Griner? I don’t think I’ve ever once been impressed with her. She’s a billion feet tall, if she can’t make a whole bunch of shots from less than 10 feet away she probably shouldn’t be playing. It doesn’t matter where she is in career points, she’s still far inferior to players like Maya Moore and Candace Parker.
Disliking a center because they don’t get much further than 10 feet from the basket is literally the silliest reason I’ve ever heard to dislike a center. Shaq couldn’t sink shots from the perimeter, so therefore his career was a fart, right? Come on.
No, I just really can’t stand her. And I didn’t mean she should be taking shots from further than 10, I just meant it should be expected that she makes the reasonable shots she takes, that she would be awful if she didn’t. Her proportional height advantage makes it a little easier since she’s not going to have a hand in her face. And come on, the last few of those 50 points weren’t exactly in competitive time, it was garbage time.
My opinion is that she’s not top 3 or maybe 5 in talent in women’s basketball history, but again, I really just don’t like her.
That, and I’ve thought she was a doodoohead ever since the punching incident.
The dude from Cincinnati edges Kobe out due to sheer nastiness. Good on Kobe for being able to get that filthy after 16 years in the league though.
I was gonna vote #4 too, but you gave me the sea otter. So goddammit, I’m sticking with my homeboy.