Video: Nate Robinson Dunks Over Dwight Howard in Slam Dunk Competition

Found February 14, 2009 on Larry Brown:

Video: Nate Robinson Dunks Over Dwight Howard in Slam Dunk Competition

PLAYERS: Dwight Howard, Nate Robinson, Adrian Wilson, Joey Gathright

I'm pretty sure this is the dunk that gave Nate Robinson the edge over Dwight Howard in the Slam Dunk Competition at All-Star Weekend. I mean I thought Adrian Wilson and Joey Gathright were freaks of nature with their ridiculous verticle leaps. That was until I saw tiny 5'9" Nate Robinson hurdle 6'11" Dwight Howard. Witness crazy athleticism:

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willardj said February 15, 2009

Why do they even invite Rudy Fernandez and J.R. Smith when they rig it for Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson?
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- AlanaG replied February 15, 2009
  
  Yeah Dwight's first round was definitely rigged.
  
  I'm not mad at Nate Rob tho, his two second round dunks were hot.
  - lewii5 replied February 15, 2009
    
    yea nate got it done! he definitely put on a show. j.r. looked like he didn't even care and rudy having gasol set him up really didn't sit well with me.
    i think the only thing worse than the judging was the announcing, though.
BookerT said February 15, 2009

How is it rigged.......jr and rudy did squat compared to the experienced slam dunk champs......

NATE ROBINSON is my valentine.....frekn teenage mutant ninja turtle.......
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- willardj replied February 15, 2009
  
  Nate Robinson had an entire costume that was completely based off of Kryptonite, going along with Dwight Howard's Superman costume. They had background Superman music. Dwight Howard had the phone booth and 12 foot basket brought in.. All of this was set for the 2nd round. The players had to earn enough points in order to advance to the second round. The judges were obviously told to give Howard as many points as possible in order to set up the big man-little man/superman-kryptonite match-up. Did you honestly think that Howard's first dunk actually deserved 50 points?
  - lewii5 replied February 15, 2009
    
    yea if that wasn't set up why wouldn't they have the fans text/vote on round 1 too?
    - BookerT replied February 16, 2009
      
      Kobe and Shaq MVP's..talk about rigging......
speedwell said February 15, 2009

Dwight's dunks weren't anything special. That shiz was some straight marketing. Nate was looking like he busted out of a box of Lucky Charms. His jams were craaaaazy.
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- speedwell replied February 15, 2009
  
  Oops, the one off the side of the backboard was nice.
Shark151 said February 15, 2009

Plain & simple... NATE'S GOT UPS!!!!!!
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UNC23Tarheels said February 15, 2009

Man at least the Knicks Won Something,and Nate did his thing..Speedwell,or whoever said that He did look like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle,LMAO!!! What was Lex Luthor to Dwight's Superman..Rudy stunk up the place and JR Smith come on, that was awful...
What did y'all think of the 3pt shootout contest???
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willardj said February 15, 2009

I actually thought Rudy Fernandez had the best dunk of the entire night. It just took Pau too long to give him a decent pass off the backboard.
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- UNC23Tarheels replied February 15, 2009
  
  If Rudy would of hit that the first time that was the best Dunk but what was like 7 or 8 times before he nailed it took the thrill out of it..
Justwannawinna said February 15, 2009

worst dunk contest... it was obviously rigged Dwight was Superman so Nate was krytonite? I wanna see what Lebron Does next year or how about we get legit dunkers like J-RIch vs VC vs LBJ vs Josh Smith vs Andre Iguadala
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jakobkagel said February 15, 2009

that was sick

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SMH12289 said February 15, 2009

If Im Dwight I would be mad because no matter what Nate did, he would get good scores because of his height..If JR Smith did the dunks Nate did in the first round ppl would be killing him right now
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- lewii5 replied February 15, 2009
  
  J.R. said that he's over the dunk contest: "I'm getting too old for the dunk contest. My legs are too old."
  the cat is 23!!!
  LMAO
- Shark151 replied February 17, 2009
  
  Quit hatin on Nate!!!!!!!!!!!!! GUARANTEED he can dunk better than you any day... & It's skill not size, more skill for a 5'9 guy to dunk than a 6'11!!!!
sports2debate said February 16, 2009

I am a big fan of lil Nate. Love the underdogs, the little guys, David over Goliath
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UNC23Tarheels said February 16, 2009

Krypto-Nate did his thing,him and Super-Man it's good for the Dunk Contest to build suspense like that...
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shizz08 said February 16, 2009

d-howard gets props from (me) big time 4 letting nate use him as a prop 4 his dunk that stole the show from (superman)........ this people is called good sports men ship!.....real talk! oh yeah don't get it twisted nate got hopsssssssss....:0)
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