In the Foot Locker Three Point Shootout, the scores were a bit low, but the forwards put on a good show as Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love outlasted the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant 17-14 in the final round tiebreaker. James Jones posted the best round of the night in the first round with 22, but he fell off in the second round with a score of just 12 as Love and Durant forced the tiebreaker with a pair of 16s.
In the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, despite repeated criticism of the lack of stars and originality in recent years, there were some creative dunks and dunkers on display. The Utah Jazz’s Jeremy Evans won with dunking two balls one after another from Gordon Hayward tosses, dunking over Hayward and capped it off by leaping over Kevin Hart dressed up as a mailman while wearing a Karl Malone jersey. Paul George turned the lights out and plastered himself with glow in the dark tape in one dunk and dunked over both Roy Hibbert and Dahntay Jones in another. Derrick W...
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February 25, 2012
