Please withhold your laughter and consider the most entertaining white dunker in the NBA since Tom Chambers.
Chandler Parsons, the surfer boy rookie from Florida and 2010 SEC Player of the Year, offers the greatest white hope for an NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner since a young Brent Barry took the honors in 1996. Parsons is as unlikely a candidate as there ever was, a second round pick and late signee known more for his hair than his hops. But the modern NBA landscape has not been kind to the white dunker, a dying breed barely clinging to life support thanks to Chris “The Birdman” Anderson and David Lee. The genre is in desperate need of a new torchbearer, and Parsons provides the perfect out-of-nowhere candidate to conjure a storybook finish for the athletic Caucasian male.
Parsons earned a starting nod for the Houston Rockets a few weeks ago thanks to tireless defense and a penchant for timely hustle. The added defensive presence immediately lifted Houston’s matado...
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