Are you pumped for the NBA Slam Dunk Contest this weekend? I’m not either. And with a field of Derrick Williams, Paul George, Jeremy Williams and Chase Budinger, how could you be?
But here was Budinger earlier this week practicing for the contest by jumping over a life-size cardboard cutout of 7-foot-6 former Rockets center Yao Ming. He did it discreetly while reporters were talking to Rockets teammate Chandler Parsons, who will be in the Shooting Stars competition this weekend. The video was obviously planned, but evidently not well enough–you don’t even see Budinger make the actual leap over Yao. I already knew Budinger has hops, but I just hope he isn’t going to be tapped out of ideas for what I’m already expecting to be a putrid contest.
As painful as the competition itself might be, I’m still going to tune in, just for the banter Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith always bring to the broadcast. And hopefully Damon Jones will be there.
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