Midway through the season, the NBA hosts its All-Star Weekend festivities, featuring a slate of low-stakes competitions. The most polarizing is the dunk contest.
Every year, midway through the season, the NBA hosts its All-Star Weekend festivities featuring a slate of low-stakes competitions. The most polarizing is the dunk contest, in which a handful of players try to impress a judging panel with aerial acrobatics — basically like Olympic diving that ends with a ball in a hoop instead of a splash in a pool. Not familiar with McClung? Neither were the many NBA fans who don’t follow high school basketball.
Not long ago, players like McClung wouldn’t have been invited to the contest, which used to be reserved for bigger names. But times have changed, to the chagrin of a certain kind of old-school hoops fan. One of them, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith,
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