All Star Saturday Recap

I can't wait for the Raptors to move south so we can cut the number of national anthems at the All Star Game in half. I've always thought playing the national anthem before sporting events was ridiculous.

Dwyane Wade won the skills challenge for the second straight year. After Jason Kapono put on a 3-point show, tying Mark Price's final round record of 24 points, Wade yelled at somebody, "He's gotta eat." He was right; Kapono might need the winner's check to be able to afford to eat. Hey, he's no Nowitzki or Arenas. Charles Barkley out-ran the 67-year old diving Dick Bavetta. Then Tim Hardaway said, "I hate gay people." Oh wait, that last one happened earlier this week.

The dunk contest had a lot of solid dunks, but none for the ages. Hands down the best dunk of the night was when Paul Pierce threw the ball off of the side of the backboard and Gerald Green catapulted up, caught it, and dunked it home two-handed. Nate Robinson's first dunk was awesome too, gliding through the air with his legs flailing. I also liked his twirling dunk grabbing the ball out of David Lee's out-stretched hand. Lee is over a foot taller than his teammate Robinson. Nate's last dunk was really nice, but I do think he should have lost points for missing it 10 times, even though he's my man.

Gerald Green's dunk over Nate was cool, but Nate's over Spud last year was better. His contest winning dunk over the table got him a 50, but I thought it was kinda weak, at least compared to everyone's (over) reaction. Dwight Howard's sticker dunk was probably the third best dunk of the night. To be able to have the mind-power to catch and dunk the ball with one hand and slap a sticker to the top of the backboard was mind-boggling. But being a 7-footer rightfully hurt his scores. In the end Gerald Green got the win giving me an 0-4 night.