DeMar Moves On to All-Star Saturday Night

by RaptorsHQ - Howland on Feb 13, 2010 9:29 AM EST in Media Watch

The inaugural NBA Dunk-In is over and Toronto's DeMar DeRozan has moved on to participate in the big event tonight in Dallas. It was not a particularly exciting event as DeMar admitted he was "holding back" and the event was rife with technical issues, much like last nights Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympics.

If you were so inclined to vote for DeMar at NBA.com you were left with an interesting dilemma - Vote for the Photo of Eric Gordon with DeMar's name under it, or the photo of DeMar with Eric's name under it. Someone clearly needs to be relieved of their duties. How exactly did the NBA determine who was voting for who?

The reality is DeMar should bring more energy to the contest than Eric Gordon and is simply the better dunker.

The scrum with DeMar after the contest can be heard here.

So onto Saturday night. Franchise and I are getting together for the festivities and will likely set up a thread to chat prior to and during the actual contest.

Here's hoping DeMar makes Toronto proud.

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link is not working. im using firefox

by teedotaj on Feb 13, 2010 9:53 AM EST reply actions

Head to www.hoopsaddict.com – they should have it there working, sorry.

by Adam Francis on Feb 13, 2010 2:20 PM EST up reply actions

Shoulda been playing in the game

Good for DD – first dunk was nice. Deserved more than 61%.

Here sure looks like a kid out there.

by Tinmann on Feb 13, 2010 10:40 AM EST reply actions

Why does DD even have to prove himself?

I’m not sure how you get selected to compete in the dunkoff. If I were one of the scounts why would even question Demar? He has won previous dunkoffs of the past and has numerous highlights this year. Eric Gordon is not a contest dunker plan and simple.
I feel that David Stern is assuming more control of All-Star festivities, making it a watered-down version of what I remember. The dunk off is the marquee event of the entire weekend, so why not go all out and have 6 participants… How can you go wrong???? Even include an outside competitor, just to make it interesting.

by Slick_Rick on Feb 13, 2010 12:13 PM EST reply actions

For God's Sake GET RID OF Kenny and Barkely

I am sooo tired of these two “knuckle-heads”. K and B comments were funny when they began on TNT, but now they’re just annoying the shit out of me. They rarely comment on the game and are to busy inflating their own collective egos.
To top it off they get them to comment on the Dunk-off as if they are gifted dunkers. I think that even the players are getting tired of their antics, check out Dwight Howard’s sarcastic expressions when K&B came over to comment on the Dunk-in. I watched the previous dunk contests, and Kenny is the only person to give out 9s when the rest give out 10s. His standards are so damn high that he takes the fun out of the Dunk-off.
It high time that they let Barkley and Kenny out the pastures and graze, and let a ‘real fan’ of the game takeover. I would say Jerome Williams and Gary Payton.
I’m I the only person that is tired of K&B?

by Slick_Rick on Feb 13, 2010 12:29 PM EST reply actions

If you tuned in on Thursday night to hear Ernie, Kenny and Charles riff on George Hill — the latest player to get caught with his, ummm, pants down — that would’ve balanced things out. Between that and Charles referring to Stan Van Gundy as ‘Ron Jeremy’ on-air, I was reminded of why they are the best NBA show going.

by RaptorsHQ - Defensive Stance on Feb 13, 2010 12:37 PM EST up reply actions

Gotta agree – big fan of Kenny and Charles along with EJ. However I DID think it got awkward for a moment when the two of them wouldn’t let Shaq’s Superman comments go and kept bugging Dwight about it…

by Adam Francis on Feb 13, 2010 2:22 PM EST up reply actions