Saturday, January 12, 2008

I am so tired of the all-star weekend dunk contest

To paraphrase Chris Rock: dunk contests has gots to go. That goes for the skills contest *and* the celebrity contest too. Also the 3pt shooting contest is getting old.

Want to spice up the all star weekend? Here's how you do it: a $1 million winner takes all, playoff style, 16 team two-on-two contest, kinda like the contest in White Men can't Jump. Ping-pong scoring rules apply: 1st team to 21 points with a 2 point margin wins. If the margin is less than 2 points after one team reaches 21 points, the 1st team to lead by 2 points wins.

Here's the twist: you invite 16 big men and 16 small men, and *randomly* pair them off into teams. You could even do something eventful on the Thursday night to announce the pairings.

My guess is that you'd have 15 interesting and exciting games, and the final would be a *lot* of fun.

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