J.R. Smith with the 360° Alley Oop

If dude can keep it together during the playoffs, the Nuggets could go far.

Happy 60th to Dr. J

In my mind, the coolest to ever step foot on the hardwood.

Shannon Brown dunks on his own teammate, also some news on the Slam Dunk Contest

After a Kobe Bryant miss, Shannon Brown takes off to ridiculous heights with a put-back dunk. Brown's unsuspecting teammate Josh Powell goes up for the rebound and receives an unlikely posterization by his own teammate. Shannon Brown's ups are absolutely ridiculous. I said before the season that he ought to be in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest after seeing this dunk from the preseason, and it seems that my wish just might come true. Apparently Nike may have mistakenly revealed Brown as a contestant on it's Basketball Blog, as they have begun promoting a Shannon Brown Nike iD Slam Dunk Design Contest. Ooops. Contestants will design their own colorway of the new Kobe V for Shannon to sport in the contest.

In other Slam Dunk Contest news, LeBron is still being noncommittal on whether he will participate after proclaiming he would during last year's contest. LeBron's being pretty lame about this. I wonder if he'd walk off the court to the locker room without shaking the winner's hand if he lost.

As for the other participants in the contest, the Raptors' DeMar DeRozan and the Clippers' Eric Gordon will face off in the first ever NBA All-Star Slam Dunk-In during halftime of the Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam (I think that's the Rookie vs. Sophomore game, but maybe it's something else). They will each get two minutes to throw down two dunks and the winner will be determined by fans texting. The winner will get to participate in the Slam Dunk Contest.

Props to J.E. Skeets of Ball Don't Lie

Thursday Throwback Posterization: 'Nique on Bird

Although I missed Dominique Wilkin's 50th birthday by two days with this post, I couldn't let that stop me from sharing this one. One of the best to ever throw it down in the NBA, if not the best, Wilkins absolutely destroys Larry Bird here. Larry Legend would've been best off just getting the fuck outta the way on this one. Although this is a sick dunk, I actually wanted to use Wilkins' throw down on Robert Parish instead, but I couldn't find a video on youtube with just that dunk on it's own. So do yourself a big favor and take a couple minutes to watch 'Nique's top 10 dunks. I promise you won't be disappointed. The aforementioned dunk on Robert Parish is number 3 on the list. If you ask me, it's the epitome of a posterization, especially considering it was over one of the most daunting defenders of all time. He throws it down so hard.