I think the NBA did something a little bit fishy over the NBA All Star Weekend in Phoenix. The Dunk Contest is something special or it can be when the league’s best dunkers participate. They have been down years for the dunk contest and I think in 2009 it was certainly down. I couldn’t figure out why the judges were scoring Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson so high and letting the other two dunkers get low, undeserving scores. Dwight Howard’s dunk on the 12 foot rim and coming out of the phone booth was certainly the most entertaining dunk of the evening. However was it the best?

If you look at the hardest dunk that was performed all evening long, there was no doubt that Rudy Fernandez of the Portland Trail Blazers had the best dunk! His dunk with Pau Gasol throwing it off the back of the backboard and Rudy catching it with one hand and reversing it on the other side of the rim was spectacular. Not many guys in the NBA could perform that dunk and it deserved a 10 from each judge and should have been a 50 dunk. Kenny Smith from TNT said that he would have scored better if he would have did it the first time or in the first couple of tries. Oh really? Well Dwight Howard had several lob attempts with his first dunk. He simply stood out of bounds and threw the ball up and once it bounced off the ground, he threw it down with authority. Dwight received a 50 for his dunk and Rudy got a 42? I didn’t understand at this point how Rudy scored so low and Howard so high.

Soon we would see the phone booth and the extra rim being brought in for Dwight Howard’s 2nd dunk. Nate Robinson who started the competition in the blue Knicks uniform changed out into a green Knicks uniform, green shoe, and used a green basketball to dunk with for the rest of his attempts. The NBA wanted to see the tallest dunker and the shortest dunker go at it in the finals. The judges gave such low scores to Rudy Fernandez and J.R. Smith, which it made it impossible for one of them to advance to the finals.

The NBA fixed the contest! The 2009 Dunk Contest held in Phoenix, Arizona was rigged to have Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson face off against each other. The judges were in on this and that’s why they gave such low scores to the other guys. Rudy you got robbed and everyone NBA fan and player knows this and your dunk was great. It deserved a 50 and I would have liked to see more of your dunks. Unfortunately the NBA had already plan to see Nate Robinson be the kryptonite to Superman Dwight Howard. I live just north of Atlanta where Dwight Howard played his high school basketball. I am a Dwight Howard fan and wanted him to win the 2009 Dunk Contest and repeat as champion. However, he didn’t deserve a 50 on his first dunk attempt and the NBA fixed the dunk contest in Phoenix. If Howard doesn’t make it to the finals, the NBA could not have the shortest guy and the tallest guy dunking it off.

All NBA fans everywhere should be upset with the NBA for rigging the contest in Phoenix. I can’t believe they would stoop to such low measures to design a championship match with Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson. We want to see the best dunks and whoever wins it; wins it! The NBA All Star Weekend was going so good for the NBA and its players until the dunk contest was fixed. It’s no surprise that one of their referees got caught fixing games and was suspended. I guess the referee that got caught fixing games was only taking pages from David Stern and other members of the brass that are suppose to be in charge of the NBA.

The NBA lottery held each summer is not even live on television either. I wish they would let the ping pong balls go live on the air and we can see with our own eyes which team wins the lottery. Since the NBA does this behind closed doors, I guess we can only assume the NBA lottery is fixed too. You also have to think about LeBron James leading a poor Cleveland Cavaliers team to the finals a couple of years ago. That team wasn’t good enough to make the finals, but perhaps the NBA wanted their golden child LeBron James to have a chance to win a NBA title. The lottery, LeBron playing in a finals, and now Rudy Fernandez getting a low score for the best dunk on Saturday night in Phoenix, leads me to believe that the NBA game and events surrounding it are all fixed!

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