{"id":84905,"date":"2014-07-18T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=84905"},"modified":"2023-12-27T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T19:07:12","slug":"bill-simmons-says-88-dunk-contest-was-rigged-ill-explain-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/bill-simmons-says-88-dunk-contest-was-rigged-ill-explain-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Simmons says \"88 Dunk Contest was rigged\" - I'll explain why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lTeNiRDnCw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Earlier in the year, Bill Simmons had a great sit-down interview with basketball and dunk legend Dominique Wilkins. They talked about how Nique was a \"better dunker than Jordan,\" how Nique was robbed in 88 during the home job dunk contest win by Jordan and why current stars won't do the dunk contest.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ recently caught up with Simmons in the street and asked about MJ &amp; Nique. Simmons repeated his thoughts on the duel and talked about the \"brand injury\" that would occur to stars like Blake Griffin and LeBron if they lost in a dunk contest nowadays.<\/p>\n<h3>THE 88 DUNK \u00a0CONTEST: MJ VS NIQUE<\/h3>\n<p>Nique, like any unbiased dunk fan back then, believed he should have won the contest and even said MJ agreed by saying \u201cHey, you probably won. You know it, I know it, but hey, you\u2019re in Chicago. What can I tell you?\u201d It was a home job and everybody knew it, including Charles Barkley, who said it on air during the 1994 dunk contest, when he and Nique were providing commentary for the JR Rider show.<\/p>\n<p>As time went by and youngsters were left with just edited recaps, stats and biased marketing, the perception was formed that MJ deserved the win and that the free throw line dunk was more dramatic than it actually was. What many people don\u2019t know about the free throw dunk from 88 is that MJ actually attempted the dunk three times in the same contest. The first time he did it, he scored a 50. That\u2019s fair. Then on the final dunk in the contest, when he needed a 49 to beat Nique\u2019s 45 (lowest of the night), he missed his first attempt and was rewarded with a 50 on his second attempt for doing a dunk he already did earlier in the contest. Yep, Nike\u2019s history books didn\u2019t tell you that.<\/p>\n<p>(UPDATE: And of course evidence of this has been removed from YouTube)<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n6vRWbVlTDo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>WHY TODAY\u2019S STARS WON'T COMPETE IN THE DUNK CONTEST<\/h3>\n<p>The best part of the Grantland video is when Bill brings up the topic of \u201cstars\u201d not doing the contest anymore for BS concerns, like losing the event will hurt their brand. Nique thought that excuse was \u201ccrap and stupid\u201d because the event isn\u2019t about them, it\u2019s about the fans. He then mentioned how he competed five times and only won twice (and robbed twice). What he didn\u2019t mention was he did the contest after losing two events, which showed how little he cared about any perception that could be made about him losing a contest\u2026.and he\u2019s arguably the best dunker of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, there\u2019s been a lot of great and marketable players that competed multiple times, never won and I\u2019m sure never lost a penny because of it. Clyde Drexler is one of the top 50 players ever and he also did the dunk contest five times. I can guarantee you that nobody can recall two dunks that he did in those five years either. Then you have Dr J, who at the time of his NBA dunk contest appearance was known as the greatest dunker of all-time. Not only did he \u201cput his brand on the line\u201d but he was willing to compete at the age of 34 &amp; 35 (the age Kobe Bryant is right now). Shawn Kemp lost all four times he participated. Jerome Kersey lost four years in a row. Kenny Smith three. Spud Webb finished dead last in his second contest appearance and was still willing to come back for a third time.<\/p>\n<p>Spud, Kemp, Clyde and others kept coming back because fans wanted them there and they wanted to reward their fans. They all wanted to win but they weren\u2019t there to win.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of winnings, the winner of that 1988 dunk contest walked away with $12,500. That\u2019s right, the league\u2019s best were willing to compete for a little more than $10K and last year we saw Magic Johnson, with Bill Simmons, unsuccessfully try to convince LeBron James to compete for a million dollars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tvkw71WC3VU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So here we are in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/who-is-in-and-who-is-not-in-the-2014-dunk-contest-so-far-george-dwight-green-jordan-oladipo\/\">2014 and the league is having another tough year trying to get guys to compete<\/a>. Some don\u2019t want to do it because they have already won or felt cheated or because they want to be in other events or because they don\u2019t like the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The last example I can bring up about the difference between now and then is Michael Jordan was willing to embarrass himself and compete in the 1990 Three-point contest against the likes of Reggie Miller, Mark Price, Craig Hodges and Larry Bird. He knew he didn\u2019t have a chance but he wasn\u2019t afraid of challenges and knew his fans would enjoy it. The result for MJ was a first-round score of five, which was less than half of the second-worst score in the contest. That five actually became the worst in contest history and it took 14 years until somebody challenged it; Vlad Rad was able to pull out a six in the 2005 contest.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Jordan\u2019s brand was really hurt by that loss.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; font-size: x-small; margin-top: 0;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year, Bill Simmons had a great sit-down interview with basketball and dunk legend Dominique Wilkins.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":273006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,3,74,23],"tags":[5692,3119,896,1599],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-84905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-nba","category-nba-videos","category-video","tag-bill-simmons","tag-dominique-wilkins","tag-lebron","tag-michael-jordan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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