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The NBA also crossed the 1 billion mark in likes and follows across its social media platforms thanks to its worldwide audience, and there were 50,000 tweets per minute during the final round of the dunk contest. “That’s insane so I think that’s what it is for a lot of people”.

Minnesota Timberwolves’ Zach LaVine, right, takes the ball from teammate Andrew Wiggins as he competes during the NBA All-Star Saturday Slam Dunk basketball contest Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, in NY. “I’m just glad I got the last laugh”. The Minnesota Timberwolf should have won the tournament because his dunk attempts were near-effortless. It wasn’t a tie though because Gordon won even before the contest went into overtime.

In my opinion, Aaron Gordon should have been crowned the champion. I was just hoping Zach was going to miss, and it wasn’t going to happen.

Directly following Gordon’s first dunk, LaVine continued to set an early tone of jaw-dropping athleticism with his first dunk of the competition. “People usually aren’t that prepared to go up against you”. Poor Drummond and Barton; on a normal night with normal dunks they may have stood a chance.

“I had to bring my A-plus-plus-plus game”, LaVine said. LaVine’s slender 6-foot-5 frame definitely helped him against the bigger Gordon.

First Gordon made the mascot spin in his hoverboard and once he got the ball he slammed the ball 360-style. Payton tosses the ball up to bounce off of the side of the backboard.

LaVine wrote “I dedicate this dunk contest and the trophy to my late coach, Flip Saunders and the Saunders family”.

Kobe Bryant and LeBron James never met in an NBA Finals, so they squared off another way – they took the opening tap against one another, with Bryant winning. It’s a shame Dikembe Mutombo, Tracy McGrady, and Julius Erving scored the dunk with 9s instead of 10s. Green: That was Gordon’s show and the judges robbed him of his first dunk contest trophy. Aaron Gordans final dunk was a gravity defying tomahawk, double-clutch between the legs, reverse slam. “It’s been too long, it’s the first time in 22 years”, the top seed and world number 12 said in a courtside interview. In some ways, I agree. And he was perhaps even better this year, helping reinvigorate a dunk contest that has been heavily criticized for lack of excitement.

Zach LaVine called it the best dunk contest ever, a showdown with Aaron Gordon that rivaled what Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins did.