DUNK CONTEST!!!!!!

Well, the dunk contest turned out pretty much how everyone expected it to: anticlimactic and underwhelming.

The new format was strange and the only real highlight from the contest was this:

The dunk contest has been broken for years. It's an over-hyped event that fails to draw the NBA's premier talent. Fans want to see stars like Lebron James throwing down monster off-the-wall self-alley-oops. 

This will never happen. Lebron is smart. He knows, even with him in the dunk contest, the event will end up a disappointment. The only way to save the dunk contest is to have fans collectively lower their expectations of what it is. The dunk contest has been an All-Star event for over 30 years. Realistically, how many different dunks can a human being create?

Watch winning dunks from the 90s and early 2000s. Some of those dunks are amazing (almost all of Vince Carter's dunks, for example), but if most of those dunks happened in a modern-day contest, fans would ho-hum over them. 

I still stand by my idea to have a shotblocker attempt to block players as they try and dunk, like Slamball. This is perfect:

Basically, what I'm saying is this: Drastically change the NBA court to include eight trampolines and include body checks. Dunk contest problem solved.