G-League guard Mac McClung drew the loudest roars to easily win the Slam Dunk Contest over the Knicks’ Jericho Sims and two others on Saturday night.
Sims received scores of 47.8 and 47.4 on his first-round dunks from judges Dominique Wilkins, Jamal Crawford, Lisa Leslie, Harold Miner and Karl Malone.
On his first dunk, the 24-year-old Sims flipped the ball off the backboard and finished with both forearms inside the rim. His second dunk was similar, with his entire right arm ending up in the rim after he grabbed a piece paper that said “50,” even though his score fell short of that number. “I thought they should be higher,” Sims said afterward of his scores. “For sure, everybody watching from the sidelines, seeing the reactions to my dunks, it was great.”
McClung, 24, notched two more perfect scores in the finals, one with a double-pump reverse two-hander after jumping over someone along the baseline and the other a 540-degree reverse finish while wearing his high school jersey.“It’s great, man, I’m truly blessed and grateful to the NBA for giving me this opportunity,” McClung said on TNT afterward. “I think the biggest thing is manifestation. I don’t get surprised by things like this, but I’m very appreciative.
After he was told that TNT analyst Kenny Smith said he “saved the dunk contest,” McClung vowed to defend his title next year.Sims acknowledged earlier Saturday that
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