NBA, Video / Jan 7, 2011 / 5:30 pm

Watch JaVale McGee Practicing For The Dunk Contest

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JaVale McGee has definitely had his share of in-game highlight dunks (and in-game dunk fails) but nothing in this video of him practicing for the Dunk Contest impressed me. The mouth-grabbing-paper dunk was so-so, but him being 7-0 just reminded me of a giraffe eating from a tree. Can we just hand the trophy to Blake Griffin or sleeper Brandon Jennings already?



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  • neoy

    theres been 5ft9 guys doing between the legs standing still dunk…
    and his VC wannabe dunks just look horrible…
    this gonna be the boringest dunk off in a while.

  • gastro

    If this is like watching a giraffe eating from a tree, then the Brandon Jennings’ highlight video was like watching a giraffe taking a shit.

  • WinDelRoj

    Only thing I want to see McGee do is try to block one of BG’s dunks… and proceed to get dunked on

  • Miami Maven

    Shouldn’t he be practicing his fundamentals instead of his dunks?

    The guy is basically a Athlete playing basketball with little to know skills.

  • Miami Maven

    Plus, isn’t he giving away some of his dunks here, anyway?

  • http://www.pinpointbranding.net PJ310

    I was more impressed that he could reach the middle of the net without jumping

  • UncheckedAggression

    PJ310-Exactly! This was not impressive in any sense of the word when it comes to the dunking. He didn’t look like he was trying that hard but all of those dunks would look lame in a contest.

  • rapTOr

    looks like me (6ft) dunking on an 8 ft rim. No matter what dunk he does, it just looks plain ugly because he dont need to elevate that much. Plus he has the typical goofy/awkward dunking style.

    I would have swapped this dude for Sonny Weems. Atleast then there would be some competition for Blake Griffin. And Serge Ibaka?!?!? Are you kidding me?!!? Why dont they just hand the trophy to Griffin from now?

  • http://deleted dagwaller

    I thought a couple were real good. The paper one and the one right beforehand.

  • ab40

    put the basket at 12 feet for the bigs and let bj haha bj do his thing on the 10 foot basket

  • 808

    These tall dudes…if they don’t do creative shit, their dunks are boring as hell. Like yall said, McGee is standing basically flatfooted and he’s already less than a foot below the rim. Not like he gotta jump very high to dunk it.

    Can this guy jump at all??? I still like to see some guy go put a 100 dollar bill on the top of the backboard, grab it on the way up and then dunk the ball on the way down. Then sign the bill and give it to some kid.

  • Shiptar

    only impressive dunks by these guys are when they dunk over people in games. Even Griffin is interesting just because he kills defenders with his dunks, but he isn’t doing nothing too creative. I’m not expecting much from this year’s dunk contest at all!

  • jdizzle

    Yup…this dunk contest aint lookin good…AT ALL!!

  • DH

    The sad thing is the gym will be quieter when he’s actually at the dunk contest.

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