This year’s Slam Dunk Contest was not well received by the fans.
Between stunts with too many props, and contestants needing way too many attempts to complete their dunks, there were negative reactions around.
Here’s a sample of some of the tweets we saw ripping on the contest, including a few wondering if it was the worst contest ever.
Dunk contest!
— Javale McGee (@JaValeMcGee34) February 19, 2017
The internet doing Aaron Gordon dirty pic.twitter.com/a9atBfGed1
— Legends (@LegendsofCH) February 19, 2017
nobody deserves to win give the trophy to Dominique Wilkins for getting jerked by Jordan!!
— 73-9 and they LIED (@CuffsTheLegend) February 19, 2017
Worst #DunkContest ever
— Chris Bennett (@chrisgb00) February 19, 2017
I want to die of second hand embarrassment when they miss this many dunks.
— KFC (@KFCBarstool) February 19, 2017
The Dunk Contest trophy goes to Guy Fieri by default. House rules.
— Darryn Albert (@dirnted13) February 19, 2017
if i wanted to watch someone not dunk i would just watch myself play basketball
— Lana Berry (@Lana) February 19, 2017
These dudes got enough hops to do great dunks without all the props. Keep it simple
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) February 19, 2017
We need Adam Silver to issue an executive order that Zach LaVine can never get hurt and has to participate every year.
— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) February 19, 2017
Is this the worst dunk contest ever?
— Josina Anderson (@JosinaAnderson) February 19, 2017
This might be the worst dunk contest of all-time
— gifdsports (@gifdsports) February 19, 2017
And then there were the Kyrie Irving-inspired tweets:
Worst dunk contest in flat earth history.
— Robin Lundberg (@robinlundberg) February 19, 2017
The world is not flat, but unfortunately NBA All-Star Saturday sure is.
— Bill Reiter (@sportsreiter) February 19, 2017
Glenn Robinson III ended up winning the contest (see all his dunks here). Though his last dunk was awesome, he didn't exactly need to do a whole lot to win it as the competition was not very strong this year.
