Jones on NBA: The best dunk of them all?

In this age of instant gratification and information overload if you call yourself a basketball fan I’m sure you have seen this well-publicized dunk by Blake Griffin on Monday night. It was the talk of the basketball world after the Los Angeles Clippers 112-100 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Thunder centre Kendrick Perkins will never live it down and somewhere Denver Nuggets forward Timofey Mozgov is smiling. Hey, did anyone ask him what he thought as he was also one of Griffin’s victims last season?

So how good was Griffin’s dunk? It’s at the point where some are calling it the best dunk ever but if you listen to my colleagues, Eric Smith and Michael Grange, it’s not even a dunk.

Ok, so where do I stand? Well first off, while some people, including one of the greatest in-game slam artists of all time, Dominique Wilkins, will not acknowledge it as a dunk, I will. It may not have been a slam dunk, but it was a dunk.

Allow me to sound like the old man yelling at kids to “get off my lawn” for a few lines here. I grew up in an age where dunking was not the necessity that it seems to be today, and as a consequence fundamentals were better. If they ever made me the commissioner of high school hoops, I would take the dunk out of the game until players reached the next level, but that’s just me. There is far too much emphasis on it now and many other essential, fundamental skills are suffering, all thanks to the almighty sports highlight shows and internet videos. OK, the kids are gone and I’m done with my rant.

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