Palmetto Proving Grounds

how was this not a dunk? Bc he didn't hang from the rim?

This.

He had 3 or 4 fingers on the rim. He just didn't hang on it because Perk was underneath him. People just like to hate on the NBA anyway they can these days.

I'm just old school with basketball. If the rules were actually enforced, the game would end in a 0-0 tie.

Kendrick Perkins would admit it was a dunk. Maybe if Blake wasnt pushed away from the basket mid-air he could have put more fingers on the rim.

Here is a video of the Lebron dunk of John Lucas (5'11")...

And that is why basketball is going down the sh**ter.

That doesn't make it unimpressive. James wasn't preparing to jump over someone, but still jumped high enough.

I definitely preferred the Globetrotters pre-Sweet River Baines ...

Who says it is going down the "sh**ter". I think their ratings last year were the highest since the Jordan era.

The day the lockout ended was one of the saddest days of 2011 for sure.

would I like to watch the game called with rules that high school players have to follow??...why, Yes I would!!

Todays version of pro basketball is garbage. The reason point totals are down is that the athletes are much better and 30 yearrs ago, you could not hand check and mug guys. It was actually created as a non-contact sport..... 30 years ago most of todays players would not make it to half time before they would have fouled out. Defense is not better, nothing is better or bigger except the highlite real and the ego's.

then what about this one? Only the very tips of his fingers touch the rim.... No grabbing the rim, no hanging, no rim jerking downward. Griffins dunks was just that... a dunk. And you'd be hard pressed to find an NBA player that would say otherwise.