the phone booth thing was a bit much. At the end of the day, you think that humans will continue to progress fast enough that each year someone will jump higher, dunk harder. I’m being realistic in that we have seen huge amounts of material. That video you posted. He still isn’t getting high enough to possibly do a flip. The only clips of someone doing flips are people on trampolines. That and his dunks were nice but nothing I haven’t seen before. People have jumped over cars, over people, over people from the side. Its been done. Has it been done in the dunk contest no, but thats because if someone messes up jumping over a car their team is going to kill them for doing something so dangerous. I’m not saying they shouldn’t, just saying teams have vested interest in their players and them getting hurt in a dunk contest is not one of those interests.
Its not about the gimmicks. I was mad as hell when Dwight only did that simple old dunk. but at the end of the day who is the dunk contest for, the fans AND the player themselves. Every dunk shouldn’t have a gimmick, but if you can add fun to it I just say why not instead of why. Players deserve to have some fun too on the court.