Former NBA player Spud Webb who won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 1986 picked his favorite to win this year’s contest.
He went with Kenyon Martin Jr. of the Houston Rockets. The other contestants are Mac McClung (Philadelphia 76ers), Trey Murphy III (New Orleans Pelicans) and Jericho Sims (New York Knicks).
“So I’m going to go with Junior,” Webb said, per Nick Raffoul of Basketball Insiders. “Hopefully these young guys have crazy stuff that we’d only dream about dunking. He seems like one of those guys that dunk in the game a lot, so he might be very creative in the dunk contest.”
Historically, Webb thinks that Aaron Gordon who has never won the contest if the best dunker. “Gordon and he never won. The guy got all 50s and didn’t win and he did the best dunk ever,” he said.
“Dominique is the best dunk I’ve ever seen. He’d do the most powerful dunks but more creative and dunk like that, Gordon man. You’d never seen a guy do a dunk like that, he did behind his legs, something he did.”
