Jeremy Evans won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday during the 2012 All-Star Weekend. In the first year of total fan voting to decide the winner, Evans took 29 percent of the vote.
NBA Slam Dunk Contest 2012: Jeremy Evans Wins Disastrous Event
The contest was completely underwhelming. Few of the dunks were original in technical details; Evans' best jam, where he received two simultaneous lobs from a seated Gordon Hayward, was the only one that stuck out as original. The other dunks by all the contestants were little more than spiced-up oldies. Many contestants have leaped over teammates; Paul George did it over 7'2 Roy Hibbert, who ducked a little and whose shoulder served as a launching pad of sorts. Derrick Williams dunked over a motorcycle ... a year after Blake Griffin dunked over a coupe. Chase Budinger repeated Cedric Ceballos' famous blindfold dunk ... with Ced on the court for the assist.
Here's an indicator of how the night went: The night's second-best dunk, Paul George's Vince Carter 360 nod, was barely visible because it was a glow in the dark piece. The riveting conclusion involved Derrick Williams missing the same dunk a dozen times.
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