Superman and my trip to Space 212

Now, Watch me You...

(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

Now, Watch me You...

As much as I hate that song, its appearance on Saturday Night seemed to be dissipated by the amazing events that occurred.

As you all should know by now, I have been stuffing Dwight Howard dunk videos down everyones throat since I started my blog.

So part 1 of this blog is me recapping All-Star Saturday Night.

Part 2 will be my trip to the city.

All-Star Saturday Night Recap, yeah yeah.

All-Star Saturday Night is composed of 4 separate all-star competitions


Shooting Stars

A current NBA player, a WNBA player, and a former NBA player from each respective city (4 cities) try to make a shot from 6 specific spots on the court in the shortest amount of time, ending with a half court shot.


Skills Competition

4 NBA players try to complete an obstacle course in shortest amount of time.


3pt Shootout

6 Players try to make as many 3pters they can from 5 spots(5 balls per spot) around the 3pt line

And finally,

The Dunk Contest

4 players perform crazy and original dunks in order to wow the crowd and be crowded the annual king of the Dunk Contest

Since I don't really care much about the Shooting Stars Competition, I'll note that the San Antonio Team (Tim Duncan, David Robinson, and Becky Hammon) took the crown. Not only did they have the team with the "worst" shooters, because Duncan and Robinson are Centers but this just proves these two guys are born winners.

The Skills Competition should be noted for two things. 1. A battle of two of the best up and coming point guards (Chris Paul and Deron Williams) and 2. Dwyane Wades embarrasment.

Chris Paul and Deron Williams duke it out to complete the obstacle course in the shortest amount of time. Deron Williams wins the battle by breaking the Contests time record.

However, the highlight of this competition is Dwyane Wade completely embarrasing himself. He starts the competition by dribbling the ball off his foot. Everyone knew it was over from there. Then at the end when all the player has to do is make a lay up or dunk the ball, Wade misses not one, but two lay ups. It was just utter embarrasment, and just two short years ago, this guy was NBA Finals MVP.

The 3pt shootout isnt the most exciting competition, but its entertaining to watch none the less. The winner is Jason Kapono, who is known for just about nothing except he can hit 3s and he won last year. Well boy can he hit 3s, cause in the Final Round of the Competition he tied the Competition Record by scoring 25 out of a possible 30 points. Good Job.

Now for the highlight of the night.................THE SLAM DUNK CONTEST

Competitors:

Jamario Moon
Rudy Gay
Gerald Green (last years winner) and
Dwight Howard

So we all should know who I want to win. My current favorite NBA player, who currently leads my favorite NBA team to their best season in like quite a long time. Mother Fuckin Dwight Howard, bitches.

Now in the past The Dunk Contest has fallen off in presitge. From the awful wheel of dunks, to just lack of originality.

Last year, Gerald Green won, by leaping a Table and dunking the ball. Dwight Howard was in that competition too, but lost in the first round by completely confusing the judges.

Dwight Howard received an alley-oop from teammate jameer nelson and placed a sticker on the top left corner of the backboard and dunked the ball. Too bad the judges only saw a lackluster alley-oop from a teamate and not the sticker. Apology accepted.

This years competition is probably the toughest I have seen in a while. However, that doesn't mean the dunks were any good.

This year focused on originality.

Jamario Moon and Rudy Gay started it out with some so-so dunks that I have seen before, nothing new, nothing special. Now its Dwight's turn.

So standing behing the backboard he toses to ball off the backboard and windmills it in jumping from behind the glass to the front. See ya later, Iguodala, your dunk has been perfected.

***The Crowd goes wild***

Now its Gerald Green's turn. He states on camera that this dunk is called the birthday cake. This was by far the most original dunk of the contest. Green, assisted by teamate, takes a cupcake and puts it on the back of the rim, puts a candle in and lights it.

As he is going to dunk the ball, he blows out the candle. Very creative, definetely worthy dunk.

So now its Gay's turn again. He does an ok dunk, by having his teamate throw the ball of the back of the rim and Gay catching and dunking it.

Moon goes, he starts by placing a piece of tape down like a foot behind the foul like. The farther anyone has ever dunked is from the foul line. So now everyone is super excited, there is no way he can jump from that far. Turns out they are right, he couldn't he jumped about a foot inside the foul line and dunked it. We'll that unfortunately did not please the judges and received a lower score than deserved.

Gerald Green goes and does a kinda safety alley-oop dunk from a teamate, earns enough points from the judges to take over first place edging Moon out.

Now its time for Dwight Howard's second dunk. The crowd is already excited. Dwight and Jameer place a piece of tape down about a foot in front of the foul line. Now thats been done before, however Dwight is 6'11" and weight like 275. No player of his size has dunked from this far. But, wait, Jameer has something in his hands, its a......Superman Cape. *Confused looks*

Dwight Howard takes his jersey off and underneath, low and behold, hes wearing a Superman costume. The crowd goes completely nuts, players and fans are laughing and are excited as hell.

Dwight Howard runs from about half court jumps at the tape and catches the ball from Jameer Nelson and throws it down, uh literally. This dunk looked so awesome, Dwight jumped high as hell, caught the ball in one hand and (almost) dunked it. He was probably a few inches from the rim, but yeah in fast motion it looked like a dunk. This "dunk" is now one of the most watched youtube videos and probably will be on posters and billboards for the rest of Dwight Howard's career. Shit was awesome.

Now, Watch me You...
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You...

Well that got him into the finals easily, going against reigning champ Gerald Green.

Well it really doesn't even matter what Gerald Green did in this round, so I won't even talk about it.

Dwight first dunk of the round, was a difficult dunk that has never been performed in a dunk contest before.

Dwight bounced the ball, and while in midair slapped the ball against the glass with his left hand and dunked it with his right. Awesome dunk, and basically locked the dunk contest win.

Dwight had one more dunk where he placed a minihoop on the glass and put a basketball on top of the minihoop. As he jumped he grabbed the ball and did a windmill. He had already won at this point so it didn't matter.

And the fans voted 78% Dwight Howard with the Dunk Contest Win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Video will be posted above!


Part 2 Going to Outer "Space 212"

Due to Dwight Howard's Dunk Contest win I wore my Orlando Magic sweatband on my arm for support for the rest of the night.

Alright, time to leave my humble abode and have some fun, already feeling good. Got directions to go to some persons house for my friend MG's bday.

Get there and feeling a little weird as I walk in to a random person's house and their parents are there. Ha, quickly said hello and walked by, like I wasn't feeling awkward about the fact that I didn't and still don't know whos house this is.

Say, hello to my friends and go down to the basement. Thats where all my peeps are at. MG, Bobby Digital, Spider Man, Sigma Freud and K-Man among others. Ha, I love using these nicknames.

We chill out for a bit, and someone decides, lets go to the city, to this place Space 212. Ha, I'm totally down as usual, even though its now 12 at night.

And we're off.

Finally we get to the city and Spider-Man gets a pimp ass parking spot right in front of the place. Sick shit.

The place is kind of a lounge type place, with an Asian swing, lol. Not much to it, everyone sits on a couch type thing with a table in the middle. Hot little asian waitresses come by and give you drink and shots and shit, and thats all there is too it.

Well as we are walking in, there is this kid standing in my way, doin the Soulja Boy dance, over and over again, for like the whole song. Keep in mind this place is tiny, and this is the only kid standing up. I just laughed and walked right by him, as I'm singing..

Now, Watch me You...
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You...

Or not...

We sit down and chill, get some drink for a few hours and celebrate MG's bday Space 212 style, Fo sho.

We'll mid way through some kid starts like picking up our jackets and looking at them. Everyone at our table has the bewildered look. Its not like our jackets are hung up or anything, they are behind us on our couch.

Fuck yo Couch

So this kid keeps looking at our stuff and walking around to the opposite side and looking at more of our stuff. So after like one two looks we say something to the kid. Apparently he lost his jacket, but we could tell this fucker is drunk.

So I says to him, "If you wanna look at our stuff, you could fuckin ask us. " Gives a slight apology and tries to talk to us or something. We Isoed him out and he kinda kept looking at our jackets. I wasn't mad, but the kid was weird, and being disrespectful. Almost had to knock the kid out, out of principle.

Anyway, that shit ends, and after a while we leave.

We are in two cars, so we say goodbye to the other group. Now its me, Spider-Man, Sigma Freud, Bobby Digital, and K-Man.

K-Man wants to go to this place Platters, that serves Hallal food. Everyone is down, although I don't wanna eat anything (and don't)

So we get there and there is a pretty long line. Something that may rival lines in Phily for the Cheesesteak places.

As we are waiting on line, we are kinda bored and cold. Spider-Man decides this is a good time to start singing. So after a nice acapella number, (can't remember what song) he starts singing Smash Mouth. Within a minute we have like 4 other people joining in with us singing this awful awful song, right in the middle of NYC, lol.

When that songs ends, Spider-Man decides its time to start singing his favorite song, "Like a Prayer" and does.

We all join in again, as does another 10 people. Now there are like 15 people standing in this line singing Like a Prayer at 3 in the morning. Awesome.

Everyone gets their food, and we are off.

While in the Lincoln Tunnel on our way back, there is traffic. Why is there traffic in the Tunnel at 4 am.

Well, K-man decides to get out of the car and jog with us as we travel through the tunnel. Hilarious! I wonder what the otehr cars were thinking.

Anyway, after a nice nap we finally get back. I don't get home til after 6am.

I had tickets to Rutgers basketball game, but after getting home at 6am I decided not to go.

Sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.