Nate Robinson On Why Stars Like LeBron & Zion WON'T Do The Dunk Contest

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What are your thoughts on the state of the Dunk contest?

I mean, I watched that shit after a while, and I'm just sad on where it's going.

Number one, them letting certain guys do the Dunk contest that wasn't even really in

the league.

That kind of bothered me a little bit.

Kind of in the beginning when they were doing it, and after a while, I was like, f**k,

y'all let them do it multiple times, so my ass will just let them keep doing it.

But just the whole, I mean, what more can guys do in the Dunk contest, like everything's

been done, let somebody does a flip or something.

Like, there's nothing that everybody's done everything now.

Like, what can the Dunk contest do, and what can they do in the Dunk contest to make it

seem like something that nobody's ever seen?

That's going to be tough to do, so you can't get the crowd's attention, and the stars

to even, you know, to come out and really be excited about anything, because everything's

been done.

Yeah.

I'm not going to.

They got to switch it up.

They got to go to one-on-one or something.

Something different.

Yeah.

I'm not going to lie.

Now, like, it was always like, like, you waited to see the Dunk contest, like, Dunk

contest the main event.

Now, I'm like, I don't know.

I wasn't three-point shootout.

And then I just turned it off.

Yeah, because the stars that's supposed to do it don't do it, like, bro, like, when

I was coming up, LeBron, you should have been in it.

Like, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, I should have been in it.

LeBron James should have did the Dunk contest, didn't more guys what he did, all the stars

before him, all did it, Kobe, Vince, you had T-Mac, Jordan, Dr. J, like, all these guys

did the Dunk contest, bro, before, and I don't understand why they wouldn't do it, to

pay homage to the league and the fans, like, there's something that you should do.

But guys that are doing the more you got, imagine, we missed John Morant with some of the

craziest amounts we've ever seen a guard have, he didn't do it, you had Zion that didn't

do it.

You got all these guys that are super stars that got bounced, like, these only Edwards

could have been in it, he didn't do it.

So it makes it real difficult for, you know, the stars to come out and do it, and nobody's

going to be wanting to watch this.

It's a good point.

It's a good point.

We'll also feel like if these dudes go out there and don't do anything special, it's

going to be more impactful, like, when you do some crazy Dunk contest, like, oh, people

remember it, like, but a lot of people remember, remember what you, like, didn't do.

There's been epic fails.

I mean, Baron Davis put a blindfold on and missed it completely, but we talked about, like,

it's still for you to, you can go on YouTube and see it, it's hilarious.

But now with social media, they capture everything.

Everybody's their own media source.

And that's what sucks, too, like, they take the fun out of it, in a way, like, back in

the day, when you're a Dunk contest, you could have, like, you had to be there to be like,

oh, you should have been there.

You should have seen this person did this and it was like, almost unbelievable until you

seen it, you know, what you're real, you know, with on the phone or whatever you look

it up.

But if somebody told you, oh, Mack McCleum jumped over whatever went off the bad board

and touched you, you know, like, you'd be like, man, get the hell out of here.

He didn't do all that.

You go see it and like, oh, wow, he really did.

But now it's like, everybody can watch and see and everything and they post it so fast.

Like, you'll get highlights of the Dunk contest to your phone before the commercial even

starts.

Like, people on TV, like, you can go right to your phone, why watch it on the TV?

You can watch it right on your phone and get all the highlights and everything.

So I think social media kind of messed it up for everybody doing the Dunk contest as

well.

But it's just, it's one of those things that is going to be sad, but it's going to,

it may have to die and be like, man, remember the Dunk contest?

Like, it was so cool, like, one of those things and just put one on one or something because

I guess that's what everybody's doing on YouTube now is one on one phase who wouldn't want

to watch Kyrie Irving versus KD versus Anthony Edwards and wants to see the best of the best

global ones.

I mean, that'd be fun to watch.

Was there a Dunk contest you had that you never did?

Was there a Dunk that you never met?

Was there a Dunk?

McDonald's all American game and I wish if I had made it to that and I would have loved

to do the Dunk contest as a high school kid because I had crazy backs, even in high school.

I probably got more grown up when I got, you know, to learn how to jump when I got older.

But, you know, young, young legs, fresh, as high school students, I think, you know,

doing the McDonald's American game would have been cool, but I wasn't that good.

I meant to say, was there a Dunk that you never did in a Dunk contest that you had, like,

I guess?

Oh, yes.

Well, I tried it, my first Dunk contest, I tried to go off the glass between the legs

at 5'9 and I usually make that Dunk and I was mad that when I tried it the first time

I didn't make it so I kind of scratched that and went too regular between the legs.

But I wish I would have got a chance to throw it off the backboard and go between the legs.

How did you jumping over Dwayne come about?

Man, I just had a vision and I pitched it to Nike when I was with Nike at the time and

I was like, man, I was like, can you guys make some kryptonite, you know, me being Superman

or anybody being Superman, they have kryptonite, so I was like, can you guys come up with a

kryptonite shoe or whatever and I gave him the whole idea and then I didn't even ask the

white before I even came up with the whole plot.

And then the day the Dunk contest, you know, we're going down and we're going to practice

and get dressed for the Dunk contest and I was like, I was like, bro, would you, would

you help me out with a Dunk and the Dunk contest and he was like, well, it depends on what

it is.

And I was like, would you let me jump over you?

And he looked down and he was like, can you do that?

And I was like, yeah, of course.

I was like, one of my teammates at practice all the time, Eddie Curry, 7 feet, Jared

Jeffries, like 16, David Lee, like 6, 8, 6, 9, so, you know, I would just run if they're

by the hoop, I would just run jump over my Dunkin', you know, just dunk on them because, you

know, we always do pranks and stuff, so once I knew I could do that, I was like, man,

what's up?

So would you want to do it?

He was like, I said, bro, it'll go crazy and this would be like a very memorable moment

for the above of us because, you know, you want the Dunk contest before I won and, you

know, it's like, you know, Superman vs. Kryptonite.

So we came up with the whole theme and they made these phone positive, Krypton A shoes

and the whole sleeve, the green jersey, we had the whole little thing going, so that happened

and I was like, in my head, I was like, I just have to make it on the first try.

Yeah.

Like, I made sure that whoever managed to send shorter shorts, my jersey was a little shorter

so it could be tighter.

Like, I was like, I need this to work perfectly, first try, not second try.

So I just, I don't know how I got the energy, but I was so nervous because it was like, this

is that one dunk that you want to happen on the first try.

So you can, you know, if you win, let it go down the entry and I end up winning and making

it that day.

So that's pretty cool.

You did all that or like, changing, like, making them a little shorter and each phone,

the phone was like the heavy issue.

I know, but most of the parts are white, they weren't heavy, like those ones are heavy.

They weren't like the real phones, like, and I was worried about that when they showed

them to me.

I didn't see them until the day of the dunk contest, or the day before, so they gave me the orange

ones.

They didn't show me the green ones yet.

They showed me the orange and I had white, I had a couple of other pair.

So I had to practice in those and I was like, okay, these ain't bad.

I can, I can hoop in these, you know, I was trying them out, they were good.

And then when I got them in the dunk contest, I mean, with the practice, they brought the

green ones to me.

And I was like, these are ones that you're going to wear.

I was like, oh my god, these is crazy.

So I was like, all right, cool.

She's like, you need to practice in my, I just warm around the, like, my room, walk in

them and just kept them, kept them hush for a while.

This is our nine.

Yep.

Phones were going crazy in our nine, too.

Yeah.

So those were kind of crazy.

And then that happened when the dunk contest, that was pretty cool.

But yeah, I mean, that was a very, I was nervous, but I was like, I got to be ready.

I got to jump my highest.

I didn't want my shorts to get caught back up his head.

I didn't want to fall.

So I had to jump as high as I could and I got it done.

Yeah.

But I don't know.

I think a lot of people probably turned down the dunk contest so they had to scramble

and just get whoever would do it.

Real quick, before we get into this bad MGM segment, Nate, what was your, like at its peak,

what was your, your vert, was your highest ever recorded vert?

I did one time.

I did like a 47, 46, I think when I worked out for the Lakers, I did a workout.

I worked out with like 27 NBA, 26, 27 NBA teams when I came out.

Is that with one step or flat footed?

That's like what you do.

That's right.

You run and jump.

Oh, running.

Okay.

If he had a 47 flat footed, no, a flat footed was a 34, not him in the flat footed.

Okay, he's only three inches less.

Yeah, but I got a run start and I don't jump off one.

I jump off two.

So I had to, you know, but I think the highest,

I ever touched, ever like was like 11, I think 11, 8 was the highest I ever touched.

I dumped, I dumped the 12 foot hoop before with a tennis ball.

Wow.

Yeah, it's on YouTube, but I dumped the 12 foot hoop when I went up with a tennis ball before

at 5.9.

So, and that was like, at my peak peak, before I was hurt and all that, I was like at my

peak.

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