Aaron Gordon Says He Won't do the Dunk Contest Again - 2020 NBA All-Star Saturday Night

man what's going on exactly what are we doing man what kind of who set the

dunk

contest

up man who set this up all right what's up you see sports Boston not just obviously this was a great back and forth between you two in that last session you decided to bring taco fall into the mix take us through the decision to add taco to the mix and were you as surprised as somewhere with the judging oh yeah definitely well I wanted to jump over Shaq didn't want to do it so you know it was

really for the people you know everybody's like taco tacos like all right cool let's do it man it's all this dude in the gym jumping over somebody that's seven for five or seven jumping over somebody 75 and

dunk

ing it there's no easy feat you know me so what'd I get like a 47 47 47 come on man what we doing back right over here speedy morman complex I'm curious as to where you think he ranks as a competitor and

dunk

contest

as opposed to Zach Lavine where we saw in

2016 but it's really similar they got similar bounce you saw he did the three

star

you did the windmill from the free-throw line the dopest one he did I think was off the glass over somebody through the legs that was super tough super tough but yeah I mean he's a leaper man he's a leaper he gets up great

dunk

er obviously got be great to win a

dunk

contest

so right here in the center second row hey

Aaron

my name is Dario from Mexico a from Nacional yeah thanks first for the epic

battle that you have every time that you're on a

dunk

insist is something epic I want you to what's your recommendation for jumping as high as you do always for like people that always want to do other hell I don't yeah don't train it this is like see I mean y'all work out a lot you're working late plyometrics yeah plyometrics a jump we vest you got to work out a lot we got everyday I do this

Aaron

right after the the

dunk

you did with taco fall he told ESPN's Ramona

Shelburne that he was a little scared for his life just because it's not something that was rehearsed did you have to talk him into it at all calm him down let him know that you could clear that height are you confident in that no I was confident in it yeah I mean I should let it rip a little bit more I guess you know maybe if I put a little bit more effort into it what I got a higher score but he he's a little nervous he was like I got faith in you I was like I appreciate it Gilbert

Rock Channel five Israel here right here do you think having d-wade as one of the judges had something to do with that final result now I don't even know who gave me the knives i'ma find them I'm fine I'm a violin a

night

cuz but really I you know we're here to do four

dunk

s you know I mean so it's out of four

dunk

s this should be the best out of four

dunk

s I did four straight fifties five straight fifties that's all it's a wrap you know let's go home for

fifties in a row and an NBA

dunk

contest

it's over but I don't know who's running the shelf next question over here in the left standing Josefa Charlotte score

Aaron

it looked like you bruised your wrist early in the concept does that happen to you most

contest

s or is that unique to to

night

is that something that usually happens oh I mean this is kind of like what happens when you don't card you know I mean people forget that that's higher you know any me and yeah it's

dunk

ing hard I haven't been a

dunk

ing as much as I used to so my body is kind of like intolerant to it right now and that's what happened you know what I mean it's just when you hit your my and you know I mean

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t bleeding

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t bruising last one standing here on the left side uh

Aaron

Aaron

over here Beckett thank you Chris routes woody city whose podcast is it a goal ooh is it a goal worth winning a

dunk

contest

before you retire from

dunk

contest

that's a wrap both it's

a wrap I feel like I should have two trophies you know what I mean so it's it's over for that my next goal is gonna be trying one two three point

contest

thank you all right thank you peace Thanks