All-Star Saturday Night has come and gone and the overwhelming consensus was that the night, particular the banner event, the Dunk Contest, left quite a bit to be desired. While Hamidou Diallo had some bright moments and was the clearly deserving winner, between missed dunks from his competition, questionable scores from the judges and an overall lack of flash, the 2019 Dunk Contest just wasn’t all that thrilling.
True, perhaps we were spoiled by the legendary Dunk Contest of 2016 in which Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine duked it out with some of the most incredible dunks we’ve ever witnessed, but even after laying that to one side, this year’s event felt even less thrilling than normal.