LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin was voted as a starter to the NBA All-Star Game on Thursday, but said he doesn't plan on defending his slam dunk contest title during All-Star Weekend.
"As of right now I don't plan on being in it," Griffin said Thursday night. "Those dunk contests aren't my thing, I said that last year. There's a lot of guys that can put on a great show and do some good stuff."
Last year Griffin won the slam dunk contest, played in the Rookie Challenge and played in the All-Star Game during a whirlwind weekend in Los Angeles.
That's a shame. Despite the whole controversy over "he didn't jump over the roof" (I still maintain that it was pretty cool and his elbow-in-the-rim off the backboard was the dunk of the contest), he's one of the league's most prolific dunkers and I would've liked to have seen him try to defend the crown.
And of course, LeBron James is once again considering entering the contest.
“I don’t know, I’ll be on the fence every year about it,” James said. “It’s always a fence year for me. I know they’re getting tired of me, though, so I’m not even going to start up nothing.”
To be fair he was asked the question but he could've just said no, seeing as how that's likely what's going to happen anyway.
