Girl wins dunk contest at All-American Game!! - Honda Forum / Acura Forum

VTECFREAK · 03-30-2004, 04:44 PM

Girl wins dunk contest!!

On Monday night, in a cozy high school gymnasium southeast of Oklahoma City, a 17-year-old high school senior named Candace Parker turned in the latest moment. Parker beat out five male competitors to win the Slam Dunk contest of the McDonald's High School All-American Game.

She won with aplomb, too, darting down the left side of the lane, covering her eyes with her left arm and flushing home a right-handed dunk. At 9:06 p.m. CT, Parker sparked a raucous ovation, chest bumps from her teammates and officially launched herself as the female answer to LeBron James.

Parker, who will play for Tennessee next season, stands just a shade under 6-feet-4 and can play all five positions on the floor. The first two-time winner of the Naismith National Player of the Year award, Parker already was billed as the most ballyhooed women's high school athlete ever. That's before she joined James, Carmelo Anthony and Vince Carter on the list of McDonald's Dunk Contest winners. It's going to air on ESPN tomorrow at 8 p.m. est.

Shiba-Kun · 03-30-2004, 04:53 PM

That is cool. Props to the winner of the contest regardless if it's a boy or girl. Just happens to be Shebron this time around.

uncle_el · 03-30-2004, 05:34 PM

that's real cool. guess i'll have to check out some tennesee lady vol b-ball games next year!

uncle_el · 04-02-2004, 02:08 AM

just found out that a friend's fiance is this girl's, candace parker, brother. i know this guy too, come to think of it. small world.

Shiba-Kun · 04-02-2004, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by uncle_el

just found out that a friend's fiance is this girl's, candace parker, brother. i know this guy too, come to think of it. small world.

Does she take him to the hole too? That'd be funny if she dominates him like no other! I'm sure he'd get a lot of joking about it if she does...

BabyVadah · 04-02-2004, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Shiba-Kun

Does she take him to the hole too? That'd be funny if she dominates him like no other! I'm sure he'd get a lot of joking about it if she does...

I bet he gets manhandled by her.
The only reason she won was cuz the guys missed their dunks.
They gotta change some of these dunk contest rules, like possibly give people a few more tries if they miss. Like the NBA one this year, Fred Jones won on a lame dunk, cuz the others missed. Everyone knows J. Rich has way better dunks. He just happened to miss the last one.

uncle_el · 04-02-2004, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Shiba-Kun

Does she take him to the hole too? That'd be funny if she dominates him like no other! I'm sure he'd get a lot of joking about it if she does...

probably. he's in med school, as his fiance.
his brother plays b-ball overseas in italy.

GT-S_Rey · 04-04-2004, 12:49 PM

no vids of the dunk? props to her though.

BabyVadah · 04-05-2004, 06:53 PM

Here's the truth.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...hitlock/040401

Accord97ma · 04-05-2004, 08:05 PM

Her dunks were just some regular ass dunks. That's cool that she dunked because you don't really hear/see of any women dunking. But her dunks weren't nearly as good as anyone elses.

BabyVadah · 04-05-2004, 08:28 PM

J.Rich, R.Davis, and V.Carter would eat her alive and shit her out.