{"id":204077,"date":"2021-03-08T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T07:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=204077"},"modified":"2021-03-08T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T07:27:23","slug":"anfernee-simons-wins-slam-dunk-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anfernee-simons-wins-slam-dunk-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Anfernee Simons wins Slam Dunk Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anfernee Simons became the first player in Blazers history to win the Slam Dunk Contest.<br \/>\n&#8220;A dream came true&#8221; Simons said after the victory.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a8Ng2btsXeI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Per ESPN, Simons won the contest over Toppin in the final round via a new rule called the &#8220;Judge&#8217;s choice.&#8221; Simons and Toppin had one dunk each in the round, and instead of a score, the five judges selected a name, with Simons receiving three votes to Toppin&#8217;s two.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was judged by five former dunk champions: Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins (1985, 1990), Spud Webb (1986), Dee Brown (1991), Jason Richardson (2002, 2003) and Josh Smith (2005).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9D5YueDuQoM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Simons said his goal for the last dunk was to kiss the rim, but he also wanted to make sure he didn&#8217;t hit his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In practice, I never actually kissed the rim, but I was like, &#8216;I gotta commit to it,'&#8221; Simons said. &#8220;I tried to put a mouthpiece in last-minute, but it didn&#8217;t fit in my mouth. I just scratched, and I&#8217;m just going to emphasize the smooch face so people know I&#8217;m next to the rim and trying to kiss it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simons said his goal for the last dunk was to kiss the rim, but he also wanted to make sure he didn&#8217;t hit his head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":204076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-204077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Simons-Slam-Dunk-Contest.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204077"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=204077"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=204077"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=204077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}