The theme of the 2011 NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Contest is "Anything Goes," ostensibly because the last dunk contest was so awful that the NBA is desperate to try something different. Wizards center JaVale McGee, in typical JaVale McGee fashion, has taken that message to the extreme. Whereas Blake Griffin and Serge Ibaka have worked with their dunk contest "coaches" to narrow down the dunks they will do in the contest, McGee has decided to just make it all a mystery, at least for now.
↵↵↵"I don't want to tell the other people in the dunk contest what I'm doing," McGee says in his NBA.com video. "They'll steal my ideas."
↵McGee technically has a dunk coach like everyone else (Chris Webber), but you don't see Webber there at all in the linked video above. Instead, it's JaVale talking about how he has "stuff that people haven't seen," giving away no details about what that "stuff" actually is. The only little nugget of information he provides is this:
↵↵↵"I'm thinking more of the impossible than the prop-type stuff."
↵At the very least, he's certainly made things interesting. It's possible Webber makes an appearance in future videos, of course, but I kind of like the mysterious approach better.
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