But I'll NEVER forget the 1988 contest. In addition to a great cast including Clyde Drexler and Spud Webb, it featured the highly anticipated rematch between two of the greatest dunkers of all-time in Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins.
I was a HUGE Dominque fan and still think he got robbed. Jordan had performed his contest-winning freethrow line dunk much better the previous year (and actually took off from the line AND made it on the first attempt, unlike this time.) Ironically, I thought Jordan's lowest scoring dunk was his most impressive. Meanwhile, Dominque's first and last dunks were two of the greatest I've ever seen. The poster of the first was a feature on my bedroom wall for many years. But the contest was in Chicago so the outcome didn't really come as a shock. As a gracious Dominque said, "If anybody's going to beat me, I'd rather have it be him."
Ok, that has to be the fastest search engine indexing ever. I posted this article and then did a quick Google search on 'michael air wilkins' just to see if anybody else had ever used the phrase (apparently not for the record.) But I was shocked when this post already came up on Google's main index. I know Google owns Blogger (which powers this site) but I was still floored by the fact it was instantly included.
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