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All-Star Game: Aaron Gordon dunke on a 2.26m player ... but loses an incredible contest

2020-02-16T16:18:06.701Z


In a (very) high-flying dunking competition, basketball player Aaron Gordon bowed to Derrick Jones Jr.


The result of the All-Star Game dunk competition, which pits the best basketball players in the United States each year, has created controversy across the Atlantic. In a stratospheric Slam Dunk Contest on the night of Saturday to Sunday, Aaron Gordon, used to this kind of competition, left empty-handed from Chicago (Illinois).

However, his last dunk, made in the final over the pivot of the Boston Celtics Tacko Fall - 2.26 m, anyway -, earned him only 47 points. Before, the spectacular Derrick Jones Jr. had obtained 50 points for an incredible new dunk, which will have enabled the player of the Miami Heat to win his first competition, with three points ahead.

🚨 AARON GORDON DUNKS OVER TACKO FALL! 🚨 # StateFarmSaturday on @NBAonTNT pic.twitter.com/cMmRjnnTzN

- NBA (@NBA) February 16, 2020

Gordon: "It's over for me"

After two 50 each in the final, the two rockets had to execute two additional dunks to be decided by the jury. Aaron Gordon, a disappointed Orlando Magic star, announced after the fact that he would no longer participate in the dunk competition.

“It's over for me. I feel like I should have had two trophies, ”he said, referring to the 2016 edition final lost on an equally controversial decision.

In total, the American will have chained five scores of 50, including three in the final, unheard of in the history of the competition. If that was not enough, the spectators are taken in eyes.

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All 10 of the 50-point dunks from #ATTSlamDunk! #NBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/PpKgvPRH1E

- NBA (@NBA) February 16, 2020

On the night of Sunday to Monday (2 a.m. French time), the Utah Jazz Frenchman Rudy Gobert will take part in the prestige match of the weekend of the stars, becoming the third tricolor selected for this show after Tony Parker and Joakim Noah.

Source: leparis

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