Iman Shumpert Dunking

Jeremy Lin on Landry Field's Couch

NBA 2012 Slam Dunk Contest: Knicks Would Have Won

Blake Griffin leapt over a car to win last year's NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Now this year's winner will be judged solely by basketball fans voting online. Houston Rockets' Chase Budinger soars over rapper P. Diddy for thunderous slam and follows with a huge windmill dunk, then completes a slam dunk blindfolded. Jeremy Evans of Utah Jazz jumps over a mailman for dunk, then as someone sitting in a chair tosses him two balls, he leaps over him dunking both at once. Indiana Pacers' Paul George performs a windmill dunk in the dark, but his most spectacular dunk was leaping over two teammates, one standing 7-foot-2. Minnesota Timberwolves' Derrick Williams makes side backboard bounce dunk after ten attempts but his dunk hurdling over a motorbike was a huge success. The crowd roars as Landry Fields rolls out his couch with Jeremy Lin on it reading cover stories in Time & Sports Illustrated. Here comes Knicks' Shumpert soaring over the couch as Lin tosses him the ball for a rim-rattling flush through the basket. Crowd goes wild with applauding cheers and online voters award him the winner!     — Peter Y. Chou         Mountain View, 3-8-2012

Griffin won dunking over car  Chase Budinger   Jeremy Evans    Williams dunks over motorbike Jeremy Lin on magazine covers NY Knicks' Lin & Shumpert