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[BB] NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Contest 2010 Recap
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Description: New York's Nate Robinson is the NBA's first three-time Sprite Slam Dunk champion. Nate Robinson tends to give fans a little something extra. He has vaulted over 6-foot-11 Dwight Howard and donned an all-green New York Knicks uniform with green shoes as part of his All-Star dunk contest routines. So it should have come as no surprise when he grabbed a pair of blue pompons from a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Saturday night inside American Airlines Center and thrust them into the air to celebrate his final dunk. Robinson's pass off the backboard for a double-pump reverse dunk helped the 5-foot-9 dynamo defend his title and become the first three-time dunk contest champion after edging Toronto's DeMar DeRozan with 51% of fan voting via text messaging and the Internet. "I knew I had to try to do dunks I haven't done before and try and spice it up a little bit," Robinson said in an on-court interview. Did he consider dunking over the cheerleaders? "They were way too beautiful for that," said Robinson, who said he didn't anticipate going for a fourth title. DeRozan thrilled the crowd in the final round when he leaped over Toronto teammate Sonny Weems and took a pass off the backboard for a one-handed dunk. The former Compton High and USC star's other attempt in the final was a two-handed windmill. "Going up against somebody like Nate who's small and doing the things he's doing, it's hard to beat that," DeRozan said. DeRozan earned a perfect score from the judges in the first round ...
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