By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times - Sunday, February 20, 2022

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest is a guarantee to trend on Twitter every year. But the NBA probably wishes the way the dunk contest went trending on Saturday was different. 

Basketball fans were not happy with the dunk contest, with tens of thousands calling it “trash” — the word that went trending on Twitter during the event. 

“This dunk contest was low key trash,” tweeted one fan. 

“The NBA dunk contest is trash because none of the stars ever wanna enter it,” posted another fan on Twitter. 

“Worst Dunk Contest ever,” tweeted Fox Sports’ Skip Bayless. 

New York Knicks forward Obi Toppin won the dunk contest, beating out Golden State’s Juan Toscano-Anderson. Toppin’s final dunk was fine, but it didn’t matter because Toscano-Anderson missed all three of his attempts in the final round. 

“Bank shot dunk to win it all? Dunk Contest is in the gutter,” tweeted Miami Herald’s Daniel Oyefusi. 

“I could’ve won the dunk contest tonight,” posted former NBA star Paul Pierce, along with a laughing emoji to imply he was half-kidding. 

“Let’s never talk about that dunk contest again. It never happened,” The Ringer founder Bill Simmons tweeted. 

“Michael Jordan is 59 years old and I am 100 percent confident that he would have won this year’s Dunk Contest,” tweeted YouTube Mike Korzemba. 

• Jacob Calvin Meyer can be reached at jmeyer@washingtontimes.com.

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