Remember when Fred Jones won the 2004 Dunk Contest on a layup?
20 years ago Pacers guard Fred Jones won the 2004 Dunk Contest by default two-time Dunk champ Jason Richardson entered the night as the favorite but Fred played spoiler thanks to botch dunks and some questionable scoring like this 50 for a routine slam off the bounce meanwhile Pretty Ricky Davis got
Just a 45 for this and the Birdman Chris Anderson looking like JJ Watt was awarded just 42 for this thankfully J Rich had to the finals with an East Bay off the glass and we should have called it there final round Jones throws down another 50 off the bounce good extension
J Rich tries to counter but he can’t complete this crazy dunk attempt he just does something else gets a 45 so it’s Fred’s to lose a solid dunk wins it nope Jay Rich Is Alive a simple 44 hands him his third straight dunk crown and he misses again contest over Fred wins
Let’s never talk about this again
The 2004 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was a weird one. #nba #nbaallstar #dunks #dunkcontest #fredjones #pacers #nbashorts #shorts #basketball
31 Comments
JJ WHAT?!
Off the glass eastbay is one of the craziest dunks ever.
Fortunately for Fred, he has "boom goes the dynamite"
This is classic information here! Hey, Didn’t Fred Jones have a small stint with the Raptors a couple season later?
Dunk contest should've bn canceled after D Wade scoring controversy
ASW 04 was the first time I ever tuned in for an ASW. When I first became obessed with basketball 🥹
That was when I decided I should not have any expectations for the dunk contest going forward.
Fred being 6'2 who could dunk with the best of them is why he won tht year! Not his fault JRich tried to do something tht could only be done once in a lifetime! Props to Fred Jones
Song ?
What is the song in the background?
Worst dunt champion ever, at time I was 16 end doing all of he's dunks whit easy, he try this on college year before end finish last
if Richardson would’ve made that 360 arm in the rim
Let’s not talk about this.
Used to watch u guys back in the day on nba tv. Good to see yall again
Want Fred Jones dunk 11 foot rim? There was something different about the dunk I cant remember what
Damn i always loved jrich back in the day as a dunker, but this is even better than i remember.
360 honey dip is an insane dunk and it looked doable for him
To be honest, how is J-Rich never an all star in his entire career
Pure blasphemy those scores. All those dunks would blow out anything we’ve seen since the last AG/ZL dunk contest. Ohhh times have changed …pretty quick
Hey no dunks
I remember this. I think this win would’ve meant a 3peat for J-Rich in the dunk contest. He got robbed!
I saw this. Went to sleep angry.
He forgot to mention it took birdman like 10 tries to make his dunk.
They disrespected birdman with that score
Wer the layup
Fred jones was awful
One thing that will always bother me is anything that comes after the words judges scoring
Best part is, that’s not even the worst dunk contest of all time 😂 you could argue it was the miss-fest in recent years or that it was the one Kobe won
Vince Carter had one of the best performances in dunk contest history (only behind Aaron Gordon imo) but J Rich was a top 3 dunker, man could fly
Off the glass and to eastbay going forward instead of sideways is crazy
This is why I laugh whenever the yearly "dunk contest is bad now" its always been bad. For every good dunk contest there are like 5 that were trash.
The extension dunk was a true 50.