New York Knicks Center Jericho Sims Favored in Slam Dunk Contest

There’s more honest news for the New House of York Knicks after they went into the All-Star separate with a 21-point win in Atlanta. They’ve moved into 6th place inward the East, alfresco of the play-in bracket.

Meanwhile, middle Jericho Sims, the 58th plectron of the 2021 draft, has been listed as the +250 favourite to win the Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend.

The unsound word for New Yorkers? This wager is only useable crossways say lines because it is beingness judged past humans (famous ones), and anything voted on by humans is illegal under New York’s flawed sports gambling laws.

So, yes, this is a cross-border activate for anyone who wants to lay money on the only Knicks representative who will follow inwards attending at Vivent Arena inward Salt Lake City (much to the alarm of Jalen Brunson). And yes, the kidskin tin can dunk. He can buoy get his full head supra the rim. And Knicks make won this thing before.

Can’t waitress for the souse competition pic.twitter.com/NO8bBQp706

— Jericho Sims Fan (@JerichoSimsFan_) February 15, 2023

For the First Time, type A G-League Player is Competing

There will live some interesting competition inwards the dip contest, including a cat from the G-League, Mac McClung, who is guaranteed to live trending heavily on Twitter on Sat night. He plays for the First State Blue Coats, has spent a grand tot up of 25 proceedings playing inwards NBA games, and turned pull down a remunerative offer from Fenerbahce inwards Republic of Turkey to follow up on his NBA dreaming coming out of Lone-Star State Tech.

The fact that he’s a snowy cat testament live a subject of discussion, too, because remote of Brent Barry and Rex Chapman, in that location haven’t been a lot of whiteness guys inward the stuff shot contest. Back in 1996, when Barry of the Clippers won the contest, the Associated Press had some play with the topic by channeling Woody Harrelson’s reference from the 1992 moving-picture show “White Men Can’t Jump” around ii streetball hustlers, and reporting inwards its take paragraph “Turns out whiteness men CAN jump.”

But light-hearted racial references were far more unwashed inward the 1990s than they are today, so this is sledding to follow a touchy theme that, nonetheless, will live a topic of subject discussion. And the fact of the matter is that McClung put up indeed jumping … and dunk. This unity is kind of sick, having happened inwards an genuine game.

Evidently whitened men CAN jumping (sometimes). #Basketball #Dunk #MacMcClung pic.twitter.com/YZnKihysHF

— Lloyd Legalist (@LloydLegalist) December 2, 2021

What We Should Know About Matt McClung

McClung is the +350 endorse choice at Unibet, which is available inwards New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and 4 other states, none of which edge New York. At BarstoolSports, also available inwards New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Sims’ betting odds are just now +150, Kenyon St. Martin Jr. of the Samuel Houston Rockets is +200, McClung is +250, and Trey Murphy III of the New siege of Orleans Pelicans is +275.

So shopping around is of import if you need to play this one. There are nearly two dozen legal sportsbooks inward New Jersey, and the 1 rule book that operates inwards Connecticut, but non New York, Play Sugarhouse, hasn’t yet listed All-Star odds.

McClung has 821K Instagram followers and, if you sort your YouTube hunting results for Mac McClung past panorama count, you’ll encounter 22 different videos with at to the lowest degree 1 1000000 views. The second-most popular video has been watched 3.5 jillion times on the “Ballislife” television channel and features the blonde-haired McClung at their All-American douse competition in 2018.

Allowing McClung into the repugn is a jump of faith for the NBA, which has tried for years to drum upwardly stake in the dunk shot contest with a variety of alterations. The thought of allowing a G-League participant has been floated before, but was rejected because the belief inwards the conference office staff was that NBA players losing to a minor league participant would seem defective for the league.

But it’s happening this year, and it won’t follow a surprisal if, inwards time to come years, competitors are allowed inward from the NBA-affiliated Basketball Africa League, which is set to kick turned its third season. But for now, we’re looking at a four-man field, with the contest outset late Saturday nighttime after the skills rivalry and the 3-point competition (which we handicapped Wednesday) are completed.

The judges are Lisa Leslie, Harold Miner, Dominick Wilkins, Jamal Crawford, and this guy, who did great things inwards UT in one case upon a time, but has been sour the control grid for 19 years:

Presenting 2023 #ATTSlamDunk Judge.. Karl Malone! #StateFarmSaturday: Feb. 18, TNT pic.twitter.com/PzGT9003CC

— #NBAAllStar (@NBAAllStar) February 15, 2023

Should We Expect Anti-McClung Bias?

These contests are rattling a great deal at the mercy of the judges, and single “8” when everyone else is gift a “9” or a “10” canful castrate the field of operation prior to the net dunk-off, and even during it. To be truthful, the topper wager on this one is o'er who must buy the next round off of drinks as you ticker patch the time is ticking toward midnight. But we will proceed a step further.

Obi Toppin of the Knicks won the contest finally year, marking the fifth clip a Knick has won (Nate Ray Robinson did it terzetto times, and Kenny Alice Walker won inwards 1989). Nobody from the Rockets, Pelicans, or 76ers has ever so won … and that may follow wherefore Sims is favored. Oddsmakers feature to rely on something when setting these lines, and past times story seems to be inwards child's play here.

But remember, flair and showmanship are the qualities that capture the crowd together riled upward and act upon the numbers the judges post. If the crew loves McClung, he’ll win if the judges don’t demonstrate an anti-G-League bias. Why? Because his dunks are out of this world. And if he wins, this won’t live the lastly we’ll try virtually a bozo who could conceivably live playing playoff ball for the Sixers this spring.

Fresh off signing a two-way take with the 76ers… Mac McClung shares why he’s honored to participate inwards the #ATTSlamDunk Contest!

Get to know to a greater extent around him in the NBA App!

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— NBA (@NBA) February 15, 2023

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