Earlier today, the NBA Development League announced their contestants for the D-League dunk contest.
They forgot to announce this to the participants, however.
Bill Walker, who was assigned to the Maine Red Claws from the Boston Celtics earlier this season, apparently had no idea he was supposed to be dunking for the D-League.
Walker told Julian Benbow of the Boston Globe that he had no interest in the D-League Dunk contest - in no uncertain terms:
He was told by Celtics PR man Brian Olive that in order to go, he'd have to be sent back down to NBDL Maine.
He wasn't interested.
"I'm trying to go home to see my mom," he said. "It's like the NIT, I don't want to do it."
Umm, okay then. Sorry, Billy - we understand.
Still, I have to wonder what the D-League was planning with this considering the current front page of the D-League site still has this picture, featuring Walker quite prominently. Did they just hope if they announced he was going to do it, he'd show up and dunk?
More important question - Who will replace him? Might I suggest Ryan Forehan-Kelly? For my actual suggestion, JUMP!
If putting Joe Alexander in the D-League dunk contest doesn't make sense, I'm not sure what does. People know his dunking abilities just as well as Bill Walker's and he was a first round draft pick so the name recognition should be there.
Plus he's, you know, actually currently in the D-League.
SEE JOE DUNK!
Comments
understandable
no hard feelings, billy
By enron4515 on 02.04.10 10:43pm
I would like to recommend John Edwards.
If you’re lucky, you can slide two matchbooks under his feet when he jumps.
By NothingButHornets on 02.05.10 1:18am
Ah
I think he’s still running for president.
By Scott Schroeder on 02.05.10 1:19am
No, currently he's trying to hide both his illegitimate love-child and his sex tape.
But I was thinking he could still be in the Dunk contest.
By NothingButHornets on 02.05.10 1:26am
Oh
I’m bad with names.
By Scott Schroeder on 02.05.10 1:31am
So that picture can be used for both Bill Walker and JR Giddens?
By Michael Levin on 02.05.10 1:55am
Yes
That’s the beauty of the AP – they’re genius.
They knew that if they labeled it as the wrong person (Giddens, in this case), people would use it because nobody knows what he looks like. Then, when people find out that it’s not Giddens (in this case, Billdozer Walker), they’ll use it everytime to prove they know what Bill Walks looks like.
By Scott Schroeder on 02.05.10 2:03am
I like this
Incorrect photos should be used in place of correct ones if they’re as awesome as Billy Giddens.
For his dunk contest replacement, a google image search for Chinese-American forward Joe Alexander turned up this:
By richardhkirkando on 02.05.10 8:56am