{"id":839,"date":"2023-02-17T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/new-york-knicks-center-jericho-sims-favored-in-slam-dunk-contest\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:12:01","slug":"new-york-knicks-center-jericho-sims-favored-in-slam-dunk-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/new-york-knicks-center-jericho-sims-favored-in-slam-dunk-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks Center Jericho Sims Favored in Slam Dunk Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Inhaltsverzeichnis<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/new-york-knicks-center-jericho-sims-favored-in-slam-dunk-contest\/#For_the_First_Time_A_G-League_Player_is_Competing\" title=\"For the First Time, A G-League Player is Competing\">For the First Time, A G-League Player is Competing<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/new-york-knicks-center-jericho-sims-favored-in-slam-dunk-contest\/#What_We_Should_Know_About_Matt_McClung\" title=\"What We Should Know About Matt McClung\">What We Should Know About Matt McClung<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/new-york-knicks-center-jericho-sims-favored-in-slam-dunk-contest\/#Should_We_Expect_Anti-McClung_Bias\" title=\"Should We Expect Anti-McClung Bias?\">Should We Expect Anti-McClung Bias?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s more good news for the New York Knicks after they went into the All-Star break with a 21-point win in Atlanta. They\u2019ve moved into sixth place in the East, outside of the play-in bracket.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260244\" data-style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-260244 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0x0.jpg\" alt=\"Jericho Sims\" width=\"1200\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0x0.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0x0-142x94.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0x0-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0x0-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0x0-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Jericho Sims of the New York Knicks is the odds-on favorite to win this year\u2019s slam dunk contest at the NBA\u2019s All-Star Weekend. (Image: <em>Forbes<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, center Jericho Sims, the 58th pick of the 2021 draft, has been listed as the +250 favorite to win the Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>The bad news for New Yorkers? This wager is only available across state lines because it is being judged by humans (famous ones), and anything voted on by humans is illegal under New York\u2019s flawed sports gambling laws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So, yes, this is a cross-border trip for anyone who wants to lay money on the only Knicks representative who will be in attendance at Vivent Arena in Salt Lake City (much to the dismay of Jalen Brunson). And yes, the kid can dunk. He can get his entire head above the rim. And Knicks have won this thing before.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can\u2019t wait for the dunk contest <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NO8bBQp706\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NO8bBQp706<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jericho Sims Fan (@JerichoSimsFan_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerichoSimsFan_\/status\/1625965285181120512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"For_the_First_Time_A_G-League_Player_is_Competing\"><\/span>For the First Time, A G-League Player is Competing<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There will be some interesting competition in the dunk contest, including a guy from the G-League, Mac McClung, who is guaranteed to be trending heavily on Twitter on Saturday night. He plays for the Delaware Blue Coats, has spent a grand total of 25 minutes playing in NBA games, and turned down a lucrative offer from Fenerbah\u00e7e in Turkey to pursue his NBA dream coming out of Texas Tech.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>The fact that he\u2019s a white guy will be a topic of discussion, too, because outside of Brent Barry and Rex Chapman, there haven\u2019t been a lot of white guys in the dunk contest. Back in 1996, when Barry of the Clippers won the contest, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> had some fun with the topic by channeling Woody Harrelson\u2019s character from the 1992 movie \u201cWhite Men Can\u2019t Jump\u201d about two streetball hustlers, and reporting in its lead paragraph \u201cTurns out white men CAN jump.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But light-hearted racial references were far more common in the 1990s than they are today, so this is going to be a touchy subject that, nonetheless, will be a topic of national discussion. And the fact of the matter is that McClung can indeed jump \u2026 and dunk. This one is rather sick, having happened in an actual game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Evidently white men CAN jump (sometimes). <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Basketball?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Basketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dunk?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Dunk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MacMcClung?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MacMcClung<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZnKihysHF\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YZnKihysHF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lloyd Legalist (@LloydLegalist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LloydLegalist\/status\/1466436738658836493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_We_Should_Know_About_Matt_McClung\"><\/span>What We Should Know About Matt McClung<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>McClung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unibet.com.au\/betting\/sports\/filter\/basketball\/nba_all_star_weekend\/all\/competitions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is the +350 second choice at Unibet<\/a>, which is available in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and four other states, none of which border New York. At BarstoolSports, also available in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Sims\u2019 odds are just +150, Kenyon Martin Jr. of the Houston Rockets is +200, McClung is +250, and Trey Murphy III of the New Orleans Pelicans is +275.<\/p>\n<p>So shopping around is important if you want to bet this one. There are nearly two dozen legal sportsbooks in New Jersey, and the one book that operates in Connecticut, but not New York, Play Sugarhouse, hasn\u2019t yet listed All-Star odds.<\/p>\n<p>McClung has 821K Instagram followers and, if you sort your YouTube search results for Mac McClung by view count, you\u2019ll find 22 different videos with at least one million views. The second-most popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OUCrufcBdxM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0has been watched 3.5 million times on the \u201cBallislife\u201d channel and features the blonde-haired McClung at their All-American dunk contest in 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>Allowing McClung into the contest is a leap of faith for the NBA, which has tried for years to drum up interest in the dunk contest with a variety of alterations. The idea of allowing a G-League player has been floated before, but was rejected because the belief in the league office was that NBA players losing to a minor league player would look bad for the league.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But it\u2019s happening this year, and it won\u2019t be a surprise if, in future years, competitors are allowed in from the NBA-affiliated <a href=\"https:\/\/bal.nba.com\/news\/bal-announces-teams-conferences-game-schedule-ahead-of-2023-season-tipping-off-march-11th\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball Africa League, which is set to kick off its third season<\/a>. But for now, we\u2019re looking at a four-man field, with the contest beginning late Saturday night after the skills competition and the 3-point contest (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-3-point-shootout-odds-rules-favorites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which we handicapped Wednesday<\/a>) are completed.<\/p>\n<p>The judges are Lisa Leslie, Harold Miner, Dominique Wilkins, Jamal Crawford, and this guy, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legends-mag.com\/karl-malone-wont-be-off-the-grid-all-star-salt-lake-city-utah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did great things in Utah once upon a time, but has been off the grid for 19 years<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"tl\" dir=\"ltr\">Presenting 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ATTSlamDunk?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ATTSlamDunk<\/a> Judge.. Karl Malone! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateFarmSaturday?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#StateFarmSaturday<\/a>: Feb. 18, TNT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzGT9003CC\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PzGT9003CC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #NBAAllStar (@NBAAllStar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAAllStar\/status\/1625656151307173888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Should_We_Expect_Anti-McClung_Bias\"><\/span>Should We Expect Anti-McClung Bias?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>These contests are very much at the mercy of the judges, and one \u201c8\u201d when everyone else is giving a \u201c9\u201d or a \u201c10\u201d can alter the field prior to the final dunk-off, and even during it. To be truthful, the best wager on this one is over who must buy the next round of drinks as you watch while the clock is ticking toward midnight. But we will go a step further.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>Obi Toppin of the Knicks won the contest last year, marking the fifth time a Knick has won (Nate Robinson did it three times, and Kenny Walker won in 1989). Nobody from the Rockets, Pelicans, or 76ers has ever won \u2026 and that may be why Sims is favored. Oddsmakers have to rely on something when setting these lines, and past history seems to be in play here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But remember, flair and showmanship are the qualities that get the crowd riled up and influence the numbers the judges post. If the crowd loves McClung, he\u2019ll win if the judges don\u2019t show an anti-G-League bias. Why? Because his dunks are out of this world. And if he wins, this won\u2019t be the last we\u2019ll hear about a guy who could conceivably be playing playoff ball for the Sixers this spring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fresh off signing a two-way contract with the 76ers\u2026 Mac McClung shares why he\u2019s honored to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ATTSlamDunk?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ATTSlamDunk<\/a> Contest! <\/p>\n<p>Get to know more about him in the NBA App!<br \/>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4uK92YV2Tv\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/4uK92YV2Tv<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateFarmSaturday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#StateFarmSaturday<\/a>: 8:00pm\/et Saturday on TNT! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ywt8uC1VLA\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ywt8uC1VLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1625995872378195970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-york-knicks-center-jericho-sims-favored-in-slam-dunk-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks Center Jericho Sims Favored in Slam Dunk Contest<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s more good news for the New York Knicks after they went into the All-Star break with a 21-point win in Atlanta. They\u2019ve moved into sixth place in the East, outside of the play-in bracket. 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