OT: How much would you pay to dunk?

[8893]

Like others, I would love to be able to dunk. But to not come by it honestly seems like stolen valor to me.

Would you consider flubber?

 

[intlzncster]

This is me at 19/20 yo on some random hoop at those sh$hole apartments near Thumpers. Willington Oaks?

Anyhow, this is me at that age.

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Nice shorts.

 

[joober jones]

I can still dunk, but I'd pay good money to be able to land afterward without knee pain.

 

[Rico444]

Not much. I'd put down a couple grand for you to stop posting about Hartford and the Yard Goats.

 

[boba]

Dunking a basketball is nice and all that but I would really like to finish the class 4 wall on North Palisade before I fall off it. Going to try and solo Black Kaweah in a month, hope springs eternal in old hikers.

 

[Horatio]

I never dunked but I have pinned a shot on the backboard on a college court before. My hands were always too small to dunk . Hand size is important. In my late forties I'm satisfied with just being able to play competitive 3 on 3 games.

 

[Waquoit]

Would you consider flubber?

Flubber? I don't even know her!

 

[Stinger92860]

I could dunk in high school, with a volleyball or baseball. Does that count?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Like asking me to pay to breathe bro.

 

[Huskies4ever]

Zero
And
zero

I'm a 3 point Assassin

Plus weren't 8 foot hoops invented for guys like us?

I'm down to 7 foot hoops.

 

[Huskies4ever]

This came up the other day and I thought it might be good for discussion.

Assuming you have never dunked a basketball on a regulation hoop before, how much would you pay for:

1) One dunk in an empty high school gym with no one watching. It could be any standard type of dunk (one hand, two hands, windmill, 360, etc.)

2) One dunk in the flow of a close mid-level college game. Last 5 minutes. 1,000 people in the stands. Home game. It can be on someone, a breakaway, alley oop, etc. Your call.

After the one dunk in each scenario, you instantly revert back to your present day skill level and athleticism and the money is instantly withdrawn from your account.

You watch these games, and you see these guys throw it down so effortlessly, so emphatically, especially when it's in one's face,
and it's like, "Wow! What it would be like......"

 

[sledog]

How much does one of those little trampolines cost??

 

[lange10]

I never dunked but I have pinned a shot on the backboard on a college court before. My hands were always too small to dunk . Hand size is important. In my late forties I'm satisfied with just being able to play competitive 3 on 3 games.

So true. When I could dunk (3 years removed sadly lol) it was only 2 handed. My hands are so small i can't palm a women's basketball

 

[Waquoit]

My hands are so small i can't palm a women's basketball

That's OK, you can still run for president.

 

[Thunderbird]

My only dunk thus far was against a girls team in an intramural basketball league. It was pretty legit.

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

anyone in the valley area of CT who plays ball, get a job in a Scinto complex in Shelton, the summer bball league is free and the winners get a great trip, one time they put us up in the Fountain Bleu in Miami

I worked for Prudential Corp back in 2000 and played in the 3 on 3 scinto league. Decent competition, our team sucked though. I think the prize was a trip to some resort in Mexico.

 

[Kembacity]

Hah, nice. I remember a rivalry with Pru when I was there, which would be about 2007-2012. Pru had so many guys they had up to 3 different teams some summers. I kind of lucked into a good team, my IT guy was the commissioner of the league. Apparently when he saw me walking in for an interview, he asked them to hire me because he needed some more height. Day 1 he's setting my computer up, "you play ball??"

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

Don't really care about dunking.
But I'd pay around $5000 to hit a 450ft bomb in a baseball game. Maybe a walk off 3 run shot, no doubter, bat flip. Yes.

 

[temery]

How much does one of those little trampolines cost??

An all time favorite.

 

[mauconnfan]

Ball fake, side step the defender shooting out at me and drill a 3 at the buzzer. I'd pay more for that!

 

[SixRings]

A dunk would be fantastic, but $0. It's the landing after that I fear for my currently intact ACL's snapping like Rice Krispies. Or can I pay extra for a stout landing and a muscle flex?