Nate Robinson, a Playboy Bunny, and a Blackjack Table

basketball and gambling. I think thay go well together, but I doubt the NBA does...

Even though the NBA All-Star game is in Vegas, I think that this would have been too much the league this year.

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I can see why the NBA wouldn't want a Playboy bunny in the dunk contest, but the idea was good. Incorperating the whole Vegas theme. He should have just replaced the bunny with a cheerleader, or some hot chick dressed as a blackjack dealer.

I don't see any reason why the whole idea should have been nixed. That dunk contest desperately needed any help it could get.

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This probably is the first time I was bored to death with the NBA dunk game. We would have been more entertained to bring in the boys from fly in the street game. What a come down from Jordan, Dr. J, the Wilkens brothers, Spud, etc. It seems there is nothing new when people are being too safe and creativity is lacking. One more shot before I use my time expecting to see greatness at the next dunk a thon....

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of course

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Why would he choose to jump over Playboy Bunnies?

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BORIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The DUCK contest has lost its appeal. A bunch of lame ducks for shooters. How many different ways can someone slam a ball through a hole. The NBA is full of itself. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

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Who cares about any of this NBA is tired and old, nobody watches it anymore. If it weren't for the Lakers the ratings would be even worse. With the exception of the Magic,Bird,Jordan era nobody has watched this stuff in 10 yrs. Why do u think College sports and the NFL has such huge ratings, because they are taking them way from the NBA.

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Matt B. doesn't know what he's talking about. Bird and Magic both retired over 12 years ago. Ratings are down in almost all sports. College included. NCAA is not taking away from the nba at all. The great basketball players don't even go to college anymore.
And NFL games are on sunday afternoons and therefore, don't have anything to do nba games b/c tghey rarely put them opposite each other.

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I just came back from Vegas this evening and it was FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think they should have it there every year! Its neutral teritory and all the parties and events are centrally located. Every event and every party was in walking distance. It was a Blast. I went to the the All Star Weekend in Los Angeles in 2004 and it was hard to see anyone or know where to go. I LOVE THAT GAME!

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All u people hating on the NBA need to stop being so racist. The NBA is still a quality product even though Whiteman Michael Jordan is gone. Baseball is America's past time but anyone who thinks that sport is a better watch than basketball, they need to stop smoking that Crystal Meth

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Many Playboy Playmates Have Died Young
By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press Writer
1 hour ago


Vergie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith, wipes a ...
MIAMI - The selection of Anna Nicole Smith as a Playboy Playmate in 1992 made her a member of an exclusive sorority. Her death at 39 put her in a more grisly club _ Playmates who haven't reached their 50th birthday.

Automobile accidents, drug overdoses, homicides, a plane crash _ all have claimed the lives of Playmates. The cause of Smith's death is still unclear.

"It's sad how many girls we've lost," said Peter Gowland, who photographed a number of centerfolds for Playboy in the 1950s and 60s with the help of his wife.

In 1968, Gowland photographed Paige Young. In 1974, she was dead of a drug overdose. Jayne Mansfield, another Playmate he photographed, died in a car crash in 1967 at 34.

"It's a curse to be beautiful," Gowland said.

More than 600 women have graced Playboy's centerfold since the magazine began publishing in the 1950s.

Their lives after the magazine have been both in and out of the spotlight, but their limited number and Playboy's wide circulation has meant that the death of one can become bombshell news.

Perhaps before Smith, the most headline-grabbing death of a Playmate was that of 20-year-old Dorothy Stratten. Just months after she became the magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1980, she was murdered by her jealous estranged husband.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has said he and others never really got over Stratten's death. The magazine ran a tribute to her and movies were made about her life.

Eve Meyer, a 1955 Playmate, was one of more than 550 people killed when two airliners collided on takeoff at Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1977. She was 46. More recently, Ellen Louise Maligo, known in Playboy as "Star Stowe," was found murdered at 40 in Coral Springs in 1997.

Marilyn Monroe, the cover girl for the magazine's inaugural issue, famously died at 36 from a 1962 overdose of sleeping pills.

Tonya Crews, Carol Willis and 1970 Playmate of the Year Claudia Jennings all died in car accidents in the 1960s and 70s while still in their 20s. Playmate Willy Rey, pictured on Playboy's first stock certificates, was 23 when she died of a drug overdose in 1973.

Twenty-eight-year-old Playmate Elisa Bridges died in 2002 after being found unresponsive in bed. Playboy said she died of natural causes, but a coroner's report said Bridges died of an accidental drug overdose.

"There've been some that do too much booze and too much drugs, just as in the general population," said former Playboy editor Gretchen Edgren, author of "The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds."

A page on Playboy's Web site is dedicated to remembering Smith.

"Perhaps Billy Joel should write a sequel to his song 'Only the Good Die Young' simply changing the last word to 'Beautiful.' We'll miss you Vicki," photo editor Gary Cole wrote on the site's blog, using Smith's real first name.

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If the NBA is so worried about players or people getting hurt during the competions then why even have ot anyway. Its suppost to be a break for the players. If they are so worried about their precious stars then do what the NFL does have the game and contests AFTER the season. HEY Commish. pull the cork man let the players have some fun..

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THE DUNK IS A LOST ART.. ever since MJ,Dr.J,Spud Web knowbody has been able to shine like them. those guys created the dunk and made it exciting now the new guys just do a crappy job of recreating old dunks. knowbody can think of any new ones. you no the new guys are desperate when you have to bring in a playboy bunnie to try to get extra points... the dunk contest is a waste of time and a JOKE!!!

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i think haraway needs counsling for this hate comment. after all kramer was suggusted for counsling from jesse jacksooooon

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More Barkeley v Bevetta!!!!

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I could have found some guys from west 4th street park
that could have put on a better show than they did last night,with the exception of the what's his name
Green the rest of the DUNK contest was no contest.
not to say that they're aren't players who can be in-ovative. the NBA like they say don't want players to
get hurt.so someone needs to come up with other ideas
to create another contest rather than more BOREDOM.

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GERALD GREEN KILLED IT!

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where is the boobies at?

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Hey is good for the league. This way the can really prove that they embrace both Homosexuals and Heterosexuals alike.

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Dunk contest???

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