{"id":1976,"date":"2010-01-20T22:13:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2010-01-20T22:13:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:13:35","slug":"shags-dunk-contest-for-haiti-turned-down-by-star-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"Shag&#8217;s Dunk Contest For Haiti Turned Down By Star Players!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/2010\/news\/01\/20\/reaction.to.shaq.dunk.ap\/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2\" target=\"_blank\">ARTICLE FROM nba.com (Full story click here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One Man&#8217;s Opinion&#8221; by Gordon Curvey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lebronjames.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1977\" title=\"lebronjames\" src=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lebronjames.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a>(Listen to &#8216;MUSIC INNER CITY RADIO&#8221; PODCAST Click &#8220;podcast&#8221; link above or pic. Starting next program it will be the start of &#8220;SPORTS INNER CITY RADIO&#8221; Urban sports news and issues\/classic soul and new music!! Spread the word!!)<\/p>\n<p>Big Shaq, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal had a idea to help the people suffering in Haiti. The idea was to ask superstar players Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, Dwayne Wade and Lebron James to have a dunk off at the NBA All-Star Game coming up in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>What a great idea. Half of the money made from tickets etc would go to the victims in earthquake torn Haiti for which they need all the help they can get.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the problem folks. THE PLAYERS SAID NO!!! What a damn shame. Would it kill Kobe and the rest to do this great contest? HELL NO!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>James has never been in the dunk contest. He said last year he would be in this years contest. Guess that was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>MJ and &#8220;The Human Highlight Film&#8221; Wilkens where in the dunk contest back in the day. For James and Wade and the rest not to take part in this great idea from Shaq really bothers me.<\/p>\n<p>It would be great for the fans and great ratings on TV. Heck they can make some more Kobe\/James commercials from this contest.<\/p>\n<p>These multi-millionaires cannot turn their backs on the fans. They should take up this idea from Shaq. Let&#8217;s have this contest!!! Then you wonder why the NBA has a image problem&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.ummmm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please listen to &#8220;Music Inner City Radio&#8221; podcasts. Entertainment and urban sports news. President Obama news, classic soul and hip-hop and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just click &#8220;podcast&#8221; link above. And watch HOURS of &#8220;Music Inner City TV&#8221; RIGHT HERE 24\/7 on demand. Just click &#8220;Television Show&#8221; link above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTICLE FROM nba.com (Full story click here) &#8220;One Man&#8217;s Opinion&#8221; by Gordon Curvey (Listen to &#8216;MUSIC INNER CITY RADIO&#8221; PODCAST Click &#8220;podcast&#8221; link above or pic. Starting next program it will be the start of &#8220;SPORTS INNER CITY RADIO&#8221; Urban sports news and issues\/classic soul and new music!! Spread the word!!) Big Shaq, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-much-more","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}