NBA Slam Dunk Contest 2011: JaVale McGee Gets Love From Charles Barkley, C-Webb

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My favorite entrant in this year's dunk contest, JaVale McGee is dead set on derailing the Blake Griffin hype train.

The TNT Saturday night coverage of the All-Star Weekend started just a few minutes ago, and it started off with Charles Barkley picking McGee to win the dunk contest.

They followed it up with Chirs Webber, McGee's "dunk coach" for this year claiming that he and McGee had been working on some, "space-age stuff," for this year's dunk contest, followed by McGee saying, "I can do a lot of things that people haven't seen before, and some other things better than some people have seen."

Is anyone else as excited as I am after this gauntlet has been thrown down. It seems that McGee wants nothing more than to take down the hype machine that is Blake Griffin, and the way that he and C-Webb are talking, that seems entirely possible.

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