February 9, 1991 was a Saturday. I remember my parents went out to dinner that night. We didn't have cable TV, so I wasn't able to watch the NBA's slam dunk contest. When my parent's got home, my dad told me that he'd seen part of it in the restaurant. I asked him how Dee Brown did, and he said "He won."
I thought he was joking. Brown was a little known C's rookie who I assumed had no chance. It wasn't until the next day that I finally got to see the highlights.
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This is epic and I remember it so well (I had a CYO game myself earlier in the day). Remember Hodges had nailed 20 3s in a row before it in the 3 point contest. My brother was a huge Bulls fan and was loving it. Wasn't sure if Dee would come through but he made that night one of the most memorable of my growing up.
ReplyDeleteI spent the next month working on a picture of Dee's dunk on some sort of paint program in my 8th-grade computer class.
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