![]() ![]() ![]() "When Cole missed those two first with the Timbs on, I was, like, 'Nah, them Timbs, them heavy, so we got to boost his energy up,'" said Toppin, who cheered on his competition. 50 Knicks uniform and accessorized with a pair of Timberlands to complete the New York look, was out after the first round. Orlando Magic guard Cole Anthony, who wore his father Greg Anthony's No. Toscano-Anderson - while wearing a black Warriors uniform with his last name and number printed in white, green and red as a nod to his Mexican heritage - jumped over his Warriors teammate, Andrew Wiggins, while finishing a windmill dunk. In the first round, Toppin scored a 44 on his first dunk by leaping over Millan while wrapping the ball behind his back before slamming it home. "And we had a lot of great dunkers here today. "I knew I had to come back for my revenge from last year, and I had fun doing it," Toppin said. Toppin, as a rookie, lost in the finals of last year's dunk contest to Anfernee Simons of the Portland Trail Blazers. "I think I got a little too overzealous just because the first one didn't go my way," he said. Towns wins as biggest long shot in 3-point contest.He beat the Golden State Warriors' Juan Toscano-Anderson in an underwhelming final with Toscano-Anderson - while wearing the uniform of past Warriors dunk champion Jason Richardson - unable to convert his final dunk attempt after three tries. ![]() "So those dunks, never been done in a dunk contest. "We were talking before the dunk contest and were, like, 'We want to come out here and do things that people have never seen before,'" Toppin said of conversation with Chuck Millan of Team Flight Brothers, a dunk coach he worked with to prepare for the night. The New York Knicks forward went through the legs, tapped the ball off the backboard and finished with a one-handed slam to score a 47 on his final dunk and win the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. CLEVELAND - Obi Toppin was the top dunker Saturday at NBA All-Star Weekend. ![]()
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