Aaron Gordon hints at dunk contest return on social media
Feb 18, 2025, 12:29 PM | Updated: 10:15 pm
It’s been years since Aaron Gordon did an NBA slam dunk contest over All-Star Weekend but the Denver Nuggets forward turned from dropping his new song to talking about the event that made him a big name.
Gordon took to social media on Tuesday, replying to Ja Morant’s message of a growing desire to participate in the event. Morant shouted out both Gordon and Zach LaVine in a follow-up post, referencing the 2015 and 2016 editions of the event when the former UCLA guard and former Arizona forward went slam for slam. Both years were won by LaVine though.
But Gordon came back with a ton to the table in 2020, when many say he was robbed by judge Dwyane Wade, whose tiebreaking vote went to at-the-time Heat leaper Derrick Jones Jr. Gordon was hurt by this, releasing a diss track aimed at the NBA legend called 9 out of 10. And since, the now Nuggets player, has really shied away from the event—hinting that he would only do it if he was an All-Star.
While Gordon has sat the event has been won three years in a row by Mac Mcclung, who is just barely in the NBA. The event has lost a lot of firepower and there aren’t names of Gordon’s status let alone the real All-Stars participating in the dunk contest like they had in the past. This led to Morant’s post, which was also responded to by Giannis Antetokounmpo—saying he would dunk if Ja did.
Gordon wasn’t as clear but he did share he has a few more tricks in his bag that the world has not yet seen.
I still got some sh*t https://t.co/zsJhb7myex
— Aaron Gordon (@Double0AG) February 18, 2025
Antetokounmpo, Morant, LaVine and Gordon as the four dunkers would be awesome and certainly a must-watch event, unlike the entire weekend this year. The reality is all of these players are in a much different part of their careers, besides Morant. The trio will all be 30 or older by next year’s event. Plus recent history tells us NBA players love to drop some hints about doing the event in the days around it but then go quiet when it comes time to show up, leaving it to mostly rookies and mostly unknown dudes dunking.
