LOS ANGELES – According to sources, the 2011 NBA dunk contest that will be held at the Staples Center this February, wasn’t fully planned for until the annoucement earlier last week. The reason behind that they say is because they were trying to find suitable contestants for the home crowd.

“By any stretch of the imagination, it’s hard to believe we cannot find a worthy and interested NBA player to compete with Blake this all-star weekend, but that’s not the case” said league spokesman Tim Carter. What Carter is trying to get at is, since Blake is going to be competing in the same arena that his team,  the L.A. Clippers, play their home games, the league aims to make the competion slightly weaker and give the hometown dunker a hometown heroic flair. “It helps get the crowd into it. Especially a crowd like Los Angeles, I mean.. the NBA loves when L.A. wins anything because they like to show us their appreciation in such classy cheers and celebration.” added Carter.

Carter had left us wondering how they had came to their final decision and why it was so difficult to find players that didn’t appear to have such dunking prowess as displayed by Griffin. Additional sources to the league offices did explain that while Carter was right, there was great rift amongst who would be considered ‘less worthy candidates.’ Names like Earl Boykins and Yao Ming came up during the brainstorming session, but so did names like Snooki and Ted Williams, the homeless Cleveland guy. Some staff members still tried to push for major competition to cater to every NBA fan and not just L.A. by suggesting Lebron James and Dwyane Wade, but the final decision was still a work in progress. A day before the New Year hit, they had all decided to give the Disney network a tribute by calling up the Seven Dwarfs from the Disney tale, Snow White. The Dwarfs had all agreed except for Bashful because, well.. he was pretty bashful about the idea.

The deal with them was broken however because David Stern had stepped in before he had given final authorization. “While we want to globalize the NBA in this manner, we felt it was too soon to take such a drastic step. However, I love L.A. so I decided to cater to them and force Jevale McGee and Brandon Jennings to participate in this contest instead.” said Stern. We had understood Stern’s decision and wondered why Stern came up with those names so quick. He had replied that, he couldn’t stop laughing after Jevale’s ‘like mike’ moment when he tried to dunk from the freethrow line. He felt he’d reward him with another chance to make him self look ridiculous again, this time on national T.V. As far as Jennings, he only put him in there because he figured Jennings wouldn’t show up unless he was guaranteed he’d be in the final 2 spots. Stern added “This should be an easy contest for Blake. I believe we’ll have a good one this year”