D3 guard Jacob Tucker won the 2011 NCAA dunk contest. He stands 5’11″ and claims to have a 50-inch vertical.

It has been a rough season for the Kings, but Tyreke Evans gives Sacramento Anaheim fans hope with this wicked dunk on the Spurs’ Gary Neal.

This is in the running for Dunk of the Year, but the Heat lost to the Thunder, so Perkins gets the last laugh.

From the video’s description at YouTube:

Hey guys I’m Jacob Tucker and I just finished up my senior year of basketball at Illinois College. This video was made in an attempt to get in the 2011 NCAA dunk contest. I’m 5’11″ with a 50 inch running vertical…. I want to send a special thanks to everyone that has helped this grow! This has been incredible!

The video has 1.75 million hits (and counting), and for good reason.

Watch as senior shooting guard (and future Aggie) Jordan Green goes up and over a defender who tries to take the charge.

The player who got dunked on was also the guy who threw the ball away. Talk about adding insult to injury. Or in this case, injury to insult.

Here are the Top 10 highlights from the West’s 148-143 win in Sunday’s All-Star Game. Kobe won the MVP while LeBron had a triple-double for only the second time in the history of the game. (Michael Jordan did it first.)

Not sure why they’d waste two spots on the pregame and halftime entertainment when they don’t even play the audio, but whatever. The other eight highlights were good.

Here are the highlights:

JaVale McGee, DeMar DeRozan and Serge Ibaka also put on a good show, but McGee wasn’t going to beat Griffin in a fan vote in the finals. McGee’s two-ball and three-ball dunks were impressive, but it took him a while to make them, which lessened their impact, at least with the fans.

I think this will be the ‘forgotten dunk’ of this contest since DeRozan didn’t make the finals and the dunk (somehow) didn’t make the NBA highlight:

This video should get everyone ready for the dunk contest tonight (8 PM ET, TNT). It compiles all 137 of Griffin’s pre-All-Star dunks.

Rookies 148, Sophomores 140

Wall racked up a record 22 assists to win the MVP award, Sacramento’s DeMarcus Cousins had 33 points and 14 rebounds, and the rookies rallied to beat the sophomores 148-140 at the NBA’s All-Star weekend Friday night.

Blake Griffin scored 14 points for the rookies in front of the high-flying Clippers forward’s ecstatic home crowd, sticking to his commitment to play in the game even after making the West team for Sunday’s All-Star game.

It should be noted that the Sophs were at something of a disadvantage since they lost Griffin, 2009′s #1 pick, to a season-ending knee injury last season, so now he’s considered a rookie.

There was virtually no defense being played, as the Rookies shot 64% from the field while the Sophs shot almost 55%. James Harden led the Sophs with 30 points while DeJuan Blair chipped in with 28 points and 15 rebounds. Just four of the game’s 18 players failed to score in double digits (Taj Gibson, Brandon Jennings, Derrick Favors and Eric Bledsoe).

Check out this crazy alley-oop from Wall to Griffin: