NBA players taking time picking new union head (The Associated Press)

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While the NBA All-Star dunk contest had come under increasing scrutiny for a lack of originality and an increase in gimmicks, Washington's John Wall insisted some new ideas are out there, if people know where to look. Wall said a friend sent him a YouTube video of 27 dunks that had never been performed during the marquee event of NBA All-Star Saturday. ''You've just got to trust yourself to go out there and try, and try to master it.'' The first dunk Wall saw in the online video, he liked, and used it to eliminate Sacramento's Ben McLemore and seal up the Eastern Conference's triumph in the event, which for the first time was a competition among conferences. Defending champion Terrence Ross entered the court wearing a boxing robe.

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