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NEW ORLEANS - Shaquille O'Neal sat beneath the basket on a king's gold throne and then watched as Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore soared over his head for a spread-eagle, right-handed, tomahawk dunk that brought the crowd at the Smoothie King Center to their feet on Saturday night. On the final dunk of the night in the reconfigured, team-oriented Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, Washington guard John Wall grabbed the ball from above the head of "G-Man" -- the mascot of the Wizards who was standing two feet in front of the basket -- and then buried a two-handed reverse slam that brought down the house and secured the team dunk title for a three-player team from the Eastern Conference. "This was only my second time doing the dunk -- the first time was on Thursday," said Wall, who worked on the move with Aidan Charlery, the mascot known as G-Man. "I just felt comfortable in myself and I knew it was a dunk that hasn't been done before. The slam dunk contest rules changed to a team format this year, with three head-to-head matches between Eastern and Western Conference players.
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