On Monday, we shared footage of LeBron James pulling off a pretty rad mid-air, pass-through-the-legs, off-the-glass, one-handed dunk during the Miami Heat's pregame warm-ups before taking on the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday night. In doing so, I wrote that while I totally understand the three-time MVP not wanting to enter the Slam Dunk Contest , displays like that would only increase fan interest in him competing on All-Star Saturday Night. After this awesome finish prior to Miami's 141-129 double-overtime win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday — in which James tosses the ball to himself along the right baseline, catches it off the bounce on the way up, goes through his legs and hammers it home — those fans' calls are only likely to get louder: Of course, while some fans frame the pregame exhibitions positively (we enjoy watching these dunks and would like to see more of them in the Dunk Contest), many others take a more negative view (these prove that LeBron's creative enough to win a contest and isn't entering because he's scared or a jerk or whatever). This is why we can't have nice things, and this is why LeBron's thinking of nixing the warm-up acrobatics entirely, according to Michael Wallace of ESPN.com's Heat Index :
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