I felt compelled to ask this question after listening to a radio show where one of the co-host said, “who watches the slam dunk contest?”

Well Buster, apparently over eight million people did on Saturday night according to Nielsen.

The NBA All-Star Slam Dunk contest did a 5.1 rating and drew roughly over five times the number of viewers that the NHL did for its All-Star skills competition.

Yet, I’m still running into people on the reg that denounce basketball as boring and trite in comparison to the NHL.