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Lakers’ Shannon Brown will be in the NBA dunk contest

By Mike Bresnahan
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Lakers guard Shannon Brown will be in the dunk contest during All-Star weekend, the NBA announced today.

The reserve point guard will be joined by New York Knicks guard Nate Robinson and Charlotte forward Gerald Wallace. A fourth player will be determined through a ‘dunk-off’ between Clippers guard Eric Gordon and Toronto forward DeMar DeRozan.

The dunk contest takes place Feb. 13 at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Robinson won the event last season and in 2006. Orlando center Dwight Howard won the contest in 2008.

-- Mike Bresnahan

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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