Wallace said he hasn't actually watched a dunk contest on television since 2000, the year Vince Carter won it. And that was two years before Wallace participated in the contest as a Sacramento Kings rookie.
To Wallace, a dunk is the surest way to score two points, not a pursuit of style points. As he put it pre-game Monday: "It's a little harder to do your dunks in the game than when you're just out there by yourself.''
There was a fire alarm at Time Warner Cable Arena about two hours before tip-off. The problem? It got a little more smoky than usual when a char-broiler was lit in preparation for the concession stands.
How far they've come: The Bobcats scored 66 points in the first half Monday. That means they've gone consecutive first halves topping the 59 total points they scored versus the Boston Celtics in the season opener.
Though Wallace's fourth-quarter ankle sprain was a new injury, he's been hurting for a while.
Coach Larry Brown said that Wallace has been troubled by a sore hamstring for some time. If that hamstring was limiting him, you'd never know it on those alley-oop dunks and leaping shot-blocks.
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