That skills competition was lame as hell. Bouncing a pass through a 5 foot wide hole is not much of a skill. I liked seeing the Spurs make a joke of it, which was within the rules and should not have disqualified them. Make your game better if you don't like it. The NBA needs to make it a whole lot more difficult, and have time penalties for missing the shots/passes. Make it a little interesting at least by showing off skills, and incentivize doing it right.
The dunk contest was kind of lame. Buzelis couldn't do shit, and that guy from the Bucks was doing vanilla shit. Castle was great, and kind of got robbed on one of those "49" ratings by that dude on the end and Tmac.
Mac is a great dunker, but he's not an NBA player and doesn't belong. The NBA needs to figure out how to get some big names with talent to do some dunks, because it hurts their brand to have such pedestrian competition for something that used to be Must See TV.
I think the competition would be better off if they gave them a 1 minute timer to do whatever number of dunks they want. Like in figure skating, they don't do one triple axel and stop there, they do a lot to show off different skills and technique. It would make it more interesting and reward those who can make their dunks the first time by letting them complete several.