McGee works on dunks

Big men have not always fared well in the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest, but McGee, who was selected this week as one of the four participants, said he's prepared to change that.

As the franchise's first participant, McGee was selected along with the Clippers' Blake Griffin, Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka, and Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings for the contest on Feb. 19 in Los Angeles.

"I've seen Griffin do some stuff on YouTube on some high school dunk contests," McGee said. "I got a lot of exciting stuff that hasn't been done in the dunk contest before."

Along with Kevin Seraphin and Cartier Martin, McGee spent the end of practice showing off a couple of moves, including going baseline and touching the ball off of the side of the backboard before trying to throw it down.

McGee knows his history, and he replicated a windmill jam done by the first dunk contest winner, 6-foot-10 Larry Nance, in 1984. Aside from Nance, though, Orlando's Dwight Howard in 2008 has been the only big man to win a dunk contest.

"I'm gonna show some people that big men can dunk, too," McGee said, "just like Dwight did."