"Anthony Jerome "Spud" Webb" is a retired American National Basketball Association/NBA professional basketball point guard. Webb is notable for winning a slam dunk contest despite being one of the shortest players in NBA history. NBA.com lists him at 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) tall. He is currently the President of Basketball Operations for the Texas Legends, the D-League team for the Dallas Mavericks in Frisco, Texas.

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I have a newfound respect for people who do all this hard work. From now on when I walk through a house, I'll have a lot of respect for what went into building it.

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I've seen him jump, and that's all I needed.

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He doesn't know what he did tonight. He made history. One day he can tell his kids about this.

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They asked me and I couldn't believe it because I didn't want to mess up his final dunk.

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It's like watching your kid play. You want him to do well.

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We talk about little things, about the NBA, about not getting discouraged. He is playing well. I hope he makes it that we can have a dunk-contest winner and a Sixth Man Award winner.

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Let me answer that for you: Big guys shouldn't judge the dunk contest.

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