Given the recent Slog posts and articles I’ve been doing on how the pending $200 million Sonics subsidy is bad public policy, readers might have the impression that I’m harboring some unresolved animosity toward jocks and basketball.

The truth is, I love basketball. (Go Gilbert Arenas!)

So, while I maintain that there’s no way to justify the Sonics bailout, let me take a second to hype what could be an amazing afternoon of hoops. It sounds like there’s going to be a dunk competition at Seattle Central Community College.

A poster up on SCCC’s campus, featuring a picture of Michael Jordan whisking the ball through his legs in mid flight on his way to a dunk, reads: “So you think YOU CAN DUNK? BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT.”

It says it’s free for all students and that spectators are welcome.

It’s Wednesday, March 1st, 4pm to 6pm at the SCCC gym. That’s on the east side of Broadway just north of Pine St.

As George McGinnis said to Doc. J upon being traded to the 76ers: “Doctor, We’re gonna do a number.”