Al Jaffe. Voting stayed the same. Each judge and the American viewing public was given one vote each to cut a contestant with. In the event of a tie between contestants, America's vote would be the tie-breaker. Contestants The show's contestants were six former NBA stars vying to become ESPN's next NBA analyst: Dennis Scott, who spent most of his career with the Orlando Magic Dee Brown, who is most famous for winning the 1991 slam dunk contest with a no-look dunk while playing for the Boston Celtics (he also played for the Toronto Raptors and the Magic before retiring) Matt Bullard, who won an NBA championship with the Houston Rockets in 1994 Darryl Dawkins, who, in 1975, became the first high school player ever to be drafted directly into the league J.R. Reid, who averaged double figures in scoring during his first three years in the NBA Gerald Wilkins, one of the most popular New York Knicks ever Dana Barros was originally slated to be one of the six contestants, but was missing from the show during its first episode, apparently dropping out at the last minute. He was replaced by the Orlando Magic's first-ever draft pick, Nick Anderson, but Anderson soon exited, and was replaced by Dennis Scott. Summary Due to Barros' absence, there were only five contestants for the season premiere. This meant that at the end of the episode, no one would be cut; ESPN thus touted the first episode as a "special preview" episode. Promotional ads for the show leading up to episode two said Nick Anderson would be Barros' replacement, but those ads quickly disappeared, as Anderson was then replaced by Dennis Scott. On episode two, Wilkins was the first contestant to go. The following week, Dawkins was gone, the victim of America's vote being used as a tiebreaker when he got his second cut vote of the night, though Scott also had two cut votes. Week four saw Reid saying goodbye, with Scott finally getting the boot in week five. That left Bullard and Brown in the last showdown for the Dream Job of ESPN NBA analyst. Bullard's mistakes got the best of him, and Dee Brown was the winner of the third season of the show, as Bullard got three votes to be cut. External links espn.com writer Dan Shanoff's thoughts on first week of the third season Shanoff reviews week two