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[edit] College Robinson had a successful collegiate career in which he led the Washington Huskies to the Sweet Sixteen in the 2005 NCAA basketball tournament during his junior season. At the end of that season he was named a third-team Associated Press and National Association of Basketball Coaches All-American. Robinson also played football at Washington, and was a highly touted return man and cornerback. Robinson initially attended college on a football scholarship, walking onto the school\'s basketball team. It was only later that his football scholarship was dropped, and he received a basketball scholarship and played that sport exclusively. [edit] NBA career [edit] 2005-06 season Robinson was the 21st selection of the 2005 NBA Draft, chosen by the Phoenix Suns before being traded to the New York Knicks with Quentin Richardson for Kurt Thomas and the draft rights to second-round pick (54th overall) Dijon Thompson. Robinson played in 76 games his rookie year, starting 26 of them, while averaging 9.3 points and 2.0 assists per game. During the All-Star weekend, Robinson won the 2006 Sprite Rising Stars Slam Dunk Contest, edging Andre Iguodala 141-140 in an unprecedented overtime, although he took 14 attempts to make his final dunk. In his most memorable dunk of the night, he jumped over 1986 champion Spud Webb, and received a perfect 50-point score for the dunk.[3] During the season, Robinson was reportedly involved in physical altercations between teammates Jerome James and Malik Rose in separate incidents during the 2005-06 season. He was at one point considered by Knicks coach Larry Brown to be demoted to the NBA Development League. He was instead placed on the Inactive List for 10 games between February 24 and March 11.[4] [edit] 2006-07 season On November 20, 2006, Robinson blocked a shot attempt of 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) Houston Rockets center Yao Ming in the closing seconds of the third quarter. It was only the third time in ten NBA seasons that a player\'s shot attempt was blocked by another player at least a foot-and-a-half shorter.[5] On December 16, 2006, Robinson was one of the primary participants in the Knicks-Nuggets brawl. He exchanged words and wrestled with Nuggets guard J.R. Smith, and was suspended for 10 games as a result.[6] Robinson competed in the 2007 Slam Dunk Contest to defend his 2006 title, and came in second place after Gerald Green. In the second round, Green\'s Boston Celtics teammate Paul Pierce brought out a cardboard cut-out of Robinson to dunk over. But Robinson came out and stood in its place instead, and Green jumped over him to complete the dunk
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