The NBA Dunk Contest is just as good as ever. What’s changed is the world around it
The annual discourse around "fixing the Dunk Contest" misses that it’s never needed stars. It used to create them, and maybe ...
When Is the Dunk Contest 2025? Date of the NBA Event
Now that football season is over, basketball is back in action, and the annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest is about to hit the ...
Vince Carter’s 2000 NBA dunk contest masterpiece: ‘I wanted to go out there and give you a show’
What Carter did 25 years ago during a rain-soaked weekend in the Bay looked like, and felt like, the apogee of the ...
Ex-UConn Star Stephon Castle Deserved To Win Dunk Contest: 'Actual NBA Player'
Saturday night’s 2025 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was a two-man show. Former UConn star Andrew Jackson Jr. (now of the Milwaukee ...
Is It Time to Replace the NBA Dunk Contest?
Stars are not participating for fear of being “turned into a meme” and there is little imagination in the dunk attempts.
Matas Buzelis makes a strong impression at NBA All-Star Weekend
Despite coming up short in the Slam Dunk Contest, Sam Smith writes that Matas Buzelis still wowed spectators and showed ...
NBA All-Star 2025 predictions and preview for dunk contest, 3-point shootout, and more
The 2025 NBA All-Star Game is here with a bizarre new format, a no-name dunk contest, and Damian Lillard going for a ...
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Duke basketball’s Cooper Flagg gives nod to Dominique Wilkins, rates reverse dunk vs Cal
During the 1985 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, Wilkins beat Michael Jordan by throwing down several reverse dunks. Flagg had a ...
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Duke basketball’s Cooper Flagg gives nod to Dominique Wilkins, rates reverse dunk vs Cal
During the 1985 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, Wilkins beat Michael Jordan by throwing down several reverse dunks. Flagg had a reverse dunk of his own in Duke basketball ... Coach K Court and skied ...