In its history, the dunk contest has been won by legends of the game like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Vince Carter and Julius Erving as well as a pair of players with ties to the Natural State.

The 3-Point Contest first took place in 1986, and you have to go back nearly that far to find the rest of the Lakers' participants. Byron Scott and Michael Cooper both participated in 1987, but they ...

Since its inception in 1984, the NBA Slam Dunk Contest has become one of the most electrifying and anticipated events during ...

For his next attempt, needing a score of 42 to advance to the next round, Mitchell revealed the classic purple uniform ...

Stars are not participating for fear of being “turned into a meme” and there is little imagination in the dunk attempts.

Spurs rookie Stephon Castle was honored to be named Most Valuable Player of the NBA Rising Stars Game on Friday in San ...

Carter was next. And he decided, on the spot, to junk the easier first dunk he’d planned to do for the more dangerous 360. “I ...

What Carter did 25 years ago during a rain-soaked weekend in the Bay looked like, and felt like, the apogee of the ...

Odds, picks, rules, and predictions for the 2025 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest during All-Star Weekend in San Francisco.

The annual discourse around “fixing the Dunk Contest” misses that it’s never needed stars. It used to create them, and maybe ...

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Running for more than four decades, the Dunk Contest has delivered some all-time great moments. From Dominique Wilkins and ...