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Michael Jordan, Isaiah Rider, Kobe Bryant, Brent Barry and Dwight Howard are the only players to have won an NBA championship and a slam dunk championship. Kobe Bryant is the youngest player to win the slam dunk contest at the age of 18, while Dominique Wilkins is the oldest player to win the slam dunk contest at the age of 30.
While competing in the 2011 NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, McGee jumped with two balls in his possession and dunked each prior to receiving and slamming an alley-oop pass from then teammate John Wall. [36] In the 2016 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, Zach LaVine dunked from the free throw line on three occasions: One Hand, Windmill, and Between the Legs ...
All NBA Finals have been played in a best-of-seven format, and are contested between the winners of the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference (formerly Divisions before 1970), except in 1950 when the Eastern Division champion faced the winner between the Western and Central Division champions.
In 1988, Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan beat Atlanta Hawks forward and two-time Slam Dunk Contest champion Dominique Wilkins with an iconic dunk from the free-throw line.
The dunk contest used to attract some of the game's best players -- Michael Jordan, Wilkins, and Kobe Bryant are past champions and Julius Erving won it in the ABA -- but Brown is the first All ...
The NBA Slam Dunk Contest has been held consistently since 1984, but the tricks and performances have only gotten more and more mind-blowing each year. Glenn Robinson III joins storied list of NBA ...
2nd youngest player to be named to the NBA All-Defensive Team: (1999–2000 season) [35] Youngest player to be named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team; Youngest player to start a game: (18 years, 158 days) [4] Youngest player to win the NBA Slam Dunk Championship: (18 years, 169 days) [36]
1985–86 NBA scoring champion (30.3 ppg) NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Champion: 1985, 1990. NBA All-Rookie Team: 1983. All-NBA First Team: 1986. All-NBA Second Team: 1987–88, 1991, 1993. All-NBA Third Team: 1989, 1994. Nine-time NBA All Star: 1986–94. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2006). FIBA World Championship gold medalist: 1994