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Vince Carter dunking in 2009. A slam dunk, also simply known as a dunk, is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air, controls the ball above the horizontal plane of the rim, and scores by shoving the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. [1] It is a type of field goal that is worth two points.
Power layup, also called jump stop layup, is a continuous shooting move in which a player stops dribbling and makes a huge leap forward (jump stop), while securing the ball in both hands from the dribbling hand, then making a layup. The move is generally used as a layup because the huge movement coming from the leap provides the momentum for ...
Brandon Michael Todd (born August 13, 1985) is an athlete known for his high vertical jump and ability to slam dunk a basketball despite being 5'5" tall. Brandon was a four-year starter on the Cambridge High School (CHS) basketball team and a breakout star at Muskingum College. In March 2013 Brandon trained Lenny Bernstein of The Washington Post.
Twelve years later, Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors stunned fans with arguably the league's best slam dunk performance that included a 360-degree windmill and an "elbow-in-the-rim" dunk.
Breakaway rims were invented in the mid-1970s and are now an essential element of high-level basketball. In the early days of basketball, dunking was considered ungentlemanly, and was rarely used outside of practice or warm-up drills. A broken backboard or distorted rim could delay a game for hours.
But if the ever-increasing number of athletes capable of dunking has somehow devalued the art of stuffing a basketball through the rim, Mitchell high-flyers Dylan Soulek and Caden Hinker don't ...
2Ball was introduced for the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, replacing the Slam Dunk Contest, after the previous year's Dunk Contest was derided as the worst ever, following over a decade of decline in star power and dunk quality. [1] [2] [3] Each 2Ball team paired an NBA and a WNBA player from the same city.
He flew through the air, dunked the ball and casually did a between-the-legs slam as if he were competing in an NBA dunking contest. He didn’t play in the basketball game but looked like he ...