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  2. Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers - Wikipedia

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    The second video features brief biographies of NBA personalities including Darryl Dawkins, Bill Walton, John Salley and Frank Layden, as well as footage of dolphins playing basketball, a group playing basketball while riding horses and a group playing basketball on ice skates. Recaps of the 1989 and 1990 NBA slam dunk contest are also shown.

  3. Breakaway rim - Wikipedia

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    Dwight Howard bends down the rim as he dunks the ball.. A breakaway rim is a basketball rim that contains a hinge and a spring at the point where it attaches to the backboard so that it can bend downward when a player dunks a basketball, and then quickly snaps back into a horizontal position when the player releases it.

  4. Four corners offense - Wikipedia

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    A four corners offense was most frequently used prior to the introduction of the shot clock in order to retain a lead by holding on to the ball until the clock ran out. The trailing team would be forced to spread their defense in hopes of getting a steal, which often allowed easy drives to the basket by the offense.

  5. Hack-a-Shaq - Wikipedia

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    The strategy is named after Shaquille O'Neal. Hack-a-Shaq is a basketball defensive strategy used in the National Basketball Association (NBA) that involves committing intentional fouls (originally a clock management strategy) for the purpose of lowering opponents' scoring.

  6. Basketball moves - Wikipedia

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    Common layup strategies are to create space, releasing the ball from different spots or using an alternate hand. A player tall enough (or with sufficient leaping ability) to reach over the rim might choose to perform a more spectacular and higher percentage slam dunk (dropping or throwing the ball through the basket from above the rim) instead.

  7. Lost Lakers, sad Nuggets & Ja's dunking retirement | Kevin O ...

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    Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James looks at a replay after a call that went against them during the second half of an Emirates NBA Cup basketball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder ...

  8. Why Ole Miss football players dunking on a basketball hoop ...

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    The basketball hoop in particular has become a recruiting tool. Rebels' offensive lineman Diego Pounds transferred from North Carolina. He remembered watching Ole Miss games and noting the energy ...

  9. Slam dunk - Wikipedia

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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.