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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.
The 1949–50 Minneapolis Lakers, who won the NBA Finals, are not counted in the Eastern versus Western champions record above as they played in the Central Division. The first parentheses in the Western champions and Eastern champions columns indicate the teams' playoff seed. The second parentheses indicate the number of times that teams have ...
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 ...
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.
Orlando Magic guard Mac McClung scored perfect 50s on each of his four dunks Saturday night in the Slam Dunk Contest. Mac McClung makes history, becomes first to three-peat in NBA Slam Dunk ...
Osceola Magic guard Mac McClung made All-Star history by becoming the first person to win the Slam Dunk contest three years in a row. Not only did McClung secure the win but he won the contest ...
The following is a timeline of the organizational changes in the National Basketball Association (NBA), including contractions, expansions, relocations, and divisional realignment. The league was formed as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949, when it merged with the National Basketball League (NBL).
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 ...