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Like its predecessor, NBA Street V3 focuses on the streetball variation of basketball, featuring 3-on-3 matches and dunk contests. Players are able to perform over-the-top trick moves in order to get past opposing players and gain points in order to earn a Gamebreaker, a shot or dunk that gifts the player extra points and removes a point from ...
In this contest, participants attempt to make as many three-point field goals as possible from five positions behind the three-point line in one minute. Players begin shooting from one corner of the court, and move from station to station along the three-point arc until they reach the other corner. [2]
Georgeann Wells is an All-American basketball player, who was active at West Virginia University (WVU) from 1982 to 1986. [2] Among her other accomplishments, Wells is notable as the first American woman to register a dunk in an official NCAA intercollegiate basketball game on December 21, 1984.
Slam Dunk - Teams will bungee jump together back to back and try to score into hoops valued at 5, 10, and 15 points. Winners: Theo & Holly B. ( Team Road Rules ) Ladder of Doom: A relay race where each member needs to climb down a ladder over a 50-foot basin and retrieve a flag and bring it back to the top of the ladder.
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. It allows players to dunk the ball without shattering the backboard, and it ...
Shaquille O'Neal's 13-year-old daughter, Me'arah O'Neal, can dunk. Her older brother, Shareef, posted a video to his Twitter account on Tuesday night of the young baller throwing down on a ...
Griner was also the first player to dunk twice in one game (27 May 2013, her WNBA debut) and the first to dunk in a playoff game (25 August 2014). [ 70 ] [ 71 ] Griner was also prolific in high school and college: as a high school senior, she dunked 52 times in 32 games and set a single-game record of seven dunks. [ 72 ]
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. As the game has evolved through the years, so has the layup. Several different versions of the layup are used today.