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Judging purely on the star power and on the dunks themselves, the 1985 Slam Dunk Contest at Market Square Arena stands out as one of the best ever, and one that shaped what would follow.
The 1985 NBA Slam Dunk Contest is widely heralded as one of the greatest dunk contests of all time. It featured two of the highest flyers of the time, Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins . The other participants of the contest included Clyde Drexler , Julius Erving , Darrell Griffith , Larry Nance , Terence Stansbury , and Orlando Woolridge .
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]
And they were dunking while they were beating his team.” (Ironically, the best player on that Kentucky team, Pat Riley, would go on to preside over the dunk-happy Showtime Lakers teams of the ...
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.
The NBA Slam Dunk Contest (officially known as the AT&T Slam Dunk) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) competition held during the NBA All-Star Weekend. [1] Sports Illustrated wrote "the dunk contest was the best halftime invention since the bathroom."
Orlando Magic guard Mac McClung won his third consecutive Slam Dunk Contest, becoming the first player in the event’s history to threepeat and joining Nate Robinson as the only players to ever ...
Field goals made, 6-game series: 101, vs. Phoenix Suns, 1993 NBA Finals. Field goals made, game: 24, vs. Cleveland Cavaliers, May 1, 1988 [35] Also holds third and fourth (see below) Consecutive field goals made in a game without a miss: 13, vs. Los Angeles Lakers, June 5, 1991. Field goal attempts, career: 4,497 Broken by Kobe Bryant on May 21 ...