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One of his most exciting dunks was a high-flying dunk over former Slam Dunk Contest winner, 5'7" Spud Webb. The 2006 Slam Dunk Contest was also the first Dunk Contest in history to have a "Dunk Off", the equivalent to a Dunk Contest overtime, between Knicks point guard Nate Robinson and shooting guard Andre Iguodala of the Philadelphia 76ers ...
With the South Bay Lakers of the G League, he won the 2021–22 NBA G League Rookie of the Year award. McClung joined the Blue Coats for the 2022–23 season and signed with the 76ers in February 2023. He won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest at both the 2023 NBA All-Star Game and the 2024 NBA All-Star Game.
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. Both ...
The next year the NBA brought the dunk contest into existence, but in an even more odd format, pitting one player from each team in a series of one-on-one dunk competitions throughout the season ...
All-Star Game dunk contest winners Multiple winners : Nate Robinson (3), and Zach Lavine, Jason Richardson, Harold Miner, Dominique Wilkins and Michael Jordan (2 each) Year
The judging was a major subplot in the 2024 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. ... McClung becomes the fifth back-to-back dunk contest winner in NBA history, joining Michael Jordan, Jason Richardson, Nate ...
Nance scored 15,687 career points and grabbed 7,067 career rebounds, but he is perhaps best known as the first winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 1984, earning him the nickname "The High-Ayatolla of Slamola". [1] Nance was a model of consistency throughout his NBA career.
In years past, the dunk contest has produced some unbelievable and memorable photos of NBA stars getting big air.