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1984 at the All-Star Game in Denver is when the NBA brought the Dunk Contest back (sort of, it was an old ABA thing). Dr. J was the favorite. Dominique Wilkins was competing. And Larry Nance won the ...
The event was marked by an old-school feel: Nance was assisted by his father, the 1984 Dunk Contest champion, and Mitchell paid homage to his mentor, Darrell Griffith, a former Dunk Contest ...
Windmills. Tomahawks. Three-sixties. A windmill-tomahawk-360. Leaps from the free-throw line and beyond. While it hasn’t been a constant hit since the inception in 1984, the NBA Slam Dunk ...
If you’d like to see every 50-point dunk in the competition’s history, you can check out this video from the fine folks at the NBA. And with all of this now out of the way, let’s begin: 10 ...
A year-by-year look at the NBA slam dunk contest winners since the event’s inception in 1984: ...
Here’s a look at every dunk contest winner since the event started in 1984. By Sanjesh Singh • Published February 16, 2023 • Updated on February 17, 2024 at 11:11 pm ...
There was no Dunk Contest for the next seven years, but the league added the competition as part of All-Star Weekend in 1984 and has held the competition every year since except for 1998 (when it ...
The 6-foot-2 guard is the first Sixer to win the NBA's dunk contest since the event officially began in 1984. “I don’t get surprised by things like this, but I’m very appreciative," McClung ...
Here’s a look at every dunk contest winner since the event started in 1984. By Sanjesh Singh • Published February 16, 2023 • Updated on February 18, 2024 at 12:12 am ...