The NBA Dunk Contest used to be a special showcase of the pinnacles of basketball athleticism: Michael Jordan’s free-throw line dunk in 1987 and Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine’s legendary duel in 2016 ...

The Slam Dunk Contest has always been All-Star Weekend’s Wild Card, the event most likely to flip from forgettable to unforgettable in a single leap. Over the last decade, though, the trophy has ...

The 2026 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was an exciting finale to NBA All-Star Saturday Night, held at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Feb. 14. A second-year forward out of Arizona, Johnson was ...

Michigan State forward Coen Carr was the popular pick among all the Big Ten players at the NBA Combine to be good enough to win the NBA Dunk Contest.

All-Star Saturday from the Intuit Dome is in the books. Keshad Johnson of the Miami Heat edged out Carter Bryant of the San Antonio Spurs to win the Slam Dunk Contest. But the highlight of the night ...

Kendrick Perkins believes that the involvement of superstars like Anthony Edwards and Ja Morant in next year’s Slam Dunk Contest will bring back the excitement of this iconic event. The 2026 NBA ...

Mac McClung Says NBA Didn’t Want Him in 2026 Dunk Contest, Reveals Others Declined if He Participated Feb 15, 2025; San Francisco, CA, USA; Osceola Magic guard Mac McClung celebrates with the trophy ...

It looks like Stephen A. Smith is coming after LeBron James. And this time, it’s for something that has nothing to do with The King. Following the abysmal showing from the contestants at the Slam Dunk ...

With the NBA’s Slam Dunk contest being another lackluster showing, the league needs a way to encourage the players with some real firepower in their dunk arsenal to get out there. This year had Carter ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif.(AP) — If you still didn’t like the NBA’s newest All-Star Game format, you probably just don’t like All-Star games. That seemed to be the sports sphere's consensus after the ...