"Right now, I'm just the third-best dunker in the league. Dominique Wilkins and Spud Webb, who won it the last two years, ...

Basketball fans were hyped when Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan signed up for the 1987 Slam Dunk Contest. The North ...

For former NBA slam dunk champion Jason Richardson, the value of legacy isn't what he could throw down but what he can pass ...

Vince Carter participated in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 2000 and shocked everyone with his powerful and inventive dunks. People had never seen such skill, control, and energy in a single dunk. Even ...

Jason Richardson, a two-time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion and one of the most electrifying high-flyers of his era, recently voiced his disappointment over a long-standing All-Star Weekend letdown, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The slam dunk, a defining move in basketball, is explored in depth in Mike Sielski’s new book, “Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk.” Sielski’s ...

An AI model hallucinated that Luka Dončić had a 42-inch vertical leap. A human hallucinated that he used to win the most iconic Slam Dunk Contest ever. Things are pretty quiet in the NBA right now, ...

ALBANY, NY (NEWS10) — DeMarr Langford Jr., a senior guard for the UAlbany men’s basketball team, will compete in the State Farm College Slam Dunk contest on Thursday night. Langford Jr. becomes the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Player introductions still had too much pomp and circumstance, lasting more than 25 minutes. The greatest NBA All-Star ever pulled himself out about an hour before play began, leaving ...

Incredible slam dunks are living proof that humankind need not be held down by mere gravity. They literally and figuratively elevate basketball and are at the heart of “Magic in the Air: The Myth, the ...