Dunk Contest

January 7, 2011 – Allen Moll If current Duke Blue Devils Mason and Miles Plumlee decide to remain on campus past this season, they will form quite a potent front-court trio when the youngest, and arguably the most talented Plumlee brother named Marshall, will join his older brethren as one of Coach K’s fabulous freshmen, joining [...]

January 6, 2011 – Kevin Burke It’s hard to believe that we’re a little more than a month away from the All-Star break. Time flies when you’re having fun I guess. One event that has traditionally been a marquee draw during the weekend is the dunk contest. Unfortunately, many of the dunk contests over the [...]

October 22, 2010 – Allen Moll Baylor Bears men’s basketball coach Scott Drew is on a role lately. Fresh off taking last year’s squad on a program defining Final Four run, Drew has hit recruiting gold for the the next few seasons by getting commits from a number of top tier recruits. The fruits of [...]

October 21, 2010 – Allen Moll Pepperdine University’s rising junior Keion Bell is quietly one of the most athletic and high flying point guards in the country. Ever since high school, he was turning heads back in Pasadena, California with his highlight reel dunks. If it wasn’t for a transfer violation in his junior HS [...]

October 12, 2010 – Allen Moll Is it me, or are today’s crop of highlight reel dunkers getting more and more innovative and athletic in an attempt to one-up each-other? Going back 10-15 years ago, NBA bad boy Isaiah Rider made the Eastbay Dunk famous by taking the ball between his legs before jamming it [...]

August 30, 2010 – Allen Moll While most high school hoop fanatics can’t wait for the McDonalds All American Game each season to catch a glimpse of the college ranks incoming diaper dandies, Boost Mobile has succeeded in wetting the appetites of hoop fans by putting on the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Game for 5 [...]

August 17, 2010 – Allen Moll Now that the Chris Bosh era North of the border is officially over, the Raptors franchise will be looking to build off of their super talented nucleus of young players like DeMar Derozan, Sonny Weems, and Amir Johnson, who appropriately have been dubbed the “Young Gunz.” While some may [...]

August 16, 2010 – Allen Moll It’s no secret that some of basketball’s greatest dunkers are beginning to surface from the amateur ranks. After all, the NBA Slam Dunk Contest hasn’t been exciting for a number of years now, especially since a number of top flight players like Lebron, D. Wade, and Kobe refuse to [...]

January 29, 2009 – Dr. Browntorious Last night when I was watching the game recap of the New York Knicks vs. Atlanta Hawks game I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the broadcast crews call on the Nate Robinson power dunk. The broadcast crew was right in the middle of talking about how Dwight [...]

November 12th, 2008 – Dr. J-Water So to be correct, he had one foot over the line when he took off. But who the hell cares! So did Michael Jordan in his second dunk contest victory. The thing about this video below however is that Lebron did this IN A GAME! Are you kidding me? [...]