Slam Dunk

The 2017 NBA Slam Dunk Competition is now a little less awesome. Zach LaVine, the two-time reigning champion, will not be participating in the festivities, according to Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scott: [tweet https://twitter.com/MikeAScotto/status/824353917320515591] So much for a rematch of the epic battle that took place between LaVine and Aaron Gordon last year. On the bright [...]

Last season, Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine gave us one of the most memorable dunk contests in NBA history. They were creative. Electrifying. Refreshing. It’s only right they get together this coming February, in 2017, and match up with one another again. But that might not happen, because Gordon isn’t sure if he’ll participate in [...]

Zach LaVine at the tender age of 21 is developing into quite the player on the court for the Timberwolves and quite the man off of it as well. LaVine donated his winnings for the 2016 NBA Slam Dunk Contest to build a new kitchen for the Metro Deaf School for children in St. Paul [...]

Michael Jordan’s infamous dunk from the free throw line from the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was the inspiration for the iconic Jumpman logo that is synonymous with the most successful shoe brand in human history, and now it has also been immortalized in an incredible tattoo. Just for the record, we are not talking [...]

Early in his NBA career, Shaquille O’Neal was a member of the Orlando Magic and had a penance for shattering the glass of a basketball backboard during the slam dunk process. To highlight two occasions of this happening during NBA games, Reebok releases the ‘Shattered Backboard’ colorway of the original Shaq Attaq sneaker. For the [...]

When he began his NBA career, Kobe Bryant had an adidas sneaker endorsement which led to some of the most unique-looking basketball sneakers ever. One of the more memorable kicks was the ones he wore during the adidas EQT Elevation, being re-released for the first time in the ‘1997 Dunk Contest’ colorway worn by Kobe [...]

April 5th, 2011 – Allen Moll For those of you that missed the 2011 McDonald’s All American Powerade Jamfest, which features the very best high school ballplayers competing in the Skills Competition, 3 Point Shoot-Out, and the annual Slam Dunk Contest, we are here to get you up to speed. Last year’s entertaining dunk contest was [...]