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The Dunk Contest Field Has Been Announced, And It's Not Terrible
ESPN's Marc Stein has the scoop on which six players will be competing in this year's dunk contest, and it's actually a pretty strong field. Paul George, John Wall, Damian Lillard, Harrison Barnes, Terrence Ross, and Ben McLemore will be this year's competitors. ...

Derrick Williams Attempts Ill-Fated Off-The-Backboard Dunk
Garbage time is usually an opportunity for NBA stars to draw from the grab bag of Globetrotter tricks. Derrick Williams tried a pretty mild off-the-backboard dunk maneuver. It didn't go so well....

D-Leaguer Posterizes 7-Footer With Two Vicious Dunks
This is Ra'shad James, a 6-foot-1 guard for the Reno Big Horns, dropping the damn hammer on poor Travis Hyman. ...

Anthony Davis Did Some Awesome Stuff Last Night
There are so many ways Anthony Davis can humiliate a man. Usually, he does it by extending those stupid-long arms across every inch of airspace over the basketball court, sending away any shot his opponents are foolish enough to send in his direction. But Anthony Davis can also make people look stu...

Markel Brown Makes Steal, Unleashes 360 Dunk On West Virginia
We featured Oklahoma State's Markel Brown in these parts a week ago, but here's a more positive highlight. Here's the senior Cowboys wing man executing the turnover on West Virginia today in Stillwater and then bringing a Gallagher-Iba Arena crowd to its feet with a 360 dunk to top it off....

Michelle Obama Posterizes Dwyane Wade, Then Mean Mugs
Everything about this is fantastic. Hell yes, First Lady of the United States. ...

Keifer Sykes Is 5-Foot-11 And A Dunking Maestro
Green Bay guard Keifer Sykes may only be 5-foot-11, but his height does absolutely nothing to prevent him from throwing down ridiculous dunks. ...

Paul George Unleashed A Once-In-A-Lifetime 360 Windmill Dunk
You had better watch this dunk, because it's probably never going to happen again....

Blake Griffin Did That Thing He Does All Over Poor Kris Humphries
Listen, Kris Humphries, if you don't know by now that standing in Blake Griffin's way is only going to get you a face full of elbow or balls followed by an emasculating stare down, then I don't know what to tell you. Just stay out of the way, man! ...

Marquette's Deonte Burton Ruined Someone With A Dunk
Deonte Burton—of Marquette, not Nevada—absolutely wrecked Samford's Emeka Ikezu on this slam from yesterday's game. Watching it from the floor is delightful....

Jabari Parker Throws Down Awesome Coast-To-Coast Dunk
Jabari Parker finished last night's game against East Carolina with 21 points, nine rebounds, and six blocks. If you want to see all of the awesome shit Parker did while accruing those stats, watch the highlight reel above. But if you just want to see his most impressive play of the night, skip to ...

Duke Freshman Crushes Monster Alley-Oop During Practice
OK, what the hell is happening to Duke? Are they becoming, dare I say, likable?...

J.J. Hickson Submits An Early Candidate For Dunk Of The Year
No one will blame you for not watching last night's Nuggets-Jazz game, as neither team has done much more than depress the hell out of their respective fan bases this year. But you are not allowed to go through life being unaware of this J.J. Hickson dunk, which turned poor Marvin Williams into a c...

Junior College Player Throws Down Incredibly Filthy Putback Dunk
Meet Javonte Douglas. He's a 6-foot-7 sophomore who plays for the Central Florida Patriots, and he can jump really, really high. Like, "Hey look, my head a solid foot above the rim right now" high....

Greg Oden Dunked!
It was just four minutes in a preseason game, but those four minutes were Greg Oden's first NBA action in nearly four years. He had one bucket, a dunk on Al-Farouq Aminu, and was able to walk back up the court under his own power....

The Fun-Hating Spurs Threw Just One Alley-Oop Last Season
The chart above, based on data from NBA Stats, shows the number of alley-oops each team has thrown in the last two regular seasons. No surprises at the very top, although it's nice to see the mediocre/bad Blazers, Hornets, Timberwolves, and Wizards crack the top ten....

Nets Mascot Airballs The Worst Dunk Attempt You May Ever See
Oh, BrooklyKnight. Your name is illogical. You look like a rejected Power Rangers villain. And this trampoline dunk, during last night's preseason game against the Celtics, was...well, it wasn't good....

Bananas Pool Dunk Includes Gorilla Suit And DunkCam
Another one from Jon and the Tualatin (Ore.) dunk crew responsible for these two videos. The ante has been upped yet again, with this 11-person, one-simian dunk that involves a couple trampolines, roller blades, and a gorilla suit. And of course, they strapped a GoPro camera to the dunker's head....

Pool Dunks Have Graduated To Multi-Ball
This is a remarkable addition to our ever-growing repository of pool basketball dunks. ...
