The annual discourse around “fixing the Dunk Contest” misses that it’s never needed stars. It used to create them, and maybe ...

When it comes to the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, there are two things you can count on every year. One is that the people who follow the NBA will watch it intently, just as they do every year.

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I remember being on the sidelines in mid-November at Coeur d’Alene High, taking pictures as the Vikings were taking on the Eagle Mustangs in a state 6A semifinal football game. It was sometime in the ...

NBA Slam Dunk Contest history was made Saturday night in San Francisco. Mac McClung, who had four perfect 50s on four ...

What Carter did 25 years ago during a rain-soaked weekend in the Bay looked like, and felt like, the apogee of the ...

Two-time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion Mac McMclung brought back a classic moment in basketball history by dunking over a ...

Hall of Fame small forward-turned-TNT commentator Vince Carter, who executed perhaps the coolest finish in Dunk Contest ...

But if we came out and did the dunks that were done in the ’88 dunk contest, it would be awful. People would be really upset.” Buzelis wants to take things back to the basics. No gimmicks.