SAN FRANCISCO-- Pretty much every year we see a variant of the same idea. Some NBA superstar is sitting in a hotel room or on a tropical island in the early days of the All-Star break, watching either ...

Few moments in NBA history are as iconic as Vince Carter’s performance in the 2000 Slam Dunk Contest. It’s still considered one of the greatest individual displays in the contest's history, one that ...

Mac McClung has made his mark on the NBA's All-Star Saturday night spectacle as the first player to win the Slam Dunk Contest in three consecutive years. His dunk contest dominance has brought some of ...

As a general rule, we make too much of the age thing with older athletes these days. It's not that it's not worth a headline or two when an old player (by sports standards) continues to compete at a ...

On Saturday, February 15, 2025, Milwaukee Bucks’ rising star Andre Jackson Jr. took to the court in the highly anticipated 2025 AT&T Slam Dunk Contest. The 23-year-old wing player, known for his ...

The NBA closes its All-Star Saturday Night every year with the same thing: the Dunk Contest. It’s a unique event in that it’s either spectacular or horrible, and the line between the two is incredibly ...

In the past 30 years, only four players from the Los Angeles Lakers roster have participated in the All-Star Dunk Contest. Jaxson Hayes was the first player in the last six years, since Dwight Howard ...

This two-time Slam Dunk Contest runner-up still thinks that his best performance stacks up with some of the greatest of all time. Aaron Gordon may not have been part of the NBA All-Star Week Slam Dunk ...

Perhaps the Buckeyes learned a lesson or two from their North Carolina loss. On Saturday it was Ohio State playing the role of nail while the Tar Heels, and 6-foot-11 big man Armando Bacot in ...

Mac McClung breathed life into another flat All-Star Weekend on Saturday, throwing down four dunks that earned perfect scores to become the first player in NBA history to win three consecutive slam ...