In its history, the dunk contest has been won by legends of the game like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Vince Carter and Julius Erving as well as a pair of players with ties to the Natural State.

The 3-Point Contest first took place in 1986, and you have to go back nearly that far to find the rest of the Lakers' participants. Byron Scott and Michael Cooper both participated in 1987, but they ...

Since its inception in 1984, the NBA Slam Dunk Contest has become one of the most electrifying and anticipated events during ...

Stars are not participating for fear of being “turned into a meme” and there is little imagination in the dunk attempts.

Saturday night of All-Star weekend is every NBA fan’s favorite night of a three-day event. The three events of the Slam Dunk ...

Carter was next. And he decided, on the spot, to junk the easier first dunk he’d planned to do for the more dangerous 360. “I ...

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

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The Sporting News has all the details on how to watch the NBA Dunk Contest. Fans can watch the NBA Dunk Contest live on TNT ...

When Chicago Bulls rookie Matas Buzelis makes his debut Saturday in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest during All-Star weekend in San ...

The undersized guard has had some impressive Dunk Contest showings, cementing himself among the most athletic dunkers the NBA has ever seen.

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