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Julius Erving performing a "backscratcher" tomahawk dunk in 1981. One of the simplest dunk types is the "tomahawk" dunk, resembling the windup and sharp downward motion of a blow with a tomahawk. A Tomahawk dunk can be performed with one or two hands, and when two hands are used, it is called a backscratcher.
The NBA Slam Dunk Contest (officially known as the AT&T Slam Dunk) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) competition held during the NBA All-Star Weekend. [1] Sports Illustrated wrote "the dunk contest was the best halftime invention since the bathroom."
The 1985 NBA Slam Dunk Contest is widely heralded as one of the greatest dunk contests of all time. It featured two of the highest flyers of the time, Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins . The other participants of the contest included Clyde Drexler , Julius Erving , Darrell Griffith , Larry Nance , Terence Stansbury , and Orlando Woolridge .
In years past, the dunk contest has produced some unbelievable and memorable photos of NBA stars getting big air.
The NCAA even banned the dunk from 1967 to 1976, which, when you think about it, is remarkably stupid: Hey, let’s eliminate the most kinetic part of the game, the play that makes fans stand and ...
Orlando Magic guard Mac McClung won his third consecutive Slam Dunk Contest, becoming the first player in the event’s history to threepeat and joining Nate Robinson as the only players to ever ...
He failed in his bid to repeat as NBA Slam-Dunk champion, his competition coming from an unlikely source. The Hawks had signed 5-foot-7 Anthony "Spud" Webb as a free agent prior to the season, and Webb dazzled the All-Star Saturday crowd in Dallas by soaring more than 4 feet (1.2 m) to the basket on each of his dunk attempts. Atlanta turned its ...
Highlights of Bender's career as a Pacer included participating in the Slam Dunk competition during 2001's All-Star weekend, where he executed a Julius Erving-style tomahawk jam from the free throw line, left-handed.