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The game saw the first ever Slam Dunk Contest, won by Julius Erving. With the conclusion of the season, the June 1976 ABA-NBA merger saw the Denver Nuggets , Indiana Pacers , New York Nets , and San Antonio Spurs join the NBA , while the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis accepted deals to fold.
The 1976 ABA All Star Game was the ninth and final American Basketball Association All-Star Game, played at McNichols Arena in Denver, Colorado, on January 27, 1976.This time, the league abandoned the usual East vs. West format it used from the 1967–68 season onward and instead had the league's first-place team at the All Star break face off against a team of ABA All Stars. [1]
The 2006 NBA Slam Dunk Competition between Nate Robinson and Andre Iguodala was the first time that the competition had to go into a sudden-death dunk-off. [33] In 1996, Greg Minor of the Boston Celtics received the lowest individual score for a single dunk, with a 2.0 for a missed first attempt.
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...
The 2023 NBA Slam Dunk champion looked like a fan who had won a contest, complete with a jersey he had never worn in a game. Only diehard NBA fans (or reasonably committed college basketball fans ...
Game Gear1992 PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCube MS-DOS: Midway: Midway: Basketball Nightmare: 1989 Master System: Sega: Sega: Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs: 1989 MS-DOS Genesis 1991: Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts: All-Pro Basketball: 1989 NES: Aicom: Vic Tokai: Omni-Play Basketball (Magic Johnson's MVP) 1989 Amiga Commodore 64 MS-DOS ...
Billy Hoyle, played by Woody Harrelson, hustles Sidney Deane, played by Wesley Snipes, out of some money after winning a basketball game that Sidney thought he'd easily win because Billy is white.
2Ball was introduced for the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, replacing the Slam Dunk Contest, after the previous year's Dunk Contest was derided as the worst ever, following over a decade of decline in star power and dunk quality. [1] [2] [3] Each 2Ball team paired an NBA and a WNBA player from the same city. Players attempted shots from one of seven ...