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The 1949–50 Minneapolis Lakers, who won the NBA Finals, are not counted in the Eastern versus Western champions record above as they played in the Central Division. The first parentheses in the Western champions and Eastern champions columns indicate the teams' playoff seed. The second parentheses indicate the number of times that teams have ...
The NBA held its first Slam Dunk Contest as a one-off, season-long event similar to NBA Horse event held the following season. [29] [30] During halftime at each game, there was a one-on-one slam dunk competition. [31] Former ABA player Darnell "Dr. Dunk" Hillman was named the winner that season. Although he received the winner's $15,000 check ...
At 21 years and 197 days, Durant is the youngest scoring leader in NBA history, [12] averaging 30.1 points in the 2009–10 season. Stephen Curry led the league with an average of 30.1 points in the 2015–16 season and became the first player to win the title shooting 50–40–90 in a season.
That dunk was ranked No. 1 in the NBA’s top 10. Monk’s other top-10 dunk came in a 129-120 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in an in-season tournament game Nov. 17 in San Antonio.
Only player with 100 dunks and 200 3-pointers in a season; Lauri Markkanen, 2022–23 [377] Only player to average 20 points, 10 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 steals, 0.5 blocks in a season; John Wall with the Washington Wizards, 2016–17 [378] Only players to average over 30 points and 10 assists per game in a season
The 2016–17 season was the first in which the NBA held an awards show after the completion of the Finals, [10] during which the winners of all season-long individual awards are announced [11] except for the winner of the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, which continued to be announced during the playoffs until 2017 [12] and in 2018 was ...
Since Phoenix Suns power forward Larry Nance won the NBA's first Slam Dunk contest in 1984, the league's players have upped the ante in terms of the skills involved.
Kevin Durant moved up to No. 10 on the NBA’s all-time scoring list during the Phoenix Suns’ 119-111 loss against the Denver Nuggets on Friday.. Durant went off for 30 points in the matchup to ...