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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 .
The NBA brought the Slam Dunk Contest back for the 2000 All-Star Weekend in Oakland, California. The 2000 contest was widely acclaimed, featuring a showdown between eventual winner Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors, his cousin and then-teammate Tracy McGrady, and the Houston Rockets' Steve Francis. Carter won after performing a number of very ...
The History and the field. The first dunk contest in major American professional basketball came at halftime of the ABA All-Star Game in Denver in 1976 at a time the league desperately needed ...
NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Champion: 1985, 1990. NBA All-Rookie Team: 1983. All-NBA First Team: 1986. All-NBA Second Team: 1987–88, 1991, 1993. All-NBA Third Team: 1989, 1994. Nine-time NBA All Star: 1986–94. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2006). FIBA World Championship gold medalist: 1994; FIBA EuroLeague Champion: 1996 (now known ...
On Feb. 10, 1985, the West beat the East 140-129 during the 35th NBA All-Star game in Indianapolis. A day later, in world news, the USSR performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, according to ...
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The 1985 NBA All-Star Game was played at Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, with the West defeating the East 140–129. [1] Ralph Sampson of the Houston Rockets won the game's MVP award. [1] Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks won the Slam Dunk Contest.
Nance was a 3-time NBA All-Star 1985, 1989, and 1993, and an NBA All-Defensive Team First Team member in 1989, and a Second Team Member in 1992 and 1993. He was also consistently one of the league's better shot blockers, averaging 2.2 blocks per game during his career.