"Right now, I'm just the third-best dunker in the league. Dominique Wilkins and Spud Webb, who won it the last two years, ...

The Over and Back NBA podcast is celebrating the NBA at 75 by rewatching some of the greatest Slam Dunk Contests in NBA history. Michael Jordan didn’t need the 1987 Slam Dunk Contest to become Air ...

Jordan, hungry for revenge, had captured the 1987 title while Wilkins was sidelined due to injury. So when both were healthy and primed for battle in '88, the hype was through the roof. The 1988 ...

Michael Jordan's return to the NBA All-Star Game four years after claiming his third most valuable player award in the midseason event was more memorable for what he didn't do than what he did. He ...

Dwight Howard is known as one of the most explosive dunkers in NBA history. The former Philadelphia 76ers center won the Slam Dunk Contest in 2008. At 6-foot-11, he is the tallest winner in the ...

The 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest will be forever remembered as the one when Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins went toe-to-toe and battled to the last dunk to determine who would go home as the league ...

Michael Jordan scores a perfect 50 on his free-throw line dunk to defeat Dominique Wilkins. From NBA.com Staff Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins reminisce about the 1988 dunk contest. Top Moments: ...

Though he has more 50-point, perfect score dunks (eight) than any player in NBA history – more than Michael Jordan, more than Zach LaVine – Gordon stands alone as the league's best dunker without a ...

On Feb. 18, DeAndre Jordan will take center stage for the Slam Dunk Contest, the final event of All-Star Saturday. The Clippers’ big man will face off against Aaron Gordon, Glenn Robinson III and ...