Now that an incredibly busy trade deadline period has come to a close, it's time to turn our attention to the next big item on the basketball calendar: 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend. This year's ...

The NBA is making a fairly significant change to the Slam Dunk Contest for the upcoming All-Star Weekend. The league announced Friday that fan voting will return to the Dunk Contest this year ...

"I'm trying to follow in their footsteps right now with this dunk contest, so I hope I impressed them a little bit at least," Castle, a native of nearby Covington, Ga., said of Wilkins and Erving ...

But Saturday? That's when the real fun happens. The Skills Challenge, 3-Point Contest, and Slam Dunk contest will take place back-to-back-to-back starting at 8:00 p.m. EST from San Francisco's ...

Former New York Knicks star Nate Robinson revealed joyful news on Friday, as the three-time Slam Dunk Contest champion will undergo a kidney transplant that will save his life. Robinson made his ...

Three students were selected from the crowd to show off their moves in a 'Dunk for Sustainability' Halftime Mini Dunk Contest, judged by football players Tre Freeman, Henry Belin and Wes Williams, and ...

Eli Doroshow, for NBA.com With more than 40 years of jaw-dropping jams and legacy-defining performances, the NBA Slam Dunk Contest has cemented itself as an indelible part of basketball history.

One of the most popular of those competitions, the NBA Slam Dunk Contest is always a hot ticket at this time of the year. The Chase Center will be the home of All-Star Weekend this year ...

It was, as Sielski writes, “an early version of the slam dunk.” This is the kind of hoops history you didn’t know you craved, and which Sielski’s fast break of a dunk study delivers in ...

The 5-foot-9 guard once blocked Yao Ming, who is about a foot-and-a-half taller than him, in a game and in 2009 leaped over Dwight Howard’s head to beat him in the dunk contest. Robinson ...

Now he’ll be their only representative at All-Star weekend, when he takes part in the 3-point contest. “Sean [Marks, general manager] pulled me aside the other day and said that they invited m ...