Two-time reigning Slam Dunk Contest winner Mac McClung is favored to win the event on Saturday at All-Star Weekend.

It's been quite a season for Vince Carter already. The NBA Hall of Famer has seen his jersey hung in the rafters of two arenas, for the Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets. As the calendar flipped to ...

Here is everything you need to know about the NBA Dunk Contest. When is the NBA Slam Dunk Contest? The Dunk Contest, the ...

Julius Erving returns to the site of his ABA dunk contest glory, but it is an emerging aerial master, Larry Nance, that takes the NBA's inaugural competition.

Chicago Bulls forward Matas Buzelis has his sights set high in the Slam Dunk Contest at NBA All-Star Weekend, and the rookie ...

His monster slam in Atlanta came in front of legends Dominique Wilkins and Julius Erving and served notice he's ready to ...

In a 2023 episode of “First Take,” ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith caused controversy by claiming that LeBron James is to blame for the decline of the dunk contest. Smith explained that, over the past ...

A large part of All-Star Saturday night's allure is that it closes with the Slam Dunk Contest. Over the years, the competition has pitted some of the game's most athletic players against one ...

Gervin and Larry Kenon, both on the Spurs at the time, participated in the inaugural ABA Dunk Contest in 1976, although Julius "Dr. J" Erving won the title. Check out the Inside the Spurs homepage ...