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In the midst of his second season in the NBA, former UConn men's basketball star Andre Jackson will participate in the slam dunk contest ... Bucks. The Julius Erving Award is presented annually ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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.