I n a moment of get-off-my-lawn petulance, I once argued in the pages of Sports Illustrated that the NBA All-Star Game’s Slam ...

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 ...

Enter Gary Payton II, who received the ball from a driving Dennis Schröder and got all the way up, slamming down a ... the game, Stephen Curry told reporters that Payton’s dunk meant more ...