The Miami Heat’s Keshad Johnson won this year’s NBA Dunk Contest, despite San Antonio Spurs forward Carter Bryant nailing a between-the-legs dunk in the first leg of the final that saw him receive 50s ...

Isaiah “J.R.” Rider and Derrick Jones Jr., separated by more than two decades, have given UNLV two NBA Slam Dunk Contest champions. Rider claimed the crown in 1994 with his iconic “East Bay Funk Dunk, ...

The 2026 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was an exciting finale to NBA All-Star Saturday Night, held at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Feb. 14. A second-year forward out of Arizona, Johnson was ...

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest has always been a staple of All-Star Weekend. It is the one event we always anticipated watching as kids, and it’s arguably the most searched NBA content on YouTube, as fans ...

Marquette basketball star guard Nigel James soars in Tuesday night's road victory over the Georgetown Hoyas ...

Exploring how ego and fear of embarrassment have turned the NBA's once-premier All-Star event into a showcase for unknowns ...

The 2026 NBA Dunk Contest offered a chance for a few more obscure names to the casual basketball fan to introduce themselves on a national stage - but one of them took full advantage. Miami Heat ...

While Team Knicks takes the shooting stars title, Lillard opens the Saturday contests by winning the three-point shootout and ...

The Slam Dunk Contest has long been considered the crown jewel of NBA All-Star weekend. The climactic point between the Rising Stars Game on Friday and the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, the dunk ...

NBA All-Star Weekend is here, and this year the league has bigger problems than superstars not trying in an exhibition game. The moral panic over tanking has reached a fever pitch ahead of a loaded ...