The next 3 were freestyle positions, one coming in from the left side of the basket, one coming in from the right side of the basket and finally from either corner down the baseline to the basket.
#Tiny player dunk contest free#
One from a standing position, one from a distance of ten feet away from the basket (which is basically the bottom of the semi circle that surrounds the free throw line in the Key. There was a format each competitor had to follow in which they must attempt 5 dunks in a row under two minutes. On Januat McNichols Sports Arena during halftime of the 1976 ABA All-Star Game (also the league's final All-Star Game) the first-ever Slam Dunk Contest was held, which was won by Julius Erving of the New York Nets over David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets, Artis Gilmore of the Kentucky Colonels, and George Gervin and Larry Kenon of the San Antonio Spurs.
#Tiny player dunk contest professional#
As a result of the ABA–NBA merger later that year there would not be another slam dunk contest at the professional level until 1984. The contest was inaugurated by the American Basketball Association (ABA) at its All-Star Game in 1976 in Denver, the same year the slam dunk was legalized in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The NBA Slam Dunk Contest (officially known as the AT&T Slam Dunk Contest for sponsorship reasons) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) competition held during the NBA All-Star Weekend. National Basketball Association and National Collegiate Athletic Association
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