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Vince Carter dunking in 2009. A slam dunk, also simply known as a dunk, is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air, controls the ball above the horizontal plane of the rim, and scores by shoving the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. [ 1] It is a type of field goal that is worth two points.
The cover of Slam Dunk volume 1 as published by Raijin Comics on July 2, 2003, in North America The Japanese manga series Slam Dunk was written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue . [ 1 ] The story follows Hanamichi Sakuragi , who becomes a basketball player from the Shohoku High School basketball team in order to make Haruko Akagi , a girl he ...
In a 106 to 89 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on December 28, 1974, Elmore Smith of the Los Angeles Lakers had an unusual performance in a game where he made only one of 11 free throw attempts. He missed three consecutive shots from the free throw line (under the now defunct " "three to make two " rule in the NBA at the time), all three of which ...
For Team USA through two games Wilson has scored 47 points and pulled down 26 rebounds. The U.S. is 2-0 in Pool C play and will play Germany on Sunday at 11:15 a.m. ET.
1977 NBA Finals. The 1977 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1976–77 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs. The Western Conference champion Portland Trail Blazers played against the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers, with the 76ers holding home ...
Twelve years later, Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors stunned fans with arguably the league's best slam dunk performance that included a 360-degree windmill and an "elbow-in-the-rim" dunk. In ...
During the 1976–77 season, the NBA's first after the ABA–NBA merger brought four American Basketball Association teams into the league, CBS held a slam dunk contest that ran during halftime of the Game of the Week telecasts.
The 1976–77 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November 1976, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1977 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 28, 1977, at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia.