an immortal meme memorializing your split-second failure. If the risk on one end is you’ll potentially be mocked forever when a dunk goes wrong, and the reality on the other is if a contest goes ...

The slang term "chopped" has taken over the internet because of a few viral memes that have cemented it into mainstream use.

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest. That’s right ... “Some players are just afraid to get turned into a meme.” The financial incentive isn’t there, either. Jordan’s NBA salary was less than ...

Curry, who is usually lighting it up from beyond the three-point line, threw down his dunk midway through the fourth quarter after sneaking behind the defense. He rose up and finished with a one ...

No one has had a greater run of dunking than Carter did in 2000. “I approached the dunk contest like it was a basketball game,” Carter said last October, as he was being inducted into the ...

Except, for the first time since 2019, Curry threw down a one-handed dunk as Golden State fans at Wells Fargo Center roared. At the 7:15 mark, Curry recorded his 27th career regular-season dunk.

The judges gave Jordan a 47 on his two-handed "rock the cradle" dunk and Wilkins a 45 for his two-handed windmill. Wilkins finished the competition with 145 points, with Jordan still having one ...