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[TheJollyCorner]

Had to get more oldies in this thread.

that's lovely.
Dr. J was awesome.

 

[Twenty7KVN]

We need more videos of little guys getting up.

iverson over camby

steve francis dunks on jahidi white

baron davis dunks on jermaine o'neal

And this one because it's so nasty and the announcer is awesome.

 

[brotherbean]

Most disrespectful dunk of all time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSBqO9E5BU

He laid him out, and then pointed at him.

And back then, you didn't get T'd up for that. SOOOOOOOOOO good.

Shawn Kemp was a beast. Also one of the greatest signature shoes of ALL TIME.

I love how the monster dunk thread has turned into 90's NBA nostalgia thread. How could it not?

 

[Tashi]

Definitely agree with MJ, that's my favorite dunk of his as well. I love the baseline angle of that dunk. He completely jukes Starks and Oakley. They look like they just watched him disappear like he was fucking Nightcrawler or something. So sick. And then he finishes with authority over Patrick Ewing. What a fucking play.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

We need more videos of little guys getting up.

iverson over camby

steve francis dunks on jahidi white

baron davis dunks on jermaine o'neal

And this one because it's so nasty and the announcer is awesome.

Controversial opinion, and I've held it since 2002: Steve Francis actually won that slam dunk contest over Vince Carter. But Carter had that windmill 360 & the elbow dunk, so he was going to wear that crown, whether or not over all Francis' dunks were more impressive and in most cases, prettier.

 

[Tashi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nb7qea2hRo This is one of my favorites as well. Bulls are LOSING by two with a little over a minute left and he decides to nearly jump from the freethrow line and pull this shit off. LOL. Crazy fuck.

And then of course the similar one against the Knicks... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sot3HPZ9GtY

 

[CountAntonius]

Kevin Johnson not Kenny Smith.

I knew that and for some reason wrote Kenny Smith anyway.

Also, Legend

 

[Dude Abides]

Tom Chambers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDyBSTQDwH8

 

[Lunchbox]

just a second rate Larry Bird with a shoe contract

 

[thezerofire]

anyone else having a problem with the video in the OP?

 

[royalan]

Had to get more oldies in this thread.

Man, I don't even watch basketball, but some of these dunks are so fucking graceful. Particularly this one.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Nope.

Best dunk ever is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCTfxOrX4k8

This dunk was so good, it was listed under the definition of "basketball" in the Encarta encyclopedia from 1996 - 2000 (later surpassed by Vince Carter's life-ending dunk on Frederic Weis).

The only person who disagrees is well...Jordan.


I gotta say though - the modern era dunks from Deandre Jordan and Lebron James on Brandon Knight and Jason Terry are just as ridiculous too.

awwww, I figured a Knicks fan would post that. shame it had to be you captain. but don't forget. he dunked on Horace Grant, not Jordan. Jordan came in late.

 

[entremet]

I wish the NBC got the NBA again just to hear Roundball Rock again ;(

 

[Red Blaster]

Back in the day (oldmanyellingatcloud.bmp) they were 2 or 3 "super stars" in every team. I think the spectacle as a whole was better.

there are 2-3 "superstars" on every team today as well

we have people waxing nostalgic about john starks in this thread, a guy who averaged 12.5 ppg for his career and had only like 3 decent seasons.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

we have people waxing nostalgic about john starks in this thread

 

[johnny_park]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nb7qea2hRo This is one of my favorites as well. Bulls are LOSING by two with a little over a minute left and he decides to nearly jump from the freethrow line and pull this shit off. LOL. Crazy fuck.

That's at least 1 & /2 to 2 feet after the free throw line.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

That's at least 1 & /2 to 2 feet after the free throw line.

One of his feet is about one foot long, so that's like 4 to 5 feet short of the free throw line.

 

[entremet]

there are 2-3 "superstars" on every team today as well

we have people waxing nostalgic about john starks in this thread, a guy who averaged 12.5 ppg for his career and had only like 3 decent seasons.

80/90s players were more charismatic. Kobe and Lebron aren't the most media friendly compared to Jordan, Barkley, Bird, Magic.

 

[neoism]

the best <3

 

[Hawkian]

dear god the appropriateness.