Slam Dunk Contest

Posted by Justallstar on May 27th, 2021

Anfernee Simons impacted the world forever at halftime of the NBA All-Star game on Sunday by turning into the principal Portland Trail Blazer to win the 2021 AT&T Slam Dunk Contest.

Simons caught the prize by overcoming Knicks newbie Obi Toppin in the finals of an opposition that additionally included Cassius Stanley, the primary player on a two-path agreement to contend in the AT&T Slam Dunk.

Simons ascended high over the bushel for his challenge winning dunk and gave off an impression of being endeavoring to kiss the edge prior to halting simply short on the effective one-gave jam.

The tallest rival in the field at 6-foot-9, Toppin took the ball in the middle of his legs from just past the free-toss line for a one-gave jam in the finals.

Most of the firecrackers came in the early going of the AT&T Slam Dunk Contest in light of the fact that every one of the contenders finished effective sticks before the board of judges that included previous dunk challenge victors in Spud Webb, Dee Brown, Josh Smith, Jason Richardson and Dominique Wilkins.

Having not yet gotten a dunk in a NBA game, Stanley got going the opening round of the opposition by hurling himself a rear entryway oop, prior to getting the ball, taking it through his legs, and finishing the jam with his left hand. The adjudicators gave Stanley an all out score of 44.

Following up, Toppin shook the edge with a two-gave invert hatchet dunk. Toppin threw himself a throw, got the ball on the bob and took it through his legs before the jam which brought about an all out score of 48 from the board.

Simons stopped the opening around with a score of 46 on his foremost dunk endeavor. With the ball positioned on the square on the backboard on a small scale Nerf container, Simons bounced off the two legs and yanked the ball off the smaller than expected band for a two-gave jam into the fundamental bushel.

The endeavor brought about a complete score of 46 from the five-man board of judges.

On 27 January, 1976 at McNichols Sports Arena during halftime of the 1976 ABA 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.

There was an arrangement every contender needed to continue in which they should endeavor 5 dunks in succession under two minutes.

One from a standing position, one from a distance of ten feet from the bushel (which is fundamentally the lower part of the semi circle that encompasses the free toss line in the Key.

The following 3 were free-form positions, one rolling in from the left half of the bin, one rolling in from the correct side of the crate lastly from one or the other corner down the standard to the container. They were decided on creative capacity, creative mind, and body stream just as fan reaction.

Artis Gilmore went first followed by George Gervin, Larry Kenon, David Thompson lastly Erving. George Gervin and David Thompson both missed a dunk during their schedules which considered a zero (scores were not reported to the crowd). David Thompson did a 360 degree dunk to complete his everyday practice. All contenders needed to play out a dunk from 10 feet, however Julius Erving began denoting his means from the free toss line (15 feet away). He at that point finished a dunk from the free toss line.