February 8, 1997: Kobe Bryant (age 18) of the Los Angeles Lakers wins the Nestlé Crunch Slam Dunk Contest in Cleveland. Bryant defeated Chris Carr of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Michael Finley ...

Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, LeBron James and Anthony Davis. The Lakers have truly had an embarrassment of riches throughout the years. With both the 3-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest taking ...

Now that football season is over, basketball is back in action, and the annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest is about to hit the court in San Francisco. As the title suggests, basketball players can show ...

Michael Jordan, Jason Richardson, Nate Robinson, Zach LaVine, and Mac McClung are the only players in history to win the Slam Dunk Contest in back-to-back years. At age 18, Kobe Bryant is the ...

Los Angeles Lakers star forward LeBron James has accomplished so much over his long career but there are a few things that he ...

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his ...

The Kings star hints at possibly another go around at the Slam Dunk competition after being called out by Ja Morant.

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest. That’s right ... In 1998, a year after an abysmal dunk-off headlined by a young Kobe Bryant, the league replaced the contest with 2Ball, a shooting contest that ...

Although McClung has been stellar, the slam dunk contest has lacked star power ... like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Julius Erving, Dominique Wilkins, and Vince Carter.

Skills Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday night. In its history, the dunk contest has been won by legends of the game like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Vince Carter and Julius Erving as ...

The Slam Dunk Contest would inevitably feel more important ... Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins, Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant had yet to hit the apex of their popularity when they became dunk ...