The NBA Slam Dunk Contest has always been a staple of All-Star Weekend. It is the one event we always anticipated watching as kids, and it’s arguably the most searched NBA content on YouTube, as fans ...

The Slam Dunk Contest has always been All-Star Weekend’s Wild Card, the event most likely to flip from forgettable to unforgettable in a single leap. Over the last decade, though, the trophy has ...

All-Star Saturday from the Intuit Dome is in the books. Keshad Johnson of the Miami Heat edged out Carter Bryant of the San Antonio Spurs to win the Slam Dunk Contest. But the highlight of the night ...

Shaquille O'Neal has had enough with the NBA All-Star weekend slam-dunk contest. "So, All-Star weekend, forget the All-Star game. The highlight of the weekend was the dunk contest and the three-point ...

Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry will attempt to dethrone Golden State's Klay Thompson in the NBA's all-star 3-point contest. The 3-time all-star was selected to replace Golden State's Stephen ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — If you still didn’t like the NBA’s newest All-Star Game format, you probably just don’t like All-Star games. That seemed to be the sports sphere's consensus after the ...

NBA All-Star Saturday is complete. Following the Rising Stars Challenge and Celebrity Game headlining the events on Friday, next up was the 3-Point Contest, Shooting Stars Challenge and Slam Dunk ...

The NBA is in a positive space after a resoundingly successful All-Star Weekend, the first one in a long time. The new format put forth by commissioner Adam Silver, which pitted All-Stars from around ...

Sorry, Carter Bryant, but the NBA dunk contest could use some star power. Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images INGLEWOOD, Calif ...

For most NBA basketball fans, the highlight of All-Star Weekend used to be the slam dunk contest. Julius Erving (a.k.a. “Dr. J”) participated in, and won, the first dunk contest in 1976, electrifying ...

NBA All-Star Game ratings rose, but fans found All-Star Weekend events disappointing. Suns owner Mat Ishbia proposed $1 million prizes to attract stars to dunk and three-point contests. NBA must ...