Watch a highlight of Carson Cooper's recent NBA Summer League dunk ...

Carson Cooper is one of the best stories going in basketball today. After starting as an unranked player out of IMG Academy, ...

The most anticipated event during the 2026 NBA All-Star Weekend arguably is the AT&T Slam Dunk contest. The showcase is a combination of showmanship and athletic prowess as four competitors put on a ...

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A very unflattering statistic also made the rounds about this year’s Dunk Contest field. With a combined scoring average of 4.53 points per game this season, this is the lowest-scoring lineup for the ...

Adou Thiero scored 20 points to lead the Lakers past the OKC Thunder 96-84 in their NBA Las Vegas Summer League opener Friday ...

With Summer League underway and PJ Hall rehabbing, a moment of his is worth revisiting: a poster dunk that had commentators losing their minds.

San Antonio Spurs forward Carter Bryant had the Slam Dunk Contest in his grasp Saturday night, but let it slip away in the final round. Bryant was unable to land a between-the-legs alley-oop dunk in ...

Richardson is the second son of a dunk champion to try his hand at the contest himself. In 2018, Larry Nance, Jr. was in the contest, 34 years after his father, Larry Nance, Sr., won the NBA's first ...

Big men and the dunk contest usually don't mix well. Victor Wembanyama could be the exception. Brad Penner / Imagn Images The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up ...

Candace Parker becoming the first woman to dunk in NCAA tournament history. But wait, it gets even better because she then dunked a second time later in the same game, helping Tennessee to win their ...