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In the never-ending scramble to somehow make the NBA All-Star weekend as exciting as it once was, it doesn't help that its once-marquee event, the Slam Dunk Contest, is now the third most exciting dunk contest on the basketball landscape. Earlier thi...

Even if LeBron James doesn't take Magic Johnson's $1 million offer to finally participate in the NBA's dunk contest, it brought up an interesting idea: What would you pay $1 million in play money to see in sports? Playbook asked some ESPN staff...

LeBron James apparently is still mulling Magic Johnson's $1 million offer to finally participate in the NBA's dunk contest.

LeBron James has never taken part in the NBA's dunk contest. Now he might have a million reasons to try it.

On second thought, LeBron James won't ground his pregame dunking routine after all.

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest is a special event held annually at the NBA's All-Star Weekend, usually as the nightcap to All-Star Saturday....

DALLAS - Vince Carter's curiosity was piqued when he noticed that Terrence Ross' jersey didn't match his shorts when the Raptors rookie walked onto the floor for the finals of the slam dunk contest. Then Carter saw the familiar No. 15 and recogniz...

Play is done. But the 2013 NBA All-Star Game isn't over. Not until we recap the high-scoring contest -- plus the entire sports weekend -- with photos: Photos of the Weekend: Feb. 15-17...

A member of the Mavericks ended up participating in All-Star Weekend after all. For some reason, Dahntay Jones was recruited out of the crowd to throw a sitting lob pass to Utah's Jeremy Evans in the finals of the dunk contest. Evans jumped over J...

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The NBA and its players had prepared for this moment: the arrival of James "Flight" White on Saturday night. But the Knicks forward, who was the Vegas odds' favorite to win the All-Star dunk contest, had a surprisingly early exit. When White wa...

Toronto rookie Terrence Ross beat defending champion Jeremy Evans to win the slam-dunk contest during All-Star Saturday night.

Knicks reserve James "Flight" White gets his first chance at an NBA dunk contest in Houston.

Easily one of the best dunkers in NBA history, Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins said he wishes Miami Heat forward LeBron James would participate in this weekend's slam dunk contest in Houston. "Everybody wants to see him and a few of the best high ...

There's no greater celebration of what professional basketball has become than All-Star Weekend. There will be some fierce dunks, canny dribbling, and face-melting passes, sure, but I'm mostly talking about the spectacle, the off-court everything els...

The dunk contest isn't what it used to be. In olden times, it featured big names pulling off never-before-seen dunks. But there are no new dunks under the sun and the closest most big names get to competing now is by tweet. This year's competiti...