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Fans will decide this year's Slam Dunk Contest winner.

Fans will decide this year's Slam Dunk Contest winner.

Dwight Howard vs. Shaquille O'Neal: Who really owns the Superman name? When Howard donned a Superman shirt and red cape at the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 2008, he unseated Shaq as the sports world's resident Superman and became the player synonymous w...

During last year's mesmerizing NBA All-Star Game Slam Dunk Contest in Los Angeles, Blake Griffin rocked the entire sports world -- to say nothing of an awestruck Staples Center rim -- by soaring over a Kia Optima SX sedan for one of the single greate...

Blake Griffin may be working on more than his dunks this summer. Something else has been tugging at him these days that he just may make good on -- acting. The 22-year-old power forward is still collecting high-fives for winning the esteemed NBA Sl...

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Patrick Hruby salutes all the students in the NBA's school of flopping -- the least-appreciated actors in the world.

Eric Neel takes a step back in time to remember Julius Erving and David Thompson's dueling legacy in the 1976 ABA All-Star Slam-Dunk Contest.

What marquee event from the '80s has you less excited this week: The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the Winter Olympics or the Slam Dunk Contest? For me, it's a three-way tie. Everyone keeps e-mailing me about the Winter Olympics; honestly, I hav...

Eric Neel is in St. Louis and meets up with David Thompson and learns of a long-lost dunk from the '76 dunk contest.

Skip Bayless says if LeBron is really the King, he'd have entered the dunk contest last weekend.

The NBA dunk contest's present doesn't live up to its storied past of Dr. J, Spud Webb, 'Nique and Air Jordan, so Bill Simmons has a solution for fixing All-Star Weekend.