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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...

In Friday's "Best Available Video" Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo marvel at Doug Anderson's dominant performance in the college slam dunk contest . Tune in for the "Best Available Video" Monday-Friday at 2:58 p.m. ET on ESPNEWS. If you have an ide...

The University of Detroit's Doug Anderson rolled to victory in the college dunk contest in Atlanta....

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...

Earlier Monday, we posted a blank cartoon, and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by ZaBaconator3000. Check your ESPN.com profile message center for an email. Thanks for participating. Check back Tuesday for another cartoon....

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...

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.

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...

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...

[View the story "White Disappoints, Ross, Evans Shine in Dunk Contest" on Storify]...

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...