CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his ...

February 8, 1997: Kobe Bryant (age 18) of the Los Angeles Lakers wins the Nestlé Crunch Slam Dunk Contest in Cleveland. Bryant defeated Chris Carr of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Michael Finley ...

A new All-Star Game format debuted, a dunk contest piqued interest and Inside the NBA said farewell during 2025 NBA All-Star ...

The NBA then created its own slam-dunking contest in 1984, and the tradition was born. The late Kobe Bryant became the youngest player in history to win the Slam Dunk Contest when he was 18 years ...

Two years later, Kobe Bryant became the only Laker to ever win the Dunk Contest. Kobe was an 18-year-old rookie at the time, making him the youngest to ever win it. This was one of the first ...

In its history, the dunk contest has been won by legends of the game like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Vince Carter and Julius Erving as well as a pair of players with ties to the Natural State.

The NBA knows the dunk contest is flailing. It just hasn’t figured out how to replace it. In 1998, a year after an abysmal dunk-off headlined by a young Kobe Bryant, the league replaced the ...

he became the only player in NBA history to win the NBA Dunk Contest three consecutive years. Nobody — not Jordan, not Kobe, not even three-time winners like Nate Robinson — did it three years ...

Nobody was beating Mac McClung in his three-peat bid. The Magic G Leaguer was once again the runaway slam dunk contest winner for his third-straight title Saturday night in a performance for the ages.