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The Dunk

February 22, 2008 @ 10:07 PM

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I recently read a great article in this week's Sports Illustrated about the art of "The Dunk", how it has its own vernacular and culture and is still one of the most revered shots and experiences in sport. To praphrase the article, do we know another move in all of sports that can be collectively described as "boomshakalaka", "dipsy doo dunakroo", "windmill", "throw down", "360" and, the mother of all dunk descriptions, the "Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam-Glass-Breaker-I-Am-Jam". And everyone would know what you are talking about!

Through the article, there are several seminal dunks that are described so in honor of them, here they are in all their glory:

Baron Davis dunking over Andrei Kirilenko


John Starks over Horace Grant and the Bulls


Tom Chambers over Mark Jackson


Dominique Wilkins


Henry Bekkering


Vince Carter over Fredric Weis


Dwight Howard Superman Dunk


Chocolate Thunder

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