While this year's 3-Point Contest sports five All-Stars — Milwaukee Bucks point guard Damian Lillard, New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson, Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Darius Garland, Miami ...

Mac McClung has injected energy into the NBA’s All-Star Slam Dunk contest. But it comes with a caveat. McClung, a phenomenal leaper at 6-2 and a creative dunker, is a novelty, a G-League player ...

NBA Slam Dunk Contest history was made Saturday night in San Francisco. Mac McClung, who had four perfect 50s on four attempts, won the Dunk Contest for the third consecutive year, becoming the ...

On Sunday night in New Orleans, Grizzlies star Ja Morant attempted to give Memphis the spark of a lifetime. Morant had a ...

Mac McClung of the G League's Osceola Magic goes for a three-peat when he takes part in the 2025 NBA Slam Dunk contest on Saturday at Chase Center in San Francisco. No one has ever won three in a ...

Is an All-Star different from someone considered a “regular star” in the NBA? In their dueling Dunk Contest years, Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine were probably so compelling because they were ...

The three-point era of the NBA is in full swing, but the dunk is still the league's defining shot. Everyone loves a triple, and the broadening worldwide appeal of the game has a lot to do with the ...

Hall of Fame small forward-turned-TNT commentator Vince Carter, who executed perhaps the coolest finish in Dunk Contest history at Oracle Arena way back in 2000, taped introductory hype videos for ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry goes up for a dunk during the ...

Standing at just 5 feet 8 inches tall, Yuki Kawamura is perhaps an unlikely basketball star. “It’s not like I can do any dunk shots,” says the NBA’s current shortest player, who is almost a foot below ...

Cade Cunningham had 27 points and 10 assists, and the Detroit Pistons beat NBA-worst Washington 123-103 in a physical game ...