Only about 45% of a player’s dunk score is based on what they do with their body or the ball, our analysis found. As of February 2022, the database contains information on more than 700 dunks. I created a database to capture data from every dunk I could find for contests going all the way back to 1984. Image captured from the NBATV broadcast of 1987 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. As my colleague Evan Rollins and I wrote in a peer-reviewed paper published in 2019 in the Journal of Sports Analytics, dunk scores – now given on a scale of 6 to 10 – are not always awarded as fairly and consistently as you might hope or expect. But it wasn’t until I embarked upon my journey to become a researcher that I began to wonder if the slam dunk judges might be using more sophisticated criteria. Growing up, I remember seeing “style, athleticism and creativity” mentioned during NBA broadcasts as factors for slam dunk judges to consider. As chair of the technical committee for the World Dunk Association – a group formed in 2020 to build more appreciation for the slam dunk – I also look to improve upon a new system we have developed offering a more scientific approach toward how judges score slam dunks. 19, 2022 – I dont watch just to be entertained. So whenever I watch the NBA’s annual slam dunk contest – like the one that the New York Knicks’ Obi Toppin won with a one-handed slam on Saturday, Feb. I study dunks, so that makes me a dunk scientist. Today, my fondness for dunking remains, but on a much higher plane. Despite the injury, I was just in awe that he had dunked the ball. The impact ripped open his finger and he began to bleed.
Even though he was exhausted from a day of construction work, he dunked it hard, all his limbs outstretched. One day my dad and I were shooting baskets with a volleyball. That’s why I liked doing those 360s on a 6-foot-high rim back in the 1990s when I was in elementary school. He swung and whirled the ball about, kicking his legs and dunking aggressively. Kenny “Sky” Walker was my biggest inspiration, because I felt as if we jumped alike, and he did a lot of 360s. His limbs are long and he would windmill the ball so far around and then dunk hard on the rim like a sledgehammer. It made his dunks look effortless.ĭominique Wilkins just jumped so high on every dunk. Plus, he seemed so nonchalant about everything. Shawn Kemp was one of my favorites, because he was freaky athletic and dunked so powerfully.
I grew up watching some of the greatest slam dunk artists in the world.
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