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Great Dunk Artists in NBA/ABA History - Old School (1 Viewer)

Darrell "Dr. Dunkenstein" Griffith (1980 NCAA Championship Game, Louisville coached by Denny Crum defeated UCLA coached by Larry Brown, Griffith tournament MVP) VIDEO 90+ minutes, 48" VJ    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o68rVl62p8

Top 10 College Dunkers of all time (Griffith #1), had to be the only from this group with the handicap of not being able to palm the basketball! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPts2CQwt0Y

 
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Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" & Ambassador from Planet Lovetron" Dawkins - Larger Than Life  (VIDEO 5+ minutes), one of the pioneers in going directly to the NBA from high school in 1975 (same year as the less distinguished Bill Willoughby, who had a 47" VJ and was one of the few players to ever block a Kareem Abdul-Jabaar sky hook at the apex), one year after phenom/prodigy Moses "Chairman of the Boards" Malone.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0jZi1IdS8k

Top 20 Dunks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7z1UY1WbE

* Great dunk artist without a nickname? Unpossible.

Some of his cast of thousands dunk nicknames:

The Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Glass-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Babies-Crying, Glass-Still-Flying, Cats-Crying, Rump-Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Thank You-Wham-Bam-I-Am-Jam, In Your Face Disgrace, The Go-rilla, Earthquaker Shaker, Candyslam, Dunk You Very Much, Look Out Below, Yo Mama, Turbo Sexophonic Delight, Rim Wrecker, Greyhound Bus (went coast-to-coast), Cover Your Head, Spine Chiller Supreme, Slam Bam Thank You Maam and Walk Away From Love.

 
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Old school guys are all great but Vince Carter is the best I've ever seen. 

Although I think I miss Shawn Kemps thunderous dunks the most. 

 
Gus Johnson was the first rim destroyer I can recall. Dude was built like Lebron and, legend has it though I can't locate a video of it, was the first to break a backboard during a game.

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
Gus Johnson was the first rim destroyer I can recall. Dude was built like Lebron and, legend has it though I can't locate a video of it, was the first to break a backboard during a game.
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Not necessarily dunk cutups, but some blasts from the past:

Soar like a hawk - Connie Hawkins (coolest soundtrack so far)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp3UXNVqR9E

The man with the freaky one handed jumper - George McGinnis  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8tkDEUijz4

NCAA Game of the Century - UCLA & Lew Alcindor vs. Houston & Elvin Hayes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDKd1dYXpY

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Old school guys are all great but Vince Carter is the best I've ever seen. 

Although I think I miss Shawn Kemps thunderous dunks the most. 
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If all of Dr J's ABA dunks from the 70s were on video, that may change your mind.  Except for a couple championship games, all of Dr J's highlights are from when he was 30+ years old (before then the games weren't on TV, weren't recorded. or they got taped over).  What would Carter's highlight reel look like without his dunks from when he was in his 20s?  

Dr J has about 10 highlight dunks just from the NBA Finals in 1977 over Bill Walton.

 
Thorpe said:
If all of Dr J's ABA dunks from the 70s were on video, that may change your mind.  Except for a couple championship games, all of Dr J's highlights are from when he was 30+ years old (before then the games weren't on TV, weren't recorded. or they got taped over).  What would Carter's highlight reel look like without his dunks from when he was in his 20s?  

Dr J has about 10 highlight dunks just from the NBA Finals in 1977 over Bill Walton.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVePnzgDVyE (look, it's Brent Musberger)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNg8odilDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiV-jHer74

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Old school guys are all great but Vince Carter is the best I've ever seen. 

Although I think I miss Shawn Kemps thunderous dunks the most. 
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As someone else said, you have to put Erving in context. No one had ever seen anything like him before. Of course, players had dunked but it almost seemed accidental (& it was almost exclusively big guys just throwing it straight downwards). Julius Erving made the first "statement" dunks. I'd be willing to bet that almost no one before him practiced dunking from a run; after him, anyone who could get there tried it in the gym.

Vince Carter was amazing - probably the best leaping/control/imagination combo I've seen in game action. Dr J was better.

 
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