The slam dunk is more art than science, but that’s never stopped the NBA from trying to put a number on the most exciting play in basketball. The league added the Dunk Contest to All-Star Weekend back in 1984, and it’s produced some iconic moments in between forgettable duds. Last season, the NBA debuted it’s own Dunk Score metric, and used it to rank the best dunks of the year.
Of course, no needs a convoluted algorithm to determine whether or not a dunk was sick. A great dunk can be felt in the viewer’s bones and the defender’s soul. I was in the gym for the NBA’s No. 3
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