In a moment of get-off-my-lawn petulance, I once argued in the pages of Sports Illustrated that the NBA All-Star Game’s Slam Dunk Contest was an “increasingly lame competition” that should ...

Now that football season is over, basketball is back in action, and the annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest is about to hit the court in San Francisco. As the title suggests, basketball players can show ...

Mac McClung has made NBA Dunk Contest history. After making a name for himself in 2023 and 2024 as the first-ever G League player to compete in — and win — the Dunk Contest, McClung put on a ...

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest. That’s right, the dunk contest, an All-Star weekend highlight since 1984, an event this publication once called “the best invention since the bathroom.” ...

Mac McClung needed just one round to shock fans and win his third consecutive NBA Slam Dunk Contest. McClung, 26, opened Saturday’s NBA Slam Dunk Contest in San Francisco with a bang ...

Mac McClung of the Orlando Magic secured his place in NBA history Saturday night by becoming the first player to win the NBA Slam Dunk contest for the third consecutive year. The reigning G-League ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The NBA Slam Dunk Contest contest needs to be saved. It needs the game’s stars to participate. How many times have you heard or read that? Saturday night showed it’s not ...

Nobody was beating Mac McClung in his three-peat bid. The Magic G Leaguer was once again the runaway slam dunk contest winner for his third-straight title Saturday night in a performance for the ages.

Matas Buzelis is living by a simple philosophy this weekend: Dunking is fun. The Chicago Bulls forward always has believed this. All of basketball is supposed to be fun but especially the dunks.

In particular, the Slam Dunk Contest featured four remarkable competitors: Stephon Castle, Andre Jackson Jr., Matas Buzelis, and Mac McClung. While Castle boldly proclaimed his expectations before ...

During NBA All-Star Saturday night, Mac McClung was victorious in his third straight Dunk Contest after defeating Spurs guard Stephon Castle in the finals. McClung became the first player in NBA ...

Well, that fix is a flop. The Dunk Contest has never, in its 20-ish years of delight and groaning defeat, rostered a star. Not really. It’s a place where stars are vaulted into collective fan ...