5 best dunkers of all time

Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins (Image courtesy: youtube.com)
Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins (Image courtesy: youtube.com)

#4 Dominique Wilkins

Dominique Wilkins,Atlanta Hawks
Dominique Wilkins, Atlanta Hawks

Dominique Wilkins threw down dunks in traffic that almost always ended with a windmill. He didn’t care if it was a close game or a blowout win. It was always showtime.

He was crowned NBA dunk contest champion in 1985 and 1990. In the 1988 dunk contest, he was narrowly defeated by Michael Jordan amid claims that Wilkins was given an abnormally low score for his breath-taking third dunk, a 45, which allowed Jordan to win it by 2 on the back of his perfect 50.

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To this day, the allegations of "home cooking" still float around surrounding the event (it was held on Jordan's home court; one of the judges was former Chicago Bears star Gale Sayers; and another judge, former NBA star Tom Hawkins, is a Chicago native) and is considered arguably the most controversial of the slam dunk competitions ever.

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