One day I’ll get that headline to work.
Last Wednesday, With Leather dunk scientists decided that Cleveland’s Anderson Varejao faking out Dwight Howard and dunking on the rest of the Actual Lakers was the most slam dunkingest slam dunk of the week. While we struggle to properly conjugate “slam dunk,” we’ve gathered a new crop of HOT DUNKZ and ask you, the reader, to decide which one is the most slam and/or dunk.
Dunk clips and a handy selection box for your dunk of choice are included after the jump. Please take your time with these and consider which is best, because the Internet desperately needs science.
This week’s choices are:
1. Blake Griffin catching an alley-oop off the glass, because every dunk battle needs Blake Griffin in it doing something ridiculous
2. Gerald Henderson throwing down a monster dunk on Dwight Howard, because every dunk battle needs somebody making Dwight Howard look bad.
3. Danilo Gallinari alley-ooping the ball to himself against the Memphis Grizzlies.
4. Cal State San Marcos’ Daniel Redmond catching a half court alley-oop
Dunk #1
Dunk #2
Dunk #3
Dunk #4
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Went with #3, Ghirardelli. Blake’s was uncontested and didn’t have much flair/zazz/stank on it, Henderson’s was a throw in, not a throw down, and Redmon’s wasn’t that ridunkulous. It was close, though, as Henderson almost took it.
I wish his name was Ghirardelli because that way he’d be the only white person I felt comfortable calling “Chocolate Thunder”
Look at all these Slams Dunk! :D
not to be That Guy, but the off-the-backboard pass is not that difficult a play to complete for the passer or the finisher. the last one would be amazing if I was in high school on that team’s bench. so this week I’m going with Shawn Kemp’s two hander off of a spin on ol’ clifford robinson. the kick in the head afterdunk sealed it
Gerald Henderson because he jumped waaay to high to be true
Had to go with #3. Ever since seeing T-Mac do it in the All-Star game, beena sucker for the off the backboard to yourself dunk. #2 was damn good though and a very close….ummm second.
I’ll be on my way now
I went with #2 because Dwight Howard.
I thought Gallinari walked in #3 at first and it wasn’t until the slowmo you can see that his left foot hangs just barely an inch above the court as he’s tossing the ball up.
I had the same thought about Gallinari. Still a badass play and I went with it just because in the flow of the game it’s more impressive to me.
I voted #2 based on the announcers tramapoline joke that was DOA; which he then felt he needed to explain to the rest of us.
So happy there was an “I do not know enough about slam dunks to make an educated decision.” option because all I kept saying after each of these slams dunk was: “That was cool.”
Personally, I like the title if this.
Gotta give Henderson the slight edge here over Gallinari.
I don’t get all the love for Griffin’s throw down, fast break dunks don’t do a whole lot for me. It’s a nice dunk no doubt, but not nearly as impressive as throwing one down in traffic.
Agreed on Griffin.
Overall, Griffin is like Kofi Kingston to me. He can do JUMPS and some people lose their gourds on that, but the rest of his basketball skills run the gamut of “bleh” to “meh”
Griffin’s dunk was the most fun and thats what being the most slam dunkingest slam dunk is all about.
Also – Galinari is disqualifed for traveling. You can”t pick up your pivot foot Danilo. NOT UP IN HERE.
DUNKERTONNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!