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

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At the risk of turning something like this into a string of awful puns, I’ll let The Hoop Scene handle the intro:

Gerald Henderson shows us that basketball is more than just physical ability. Sometimes, you have to use your head too. He probably learned that at Duke.

And if you look closely at the dunk, LeBron traveled. I think that’s all of the jokes.

But no, I can’t decide whether to feel sorry for Henderson getting monster-jammed in the dome or feel sorry for the Heat for getting such a bullsh*t call. Charlotte should just start drafting the tallest dudes imaginable and have them rush up and put their heads in the net when somebody shoots. Looks like it’s time for Gheorghe Muresan to come staggering out of retirement.

Eh, don’t feel sorry for the Heat. They immediately follow up any dorky sadnesses with amazing plays like this:

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