EXPOSING The Biggest Fails Of The NBA Dunk Contest

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This is by many considered to be the worst dunk attempt in the history of the dunk contest. But there’s a deeper story behind it. We’ll go over it later in the video, but first, check out a few more epic fails starting off with this chaos of a dunk by Michael Finley in 97.
Check out the awkward stutter step, the horrible form on the cartwheel, and to top things off, he misses the dunk. 33 points is a lot for this.
Moving on. We got Allan Houston with the most bizarre alley oop attempt off of his head.
The reactions from the crowd tell you everything that you need to know. This was a bad dunk.
Look, there’s nothing special about this. Even I can do this.
Watch this hilarious attempt by Baron Davis to fake a no look dunk by poking holes in the headband. But you can see right away he’s having trouble finding the holes.
So this ends up looking like a circus act as he completely misses the entire basket. This is insane. He gets nothing but air on this attempt.
Speaking of that, Antonio Harvey does the same thing in 95 as he completely loses himself in time and space, and misses everything on this 360 attempt.
And I don’t even know what Nick Anderson was thinking here as he dunks and touches his head. He got a 43 for this basic looking finish.
John Collins tried to pay tribute to North Carolina’s aviation history by jumping over a model plane. But it ends badly as he literally destroys half of the plane.
A forgotten blooper from the dunk contest is this James White attempt as he loses the dribble on the run up. Not once but twice actually. James White could definitely jump but I guess he couldn’t dribble.
And who could forget Nate Robinson taking 15 tries on this dunk. 15 times he ran up and down all the way to half court as he tried everything as if he was alone in a practice gym, while the crowd just stood there and watched.
This awkward situation lasted for an entire 5 minutes, as it was obvious that he was supposed to win that year. The dunk at the end was very nice actually, but not after that many attempts.
Chris Andersen did a similar thing but never gets the same mention as Nate. He was just a bit quicker with his execution tho as he only needed 9 tries to dunk it. Same as Robinson the end result looked great, but all the back and forth running ruined it.
Ok let’s now go back to Darryl Armstrong and the worst attempt in dunk contest history we have to expose the truth.
REKLAMA
Ok, in the 96 dunk contest, the players had 90 seconds to complete as many dunks as possible which would be then rated as a whole.
So as you can see Darrel opens up with this nasty looking slam that gets the crowd fired up.
Buuut then he goes for that infamous dunk running all the way to the other end and back- basically doing the suicide drill.
Miss after miss, Armstrong was stubborn to complete this exact dunk, and completely exhausted from it, in the final seconds he didn’t even have the energy to jump so we got this iconic footage of the one and only layup during a dunk contest.
But it’s not just the contestants that fail. Judges especially did that throughout the years.
Especially on this Dennis Smith Jr dunk.
Up, all the way down and back up to dunk it. This is incredibly hard to do. And all he got was 38. 38, that’s like 6 more than some missed dunks. Insane.
This is also how Arron Gordon lost the legendary faceoff against Zach Lavine. He got a 47 for this and lost the battle.
Serge Ibaka has possibly the strongest case of an underrated dunk as he executed the perfect free throw line dunk. This is further than any other player has done it. Michael, Doctor J, you name it. They all stepped over the line and Serge didn’t. But he only got a 45.
Ibaka also had this super creative dunk of taking the toy off the rim with his mouth. The height, the creativity, the execution, everything was nice but at the end he once again got a 45 for it.
JR Smith was the first ever to do this behind the back dunk in 05, but he as well only got a combined score of 45.
Then this is the highest that anyone has ever touched the backboard. The physical abilities, the dexterity, concentration, and the creativity of this dunk deserved way more than 42 points.
And last but definitely not least, we gotta put Dwyane Wade and his colleagues on blast here for single handedly ruining the 2020 dunk contest.
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