My fingers fly across the keyboard, executing a wide array of well-timed keyboard shortcuts with my left hand while my right expertly manipulates the mouse, furiously clicking and dragging, shaping and composing. The process is almost automatic, yet evident in my quick actions is a kind of hidden artistry that could never be replicated by…
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Jabari Parker All 129 Dunks Full Highlights (2015-16 Season Dunkilation)
Jabari Parker opened his eyes to a squint. The light around him was too bright to open them any further. He thought at first that he was on some kind of examining table in a hospital, but as he took note of what surroundings he could see through the slit of his eyelids, he quickly…
Read MoreDTB’s Best NBA Dunks of the Month (April 2016 Dunkilation)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DUNK INTERLUDE I: SOME DUNKS, RANKED In our written history of the slam dunk, we have now arrived at the modern era of dunking. It would be rather pointless to expound in detail upon this era, as every possible reader will already have a thorough understanding of it. The explosion…
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DUNK CHAPTER V: A REALLY REAL LIFE BASKETBALL DUNK [Rural Alabama, Summer 1929] “Cousin Billy, why don’t you play basketball with us?” Billy Kimball, age 17, looked up from his seated position on the porch and removed the well-chewed piece of straw from his mouth. “I ain’t no good at…
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DUNK CHAPTER IV: DOUBTING NAISMITH Once mankind invented the ball, the proverbial snowball began to gather momentum when it came to the development of sports. Precursors to soccer, rugby, cricket, and volleyball all began to be played at various points in antiquity. Many of these newly conceived sports featured few…
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DUNK CHAPTER III: A REAL LIFE DUNK Countless ages passed while proto-humans performed their accidental dunks. A modern NBA fan would find most of these dunks to be unsatisfactory, and most dunk scholars would agree with that sentiment. Simply put, none of those prehistoric dunks would ever make it into…
Read MoreDTB’s Best NBA Dunks of the Month (December 2015 Dunkilation)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DUNK CHAPTER II: HOMO DUNKILIS After countless ages of struggle under the constricting yoke of sub-intelligence, a certain order of mammals known as the hominids developed a dim intelligence within the dark caverns of their skulls. The stage was set not only for the development of tools and the creation…
Read MoreDTB’s Best NBA Dunks of the Month (October/November 2015 Dunkilation)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DUNK To understand how the modern dunk came to exist, we must first go back. Far, far back. Back before Dr. Naismith first nailed a peach basket to the wall of his gymnasium, back even before the first human was pitted against another in a sporting contest. Before the dawn…
Read MoreBlake Griffin All 84 Dunks Full Highlights (2014-2015 Season Dunkilation)
I’m just going to put it out there: this video BLOWS compared to last year’s Blake Griffin dunkilation. It’s not even close. If you want to have a good time, skip this video and watch that one instead: https://youtu.be/F0YBNspfByQ . That one has 176 dunks in it, over twice the amount that this stupid video…
Read MoreTyson Chandler All 179 Dunks Full Highlights (2014-2015 Season Dunkilation)
“WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME!?” I yell, frenetically pacing back and forth behind my desk, fists clenching and unclenching with barely-suppressed rage. “I didn’t know, sir, I didn’t know!” says Steve, my assistant. I stop my movement and stare in disbelief at the cowering man. “You don’t understand, you fool. ‘I didn’t know’ is not…
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