CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his ...

A new All-Star Game format debuted, a dunk contest piqued interest and Inside the NBA said farewell during 2025 NBA All-Star ...

Los Angeles Lakers star forward LeBron James has accomplished so much over his long career but there are a few things that he ...

February 8, 1997: Kobe Bryant (age 18) of the Los Angeles Lakers wins the Nestlé Crunch Slam Dunk Contest in Cleveland. Bryant defeated Chris Carr of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Michael Finley ...

The NBA then created its own slam-dunking contest in 1984, and the tradition was born. The late Kobe Bryant became the youngest player in history to win the Slam Dunk Contest when he was 18 years ...

Two years later, Kobe Bryant became the only Laker to ever win the Dunk Contest. Kobe was an 18-year-old rookie at the time, making him the youngest to ever win it. This was one of the first ...

The NBA knows the dunk contest is flailing. It just hasn’t figured out how to replace it. In 1998, a year after an abysmal dunk-off headlined by a young Kobe Bryant, the league replaced the ...

Impressed by Deuce's savage assessment of his father Jayson Tatum's dunking ability, Kevin Garnett commended the candid ...

Michael Jordan, Jason Richardson, Nate Robinson, Zach LaVine, and Mac McClung are the only players in history to win the Slam Dunk Contest in back-to-back years. At age 18, Kobe Bryant is the ...