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Can only be used for the specific purposes listed. All limited use licenses come in the largest size available. Return to royalty-free licenses. Andrew D. Editorial :. Rivalry: 4 out of This wound up evolving into Barry versus 12 years of dunk-contest history and a world of stereotypes rather than a head-to-head face-off. Finley and Minor advanced to the second round as both offered some powerful, but straightforward finishes: Minor got his head to rim level a few times, finishing straight on and in reverse fashion, while Finley went to a windmill and a one-hand cock-back.
After the final round began with misses for all three competitors, Minor put home a two-handed windmill and Finley went to another one-handed windmill off a self alley-oop. Aside from Barry's efforts, nothing by any of the other five candidates made you jump out of your seat. Variety: 2 out of Originality is at a premium in dunk contests, and this one suffers because Barry attempted his famed free-throw-line dunk twice.
He also stepped over the line both times. Yes, Michael Jordan also reverted to multiple free-throw-line dunks and was guilty of foot faults, but his efforts came within longer contests and surrounded by other elite acts of flight. Jordan's in-air creativity on his foot journeys also helped take the rub off the repetition. The contest as a whole was stuck between eras, trying to replicate the good old days without really adding much.
This group looked like it was out of ideas and had no props to aid its efforts. Christie had the most innovative concept of the night, kicking the ball over his head from the free-throw line and finishing it as a self alley-oop.
But he took forever to get it right and it didn't wind up looking all that cool. Stackhouse washed out early without putting up much of a fight -- he did have a smooth cupping reverse -- and Armstrong struggled with missed dunks, a problem that took its toll throughout the competition.
This year simply lacked action, pop, pizzazz and volume. Legacy: 6 out of This contest remains memorable because its outcome was, frankly, surprising. Barry's free-throw-line dunks came out of nowhere and stood out from a pretty bland field. He made history as the first white player to win the dunk contest and he fully deserved the victory. Barry is still the only white champion, a fact that gets brought up every time there is a new white competitor, reinforcing its historical uniqueness.
Total: 24 out of That bit of history wasn't enough to save this from being one of the worst contests see for yourself below in a video with a Spanish announcing team. Its best moment was repeated a second time and was itself a reproduction of a better original; the rest was dreary. The competition contributed to the growing sentiment that everything had been done and that the dunk contest needed to be reimagined.
Before complaining about how annoying all the props and gimmicks can be these days, go back and watch the full, sleep-inducing tapes from the mids. The grass isn't greener on that side. Star presence: 4 out of Jason Richardson was back, attempting to win his third consecutive title.
Gone from , though, were dunk-contest stalwart Desmond Mason and the always-electric Amar'e Stoudemire. Jones was a small and compact leaper. Andersen was an unknown he hadn't yet ruined the contest. Davis was less than a year removed from his infamous triple-double attempt , when he tried to rebound his own shot on the opposing team's basket.
A fabulous dunk went to waste, just like Stoudemire's collaboration with Nash did in Richardson pulled off a spectacular one-hand windmill through his legs after throwing the ball off the backboard.
Super fast, super smooth, super strong, super athletic. It was everything that made Richardson great as a contest competitor. Jones earned a 50 in the second round with a nice self alley-oop to the far side of the hoop where he reached back gracefully, well above the rim, to flush it. Richardson then ran into some trouble, unable to complete a complicated self alley-oop with a degree spin and a pass through his legs. After multiple failed runs at that one, he settled for a windmill with an eagle spread.
Pretty, but a letdown given what he had been attempting. That's when things got ugly. Jones' second attempt in the final round involved receiving a pass from a fan in the stands. Somehow, after a few tries at the pass the sequence begins at the minute mark below , Jones deflected a failed catch off the backboard and through the rim.
For whatever reason, that was ruled a dunk attempt and scored by the judges. That deflating moment was met with boos and it only got worse when Richardson, needing only 42 points to win, missed his final dunk, a degree punch, and was unable to replace it because he had missed earlier tries.
That last miss made Jones the champion by default. What a mess. Decent but not mind-blowing stuff early: Davis completed a degree one-handed dunk, Andersen did a two-handed spinning reverse, Richardson had a simple windmill from under the baseline to get warmed up and Jones went high on a cock-back self alley-oop. The others: Davis attempted one of the best dunks of the night -- passing the ball through his legs backward in the air to set up a two-handed reverse -- but he couldn't finish it.
Andersen threw one off the glass that looked less impressive than it was because of his height. Jones had a simple rock the cradle. Legacy: 1 out of The format totally, mercilessly killed this one. The worst ending in contest history. TNT's Craig Sager spent part of the post-contest interview with Jones beginning at the mark below begging LeBron James to participate the following year.
Total: 23 out of It feels wrong to put anything involving Richardson on this list, but there's no avoiding it. The momentum that builds in dunk contests needs to end with a payoff. Here, it was nothing but a ripoff. It was maddening that Richardson's off-the-glass dunk went unrecognized, that Jones never got the chance to finish the dunk on the pass from a fan and that a fairly solid group of overall slams was thrown out the window for format reasons.
That Richardson was robbed of a third title only adds salt to this wound. Kudos to the fans for booing. Nate Robinson 's third slam-dunk title was a dud.
Star Presence: 5 out of Guess who? Nate Robinson. The guard with the giant hops was back seeking his third title. If we give it to him, will he just go away? There was a little buzz around two of his competitors, DeMar DeRozan and Shannon Brown, as both were known as big leapers. DeRozan, a lottery pick, was tagged as a major athlete during his recruitment to USC.
Brown was a somewhat useful role player for the Lakers and an intriguing in-game dunker. Gerald Wallace , a All-Star, rounded out the field eight years after he competed in the dunk contest. He didn't look like he wanted to be there. DeRozan had the best slam of the evening, getting way off the ground to catch a pass off the side of the backboard before throwing down a windmill. Slow motion treated this one well, given how low DeRozan brought the ball down and how long he hung in the air.
Rivalry: 5 out of After watching Robinson duke it out with Dwight Howard in and , the head-to-head with DeRozan was just lacking. A big issue was Robinson's inability to complete a behind-the-basket attempt; he opted to settle for an easier look, popping the balloon a bit. Variety: 4 out of Brown offered a meek right-to-left, switch-the-ball-in-midair dunk and then completed a normal alley-oop no bells and whistles from Kobe Bryant.
This was layup-line fare. Wallace, apparently awakened from a nap, did a simple two-handed reverse and then a reverse dunk off a bounce. DeRozan jumped over a teammate but pushed off noticeably to do it.
Robinson caught a simple alley-oop from a teammate and finished it in routine fashion by his standards. We learned that Robinson, who was voted the champion by fans, is tall enough to jump the shark. Total: 21 out of This one failed in a bunch of ways. Most critically, it went to the Nate Rob well one too many times and he wasn't able to deliver. Second, it featured two bad apples Brown and Wallace in a field of four, a ratio of lethargy that it couldn't sustain.
Third, it lacked a truly signature moment to save it from itself. Finally, and less important, it left the audience thinking that perhaps DeRozan had more to offer than he showed.
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