As much as people still enjoy witnessing thunderous slam dunks in the NBA, it cannot be denied that they have lost their luster. With the league thriving in the pace-and-space era brought about by the ...

The dunk contest tradition did not start in the NBA. It was the ABA that launched it in 1976 and the champion, Julius Erving didn't just win. He validated an entire art form in the sport. The ABA's ...

In arguably the greatest dunk competition in league history, Zach LaVine and Aaron Gordon unleash an array of jams never-before-seen, and take it all the way to sudden death. Zach LaVine's grand ...

Julius Erving returns to the site of his ABA dunk contest glory, but it is an emerging aerial master, Larry Nance, that takes the NBA's inaugural competition.

The ABA was doomed because it never generated enough money to make for a stable league, but dollar for dollar, it was far more entertaining than the older, more staid NBA. The circus league (as the ...

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest used to mean something. It featured the league’s best players going head-to-head in front of roaring crowds during All-Star Weekend. Julius Erving was right in the middle of ...

The Dunk Contest once sold itself to fans across the globe. Now, it is fighting to stay alive, and Julius Erving knows why. Erving talked about the current state of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest during a ...