I think it’s the greatest in-game dunk EVER

…this is a pretty great catalogue of Nuggets dunks that I could watch and watch.

Beat everyone down the floor and took off from the middle of the key. It’s the best 360 finish in a game and possibly the best alley oop finish too.

from former Nuggets dahntay Jones from last years WC semi-finals over now disgraced Dallas Center Eric Dampier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxnCiwbH5gM

This is top 5 in my eyes.

That dunk was not from 2006. That dunk was actually from his rookie year in 2003-04. The announcers are Denver’s when they were on UPN 20, before Altitude was established in 2004-05. Plus, they say he tied his career high with 30 points, but by 2006, his career high was 45 against the Sixers in December of 2005. But yeah, JR’s jam, as far as I can remember, is the best Nuggets jam in history. It was like poetry in motion, rub it on your skin like lotion, what’s the commotion, oh my lord, another rim rocked by a JR bomb. Hey, hey, hey. Had to mention Wu Tang with my spin in here somewhere.

Watch here.

Against the Blazers too …

No Darvin Ham = FAIL

JR’s alley-oop 360 is nice, but it wasn’t contested. Both Melo’s and Lawson’s were, and they both made them anyway.

…That Pack dunk against Seattle was the most exhilarating by far. But that same year I also remember a similar Pack dunk in a game against Orlando, coming straight down the middle, and right over Shaq. He got the foul and hung on the rim for good measure. Crowd went bonkers. But my personal favorite was in a game against the Knicks where LaPhonso, my favorite Nugget, slammed it (I believe over Ewing) and did a little 360 while hanging on the rim afterwards. Loved that one. Another major-league crowd moment.

I never knew Thompson was THAT good at dunking, especially when you consider his time. People talk about Dr. J, but had Thompson not gone to drugs, he would have been in the same breath. Robert Pack too.

For the best dunker under 6 feet (I think Pack was a solid 6’2"), it’s gotta be this guy. Period.

the one thing a lot of people never knew about david thompson was he had very long arms. combined with his 48" vertical leap it was a huge advantage. there are 3 different types of dunks. first the transition or fast break dunk. the best is dr. j in the playoffs. he took the ball off the dribble one handed, cupped the ball and threw it down. the second type is the put back dunk off of a missed shot. kmart and birdman have done some of the best. melo does them even better but not as often. the third type is in the half court offense. two of the best were during the bulls knicks playoff series when jordan played. knicks were getting very physical. jordan went one on five and slammed. it was the most intense dunk. the second was john starks twisted jordan into a pretzel before he posterized him with a LEFT handed base line jam. i never seen jordan do that. i was listening to the nuggets on the radio for smith’s dunk. i have heard hundreds of games on the radio from old chicago stadium. i never heard a crowd react the way the t-wolves fans did.

This Dunk

I think its the best of Melo’s NBA career, though, was in the Olympics a few years back.

Enjoy :)

it was the best damn dunk ive ever seen live… was watching the game with a friend, it was around 10 am or so… and when jr slamed it i was screaming so loud that the whole floor at my dorm heard me and was wondering what was the matter. my friend hates the nuggets and he even got excited… this is something to tell my grandchildren, just aqn absolutly disguting dunk… wow… thinking about it…. im speechless

…Definitely belongs on the top of the list of the All-time dunks against the Timberwolves of 2009-2010. Y’all can’t compare this to Thompson. Or even Pack or Ellis. Lets get real.

Because I knew that it couldn´t be Chauncey, as it was several years ago.

mostly cause the camera angles and the great “that should be against the LAW, SON”

It seems that I’ve had a special invitation to contribute on this.
First off I have to say that you just can’t compare dunks prior to the new rims with the modern dunks. Alex English was right; you can really bang up your wrists and hurt yourself on those old style fixed rims. The “newer” (how long has it been, 25 years?) breakaway rims not only breakaway instead of breaking the backboard, but they also flex a little when you slam down on them so you’re not smashing your wrists on a solid surface. I used to do a lot of dunking back in the 70s and early 80s and believe me it’s a world of difference with those old unbending rims.
Having said that I just don’t feel like you can compare what the guys did before those flexible rims came in. It’s sort of like comparing Wilt’s 100 points and David Thompson’s 73 points, both without the benefit of a three point shot against Kobe’s 80 (whatever it was) where he was making a bunch of threes.
Lack may be surprised to learn that guys were throwing down dunks in the 50s, 60s and 70s so the time period has less to do with DT’s dunking ability as the rim. One thing about DT, he could jump as high as anyone, it’s said he could touch the top of the backboard and I believe it. Another thing is that he could get up so quick that it SEEMED that he didn’t even gather himself or bend his kness to jump. So in some ways that made it look less spectacular, he made it look so easy, but he blocked shots on 7 footers like Bill Walton in his prime when Bill could jump.
When David Thompson did his 360 dunk in the ABA dunk contest (which took place at halftime of the all star game) that was the first time that just about anyone had ever seen anyone do a 360 dunk. It was huge and I thought deserved to win over Dr. J’s sort of free throw line dunk (his foot was over the line,I used to dunk from behind the dotted semi-circle). I think DT deserves a lot of credit for even coming up with that and doing it in the dunk contest. David Thompson had a lot of spectacular dunks that were not televised and memory sometimes expands or contracts things. I’d have to say that I don’t remember DT doing anything quite like what JR did, but then you have define a term that can’t really be defined which is what does “great (or best) dunk” actually mean? DT had some great dunks. Dan Issel had some great dunks in his day. When Wilt threw down dunks that bounced off the floor back up as high as the rim was that a great dunk? Marvin Webster had some dunks like that for the Nuggets. Bobby Jones was actually quite the dunker when he was with the Nuggets. I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Keon Clark put back dunk shown in the middle of this video:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmwBNIyaA4

Having said all that I have to get to the JR dunk. For starters I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that it wasn’t really a true 360 dunk. He did 180 on the floor and 180 in the air for a total of 360. David Thompson’s dunk contest 360 was a true 360, all in the air. As far as spectacular, crowd pleasing, in game sensible and exerything else, I can’t really remember anything that compares. If I were choosing up sides for a dunk contest though, I think I would still take DT in his prime over JR.

DT was pretty damn amazing. I remember one dunk he had where he practically jumped over Artis Fricken Gilmore. For those younguns out there, Artis Gilmore was a monster of a man. JR’s dunk was great. But nobody could fly like DT. Nobody.

I think dunks are a primary reason as to why I love the game of basketball as much as I do. Everything about them from the mood and voice of the crowd, announcers and friends at home to the facial expressions to the pure joy just mesmerizes me. I have never quite seen anything like what JR pulled off the other night. It’s one of those dunks that gets you talking to your friends when you first see them the next day, “Did you see that sh*t last nigh?” And they immediately know what you’re talking about and start getting all excited as they are talking. I think that might be the best dunk I have ever seen in a game, but I am fairly young so I still have a long time to go. We’ll see how it holds up.

J.R.‘s 360 dunk didn’t impress me too much.