Top 10 Basketball Slam DunkersAuthor Peter Bjarkman has chosen ten basketball players whom he thinks best define the slam dunk style. Anecdotes, career statistics, and quotations of such greats as Charles Barkley, Darryl Dawkins, Clyde Drexler, Julius Erving, Darrell Griffith, Connie Hawkins, Michael Jordan, Shawn Kemp, Scottie Pippen, and Spud Webb all bring the excitement of the court to the reader. |
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Peter C. Bjarkman. CHARLES BARKLEY The game's most ferocious power forward , Charles Barkley slams home a monster dunk for his former team XERS 34 DARRYL DAWKINS SIXER SIXER 16 Darryl Dawkins , the first. the Sixers . CHARLES BARKLEY.
Peter C. Bjarkman. CHARLES BARKLEY The game's most ferocious power forward , Charles Barkley slams home a monster dunk for his former team XERS 34 DARRYL DAWKINS SIXER SIXER 16 Darryl Dawkins , the first. the Sixers . CHARLES BARKLEY.
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... game's most ferocious power forward was again flashing the same brilliance he had dis- played all year , a brilliance that had already brought him the NBA 1993 Most Valuable Player award and recognition as The Sporting News player of ...
... game's most ferocious power forward was again flashing the same brilliance he had dis- played all year , a brilliance that had already brought him the NBA 1993 Most Valuable Player award and recognition as The Sporting News player of ...
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... game witticisms and boasts . Barkley has always been controversial both on ... very top of his personal goals . But the outspoken athlete has also had other ... most ferocious rebounders — although a relatively short front court man at ...
... game witticisms and boasts . Barkley has always been controversial both on ... very top of his personal goals . But the outspoken athlete has also had other ... most ferocious rebounders — although a relatively short front court man at ...
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