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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... perform in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) and their game is now the acknowledged king of the entire sports world . Basketball is today a game of larger - than - life heroes and nonstop action that is perfectly in tune with ...
... perform in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) and their game is now the acknowledged king of the entire sports world . Basketball is today a game of larger - than - life heroes and nonstop action that is perfectly in tune with ...
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... perform- ance against Jordan would now perhaps provide the needed final stamp of approval on his often - overlooked career . A team championship would even further enhance his reputa- tion as one of basketball's brightest stars ...
... perform- ance against Jordan would now perhaps provide the needed final stamp of approval on his often - overlooked career . A team championship would even further enhance his reputa- tion as one of basketball's brightest stars ...
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... performed . Yet few appreciated what a rare talent Pippen truly was . Everyone who came to see the Bulls play , or watched them perform on television , seemed capable of seeing only one Bulls uniform in action . Everyone came to see ...
... performed . Yet few appreciated what a rare talent Pippen truly was . Everyone who came to see the Bulls play , or watched them perform on television , seemed capable of seeing only one Bulls uniform in action . Everyone came to see ...
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