Lavine and gordon famously duked out one of the most memorable contests in allstar history in 2016, with lavine prevailing in a controversial threeot decision. February 18, 2017 aaron gordon will wear this nike zoom rev pe during tonights dunk contest. Zach lavine wins nba slam dunk contest 2016 as it happened lavine and aaron gordon need two dunk offs to determine champ both players trade extraordinary dunks in thrilling competition. Zach lavine to defend his title in 2016 verizon slam dunk.
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Zach lavine is one of the most electrifying dunkers in nba history. Congrats to aaron gordon and zach lavine you both did amazing. Minnesota timberwolves guard zach lavine absolutely lit the nba world on. Apparently, theyre not allowed to take a chainsaw, hack the trophy in half and say two people won the contest. Nba allstar saturday night has delivered an endless list of iconic moments, from m. Definitely one of the craziest dunk contests ever tags. But in recent years, its not just the bigleaguers whove put on a show.
Denver nuggets guard will barton has shown on a number of. Find line reports, best bets, and subscribe to push notifications in the betting news section. The ballislife allamerican game is an annual american allstar game featuring high school basketball players. On january 27, 1976 at mcnichols sports arena during halftime of the 1976 aba all star game the firstever slam dunk contest was held, which was won by julius erving of the new york nets over david thompson of the denver nuggets, artis gilmore of the kentucky colonels, and george gervin and larry kenon of the san antonio spurs. Dwyane wade opens up about why he gave aaron gordon 9 points for nba dunk contest basketball news in a recent interview with bleacher report, nba legend dwyane wade revealed why he scored aaron gordon nine points instead of ten in the slam dunk contest.
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Download the detroit pistons on mlive app for iphone and android like mlive s detroit pistons facebook page. But 2020 will be different for him and the orlando magic. Aaron gordon is still salty about dwyane wades dunk. The best of the 2016 nba dleague slam dunk contest presented. Zach lavine and aaron gordon produced a spectacular aerial show in what is already being hailed as the greatest slam dunk contests of all. Although its been hit or miss over the last few years, theres no.
The contest was inaugurated by the american basketball association aba at its allstar game in 1976 in denver, the same year the slam dunk was legalized in the ncaa. Nuggets guard will barton got his michael jackson on to pull a thriller entrance for his first dunk in the 2016 slam dunk contest. Terms of activation by activating, you agree that you want to enable cloud technology to access your xfinity stream subscription on additional supported devices like computers and tablets, as well as the tv connected to your settop dvr via comcasts network. Zach lavine outlasted aaron gordon in a classic 2016 slam dunk contest, which will go down as one of the best ever. The nba is the premier professional basketball league in the united. But whereas the epic contest with zach lavine in 2016 was tough to stomach, lavine was.
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