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From: stan@teltone.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: "Dunkists"
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 16:16:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 16:16:49 1984
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Larry Nance (plays for Phoenix) won the dunk contest at the all-star
game, and J (the doctor) came in second.  For pure style and grace
J has to be the best.  Dr. J has to be the single most entertaining
athlete in all of sports--anybody dare disagree?

The other dunkists are good mainly because they can jump.  Check out
these numbers:
	Dominique Wilkins - 50" vertical leap
	Darrell Griffith  - 48" vertical leap
(Anybody heard the comment by Keith Jackson's college football broadcast
partner:  quote: "players with the highest vertical leap are invariably
your best athletes".)
	
If anybody can supply the numbers on Dr. J, Larry Nance, and others
who have high vertical leaps, please do.   One advantage J has over the others
for dunking is that he can palm the ball with one hand so easily.