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Slam Dunk occurs as term around the main merely known in North America and amongst followers of US basketball. It derives from either basketball, in which the slam dunk shot (or even occasionally good dunk shot) occurs as particular method of scoring points. Inside a slam stuff shot, a streaming video player, holding a ball inside 1 or even even each mitts, leaps off a floor & blocks a ball directly into a basket, so unremarkably hangs from either the hoop for another or 2. A slam dunk shot is one of a virtually all visually telling moves altogether of basketball.
A term was coined by Chick Hearn.
Due to this ocular impressiveness, slam dunk shot benefit wide recognition. Posters of famous players typically capture a children in the work of dunking, & yearly the NBA holds a widely publicised slam stuff shot contest at a NBA All-Star Game. Best known come slam stuff shot that actually shatter a backboard, which occur super infrequently, or even dunk shot that come combined by having more tricks, like an alley oop.
The slam stuff shot is typically known as "jamming"; this was a root of the title of the popular arcade game series NBA Jam.
In popular use
Outside of basketball, the slam stuff shot might refer to any notably elegant or even fluid work of profits, when in "the [business] deal was a slam-dunk."
In the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, CIA Director George Tenet assured President George W. Bush that the intelligence supporting the contention that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was "a slam dunk." Tenet later expressed regret over the phrase, calling them "the two dumbest words I ever said." These events were described in the book Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward.
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In the 2004 test of Scott Peterson, a prosecution team known when the example as "slam dunk", because there was a important total of grounds to believe & the outbreak would become convenient to prosecute.
List of famous dunkers
Elgin Baylor
Wilt Chamberlain
Connie Hawkins (who reportedly mass produced his 1st slam stuff shot at a age of Eleven)
Julius Erving ("Dr. J")
Darryl Dawkins
James Worthy
David Thompson
Moses Malone
Michael Jordan
Charles Barkley
Larry Nance
Clyde Drexler
Kenny Smith
Kenny Walker
Dominique Wilkins
Byron Scott
Spud Webb
Karl Malone
Shawn Kemp
Tom Chambers
Shaquille O'Neal
David Robinson
Larry Johnson
Harold Miner
Scottie Pippen
Chris Webber
Latrell Sprewell
Isiah Rider
Brent Barry
Allen Iverson
Grant Hill
Jerry Stackhouse
Rasheed Wallace
Ben Wallace
Kevin Garnett
Kobe Bryant
Steve Francis
Tracy McGrady
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Antoine Walker
Paul Pierce
Jason Richardson
Amare Stoudemire
Vince Carter
LeBron James
Dwyane Wade
J.R. Smith
Josh Smith
Patrick Ewing
Female basketball players Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie have also been known to produce the slam stuff shot.
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