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. [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/28/tenet.weaponsremark.ap/index.html].

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 Nenê 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.