Kawhi Leonard Dunks over Harrison Barnes on the Break
Golden State Warriors rookie Harrison Barnes has dazzled the Bay Area faithful with a playoff performance that has all but extinguished any long-term projections after his solid (i.e., not spectacular) regular season.
In his first 10 postseason games, he matched his regular-season total of 20-point games (three) and missed that mark by a single point on two other occasions.
But San Antonio Spurs sophomore Kawhi Leonard reminded him that he’s not the only young, athletic wing causing havoc in this Western Conference semifinal.
With San Antonio nursing a 62-58 lead midway through the third quarter of Game 5 on Wednesday night, Danny Green snagged a loose ball on the Warriors’ end and raced down the floor. Carl Landry stepped in front of the charging Green, who quickly gathered himself with a pair of dribbles.
Then Green spotted a streaking Leonard racing down the right side of the floor and hit him in stride with a one-handed lead pass. Leonard grabbed the pass at the right elbow, cleared himself for departure with two steps and soared toward the basket.
Barnes was there to contest the dunk, but a ferocious finish from Leonard meant the rookie’s only reward was a future poster appearance:
And Barnes just got put on a POSTER!
— ESPN First Take (@ESPN_FirstTake) May 15, 2013
Barnes has the narrow lead in the individual scoring battle with Leonard, 19-14, but the Spurs have since opened up a commanding 13-point lead, 89-76, in the early stages of the fourth quarter.
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Video: Kevin Durant dunks in loss to Memphis
The Memphis Grizzlies won Game 3 by trading physical blows with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The 87-81 victory gave Memphis a 2-1 lead in a series that the Thunder may be doomed to lose.
Memphis came out of the locker room ready to scrap in the third period besting the Thunder 22-15.
Thunder leader Kevin Durant doubled-doubled with 25 points and 11 rebounds.
After the game, Durant told ESPN that he still believes in this group. “It’s frustrating, but we can’t hang our heads,” Durant said.
“We have to keep playing and keep improving. We just have to learn from it. We have to embrace the tough times and get better from it. I believe in my teammates.”
Video: Kevin Durant goes large with the big dunk
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Slow Motion Video: Kevin Durant power dunks on Memphis
The Oklahoma City Thunder were dealt a Game 2 blow by the Memphis Grizzlies in their 99-93 loss.
That did not stop Kevin Durant from being Kevin Durant.
Kevin Durant paced OKC with 36 points and 11 rebounds. Derrick Fisher chipped in 19 points.
For the victors, Mike Conley scored 26 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer in the home stretch of the game.
Memphis managed only 15 points in the third period but 30 in the fourth quarter to ship the Western Conference semifinals series to Memphis locked up 1-1.
Conley was assisted by Marc Gasol who added 24 points and Zach Randolph scored 15 for the Grizzlies.
Watch Durant bring down the house in slow-motion with this monster dunk.
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Video: LeBron James dunks off a deflected pass
The Miami Heat dropped Game 1 of their Eastern Conference Semifinals series to the Chicago Bulls on Monday.
The NBA’s reigning MVP LeBron James still put together a few highlights.
James posted 24 points,eight rebounds and seven assists in Miami’s 93-86 defeat.
Closing out games with authority has become a Heat trademark.
On Monday, Miami looked every bit like a team that has not played in eight days during the final moments of the game.
The Heat held a three-point lead with two minutes left. The Bulls shifted into another gear and went on a 10-0 run to seal the game. The Bulls had a trio of stars that solidified the win.
Nate Robinson scored 27 points, Jimmy Butler doubled-doubled with 21 points and 14 rebounds and Joakim Noah added 13 points for Chicago. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Miami.
Watch LeBron stuff the hoop off a deflected pass.
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Ranking the 20 Most Insane Dunks from the 2013 College Basketball Season
Aficionados of the slam dunk found plenty to enjoy during the 2012-13 college basketball season. Now that the year is wrapped up, it’s time to look back at the most earth-shaking jams from college courts across the country.
One of the season’s biggest stories was the emergence of Indiana star Victor Oladipo, who turned plenty of fast breaks into canvases for his rim-rocking artistry. The most memorable of his slams came in a conference tourney date with Illinois, where the United Center crowd got to see one of the year’s best 360-degree throwdowns.
Read on for a look at Oladipo’s whirlybird finish as well as the rest of the 20 most phenomenal dunks of the year in college hoops, with an eye to picking the best of the best.
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Videos: JaVale McGee dunks all OVER Andrew Bogut, Andre Miller is Game 1 hero
Stephen Curry did whatever that he could to help the Golden State Warriors steal Game One of their playoff series from the Denver Nuggets.
Playing on the Nuggets homecourt, Curry hit a dramatic game-tying three-pointer with just a few ticks left on the clock.
It was not enough to force overtime as the Nuggets relied on Andre Miller to drive into the paint and layup the game-winner as seen below.
The 97-95 battle is a sign of what is to come in what will amount to a best-of-seven war.
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Video: The top 10 NBA dunks of 2012-13
There were some amazing dunks in the NBA regular season such as LeBron James destruction of the Boston Celtics Jason Terry.
But was it amazing enough to make the year’s top 10?
This video breaks it down.
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Video: Chicago Bulls Jimmy Butler steals and dunks on the Knicks twice
Jimmy Butler and the Chicago Bulls ended the New York Knicks recent winning streak on Thursday night with 118-111 OT victory.
Butler had a dominant offensive and defensive outing putting together a double-double of 22 points and 14 rebounds.
This video of these two back-to-back scores proves that he came to play.
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The top 10 dunks of the 2012-13 college basketball season
The best dunks of the 2012-2013 college season
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Re-Ranking the Best Dunks of the NBA Season
With ridiculous dunks moving from players’ hands to fan’s eyes and promptly onto YouTube, taking a look and re-evaluating this season’s dunks has become a priority…and an enjoyable one at that.
Between Harrison Barnes’ early-season dunk over Nikola Pekovic, DeAndre Jordan’s eulogy of Brandon Knight, and a few throw-back dunks from Kobe Bryant, we’ve got plenty of stuff to look back on and remember fondly.
Blake Griffin does his daily dunk-a-thon alongside Jordan, JaVale McGee’s ridiculously long arms create the best opportunity for silly-looking slams, and LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are as dunk-happy as they’ve ever been.
Throw in a handful of bright young point guards ready to throw alley-oops, good defenders willing to step into and defend streaking dunkers, and we’ve had a ton of opportunities for alley-oops that have fallen like melting icicles from a gutter.
With the athleticism around the league, and everyone’s general disregard for being dunked on, this has been the year of the posterization, and it’s time we’ve taken a long, hard look at the year that was in dunks.
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