Category: NBA Slam Dunk Contest champions

Examples include Dragon Ball, One Piece, Astro Boy, Kuroshitsuji, Rurouni Kenshin, Kinnikuman, Saint Seiya, Dr. Slump, Gin Tama, Fighting Spirit, Detective Conan, YuYu Hakusho, InuYasha, Hunter × Hunter, Naruto, Bleach, Soul Eater, Slam Dunk, Zatch Bell !, Fairy Tail, Reborn !, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Yu-Gi-Oh !, Fullmetal Alchemist, Buso Renkin, and D. Gray-man.

* Takenori Akagi and Haruko Akagi, two sibling characters from the basketball manga and anime Slam Dunk

At the NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona, Heat player Harold Miner repeated as the winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest and Glen Rice won the NBA Three Point Shootout.

One of the few highlights from this era was when the Target Center served as host of the 1994 All-Star Game where Rider won the Slam Dunk Contest with his between-the-leg " East Bay Funk Dunk ".

He also won the NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Contest.

* Fred Jones, a National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player, 2004 NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner, and current Guard-Forward for the New York Knicks

Perhaps the most popular such contest is the NBA Slam Dunk Contest held during the annual NBA All-Star Weekend.

Though the dunk was introduced by Vince Carter in the 2000 NBA Slam Dunk contest, two years earlier, Kobe Bryant was filmed performing the dunk at an exhibition in the Philippines.

In May – June 2011, the band returned to Europe to play the Slam Dunk Festival dates, as well as supporting System of a Down on June 2 in Milan, Italy.

The plot is largely similar to Slam Dunk Ernest.

Later that year, the band headlined the Slam Dunk Festival along with Alkaline Trio and Capdown.

* Ryota Miyagi, in the manga Slam Dunk

Other Ernest movies include Ernest Saves Christmas, Slam Dunk Ernest, Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest Goes to Africa, Ernest Rides Again, Ernest Goes to School, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Ernest in the Army.

The album featured a popular song, " Slam Dunk ," which, like a majority of the album, was co-written by rising guitar hero and longtime David Lee Roth fan, John 5.

As an announcer for TBS, Barry helped call the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.

Best known, however, as the uniform then-Knick Nate Robinson wore upon winning the Slam Dunk Contest in 2009.

" Richards, who was working on the soundtrack for the Blake Edwards directed movie " Switch " at the time, arranged for the DuBrow penned " Slam Dunk " to be included on the movie's soundtrack.

He was well known for slam dunking from the free throw line in Slam Dunk Contests and was the only player voted Most Valuable Player in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association.

The events consists of Three-Point Shootout ( won by Adam Harrington ), Slam Dunk Contest ( won by Brent Petway ) and game of H. O. R. S. E.

The Three-Point Shootout was won by Blake Ahearn of the Dakota Wizards, and the Slam Dunk Contest was won by James White of the Bakersfield Jam.

The Three-Point Shootout was won by Andre Ingram of the Utah Flash, and the Slam Dunk Contest was won by Dar Tucker of the Los Angeles D-Fenders.

Slam Dunk centers around Hanamichi Sakuragi, who starts as a delinquent outcast, becoming the leader of a gang.

Inoue became inspired to make Slam Dunk as he liked basketball since High School.

For instance, they sometimes allow performance of work by another poet ( e. g. the " Dead Poet Slam ", in which all work must be by a deceased poet ).

Many, including seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe believed Rafter to be a " one-slam wonder ", since it was only his second career ATP title.

In 1998, after Rafter defeated Sampras in the Cincinnati Masters final, Sampras, at the time winner of 11 Grand Slams, when asked about the difference between himself and Rafter, famously stated " Ten grand slams ", that a controversial line-call cost him the match, and that a player had to come back and win another Grand Slam title in order to be considered great.

Becker's game was based on a fast and well-placed serve, that earned him the nicknames " Boom Boom ", " Der Bomber " and " Baron von Slam ", and great volleying skills at the net.

Fetisov and team mate Igor Larionov, along with Scott Niedermayer and Joe Sakic, are the only players to win the " Grand Slam of Ice Hockey ", winning the Stanley Cup, World Ice Hockey Champions, Ice Hockey at the Winter Olympics, World Ice Hockey Junior Championship, and Canada / World Cup Championship.

In the backup storyline " Trail of the Catwoman ", by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Darwyn Cooke, private detective Slam Bradley attempts to find out what really happened to Selina Kyle.

The 76ers also kept a separate column on the stat sheet for Dawkins ’ s self-created nicknames: " Sir Slam ", " Dr. Dunkenstein ", and " Chocolate Thunder.

His nickname on the show is " Slam Man ", and, more recently, the derisive " Weigh More " and " Ham Man ," " Salami Man " and -- when feeling particularly fancy -- " Prosciutto Man.

* " Slam ", a song by Bow Wow

* " Slam " / " Out Here ", a single by Pendulum

Known as " the Bounding Basque ", he won five Grand Slam singles titles in the French, Australian, and British championships, failing to win only in the American championships, as he was defeated in the final by his countryman René Lacoste 6-4 6-0 6-4, thus missing a career Grand Slam.

* Sam Agnew, nicknamed " Slam ", professional baseball player

This time Monette & Olson agreed to join in and the results were Band Together and Grand Slam, both released in 1978 and featuring more of a late 70s disco sound, with the former providing the Bee Gees penned hit " Warm Ride ", which peaked at # 39.

In July 1995, he released the single " Niji no Grand Slam ", which charted at number 11 on the Oricon Singles chart.

Lynott and Moore trade vocals on " Out in the Fields ", while Lynott sings vocals on " Military Man ", an old Grand Slam track, alone.

His most prominently featured attack is called " Seismic Slam ", where Slammu sets off an earthquake by hitting the ground with his fists.

In recent years, streetball has seen an increase in media exposure through television shows such as ESPN's " Street basketball " and " City Slam ", as well as traveling exhibitions such as the AND1 Mixtape Tour, YPA, and Ball4Real.

*" Pope ", a Prince song from Glam Slam Ulysses, recorded for The Hits / The B-Sides

A popular form of dunking in Australia is the " Tim Tam Slam ", also known as ' tea sucking '.

*" Sisters of Mercy ", a song by Phil Lynott's Grand Slam on the album Live 1984

Her group is enlisted by Auric Goldfinger to aid in " Operation Grand Slam ", an operation that would poison the Fort Knox water supply with a water-borne nerve agent ( GB, also called sarin ), and, if successful, would use a stolen nuclear weapon to blow open and rob the U. S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox of one billion dollars in gold bullion.