The NBA Slam Dunk Contest Top 100 dunks you don't want to miss out on• 2017-2018 NBA season (officially known as the AT&T Slam Dunk for sponsorship reasons) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) competition held during the NBA All-Star Weekend. The contest was inaugurated by the American Basketball Association (ABA) at its All-Star Video game in 1976 in Denver, the same year the slam dunk was legislated in the NCAA. As a result of the ABA-- NBA merger later that year there would not be another slam dunk contest at the expert level till 1984. The contest has actually embraced a number of formats throughout the years, including, up until 2014, the use of fan voting, via text-messaging, to figure out the winner of the last round.

The really first slam dunk contest was won by Larry Nance Sr. of the Suns at the 1984 NBA All-Star Video Game. The present champion of the NBA Dunk Contest is Hamidou Diallo of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

On January 27, 1976 at McNichols Sports Arena throughout halftime of the 1976 ABA All Star Game the first-ever Slam Dunk Contest was held, which was won by Julius Erving of the New York Webs over David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets, Artis Gilmore of the Kentucky Colonels, and George Gervin and Larry Kenon of the San Antonio Spurs. There was a format each rival had to follow in which they must attempt 5 dunks in a row under two minutes. One from a standing position, one from a range of ten feet away from the basket (which is basically the bottom of the semi circle that surrounds the free throw line in the Secret. The next 3 were freestyle positions, one coming in from the left side of the basket, one being available in from the ideal side of the basket and lastly from either corner down the standard to the basket. They were judged on artistic ability, imagination, body flow in addition to fan response.

Artis Gilmore went first followed by George Gervin, Larry Kenon, David Thompson and lastly Julius Erving. George Gervin and David Thompson both missed a dunk throughout their regimens which counted as a no (ratings were not announced to the audience). David Thompson did a 360 degree dunk to complete his regimen. All competitors needed to carry out a dunk from 10 feet, but Julius Erving started marking his actions from the free throw line (15 feet away). He then finished a dunk from the free toss line.