On this day in 1986, at 57 Atlanta Hawks point guard Anthony Spud Webb (born 07/13/1963) became the shortest player in NBA history to win the slam dunk contest. His participation surprised the media; including his teammate and defending dunk champion Dominique Wilkins, who had never seen me dunk before, Webb said. His dunks included the elevator two-handed double pump dunk, the one-handed off the backboard one-handed jam, a 360-degree helicopter one-handed dunk, a 180-degree reverse double-pump slam, and finally, the 180-degree reverse two-handed strawberry jam from a lob bounce off the floor. He beat out teammate Dominique Wilkins in the final round 100-98. Atlanta coach Mike Fratello said, Spud kind of duped him. He told Wilkins he never had anything prepared, didnt practice for it. So, Wilkins maybe thought his normal assortment would be good enough to get through. He thought wrong!
Posted on: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:41:29 +0000
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