About a year ago at this time, Mac McClung thought his dunk contest days were done. He’d been in the contest at the NBA’s All ...

I n a moment of get-off-my-lawn petulance, I once argued in the pages of Sports Illustrated that the NBA All-Star Game’s Slam ...

Two-time defending champion Mac McClung headlines the field of dunkers set to participate Saturday night at All-Star Weekend.

Mac McClung enters this year's NBA Slam Dunk Contest as the back-to-back reigning champ, having taken home the trophy in 2023 ...

Mac McClung has gone two-for-two in his Slam Dunk contest appearances, cementing himself as one of the best performers in the ...

Standing in his way? Three hungry challengers. Chicago’s Matas Buzelis, San Antonio’s Stephon Castle, and Milwaukee’s Andre Jackson Jr. will all make their contest debuts, each eager to rise above and ...

The NBA has been trying to re-invent the All Star Game over the past few years to get its stars to take the event more seriously but the league has had little t ...

The 2025 NBA Dunk Contest will surely be a highlight of NBA All-Star Weekend 2025, with some big-time high fliers. It’s the ...

In a 2023 episode of “First Take,” ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith caused controversy by claiming that LeBron James is to blame for the decline of the dunk contest. Smith explained that, over the past ...

As the dunk contest remains in crisis, the Cleveland Cavaliers showed us the art of dunking isn’t dead ... Let’s see if McClung, Matas Buzelis, Stephon Castle, and Andre Jackson Jr. can ...

Instead, the dunk contest is featuring players such as Mac McClung, mainly a G-Leaguer who has logged limited minutes in the NBA. No disrespect to McClung, but he isn’t the most well-known, outside of ...