Where does Deandre Jordan's dunk rank all time?

[Vni]

It's the social's networks effect.

Everything is so over hyped theses days.

[Vast]

A better question is: Is it even dunk of the year??

[Kashanova]

Top 25, but not top 10 imo

[return.specialist]

Personally I feel it is overhyped. However, it was a thrilling, get-fans-out-of-their-seats put-that-on-a-poster dunk. What is most impressive is that Jordan, I believe, is left-handed and caught and dunked with only his right hand.

[BlueNGold]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vast

A better question is: Is it even dunk of the year??

Yeah, probably.

The only two off the top of my head that come close are these:





I'm not going to bother with the all-time talk. There's been plenty of other dunks that were better.

[jeebs9]

It's a very nice dunk. But I've never liked the "dunk on a little guy" thing. It just doesn't do anything for me. Again it's a very nice dunk. But it's on Brandon Knight who is 6-3 vs DeAndre who is what? 6-11/7 feet. Big deal smh

But best dunk of all time in my opinion?



Like I said no dunk in my opinion is better. Just look at the reactions.


p.s. I love how everyone talks about all the other dunks but doesn't talk about

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vni

It's the social's networks effect. Everything is so over hyped theses days.

Truth. I really liked the DeAndre dunk, but it clearly took on a life of its own thanks to social networking. I saw a Facebook friend who asked where it ranked all-time and one person responded saying ESPN ranked it the #7 best dunk of all-time while another person chimed in and said he thought it was top 5. Each respondent was a light to medium basketball fan between the ages of 18 and 22. I could tell the basketball gods were tempting me to get involved in that post, but I relented.

I personally don't know where I'd rank the dunk, but it certainly didn't strike me as being one of the top ten slams of all-time. I'll pre-emptively shield myself from the criticism this statement may yield, but I actually saw Jordan's slam as a rich man's version of Dwight Howard's dunk on Jrue Holiday from a few years ago. Jordan jumped from further out, and Knight took a tougher fall, but I see each dunk as being of the same ilk. Both were great slams, but I don't know if either would be in my serious discussion as one of the top 25 of all-time.

[wwharton]

Quote: Originally Posted by VDusen04

Truth. I really liked the DeAndre dunk, but it clearly took on a life of its own thanks to social networking. I saw a Facebook friend who asked where it ranked all-time and one person responded saying ESPN ranked it the #7 best dunk of all-time while another person chimed in and said he thought it was top 5. Each respondent was a light to medium basketball fan between the ages of 18 and 22. I could tell the basketball gods were tempting me to get involved in that post, but I relented. I personally don't know where I'd rank the dunk, but it certainly didn't strike me as being one of the top ten slams of all-time. I'll pre-emptively shield myself from the criticism this statement may yield, but I actually saw Jordan's slam as a rich man's version of Dwight Howard's dunk on Jrue Holiday from a few years ago. Jordan jumped from further out, and Knight took a tougher fall, but I see each dunk as being of the same ilk. Both were great slams, but I don't know if either would be in my serious discussion as one of the top 25 of all-time.

That's a good comparison but I think DeAndre's was clearly better... in the same way Jordan's "foul line" dunk was better than all the others that follow. On the surface everything seems the same, but DeAndre came from farther out (by itself makes it slightly more impressive) creating more of a lean. He also caught it with one hand, about as cocked as it could possibly be. All of this made the overall execution more powerful (imo of course).

I really think the conversation should be about best "lobbed dunk" as what you have to look at should be different than in just best dunk. You have to catch a lob wherever it comes. This dunk is impressive bc of where he caught the lob as much as what he did with it.