Outside of game-winning moments such as walk-off home runs or last-second Hail Mary passes, no sports incident causes fans to rise from their seats quite like a highlight-reel dunk. The Association’s best in-game dunkers do more than provide fans and sports broadcasts with incidents that go viral on a nightly basis. Just one posterizing slam can flip a game’s momentum and cause an arena filled with individuals who were previously sitting on their hands to become a “sixth man” for the home side.
An exciting youth movement is taking the NBA by storm as of the first few months of the 2020s, and one current rookie could be considered the league’s best in-game dunker as quickly as next fall. For now, though, a forward who may never take the career leap so many predicted a few seasons ago still gets our nod as the Association’s top dunker.
We assume a certain King may have something to say about that.
