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"Dunks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Blake Griffin on Kendrick Perkins\nThis dunk set the Internet aflame in January. The official NBA YouTube video already has more than 5 million views. The dunk prompted Perkins to call out LeBron James in the press for tweeting the epic slam.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. LeBron James on John Lucas\nThe night before Griffin's monumental throw-down, James turned in a classic of his own. He cleared Bulls guard John Lucas to catch this backdoor alley-oop.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Dwyane Wade on Anderson Verejao \nA couple years ago, before he and James joined forces on the Heat, Dwyane Wade completely overwhelmed James' then-teammate, Varejao. In the immortal words of commentator Reggie Miller, \"Welcome to your Kodak moment, Anderson Verejao!\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Baron Davis on Andrei Kirilenko \nThis dunk will live forever in the hearts of Golden State Warriors fans. It came during the middle of the team's improbable \"We Believe\" playoff run in 2007. Davis' weird, belly-baring celebration, which earned him a technical foul, brings it up another notch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Shaquille O'Neal on basketball hoop designers\nThis dunk isn't technically \"on\" anyone, but young Shaq pulling down an entire basketball support is epic enough to make any list. As the esteemed Bill Walton would say, \"Throw it down, big man!\" \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Tom Chambers on Mark Jackson\nCurrent Warriors coach Mark Jackson had a stellar playing career with several NBA teams, but he was on the receiving end of probably the greatest NBA dunk ever by a white guy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Scottie Pippen on Patrick Ewing\nScottie Pippen obliterated Knicks center Patrick Ewing in this 1994 dunk, and this two-minute video tells the entire story.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Michael Jordan on Patrick Ewing\nPippen's Bulls teammate \u2014 some guy named Michael Jordan \u2014 also had a ruthless dunk over Ewing. He actually had a couple, but this one is the most savage of all.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. John Starks on the Chicago Bulls\nHowever, Knicks guard John Starks gave the high flying Bulls a taste of their own medicine in 1993 with this lefty flush. Lore has it that Starks caught Jordan on this one, but that's debatable, at best. Check the tape and decide for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Allen Iverson on Marcus Camby\nBack in the '90s, when both still played for the teams that drafted them, tiny Allen Iverson was all like, \"Marcus, this elevator goes to 10 and I'm dropping you off at 7.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Kevin Johnson on Hakeem Olajuwon \nJohnson is currently the mayor of Sacramento, Calif., but back in 1994 the short point guard did this to Hakeem Olajuwon. How many politicians can include \"dunked over a Hall of Fame center\" on their resumes?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Vince Carter on Frederic Weis \nWe know Vince Carter's all-time classic isn't technically an NBA dunk, but it's so good we'll make an exception. Playing in the off-season for the U.S. at the 2000 Olympics, Carter cleared the 7-foot-2-inch Weis to throw it down.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFew moves in sports are as awe-inspiring as a well-executed slam dunk. And on the spectrum of slam, nothing compares to the posterizing variety. \nUnfamiliar with the term? To \"posterize\" a defender is to dunk over him so viciously and in such close proximity that the maneuver appears like timeless immortalization on a child's bedroom poster. \nThis past NBA season has produced a couple of all-time poster dunks. As the playoffs reach a crescendo, we decided it was high time to compile a 12-man \u2014 er, 12-dunk \u2014 roster of YouTube's most viral, sharable and re-watchable NBA slams.\n\nSEE ALSO: Shotgun\u2026Hike! Is This the Coolest Basketball Dunk Ever? [VIDEO]\nThe rules were pretty simple: Strictly posters, and only by NBA players and only one dunk per player. We included two from this year, a couple other fairly recent ones, some classics from the '90s and one throwback dunk from the '80s.  \nOur first dunk on the list, by Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin over Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins this past January, even spawned a mini social media spat. When Griffin threw down his epic flush, the Twittersphere lit up with LOLs and OMGs, and both players' names trended on the network as players from around the league tweeted astonished reactions. \nHowever, Perkins took offense to a tweet by LeBron James and called him out in the press a week later, telling Yahoo! Sports, \u201CYou don\u2019t see Kobe tweeting. You don\u2019t see Michael Jordan tweeting.\" \nGriffin's aerial mastery this season even spawned an amazing NBA Jam-inspired tribute video, featuring old-school graphics and sound effects. \nBut enough about Griffin \u2014 he's just one of 12 players featured on our list. Scroll through the gallery above to watch the entire batch, then let us know in the comments which slam was the most savage of them all? And which all-time jams did we miss? Drop those in the comments, too."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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