News, breakdowns, and stories from the world of freestyle slam dunking.
Group B of the $500,000 DunkMan League contest just wrapped. It wasn’t quite the highlight factory that we saw with Group A. Between a decent number of unofficial attempts, a couple of dunks getting missed under pressure, and questionably low scores, this was predictably one of the weaker rounds of the contest. Here’s my breakdown […]
Group A of the new DunkMan League made its TNT Sports debut on July 21, and the six-man field lived up to the hype. Dengxing Chen, Doug Anderson, Joel Henry, Cam Hazzard, Shelby McEwen, and Jonathan Edwards all took turns trying to out-dunk each other, and by the end of the night fans weren’t just […]
There’s a moment in dunking where the whole gym goes quiet for a half-second before it erupts. That’s exactly what happened when Darius Clark, known to the dunking world as @Kingdac, rose up for what’s now a new world record max vertical leap. The clip, posted to the Dunkademics TikTok, raced past 10,000 likes and […]
Professional dunking had itself a moment this weekend, and it happened in France. The 2026 Quai 54 World Streetball Championship brought together some of the best dunkers alive for one of the most stacked dunk contest fields we’ve covered this year, and when the dust settled, it was déjà vu at the top. Chen Dengxing […]
Professional dunking finally has its own league. On July 21, 2026, the DunkMan League tips off at 8PM ET on TNT. It’s the biggest thing to happen to competitive dunking since Shaq’s original Dunk King series. Twenty-four of the best dunkers alive are competing, split into four group stages. All of them are chasing a […]
