News, breakdowns, and stories from the world of freestyle slam dunking.
Compare video-based vertical jump estimates for NBA players, see the source clips, and learn why footage and measured combine results can differ.
How high could Shawn Kemp jump? See the rim-position reasoning behind a 36 to 37 inch footage estimate and why power is not the same as height.
How high can Stephen Curry jump? Compare his combine result with warmup dunks and a roughly 34 inch estimate from his highest-looking footage.
How high could Spud Webb jump? Review dunk-contest footage, the commonly cited 42 inch figure, and a cautious 42 to 44 inch film estimate.
Do NBA players jump higher in games, warmups or dunk contests? Hear what elite dunkers told Dunkademics and why jump setting matters.
How high can Ja Morant jump? See the reasoning behind a roughly 47 inch two-foot vertical estimate and why distance dunks answer a different question.
How high could Blake Griffin jump? See why his best Lob City lobs suggest about a 40 inch vertical, with the source video and height calculation.
Was Kobe Bryant’s vertical really 38 inches? Compare the common claim with Billy Doran’s 40 to 42 inch estimate and the footage behind it.
Explore Anthony Edwards’s vertical jump through dunk and block footage, including a roughly 43 inch estimate and why contact complicates the calculation.
If you’ve ever dunked on a hardwood court and felt like something was different — like the floor was working with you instead of against you — you weren’t imagining it. NBA courts are specifically engineered to make you jump higher, absorb the impact of your landings, and protect your joints in ways that concrete, […]
I’ve been filming the world’s best dunkers since 2011. I’ve seen elite athleticism up close more times than I can count. But coaching Cam Hazzard to the DUNKMAN World Championship — and watching him walk out of Atlanta with $500,000 — is something I’ll carry for the rest of my life. This is the story […]
August 25, 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia · Overtime Elite Arena Cam Hazzard has won the inaugural DUNKMAN World Championship and the $500,000 grand prize. The 21-year-old from Dallas, Texas, who is triple-majoring in Accounting, Finance and Information Systems at Abilene Christian University, walked into Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta as a top seed and left […]
How high can Zach LaVine jump? Compare a roughly 43 inch footage estimate with his NBA-listed 41.5 inch result from the 2014 combine.
How high can Amen Thompson jump? See the cautious 40 to 42 inch video estimate, what the footage shows, and why a reported test needs context.
How high could Gerald Green jump? Compare his famous windmill with practice footage and a 45 to 46 inch video-based estimate.
How high can LeBron James jump? See the head-to-rim reasoning behind a 41 to 43 inch video estimate and the limits of footage-based measurements.
T-Dub, Cam Hazzard, Kao, Donovan Hawkins, and an 18-year-old from Poland. The dunkers who stood out most across two decades behind the camera.
Group D of the $500,000 DunkMan League wrapped up on August 11 at Overtime Elite Arena, the last group stage before the World Championship. Mac McClung squared off against Jordan Southerland, Dylan Haugen, Marlow Gilmore, Will Bunton, and Brandon Ruffin, and by the end of the night Mac was the last man standing. I broke […]
Group C of the $500,000 DunkMan League contest is in the books, and it delivered exactly the kind of finish everyone was hoping for. Six dunkers went up, three made the finals, and it came down to Isaiah Rivera outlasting a stacked field to punch his ticket to the World Championship. Isaiah Rivera Takes the […]
We built the Dunker Rankings page so fans could settle the “who’s actually the best” argument themselves instead of leaving it to us. 85 fan submissions in, there’s a clear leader, but the gap at the top is razor thin. How the Rankings Work It’s simple: you drag all 36 dunkers on the ballot into […]
Jordan Brand brought the dunk contest to its own backyard this week, hosting a stacked four-man field at the Jordan House in Inglewood, California. By the end of the night, it was Mattia Meneghini hoisting the trophy, capping off a finals comeback that had the room locked in from the opening dunk. The Field This […]
August 4, 2026 — DunkMan League Group C tips off tonight at 8PM ET on TNT (also streaming on TBS, truTV and HBO Max), live from Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta. Six dunkers, one night, and the stakes just went up: the group winner takes home $25,000 and a ticket straight to the World Championship […]
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 […]
