Cam Hazzard is a 21-year-old professional dunker from Dallas, Texas, and the first champion of Shaq’s DunkMan League. Known in the community as Hazzardous Dunks, he is now widely regarded as the best dunker in the world: a two-foot jumper with a tested 50″ vertical and a bag of 360 variations, from the 360 Underboth to the 360 Scoop and 360 Inverter, that few dunkers on the planet can match.
Cam’s story is one of the most unlikely in the sport. He grew up watching Dunkademics with his cousin, who convinced him the dunks on screen were CGI and not physically possible, a myth he believed for years. He chased a college basketball dream until injuries redirected him: he tore both hamstrings as a sophomore, weeks after his first windmill, and returned six inches taller with dunking quietly taking over. He landed his first dunk in November 2021 at 15, and only started posting after Donovan Hawkins saw his clips and told him he jumped way too high not to have an Instagram.
From there his rise was rapid and largely unmeasured: he simply played and dunked four to five hours a day until his first-ever vertical test in 2025 read 47 inches. Then, in January, he shattered his hand in an intramural game, requiring surgery and permanent plates and screws. Three weeks after coming back, he tested a 50″ vertical. Cam has his best dunking still ahead of him and is one of the most exciting young athletes to watch this summer.
DunkMan League 2026 champion. Hazzard won Group Stage A on July 21 with a 9.55, the highest score posted in any group stage that season, and took Dunk of the Night. On August 25 he won the World Championship at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta, taking the $500,000 grand prize and becoming the first champion in the league’s history. Dengxing Chen finished second, Isaiah Rivera third and Jordan Southerland fourth.
Cam has been blowing up since winning $500,000. He recently signed with C4 Energy drink to be one of their sponsored athletes. He was on the Pat Macafee show for ESPN, and wowed the crew with some amazing dunks. Cam will still be attending school this year, where he is a 4.0 student, but look for him to still be posting plenty of dunk content Hazzard is expected to return to the Dunkman league next season, where the grand prize will double in size, and become a whopping 1 Million Dollars! This according to Shaq, who announce it when handing Cam the trophy. I will also be filming Cam more this year, so stay tuned for more Cam Hazzard dunk videos on my youtube and tiktok pages!
