Jordan Kilganon is a professional dunker from Sudbury, Ontario. He is 6'1" with a 7'10" standing reach and a 49.5" vertical, goes up off two feet from a left-right plant, and his signature is the Scorpion. He has invented over 300 dunks.
He was named after Michael Jordan, and there is footage of him dunking at one year old on a hoop his father had set low enough to make it possible. He played everything growing up: basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball, badminton, and track, where javelin was the only event he was any good at. By his own account he was terrible at soccer, high jump, long jump and the sprints, finishing second last in the 400.
The dunking start was slower than people assume. He went seriously after it around fourteen and still did not land a real dunk until roughly sixteen, and through grades eleven and twelve he could only just get one down. What changed things was dropping every other sport. He credits the jump in progress specifically to cutting out the running and endurance volume he had been carrying since childhood, and he replaced it with low rim work in Sudbury, three to four hours a day.
His break came when Hoopmixtape flew an unknown Canadian to Los Angeles and he landed a 720 on his first attempt.
Two moments took him mainstream. At NBA All-Star Weekend in 2016 the league asked whether he could do his dunk in jeans; he agreed, having already decided on the Scorpion and worked out that denim would cost him maybe one percent. Then came the Gary Payton video built around his Lost and Found, which he says is still the most-viewed video the NBA has posted on any platform. He had blue hair at the time, and later blue dreads, which turned into a trademark by accident.
He is careful about credit for the dunk that carries his name. The Scorpion was not his invention, and he points to T-Dub and others as the originators, describing his own contribution as refining it. The ones he does claim are the Lost and Found, the Hide-and-Seek, and the variation where he spins first and catches the ball afterwards. In December 2025 he won the inaugural DUNKMAN series on TNT, coming through a field of 40 dunkers for the $200,000 prize. He has a signature shoe with Serious Player Only and runs jump-training programs alongside competing.