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Slam Dunk Contest: History, All-time participants & 2000s

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest (officially known as the AT&T Slam Dunk) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) competition held during the NBA All-Star Weekend.

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Slam Dunk Contest topic overview

The analysis highlights History, All-time participants and 2000s as prominent areas in the source structure around Slam Dunk Contest.

Related topics
277
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
287
Extracted relationships
246
Related term clusters
39
Bridge connections
287

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 133 topics
All-time participants · 80 topics
2000s · 12 topics
1990s · 11 topics
2010s · 11 topics
Overview · 10 topics
1980s · 7 topics
2020s · 6 topics
Criticism and controversies · 6 topics
Records · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Competition
National Basketball Association
Discipline
Dunking
First award
Julius Erving, 1976
Most recent
Keshad Johnson, 2026
Most wins
Mac McClung · Nate Robinson
Sponsored by
AT&T

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Overview

History

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

All-time participants

Criticism and controversies

Records

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How Slam Dunk Contest connects Entity context

The extracted context around Slam Dunk Contest shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Slam Dunk Contest → Aaron Gordon, ABA All Star Game, Amar'e Stoudemire, Andre Iguodala, Award, Boston Celtics, Brent Barry, Carter Bryant, Cedric Ceballos, Dee Brown, DeMar DeRozan, Dennis Smith Jr, Derrick Jones Jr, Desmond Mason, Dominique Wilkins, Donovan Mitchell, Due, Dunk Contest, Dwight Howard, Eric Bledsoe Another extracted example is Slam Dunk Contest → All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Atlanta Hawks, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Chicago's Michael Jordan, Denver, Dominique Wilkins, Drexler, Dunk, Extensive, Gale Sayers, Houston, Jordan, Jordan's, Julius Erving, Nance, NBA, New York's Kenny, Phoenix's Larry Nance. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Slam Dunk Contest

Top relations

related to Records · 57
Slam Dunk Contest → Aaron Gordon, ABA All Star Game, Amar'e Stoudemire, Andre Iguodala, Award, Boston Celtics, Brent Barry, Carter Bryant, Cedric Ceballos, Dee Brown, DeMar DeRozan, Dennis Smith Jr, Derrick Jones Jr, Desmond Mason, Dominique Wilkins, Donovan Mitchell, Due, Dunk Contest, Dwight Howard, Eric Bledsoe
related to 1980s · 32
Slam Dunk Contest → All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Atlanta Hawks, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Chicago's Michael Jordan, Denver, Dominique Wilkins, Drexler, Dunk, Extensive, Gale Sayers, Houston, Jordan, Jordan's, Julius Erving, Nance, NBA, New York's Kenny, Phoenix's Larry Nance
related to 2010s · 25
Slam Dunk Contest → Blake Griffin, Charlotte Bobcats, Dallas, DeMar DeRozan, DeRozan, Eric Gordon, February, Gerald Wallace, Griffin, JaVale McGee, Kia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, McGee, Nate Robinson, Oklahoma City Thunder, Robinson, Robinson's, Serge Ibaka
related to Criticism and controversies · 25
Slam Dunk Contest → All-Star Weekend, Also, Although, Andre Iguodala, Charles Barkley, Consequently, Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade, High-profile, Historically, Julius Erving, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Nate Robinson, NBA, NBA Slam Dunk Competition, NBA Slam Dunk Contest, One, Prior
related to 2000s · 24
Slam Dunk Contest → A-list, All-Star Weekend, Amar'e Stoudemire, Bryant, California, Carter, Denver, Desmond Mason, Dominique Wilkins, Houston Rockets' Steve Francis, Jason Richardson, Josh Smith, Kenyon Martin, McGrady, Oakland, Smith, Steve Nash, Stoudemire, The NBA, The Phoenix Suns' Amar'e
related to 1976–77 NBA Slam Dunk Contest · 21
Slam Dunk Contest → Alex English, Although, Arthur Erhat, Darnell, David Thompson, Dr, Dunk, Elvin Hayes, Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Former ABA, George Gervin, Golden State Warriors' Larry, Hall, Hillman, Julius Erving, June, McNeill, Moses Malone, NBA, NBA Horse
related to 1976 ABA Slam Dunk Contest · 19
Slam Dunk Contest → ABA, ABA All-Star Game, All-Star, Bukata, Carl Scheer, Denver, Denver Nuggets, Erving, In Remember, January, Jim Bukata, Jim Keeler, Julius, KHOW, McNichols Sports Arena, NBA, One, Three, Well
related to 1990s · 19
Slam Dunk Contest → All-Star Game, Atlanta Hawks, Contest, Dominique Wilkins, Drexler, Harold Miner, Isaiah Rider, Jordan, Kenny Smith, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Miner, NBA, Orlando Woolridge, Rider, Sacramento Kings, Smith, Wilkins, WNBA-NBA
related to Authenticity · 9
Slam Dunk Contest → Ben Maller, Blake Griffin, DeMar DeRozan's, Fox Sports Radio, Griffin, JaVale McGee, Many, Nate Robinson, NBA
Most wins · 2
Slam Dunk Contest → Mac McClung, Nate Robinson

Important terminology

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Important terminology

dunk contest slam round final nba dunks robinson won erving win nate jordan year julius two wilkins winner competition one

Slam Dunk Contest relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 246 structured relationships around Slam Dunk Contest. Examples in this analysis include Slam Dunk Contest → Competition → National Basketball Association and Slam Dunk Contest → Discipline → Dunking. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Slam Dunk ContestCompetitionNational Basketball Association1.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestDisciplineDunking1.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestFirst awardJulius Erving, 19761.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestMost recentKeshad Johnson, 20261.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestMost winsMac McClung1.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestMost winsNate Robinson1.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestSponsored byAT&T1.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestSportBasketball1.00infobox
Slam Dunk ContestWebsiteAT&T Slam Dunk1.00infobox
Jordaninstance ofstars0.80text
Wilkinsinstance ofstars0.80text
Drexler sometimes declined to participateinstance ofstars0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Slam Dunk Contest bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Slam, Contest and Dunk. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Players
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  • kobe bryant
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    • Players
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  • slam dunk contest
    • Slam
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  • nba all-star weekend
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    • Dunk
    • Contest
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    • Michael
    • Jordan
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Slam Dunk Contest, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Slam Dunk Contest with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Slam Dunk Contest — History · splits 154 ⟂ 134
Slam Dunk Contest — All-time participants · splits 207 ⟂ 81
Slam Dunk Contest — 2000s · splits 275 ⟂ 13
Slam Dunk Contest — 1990s · splits 276 ⟂ 12
Slam Dunk Contest — 2010s · splits 276 ⟂ 12
Slam Dunk Contest — Overview · splits 277 ⟂ 11
Slam Dunk Contest — 1980s · splits 280 ⟂ 8
Slam Dunk Contest — 2020s · splits 281 ⟂ 7
Slam Dunk Contest — Criticism and controversies · splits 281 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Slam Dunk Contest

Nodes288
Edges287
Triples246
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006944
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Slam Dunk Contest to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, All-time participants & 2000s, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Slam Dunk Contest · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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