Per Jr. NBA ( An official affiliate of the NBA)
The term dunk is defined by the following
“A shot thrown downward through the basket, with one or two hands”
The key words being: Thrown Downward
By this definition the Blake Griffin dunk, Dwight Howard dunk, AND the dunk done by Mathurin that was posted today are all OFFICIALLY DEFINED AS DUNKS
by Air_Enthusiast
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Dwight won the DUNK contest with one, I thought it was always accepted that thrunks are dunks
we’re in the deepest part of the offseason, almost there!
anybody arguing otherwise is lame. my favorite one will always be the terrible lob that was thrown to Derrick Jones Jr in 18-19
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So a three-point dunk is actually more possible. I can see Derrick Jones doing it.
That definition means the Kareem sky hook is a dunk so no, I don’t agree with it.
Next you’re gonna clear up the ball rules for us?
Balk Rules
1) You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can’t do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can’t be over here and say to the runner, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to pitch and then don’t pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there’s the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn’t been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn’t typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). “get in mah bellah” — Adam Water, “The Waterboy.” Haha, classic…
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2) Do not do a balk please.
those “dunks” are still ass, sorry
You have to say “thrown downward” like Bill Walton it’s also in the rule book
Ant’s dunk against the Jazz this year too, which I think most people had as the dunk of the year
Anyone who says otherwise is a nuffie who can’t, and has never been able to dunk
Meteor Jam
So if by chance a player is tall enough to the point where, during an outside perimeter jump shot and their hands are above the rim when shooting, that would, by the book definition, be a dunk?