Sentence examples for dunk shot from inspiring English sources

The rule was rescinded beginning with the 1976 77 season, and the dunk shot became an important part of the game, electrifying both fans and players.

It describes the action of a leaping basketball player making an especially forceful "dunk shot," stuffing the ball down into the basket.

In front of the United Center in Chicago, an iconic sculpture of Michael Jordan soaring for a dunk shot has been generally hailed.

North of the city's official downtown capital, Tony Mallara hailed the news on Sixth Street with a grin and a pantomime of a Jordan dunk shot.

After his sophomore year (1966 67) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the dunk shot was banned from collegiate basketball, ostensibly because the rules committee felt, again, that the big men had too great an advantage.

WASHINGTON, March 3 ‐ Employing the Agnew hook, the Reagan dunk shot and the Haynsworth‐Carswell shuffle, team of Democratic Represen tatives took on the Republicans tonight in a basketball game at the Washington Coliseum.

He missed two dunk shots, and four of his other shots were blocked.

Barkley scored 23 points in the first half, including six in a row on dunk shots.

"I think it began with Michael Jordan, or maybe even Julius Erving before him, when the league began to relax the rules on traveling when they went in for dunk shots," Robertson said.

In their most critical game of the season, the Nets lost tonight to the Magic, a team they had beaten in their three previous meetings, falling by 103-97 and watching their faint playoff hopes get stuffed like so many Magic dunk shots.

'No Dunk Shots' is ​showing from 13 November as part of the 2014Independent Photography Festival.