Word: dunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dunk. The word does not do justice to the majesty and the savagery of the act. First comes the ballet move-an explosion in the legs, a concussive last step and then a great leap. Floating, twisting, pulling free of the floor, drifting over dazed defenders. Then the frozen moment, suspended above the basket, serene for a timeless instant. Finally the kill: ramming ball through rim in a single ferocious stab of hostility and triumph...
...every schoolyard player knows, the dunk is back in college basketball. After a decade of exile prompted by fears that the advantages of the big men would destroy balance, the dunk/slam/stuff has set backboards resonating across the country. Trying to ensure that the equipment-as well as the quality of play-survived the onslaught of a gifted new generation of players, the National Collegiate Athletic Association retained the ban on dunks during warmups. (Regulation-play attrition is high enough: the University of Detroit broke 20 rims, at $30 each, in 27 games.) But it is a niggling constraint...
Harvard kept hitting and got the lead down to four with about five minutes to play. Then forward Nate Davis tried to slam-dunk the ball on a fast break, only to have Rogers get in his way in an attempt to draw a charging foul. Davis hit the dunk, and Rogers was charged with a flagrant foul. Both free throws were good, and The Crimson was never close after that...
...Every time they dunk, the crowd goes bananas," recalls Kallaugher. "It was phenomenal. All of a sudden 6000 people said 'fua.' It was outrageous." Kallaugher was quizzical when it came to pinning down the exact meaning of "fua." "It's an emotional word that just has to do with a dunk," he explained...
...when he was eleven, but Washington did not flip for baseball at the tune. In fact, he shunned it all the way through Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif., where his real passion was basketball. (Small by basketball standards, Washington leaps so high that he has tune to dunk two balls on the same jump.) During the summers he played baseball on a city team, and it was there in 1972 that A's Scout Jim Guinn signed him. Guinn, who had spotted Washington playing at age 13, had no competition, since nobody else even knew about...