Word: dunks
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Some say women's basketball is pretty much men's basketball with fewer tattoos, but there's always been one crucial difference: women don't dunk. That changed last Tuesday, when LISA LESLIE, the 6-ft. 5-in. center for the Los Angeles Sparks, executed the first ever successful dunk in a WNBA game. "I wasn't thinking," said Leslie. "I just turned around, and I was free." With 4:44 left in the first half of a home game against the Miami Sol, she caught a pass, took two steps and launched a right-hand...
DIED. CHICK HEARN, 85, colorful radio and television announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers and 1992 inductee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, who during his 42-year career coined such phrases as "slam dunk" and "air ball"; in Los Angeles. One of the few off-court icons of the NBA, Hearn called the play-by-play in an uninterrupted streak of 3,338 games from November 1965 until Dec. 16, 2001, when he had open-heart surgery. "There's never going to be another Chick Hearn," said the Lakers' legendary guard, Magic Johnson. "Some people grow bigger than their...
...offensive end, everything clicked. Harvey scored 21 points and Winter chipped in with 18, including a strong slam dunk in the second half that put Brown away for good...
...junior guard Patrick Harvey’s in-the-paint dramatics, perhaps no play will be as widely remembered from the 2001-02 Harvard men’s basketball season as The Dunk...
Facing a strong Brown squad in a sold-out Lavietes Pavilion and on national television, junior forward Sam Winter took a nice pass from classmate Elliott Prasse-Freeman and proceeded to slam it down with authority. The dunk ended a Bears run near the end of the game and effectively sealed the win for the Crimson...