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Hooft came off the bench and began his plexiglass-pummeling performance to make it 13-8. Cy Booker then went into his rim-bending routine with a swooping slam dunk to keep the lead at five points eight minutes into the game...
...some of the most thrilling moments in a season of slogging defensive domination. Among the best: the Houston Oilers' Billy ("White Shoes") Johnson (5 ft. 9 in., 170 Ibs.) of the end-zone victory dance, scooting past Chicago Bear defenders, then performing the N.F.L.'s first dwarf dunk-a triumphant spike over the goal posts. The Baltimore Colts' Howard Stevens (5 ft. 5 in., 162 Ibs. and the smallest man in the N.F.L.), the Nureyev of the sidelines, dancing beyond the grasp of lumbering would-be tacklers. The Atlanta Falcons' Rolland Lawrence...
...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...
...Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were largely responsible for instituting the anti-dunk rule in the first place. But size is not quintessential. Alabama's Kent Looney, a 5-ft. 9-in., 141-lb. guard, went over...