Word: slams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas now? A week ago, the National Basketball Association staged its All-Star festivities at Reunion Arena, where come March the National Collegiate Athletic Association will house its Final Four tournament. To complete the mood of a basketball world slightly out of whack, the N.B.A.'s annual slam-dunk preliminary was won by an undersize Texan, 5-ft. 7-in. Atlanta guard Spud Webb. Meanwhile, the long-range shooting medal went to a 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. forward, Boston's Larry Bird. The game that followed was overpopulated with seven-footers, but the most valuable player happened...
Brown rolled to a 32-19 lead at the half on a 17-6 streak late in the half. Turner scored six points in the run, including a slam dunk off the offensive boards which ignited the 800 fans assembled at Marvel Gymnasium...
While complete records are not available, it is thought that Dodson's dunk--the first of the two against the Judges--was the first by a Harvard player since Ken Plutnicki's slam in the final contest of the 1983-84 season, a span of almost 40 games...
Harvard tendered slam-dunk entries of its own,with efforts by Phillips and Kyle Dodson, but eachplayer was fouled on his try and missed the shot...
...when Schafer tried to slam Cleary into the boards as the teams left the ice, his action was again inexcusable...