Top 10 Best Basketball Dunkers of All Time

The free-throw line dunk, the double-pump, the tongue-out tomahawk — Air Jordan turned every fast break into a gravity-defying spectacle that sold a billion sneakers.

The Human Highlight Film threw down windmills and two-handed power jams with a ferocity that made the 1988 Dunk Contest against Jordan the most debated in history.

Dr. J invented the art of dunking in the ABA with the original free-throw line dunk and a grace that made him the genre's founding father before Jordan existed.

At 6-foot-9 and 250 pounds, LeBron's chase-down blocks and tomahawk slams combined freight-train power with guard-level athleticism for two decades of poster victims.

Shaq didn't just dunk on you — he dunked through you, the rim, the backboard, and the entire shot-clock apparatus, literally breaking hoops and delaying games.

Jumped over a Kia Optima, posterized Timofey Mozgov into an eternal meme, and spent his early Clippers years turning Lob City into the most entertaining show in the NBA.

Back-to-back Dunk Contest wins in 2015 and 2016 with between-the-legs and behind-the-back slams so clean they looked like they were rendered in a video game.

Chocolate Thunder shattered two backboards in a three-week span in 1979 with such force that the NBA was forced to install breakaway rims leaguewide.

At 5-foot-7, Webb won the 1986 Dunk Contest by defeating Dominique Wilkins — proving that dunking supremacy has absolutely nothing to do with height and everything to do with heart.

The free-throw line dunk, the double-pump, the tongue-out tomahawk — Air Jordan turned every fast break into a gravity-defying spectacle that sold a billion sneakers.

The Human Highlight Film threw down windmills and two-handed power jams with a ferocity that made the 1988 Dunk Contest against Jordan the most debated in history.

Dr. J invented the art of dunking in the ABA with the original free-throw line dunk and a grace that made him the genre's founding father before Jordan existed.

At 6-foot-9 and 250 pounds, LeBron's chase-down blocks and tomahawk slams combined freight-train power with guard-level athleticism for two decades of poster victims.

Shaq didn't just dunk on you — he dunked through you, the rim, the backboard, and the entire shot-clock apparatus, literally breaking hoops and delaying games.

Jumped over a Kia Optima, posterized Timofey Mozgov into an eternal meme, and spent his early Clippers years turning Lob City into the most entertaining show in the NBA.

Back-to-back Dunk Contest wins in 2015 and 2016 with between-the-legs and behind-the-back slams so clean they looked like they were rendered in a video game.

Chocolate Thunder shattered two backboards in a three-week span in 1979 with such force that the NBA was forced to install breakaway rims leaguewide.

At 5-foot-7, Webb won the 1986 Dunk Contest by defeating Dominique Wilkins — proving that dunking supremacy has absolutely nothing to do with height and everything to do with heart.