When was dunking allowed

Observe: Kansas State was accessed a Class B technical foul during warm-ups. UK will shoot two free throws prior to the jump ball.

Yet even when both college and high school lifted the ban, dunking was still not allowed during pregame warm-ups. Violators are still assessed a technical foul.

She comes right after Candace Parker, the first — and only then — to have made it in If you are close to being 6-foot tall, dunking becomes a lot easier. Is it illegal to dunk in the WNBA? First things first: Nope! It is legal. No, you can not dunk from the free-throw line because there are rules in place forbidding you to cross the free-throw line until the basketball hits the rim.

You will only need to jump about 24 inches to reach the basketball hoop and 30 inches to dunk. However, if practiced carefully, dunking becomes quite comfortable. Dunking or touching the rim during warm ups or in a dead ball situation will result in a technical foul. In fact, dunking — the most efficient, and arguably most exciting shot in basketball — is about 56 years older than Zion himself.

Yes, you read that correctly. It occurs when a player slam dunks the ball with sufficient force to shatter the tempered safety glass of the backboard. Bill Russell. Bill Russell currently has the most championships in NBA history with Hakeem Olajuwon. Kobe Bryant. Kobe "The Black Mamba" Bryant defined the s. In fact, most people can't dunk, period. Of the 6 billion people in the world, probably only around 1 percent can dunk, will dunk or have ever dunked a basketball on a regulation-size hoop in their lifetime.

With his vertical leap reportedly measuring in at somewhere north of 40 inches the NBA average is in the high 20s , King James is able to launch his 6-footinch, pound frame with seeming ease.

With his height of 6 feet 6 inches, we can calculate that Michael Jordan can achieve a vertical jump height of 42 inches. No, Jordan flew for the first time from the free throw line in Now, we know what you're thinking, this isn't the Dunk Contest photo that might be the most iconic picture in NBA history, and you're right, it's not. The 3-point line made its way to all FIBA competitions at a distance of feet and six inches in before making its Olympic debut in in Seoul, South Korea.

These Men Can't Dunk. Nearly every NBA player, at some point, takes part in the league's most marketable ritual. But a handful of mainstays have never attempted an in-game slam. Unfathomable is the right word for it, too, because there is a problem with this scenario: Patty Mills doesn't dunk.

When was dunking allowed in high school basketball? Asked by: Clyde Wolf. Why did the NBA ban dunking? What is the longest dunk ever? Before a game in , the Boston Celtics' Chuck Connors shot around during pre-game warmups, and one of his jumpers hit the front of the rim. The rim was bolted directly to the backboard—a worker forgot to put a protective rubber sheet in between—and Connors' errant shot broke it, sending glass everywhere.

Even when proper safety precautions were taken, old school hoops and backboards were prone to break, shatter, or hurt players' hands with their rigidity. When Arthur Erhat heard about this, he got to thinking. Erhat wasn't a basketball fan, but he knew how to fix things. He lived in central Illinois and operated a grain elevator, a job that called on his ingenuity quite often.

So when his nephew, who was a basketball coach at St. Louis University, complained about dangerous and impractical basketball hoops, Erhat went to his workshop and started to tinker. That tinkering went on for 29 years. He eventually found his solution—ironically, in the middle of the NCAA's dunking ban. By rigging a spring from a John Deere cultivator into a hinged base, Erhat invented a rim that had give but immediately returned to its original position.

Erhat filed a patent for this new mechanism in , and its existence helped bring the dunk back to college. A variation on Erhat's original rim is still being used today.

Other tweaks like flexible stanchions were added, and modern-day hoops are nearly unbreakable although you do hear about the occasional outlier. That's the only thing I wait for. For years, many people didn't believe that Georgeann Wells actually dunked. The 6'7" sophomore at West Virginia University threw it down against the University of Charleston in , and only about people were live witnesses to it—the first official dunk in the history of women's basketball. There was video of Wells' one-handed breakaway slam, but it was kept hidden for decades, fueling the arguments of any doubters.

West Virginia University and members of the media made repeated requests to see the tape but, for whatever reason, Coach Francis refused to hand it over. Perhaps his reticence was out of pride. Georgeann Wells' leaping ability was well known, and her team had tried to set her up for dunks throughout the season.

Francis gave his University of Charleston squad a rousing pep-talk before the game reminding them not to allow any dunks—no one wants to get jammed on, even if said jam is historically notable.