Turns out Vince Carter may have stolen elbow dunk from Kobe Bryant

[BallsOut]

https://youtu.be/Yo0Jfa12hQg?si=MqkKSqktnAVfbOlL

The infamous Vince Carter elbow dunk done in the 2000 dunk contest turns out to not be the first one ever done by an NBA player. Apparently Kobe did the elbow dunk in 1997 in this re-emerged secret dunk contest tape.

Kobe the real dunk contest Goat?

[Kblaze8855]

Jameel Pugh was doing those in high school and I believe vince saw it online. He wasn’ta great player but he was one of the first internet famous dunkers.

[ShawkFactory]

https://youtu.be/Yo0Jfa12hQg?si=MqkKSqktnAVfbOlL

The infamous Vince Carter elbow dunk done in the 2000 dunk contest turns out to not be the first one ever done by an NBA player. Apparently Kobe did the elbow dunk in 1997 in this re-emerged secret dunk contest tape.

Kobe the real dunk contest Goat?

I don't think you know what infamous means.

[JohnMax]

https://umasshoops.com/news/2000-01/...ht_madness.htm

"The issue of Slam showed me doing a dunk off two feet holding the ball between my legs," Pugh said. "The next month, Vince Carter came to Oakland for the NBA contest and did the same exact dunk. I saw it and said, 'Wait, he stole my dunk. I didn't get it confirmed until Barbee saw an article in New York Times that said Vince Carter saw the dunk in the magazine and tried to emulate it."

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/13/s...t-victory.html

It was just as he had envisioned. Vince Carter took a bounce pass from his teammate, catapulted himself as high as he could and somehow managed to put the ball between his legs in midair. Carter was not done, but the rest of the slam-dunk field was tonight. He kept levitating before finally depositing a malicious windmill slam that rocked the Arena in Oakland.

''I had a dream about that dunk a couple nights ago,'' Carter, the Toronto Raptors' second-year forward, said. ''I saw it in a magazine first. So I thought I'd try it with a bounce. There you go.''

It was the third perfect score of the night for the 6-foot-6-inch Carter, the newly crowned dunking king of the National Basketball Association. Fending off challenges from the skywalking rookie Steve Francis and his Raptor teammate Tracy McGrady, Carter claimed the contest by flying up and over the competition.

After a two-year hiatus, the contest returned to raucous applause and the sight of Carter, last season's rookie of the year, ushering in a new world above the rim.

''It's over,'' Carter mouthed to the other contestants after he pulled the feat off with the help of a bounce pass from McGrady.

Carter also managed a 360-degree windmill dunk that brought the crowd and his peers around the court to their feet. The third dunk, on which he received all 50 points from the judges, ended with half of Carter's arm stuck in the rim for effect.

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McGrady talked about Carter's between-the-legs effort.

''I've seen a lot of dunks in practice, but I've never seen that dunk before,'' he said. ''I just put it out there and he put it in. Even though I've seen a lot of his stuff, it still gets you out of your seat. He jumps so high and he's so creative.''

Carter said: ''It's a little unbelievable to me to win this thing so early in my career. I remember back when I would tape and watch them all, over and over again.''

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-OJMLCF5oK4