Dunking Data For 1988-1993: MJ is the Goat In-Game Dunker for Wing Players

[Dresta]

This argument as to whether MJ or Bron are better in-game dunkers is so facile: Bron isn't even close to being as a good an in-game dunker as Wade was, let alone MJ.

[Rake2204]

3ball - Here's all of the data from the 77-78 through 87-88 Sixers guides (+/- and dunks):

http://www50.zippyshare.com/v/90023599/file.html

Apologies for the glare (would've scanned, but I didn't want to ruin the spine of these books), I included a text file with clarifications.

With Rudy Gobert being crowned dunk king with 270 last night, I was kind of curious if those 76ers guides were still available for download (or otherwise linked) for the sake of comparison. I see that Shaq had 328 in '95 and 322 his rookie year. I'm curious to see if he topped either of those two to get a frame of reference for where Gobert stands.

[Uncle Drew]

Thread created in 2014. Five years later and he's still not fed up of essays no one bothers to read.

What a damn, no life clown.

[72-10]

So MJ dunked ON people more than any of his wing peers?

Not surprised.

He's simply a better slasher/jumper/quicker.

Well he's a better finisher, too.

[72-10]

I'd think the easier to dunk/harder to dunk differences are the result of the Pistons and Knicks defenses then, as well as gigantic centers like Eaton and Bol, not just the primes of Olajuwon, Robinson, Ewing, Mourning, Mutombo and Shaq.

[tripledouble55]

3ball - Here's all of the data from the 77-78 through 87-88 Sixers guides (+/- and dunks):

http://www50.zippyshare.com/v/90023599/file.html

Apologies for the glare (would've scanned, but I didn't want to ruin the spine of these books), I included a text file with clarifications.

Were Jordan's dunk totals from 1985 and 1987 in here? Or is this just Sixers info?

Trying to complete this....

1985: ??
1986: (injured, 18g)
1987: ??

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1988: 158
1989: 117
1990: 153
1991: 126
1992: 95
1993: 94
1995: 25
1996: 92
1997: ??*** (49 - see below)
1998: ??*** (89 - see below)

2002: 20
2003: 21

***I've seen from others that Jordan had 161 dunks in these two seasons, per Harvey Pollack's guide, but not specific the total for each year.

Howerver, NBA.com stats does have shot data for Jordan for both 1997 and 1998.

And they say 49 for 1997 and 89 for 1998. The 49 feels like a bit of an anomaly, but that is what the stats say on nba.com.

[tripledouble55]

Jordan Dunks:

1985: ??
1986: (injured, 18g)
1987: ??

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1988: 158
1989: 117
1990: 153
1991: 126
1992: 95
1993: 94
1995: 25
1996: 92
1997: 49
1998: 89

2002: 20
2003: 21

Lebron Dunk totals:

2004: 91
2005: 126
2006: 114
2007: 108
2008: 109
2009: 128
2010: 117
2011: 98
2012: 104
2013: 144
2014: 134
2015: 88
2016: 111
2017: 145
2018: 120
2019: 85

I kinda expected LeBron to have more tbh.

Vince had highs of 87 and 86. Wade had one monster season of 153. McGrady's high was 114. Durant had a high of 146.

[tripledouble55]

3ball - Here's all of the data from the 77-78 through 87-88 Sixers guides (+/- and dunks):

http://www50.zippyshare.com/v/90023599/file.html

Apologies for the glare (would've scanned, but I didn't want to ruin the spine of these books), I included a text file with clarifications.

Hi fpliii,

Any chance you still have these docs? Possibly in a Google Drive? I'm happy to host and share otherwise if you'd not prefer to do it yourself. Could email to me and I would host and give you attribution.

Thanks!

Paul