Shaq just announced he’s launching Dunkman, the world’s first-ever professional dunk league.
Mac McClung is already involved.
This will get boring quickly
We’re already tired of the dunk contest. Why would they think this is a good idea? There’s only so many more dunks to do before it gets real gimmicky
The level of dunking by dudes who dedicate their time to it is on a whole different planet. I’m not saying this will work but they’re just not the same.
Yeah Jordan Kilgannon throws some down that don’t physically make sense.
Like sure Zach Lavine went between the legs from the free throw line.
BUT WHAT DO YOU MEAN KILGANNON REACHED BACKWARDS WITH BOTH HANDS AND CALLED IT A SCORPION DUNN
You’re not joking
Spoilers here for Dunkman
https://youtu.be/6e6zp8_jyz4
Wait this is from December, why does it sound like Shaq is just launching it
They restructured it into a league format with teams.
This was produced like a game show. Don’t need or want to see his family have dramatized nerves for the camera. If they can make the new league structure entertaining similar to how Banana Ball is to baseball, it could work.
That still looks like a really boring watch. A dedicated 30 mins or however long they are making episodes
Well this was boring after like two minutes.
but if you see all of his dunks in a span of how many years… if he makes 3-4 dunks per appearance, how many appearances would that be before he has no more dunks left? how much time does it take for him to come up with a new dunk that’s at par with his other dunks?
No I agree that it’ll get boring quickly. The dunk contest on YouTube was perfect that they had. I think another commenter posted about it. Dunks are great for montages and clips. But like I said I agree that it’ll get boring quickly since there physically only so much you can do
Yes, if you’ve followed any dunkers in the past decade they make the nba dunk contests look like layup lines. With stakes and some artificial drama this could actually be fun.
NBA players haven’t taken the dunk contest seriously in like 20 years, don’t judge it based on that.
honestly, i just think it’s cool solely for the fact that he’s making it happen. Whether or not it’s epic or it fails, that’s yet to be seen, but i like that something like this is actually being created!
Sort of like the “Big 3” thing! Yeah that shits lame now, but it’s still cool that they’re tried something new
I agree completely, and I’ve watched the dunk contest maybe 3 times in the past 25 years. And two of those were because a Knick was in it (Obi and Simms). But there are LEGENDS on playgrounds all over the world (speaking of Obi, his dad was one). Being a talented dunker is really fucking hard. Making an NBA team is really fucking hard. The number of people who are in the intersection of those two sets is miniscule. I love that dudes who aren’t known outside of a 20 block radius of their home playground will get a lot more eyeballs on them (not to mention a decent sized check if they win).
I never understood why people weren’t beind pro-dunkers being in the dunk contest.
There are multiple dudes with a 50+ vertical now and one even tested 52. And none of them is Kilganon.
There is more to dunking than vert.
Absolutely.
Yet he is still right.
Yeah this’ll be better than 75 percent of NBA dunk contests, but that means jack shit in general. Dunking is boring without the rest of the game around it.
Actually not a bad play if they can somehow generate some revenue. We’re so over the NBA dunk contest, if this league can manage to generate some views the NBA would have to incorporate them to some degree
They’re like 2 decades too late for this.
Fuck no. Pro dunkers are fuckin like circus entertainers doing wild stunts.
We’re tired of no names in the dunk contest.
Super stars used to make their stardom brighter with the dunk contest and the 3pt contest.
I blame Lebron, he normalized skipping the dunk competition. Especially considering his athleticism when he was young.
If it’s geared towards social media clip engagement vs people watching a whole tv block I could see it working.
Jordan kilganon does some insane shit, ceiling has yet to be reached in dunking imo
I haven’t even seen it and I’m already bored
I’m excited to see which investors get defrauded
as usual, the real/best post is deep in the comments🤣🤣😅
this has cash-grab written all over it😅
Yeah unfortunately there isn’t enough substance to it. It’ll be fun for 30 mins of television and then die quickly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e6zp8_jyz4 It’s very reality TV but the dunks are crazy. Not sure I can stand the whole show but the highlights are good.
I’d rather watch slamball
It’s due for another revival
what’s Sean “Inches” Jackson up to
I would even go for some BASEketball
I was gona say this is basically Slamball without the trampolines.
It will have amazing highlight for a season or two then just make royalties on YouTube and some the ocho channel. It may make it’s investment back
This is the obvious play, and its so on brand for shaq lol. Hes trying to pump it up just enough that mtv buys it and spams it inbetween episodes of rediculousness. If you want to see cool dunks go spend a halfhour on youtube and then thats it, youve seen em
I get bored halfway through one dunk contest…
Shaq’s the type of guy to buys a tub of icing and says he’s eating cake.
He’s going to dunk people with shit he saved up all week in a bucket
You think that now, but wait until Michael Bay becomes a producer and the basketball is replaced with an IED.
Nah. Dunking at the highest level is the most hype shit I’ve ever watched.
Until you’ve watched it for 5 minutes. It’s a shallow pond
Episode/round 1
Damn its just a dunk contest show? Id be more interested if it was a actual league where only dunks counted lol
Does anyone remember when Slamball was a thing?
Yes. Does anyone remember why it’s not a thing anymore?
(The answer is gruesome lower leg injuries)
They brought it back Summer 2023 and it was such a fun thing to throw on. Even my family members who aren’t too into basketball loved the idea.
Am I remembering right that instead of free throws you got to try and dunk on one person from the other team? Very good.
Came here for the slam ball references.
or worth 3 points like in North Korea
Wait is Kim onto something
I think some type of active opponent would help keep it interesting. Some of the best dunks involve some improvisation or overcoming and opponent
Beyond the arc = 1. Midrange/layup = 1. Dunk = 3. And1 = 3+1 opportunity. Posters… well, the team wins
If you get dunked on or your dunk blocked, 2 minutes on the penalty box
Make it dunk worth 3 points. Layups and middies 2, above the arc 1 point.
Hear me out…Japanese Game show meets dunk game.
The court has foam obstacles and you can build forts to protect your basket.
The promo specifically says it’s not a contest (but it sounds and looks an awful lot like a contest).
I love this idea lmao
The judging is going to ruin this just like the slam dunk contest. The second you give out a 50 to a mid dunk, the legitimacy is gone
They have to ditch the 1-10 scale. After each series of dunks, judges should rank them compared to each other. Assuming 4 dunkers, a first place vote gets 4 points, 2nd place vote gets 3, etc.. then after the second dunk from each dunker, you do the same thing but only comparing their 2nd dunk.
It removes a lot of the subjectivity. Obviously it’s still opinion based but now you’re making a direct comparison that offers more room than choosing to hold up a 9 or 10 and hoping your peers hold up a mixture of 9s and 10s that make it close enough.
I just rewatched the 2016 dunk contest not too long ago and this can also help eliminate a situation where Aaron Gordon did the dunk with the spinning mascot and then Lavine did the same dunk (without the mascot) and they both got 50s.
They both are amazing dunks, but in context the Lavine dunk should’ve gotten at max a 49.
I think a ranking system would go hard.
Everyone does their dunk. Replays happpen and the 3 judges rank them by their favourite. Average out the rankings and the last few get eliminated. Then to the next round and it’s a fresh slate. And so on until the winner.
You can’t ride the high of a great dunk, you can’t risk saving a great one either incase you don’t make it.
Bring in some gymnastics judges to create a scoring formula
Yeah, I think that they should develop a scoring system like for gymnastics or figure skating
Figure skating was the one I couldn’t think of. I knew there was a sport that has multiple scoring criteria based on artistry, technique, and difficulty but my brain just wasn’t putting it together
Or break dancing?!! Hahaha
Raygunn, the artistic dunk champ we deserve
Definitely what we deserve
Exactly, if you’re going to make a whole season of this, get a score for height/jump quality, technical difficulty, creativity and power. You could even add some generic wow factor for general vibes to serve as a tiebreaker.
Yea, this was my first thought. Dunking is so subjective and using a format where there are judges giving live scores seems…. not the most competitively balanced.
It reminds me of Dwayne Wade giving his buddy a higher score after he did his 6th between the leg dunk lol. I’d prefer if they did something like a HORSE competition where they have to replicate each others dunks.
No trampoline or ring of fire? I’m out.
Came here to say just bring back SlamBall
Slamball been back since 2023, it airs on ESPN
It’s on the Ocho!
Or the dog doo stick?
Please tell me they’re at least gonna jump over a Kia
Didn’t they try and do this like 10 years ago?? I remember learning who Jordan klingan was because of it
I was looking for this comment! I could’ve swore I’ve seen this on tv before, just drawing blank on what the name was.
Kofie talked about the dunk contest around the time of the all star break. He covered the brief heyday of dunking-themed shows, all of which were extremely short-lived
it was The Dunk King. I had to look it up
They did it last year already lol isn’t anything new.
Thank you thought I was going crazy. Wasn’t there a clip where they have the glove come out to hold the ball and he’s skeptical of the white boy (he may have even been in jeans) then after the dunk Gary is like “ok!”
The Dunk King during the 2015⁄16 playoffs for sure
Kilganon
Yeah I can’t make sense of the preview saying “for the first time ever” when this would be like season 3 basically
Yes. Business usually try things over again, slightly tweaked.
Who green lights these ideas lol.
Shaq
It ain’t shaq’s money that’s making this possible.
Shaq attaches his name to this and sponsors hop on.
Ya Shaq clearly has a Donald Trump/Nicolas Cage type thing where he’ll attach himself to basically anything for the right price
Jack Donaghy
Private equity groups with teams of accountants and consultants deciding they can make a few million dollars off by polishing turds and selling them to companies with way too much money for advertising.
I swear this was a thing already
I’m pretty sure I saw it on TNT or TBS
Yup, they did this 10 years ago and it wasn’t good then, either.
@2:43 seconds a 6’1 guy jumps over a kid who is sitting on an adults shoulders. Someone (GP?) says:
“We’re going to be taking about this 10 years from now.”
Technically correct.
Dunkman fighter of the nightman
AH-AAAAAH-AAAAAaaaaah
Get Isaiah Rivera and them in there and it could be pretty cool
“Not a game show or a reality show, but a league.” Proceeds to describe a game show and reality show.
Launching? Season 1 and 2 already launched on youtube last year ans the year before 🤣
Seems built for social media clippings.
It won’t get a ton of viewers airing traditionally live but the clips will get millions of views and it’ll be a massive social media discussion piece.
Sounds awful lol
Dunkman, Dunkman, Dunkman, them boys up to something
Brand new sport? It’s five episodes of people dunking lol
sounds terrible, truly truly terrible. plus they already do that once a year the day before the all star game i’m pretty sure.
This is like slap fc or whatever the ufc spinoff was. Sounds a bit lame. Not competitive or strategic enough to watch.
Interested to see how it works. I feel like there are only so many dunks?
Poor Mac. He just wants to hoop.
Look, even if it has a massive chance of being a bust… can we all reserve our judgment until we actually watch it? Sheesh.
I miss SlamBall
Lord knows he’s not about to create the shoot league. Lol What a joke
“he’s launching”
is he actually committing to this or just slapping his name on it for a paycheck like he does with 49 other things
Wack
And will monetize it thru sports betting lol
Lame as all get out
Am I the only one more impressed with a poster dunk over whatever acrobatics they roll out for this?
Go away shaq
I hope it looks like Birdman in the 2005 dunk contest.
Wasn’t there once a league where they had trampolines on the floor and players did wild dunks for points?
Dunkman, Private Dink
They need to make real life NBA Jam. Big head mode, start the ball on fire, all that shit.
Somebody come up with the big head technology already
I feel like they already did something like this. This feels like a TNT/TBS show like the AD prank ones.
People don’t even like the current dunk contests, why would they watch this?
And we already had stuff like Slamball which was a for more interesting premise and even that got stale fast.
https://youtu.be/xRaUCA_Nuts?si=mQY7SvI28JVPfsET
🤷🏽🤣 for the record s2 was fire !
“the dunk that started him on the path to studying medicine” lmfao its the voice
i sleep
It should just be basketball but they can only score with dunks.
Yall remember Slamball lmao
I honestly think this will be more entertaining than nba dunk contest
Do we give it 2 or 3 episodes before we run out of unique dunks?
Why watch this when I could watch Bonanza or something?
Add trampolines and I’m in
Shaq announced this a while ago
Did bro pull a LaVar and make a league so his son would be included?
The commercial has so many scene cuts it is making me dizzy
Would be cool if the winner got a 10 day contract in the league as a part of the prize. And got to participate in the NBA dunk contest.
I’m bored just thinking about it
That’s a great sign!
These iceman spin offs are getting ridiculous
just bring back slamball, big man
I hope they’re using those soft bouncy floors Fat Zion was using when he posted rehab clips
He already had a dunk contest show with professional dunkers. I love dunks, the dunk contest is my favorite, but unless they somehow turned off gravity, it’ll be stale out the gate
This is a 3 episode mini series on ABC at best.
Lol
Is that Shaq talking?
Wasn’t there already a league that did this with trampolines? Slam ball or something? I care so little I won’t even google whether it existed or not.
This won’t last long at all. It’s so boring.
and… no one cares
Loser gets a bucket of shit dumped on them
He already announced it months ago I believe during the All-star game. I remember watching him talk it up
Perfect background noise
I’d rather watch UFC style 1v1 basketball league
Wow, this will last a season at most.
cant wait for this to pop off. The dunk contest does so well right?
What a horrible name
Just give Mac the money and shut it down. Save us a lot of disappointment and anticlimax.
If he wants real money he makes it a dunk style game where dunks count as 3 points and shots can only be 2 points max
Dunk is treasured because it happened once or twice during a quarter, also it’s not the fast transition dunk that people wanna see, it’s the poster dunk, the earned moment of towering over your enemy when down 2 digits, the strife to get even or 1 point differential after 2 quarter down and the domination of dunking them to seal double digit lead
Dunk in isolation meant nothing
Lilly sponsors literally everything these days
It’ll be good until there’s nothing left. This is prolly a quick cash grab
We had this a few years back.. can’t remember the name cause it sucked and disappeared
The Power Slap of basketball
DunkMAN? Someone better create a “We no can dunk, but good fundamentals” league to keep things equitable.
It’s going to suck lol
Shaq sucks and he’s willing to put his name on anything
we’ve seen all the dunks
Dunking is just played out man. Accept it. Theres only so much you can do and pretend to be amazed each time
Not sustainable.
Make it a 1v1 dunk competition instead of just tricks. Dunks are the best when you can poster someone or get rejected at the rim. Make the dunks have some flair to it for style points.
Separate scoring and style points for different awards. If you want to keep human grading its fine but make a sheet of points people can earn. If you miss the dunk, it doesn’t count. E.g. 360 spin before the dunk gets a set amount of points only if you score.
isn’t this literally already a thing? I’ve seen clips from that show, I think Vince Carter was involved too?
didn’t they already did this and then it’s gone after a single season?
Power Slap but for basketball. A one-on-one league would be way better.
This motherfucker ignoring the existence of Dunk League.
Hasn’t this already been going on? Already has six episodes out from last year. What’s new?
Dunkman?
Now thats the kind of name i would expect Shaq to come up with. 0 creativity.
“This is not a reality show”
Proceeds to describe a reality show.
We’ve already seen all the dunks. There’s really nothing left to do.
I just don’t get the appeal
I’ll forever be pronouncing this as if it’s someone’s surname lol