Photo Year: Dunk Contest
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Dominique Wilkins stretches his legs beneath the rim in the Slam Dunk Contest
Photo: Charles Cherney, Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Photo Year: Dunk Contest FAQ
How does Dunk Contest Photo Year work?๏ผ
Play 10 rounds from a 10-photo collection of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Read the jerseys, shoes, arena, cameras and contestants, move the year slider, and lock in your guess. Every run shuffles the same collection into a fresh order.
How is Dunk Contest Photo Year scored?๏ผ
An exact year earns 1,000 points. Your score falls gradually for every year you miss by, with up to 10,000 points across 10 rounds.
What kinds of contest scenes are pictured?๏ผ
The collection includes dunk attempts, preparations and the judges' table from four NBA Slam Dunk Contest years. Most photographs come from a freely licensed Cleveland collection, alongside a few older contest scenes. This is a focused photo challenge, not a complete photographic history of the event.
What details help date a dunk-contest photo?๏ผ
Start with the uniforms, the arena and the people at courtside. Contestants wear their own team jerseys, while changes in shoes, camera equipment, sponsor boards and the judging panel can help narrow the year.
Where do the photographs come from?๏ผ
The collection uses public-domain and freely licensed images from Wikimedia Commons and original Creative Commons photographs by Erik Drost on Flickr. The photographer, license and source link appear beneath each photo. Images have been resized or cropped for web display.