Ralph Sampson - 1984 NBA Slam Dunk Contest
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2013
- Round 1
First Dunk (Score: 37): 0:36
Second Dunk (Score: 40): 1:15
Third Dunk (Score: 41): 1:49
January 28, 1984 - 7'4'' Houston Rockets center Ralph Sampson is the largest competitor to ever participate in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. He finished sixth.
Full, uncut footage of the 1984 NBA Slam Dunk Contest can be seen here: • NBA Slam Dunk Contest ... - Спорт
Crazy that he was 7'3'' while very mobile and with a 36'' vertical leap! Plus, being able to handle the rock, and shoot the J... Shame that he never had great mentality and was hit by injuries.
*7’4
36"? Who said this nonsense? It would mean he could touch the hoop with his head easily.. have you ever seen him doing it ? Nop...
@@airkuna Yes… ua-cam.com/video/k0YUN4DBIgo/v-deo.html
One example. You’re the one who should stop with the nonsense 🙄😒😒
He’s 7’4
@@airkuna Ralph Sampson's vertical is 36" and yes his head can touch the ring. In fact there was this documentary before (I can't find it anymore) where he could touch the top of the backboard. Wasn't impressed back then because he is 7'4" tall and has long arms. But that would support the 36" vertical of Sampson listed in many sites.
Ralph Simpson was an outstanding great player even with a short career awesome talent.
I wonder if he was saving his best dunks for next round. He could jump way higher than he showed in these dunks.
Free throw dunk from a 7 footer is pretty crazy
Wilt could do it by standing in one place
@@bikrambal791 ya, wilt used to dunk his free throws in college until they banned it in the nba
Louis Ochs didn’t they ban him cuz he was doing it in the nba?
@@bikrambal791 he may of. I heard of in college, but he could have been doing it in the nba if i remember.
His third dunk was clean. someone his size shouldnt be able to 360 and he did
@@paulbunch5657 what?
Amazing
He jumped 1 foot inside the free throw line EASY . Makes me wonder if he could jump from the free throw line wow. Too bad he had all the injuries he should of been a hall of fame player
And he started running from the middle of the court.
He probably could. He seemed nonchalant, like he knwe being so tall they would give him low scores whatever he did
He still made the Hall of fame
With a full court run up and like 4 inches behind the free throw line he could do that, It would be the world record
"He is actually a guard in a 7 footers body" Sounds like Kevin Durant to me.
Durant is 6'10" tops
@@paulbunch5657 He was ahead of his time. In the 80s, 7 footers were expected to live in the paint and bang around other bigs. I think that was what lead to the injuries as he was not built like the Artis Gilmores, Abbul Jabbars and other big tanker truck size centers.
@@atx4fun Kareem?
Kareem always seems frail at 7’2” while a C like Moses Malone a 6’10” stout bruiser type of C always crashing the boards. But go Google pics of Moses vs Kareem and take a look their legs. Kareem is 4 inches taller, but his legs are like tree trunks compared to Moses broom sticks.
so you mean even though moses had a burly upper body, he's legs were thin?
Sampson, the most gifted of the super tall player in basketball history. But Buck Williams of Maryland knew how to play him and the NBA soon learned also by just pushing and leaning on him. Slammin Mark Eaton probably the only super tall player to have a full career in the NBA.
WARFA NET ADVOCATE theres Porzingis now, what do you think of him?
Wilt Chamberlain?
Which tells you that the NBA isn't bsketball. Mark Eaton was a backup center in college.
It must have been tough to follow Michael Cooper's 24-24-22
I should be in here
41 for the 360 was a little unfair. That's an impressive dunk for a big man.
I feel like the worst thing you can do as a big guy in a dunk contest is make it look too easy. He made all of these look way too easy. Gotta use some power or something to account for the fact that you really don't have to jump that high to do some of this. That said, a 360 is hard when you're that big and you're not in the air for that long.
They need to raise the rim when this guy jumps to show how high he could get?
Because he was already 8 and a half feet tall!
He’s just too tall for this to look that cool tbh. Those r hard dunks but when U can practically dunk without jumping it doesn’t look so special
Exactly. Ain’t no way anybody 7’4” is winning the slam dunk contest.
True, being smaller and flying higher off the ground both looks more impressive and it can also give you more airtime for your dunk to pull something special off
@@jeremycrandall2899 Maybe if they bring out an 11-12 foot rim and do all their dunks on a higher rim they can do it.
Dwight brought out a 12 foot rim once, the 10 foot rims are just too short for big guys to do much, unless it's a certain dunk like Dwights when he bounced it off the back of the backboard and came all the way around to the front of the rim with his long arms and dunked it which was an impressive wingspan dunk that smaller guys couldn't do
1st dunk was pretty lame
He needed the creativity that got Dwight Howard the win when he participated. Using taller rims, dunking two balls at once, off the backboard stuff. It looked like he couldn't think of anything there.
Great college career and had a great start to his pro career, but really didn't have great stats to be in the HOF, but then again neither did Bill Walton
When he incurred various injuries, the injuries took a toll on him and brought down his career statistics. Either way, it's the BASKETBALL Hall of Fame, NOT the NBA Hall of Fame. Regardless, like Gayle Sayers' truncated career in the NFL, Sampson deserved to be in the Hall of Fame. Besides, he's (along with Dr. J, Charles Barkley, Allen Iverson, Dennis Johnson as a Sonic, Gus Williams & Hakeem Olajuwon) my favorite player---that staus alone makes him an automatic Hall of Famer, 😊.
Luckily, the dunk kontest improved lol
Even at 7’3” he could beat any guard 😀😜
7'4*
@@rayvaughnhogges6933 7'3 and Hakeem is 6'11. Shaq is legit 7'1, Jabbar is legit 7'2 and Ewing is legit 7'0.
You don’t know nothing
I remember an interview with Mark Eaton where he mentioned that Ralph was smaller than him, and he was 7 foot 4
🙈🙈🙈
lame