30 best NBA poster dunks of all time

23. Baron Davis over Andrei Kirilenko

This is my favorite dunk of all time for two reasons.

Reason 1: It was the end of the school year and just about everyone had moved out of the dorm building that I lived in except for the guys who all hooped together. There were about 12 of us and we were all watching the game in separate rooms, one at the north end of the hall, one at the very south. Our room went through three 12-packs of Coors Light cans (please don’t judge us, we were poor) and our friends were sharing a couple bottles of cheap Vodka. Choice in alcohol is how we split up the rooms

When Baron Davis turned the corner and levied the boom on Andrei Kirilenko, everyone on the floor screamed ran out into the halls as drunk as you could possibly be without blacking out and continued to repeat after every replay. This was the most fun I’ve ever had because of a single play of a basketball game.

Reason 2: A playoff basketball game came to a full stop and was sent to commercial because of the magnitude of the moment. It was the apex moment in a season that shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Everyone in Oracle Arena lost their collective minds, Baron Davis untucked his jersey immediately after it happened largely because, what else do you do in that moment? The “We Believe T-Shirts combined with Adonal Foyle making a “thizz face” at the height of the Hyphy movement was just the most Oakland moment the city could have asked for.

I don’t remember anything else about that Jazz team other than what happened in the midst of that moment.