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 Dunk Shot
Sports Painting
Basketball Art by John Robertson
50" X 70'' acrylic/latex
on unstretched canvas

  
     
 

 
 


I originally did a series of six paintings for Fox Sports Net for s commercial to promote the NBA. You can see the commercial below these paintings. Others have wanted one of these paintings so I painted the series again as Fox owns the originals These are a little bit smaller and painted on canvas.

The set for the commercial.  This gives a sense of the size of the paintings.
 

  

 

This is a video of one of the Fox Sports Net commercials that ran for the NBA season to promote individual games in different cities.
 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


A slam dunk (or simply a dunk) is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball downward through the basket with one or both of his hands. This is a standard field goal worth two points. The term "slam dunk" was first coined by the late Los Angeles Lakers announcer Chick Hearn.

The slam dunk is one of the highest percentage field goals one can attempt in basketball as well as one of the most crowd-pleasing plays. Other terms for slam dunk include "jam", "stuff", "flush", "cram" or "throw down." Slam dunk contests are quite popular, and perhaps the most popular contest is the NBA Slam Dunk Contest held during the annual NBA All-Star Weekend. The first slam dunk contest was held during an American Basketball Association All Star Game.

Dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976. Many have attributed this to the dominance of the then-college phenomenon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then called Lew Alcindor) upon his entry into the NCAA. Subsequently, the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the "Lew Alcindor Rule."
 

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