If you’re like me, and love looking up useless basketball stuff, you know about CBS Sports’ Dunk-o-meter… it tracks the total number of dunks in the season by every single player in the NBA. This is a stat I love looking at, and why wouldn’t I, I love dunks.
Well, I thought… let me check how many dunks these guys get per game. My man Andrew Bynum is ranked 25th in dunks with 77 on the season.. but he played a little more than half the season. Lebron James is ranked 15th with 98 dunks, but he played nearly every game. Dunks per game would better show how often a guy dunks.
Then I thought, even better… how about dunks per minute? I had one guy in mind, a dunk MACHINE who I figured would be at the top of the list.. and I wasn’t wrong. You’ll see.
So I went along and calculated each player’s dunks per game and per minute. For ‘per minute’, I will rank players by dunks per 36min, and as a different way to look at it, how many minutes it takes them to get 1 dunk (for example, Player A gets 1 dunk for every 10 minutes he’s out there).
452 players played at least a minute this year - 348 of them (77%) had at least one dunk. As an arbitrary qualifier to make my job easier, players need at least 20 dunks this season to be included in these ranking - 144 players qualified. And out of those players, I’ll be listing the top 20 players in total dunks, dunks per game, and dunks per minute.
Here we go.
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Total dunks
1. Dwight Howard - 227 dunks
2. Blake Griffin - 214
3. DeAndre Jordan - 158
4. JaVale McGee - 155
5. LaMarcus Aldridge - 148
6. Tyson Chandler - 129
7. Kevin Durant - 125
8. Amar’e Stoudemire - 119
9. Nene - 112
10. Serge Ibaka - 102
11. Andre Iguodala - 102
12. Dwyane Wade - 102
13. JJ Hickson - 99
14. Kris Humphries - 99
15. LeBron James - 98
16. Josh Smith - 98
17. Brook Lopez - 87
18. Emeka Okafor - 84
19. Hakim Warrick - 84
20. Thaddeus Young - 84
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Dunks per game
1. Dwight Howard - 2.91 dunks/g
2. Blake Griffin - 2.61
3. DeAndre Jordan - 1.98
4. JaVale McGee - 1.96
5. LaMarcus Aldridge - 1.83
6. Tyson Chandler - 1.74
7. Kevin Durant - 1.60
8. Amar’e Stoudemire - 1.53
9. Andre Iguodala - 1.52
10. Nene - 1.49
11. Andrew Bynum - 1.43
12. Dwyane Wade - 1.34
13. Kris Humphries - 1.34
14. Kenyon Martin - 1.33
15. Josh Smith - 1.27
16. Serge Ibaka - 1.24
17. LeBron James - 1.24
18. JJ Hickson - 1.24
19. Joakim Noah - 1.21
20. Emeka Okafor - 1.17
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Dunks per 36min
1. Jeremy Evans - 3.81 dunks/36min
2. Dwight Howard - 2.78
3. DeAndre Jordan - 2.78
4. Derrick Brown - 2.69
5. JaVale McGee - 2.54
6. Blake Griffin - 2.48
7. Chris Wilcox - 2.34
8. Tyson Chandler - 2.26
9. Hakim Warrick - 2.14
10. Ryan Hollins - 2.13
11. Shaquille O’Neal - 2.06
12. Timofey Mozgov - 1.92
13. Derrick Favors - 1.92
14. Kenyon Martin - 1.87
15. Omer Asik - 1.86
16. Andrew Bynum -1.85
17. Nene - 1.76
18. Kris Humphries - 1.73
19. Brendan Haywood - 1.70
20. Josh McRoberts - 1.67
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1 dunk every … minutes
1. Jeremy Evans - 9.45 minutes of gametime to get one dunk
2. Dwight Howard - 12.93
3. DeAndre Jordan - 12.96
4. Derrick Brown - 13.40
5. JaVale McGee - 14.15
6. Blake Griffin - 14.54
7. Chris Wilcox - 15.10
8. Tyson Chandler - 15.96
9. Hakim Warrick - 16.85
10. Ryan Hollins - 16.89
11. Shaquille O’Neal - 17.49
12. Timofey Mozgov - 18.71
13. Derrick Favors - 18.72
14. Kenyon Martin - 19.27
15. Omer Asik - 19.39
16. Andrew Bynum - 19.48
17. Nene - 20.46
18. Kris Humphries - 20.82
19. Brendan Haywood - 21.13
20. Josh McRoberts - 21.58
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There you have it. The top dunkers of the 2010-2011 season, by total dunks, dunks per game, and dunks per minute. I knew Jeremy Evans had to be #1 in dunks per minute… the man is a pogo stick out there. He gets a dunk for basically every 10 minutes he’s on the court… absurd.
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