This Saturday, a select group of NBA high-fliers (including three (!) All-Stars), will participate in the Slam Dunk Contest. The dunks will be successful, and most of all epic. But whoever said dunks had to be any good to be any as entertaining? There's a lot of beauty and hilarity in missed dunks—the struggle is very really out here, and embarrassing dunk fails can happen not only to your average driveway baller, but to pros like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade, and Steph Curry. Check out GIF Gallery: The Worst Failed Dunk Attempts in Basketball History.
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