The Greatest White Dunkers of All-Time (Video)

Today is the first day of summer and coincidentally, it's also Tom Chambers' 54th birthday. For those who don't know, Chambers scored over 20,000 points in his career but the biggest highlight to his name came in 1989 when he walked on air, propelling his sausage a solid foot above the exasperated Mark Jackson's head and then catching Jackson in the chin with his right kneecap. It was one of the greatest dunks of all-time and a poster (actually a statue) that Jackson wanted no part of. We salute the effort from Tom and pay tribute to the other exceptional Caucasian leapers like Brent Barry and Jacob Tucker with a round-up of The Greatest White Dunkers of All Time.

With over half a million views, some have claimed this as the "best white dunk" of all time...uh, negative. It's notable mostly because Waddell's complete and utter lack of swag makes his unintentional post-slam flip so comical. If he had actually meant to pull off that acrobatic move and stuck the landing...well, then we'd be talking GOAT for real.

Though he may have had more sick layups in his career then dunks, the bar is a little lower for our lighter skinned hoopsters (don't ponder the deep question of: Why? It just is). That means Thunder Dan is more then worthy of jumping onto a list with these "legends." He's just never gonna be called "the white Vince Carter."

Street ballers are ballers too and at 6'8" John Clark has proven he can put it down. Since he's not confined to a team, Clark is free to throw balls off walls usually considered to be out of bounds by the stuffed shirts of the NBA. But his signature move has to be his mid-air behind the back jam. It's a dope move that would eliminate most of our readers in HORSE. Unfortunately, it's still only worth two points.

Way before John Wall, Sexy Rexy was throwing down ill dunks for Kentucky. Call him the "O.G. White Chocolate," 'cause he had the skill and the swag to make him a hood favorite.

Zach Jones won Sprite's D.C. dunk competition and if you google him, you'll realize he's setting pockets of the Internet on fire. In the long run that's just as great as lining your pockets with NBA paychecks. Oh wait, no it isn't. Still though.

Andersen was in both the 2004 and 2005 NBA Slam Dunk Contests, though his performances were kind of embarrassing. Still, he's known to throw down on the reg, and he also gets high (in the past). Yup, we fux with Birdman, no Weezy. Birdman, Birdman!

Dude didn't do much at Eastern Dub, but he's been a YouTube dunking legend for years now. If you're only gonna have one real skill, there's worse ones to have than the ability to ether the rim like this.

As a senior in high school, Lee won the McDonald's All-American Slam Dunk Contest in 2001. Before being signed and dealt to Golden State in 2010, Knicks fans will tell you that Lee was one of the only reasons to watch a game during the Isiah years. He actually dunks with a little confidence, which is nice. Most white dudes throw down dunks like they have a train to catch afterwards.

Maybe he's best known for going up and over the league's best dunker right now but Chandler's padded himself quite the slam resume. That vid up top is 10 such examples from 2011-12 alone. Plus, he's already made the All-Rookie Team and the Rising Stars Challenge squad. If he can maintain a career and avoid busting an ACL, he could make quite the climb up this prestigious list. That's what you call a great white hope.

We looked for some highlights of Sura from back when he was sonning fools at Florida State, but this is all we could find. We always loved homie's game. Again: It's one thing to dunk, it's another thing altogether to dunk with AUTHORITY. Bobby put it down. Sidebar: Why is it that every YouTube compilation of white dunkers has the most wild suspect music as a soundtrack?

There's no doubt the kid has hops. But seeing this and hearing Asher playing in the background makes us feel like we need to go stand in the sun for a while. SPF 0, fam.

You know you've made it in this world when you can go by one name, like Yanni and Cher before him. So, the Russian-born dunker is well on his way. The dude's got a vertical that would shoot him up two rounds at the NFL Combine and he isn't afraid to show it off. Dude jumped over seven people at once to put it in the hoop. Did we mention he's only 6'0"? Can you do that? Grab the neighborhood kids and find out.

In 1996, Brent Barry became the first and only white player to win the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. And he did it without taking off his warm-ups. How G is that?

Birthday bias? Perhaps. But for white people, this is the sports equivalent of the movie Falling Down. "If everyone will just stay out of my way, nobody will get hurt!"

Tucker also has something else working against him, the fact that he's 5'11". His viral video campaign got him into the D-1 dunk contest and his victory at the dunk contest helped him land a spot on the Globetrotters. So, remember kids, no matter the color of your skin or the height on your frame you can be on this list too. If you have a 50-inch vertical, of course.