Most Iconic Warriors Dunk Tournament

The question is simple: What is the most iconic Warriors dunk?

To settle this extremely important matter, we will have a straight single elimination bracket tournament. You might say, wait isn’t this just an excuse to rewatch fantastic dunks? Of course not, this is purely for science.

DNHQ commenters nominated a number of dunks. I filtered out 16 based on whether I could find an official NBA or ESPN YouTube video about the play. The reasoning is simple: How iconic can a play be if it doesn’t have its own video?

I considered determining the seeding using the same strategy as NCAA March Madness Committees — “pulling it out of my butt” — but I opted to seed the plays based on the number of views the official video had. Of course, humans must use their judgment to make the final decision. Humans like you.

I suggest for this very scientific process that you carefully view each dunk and put the volume on loud.

We begin with our first matchup:

#8 Draymond long pass to Steph mid-air alley oop to KD

#9 Jason Richardson Dunk Contest, 2002 and 2003

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To vote, you can use the Substack poll here or write a comment including exactly one hashtag #8 or #9. Comment votes with explanation are worth 10 poll votes.