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Russell Westbrook may only be 6’3″ and 187 pounds, but he’s still one the most forceful dunkers in the NBA. Late in the second quarter of the Thunder-Kings game Friday night, Westbrook took a pass from Kevin Durant and threw down a ridiculous one-handed alley-oop with tremendous power. My mouth was literally wide open after watching the sick play.

Apparently so was Durant’s. He told The Oklahoman’s Darnell Mayberry after the game that Westbrook’s dunk could be the best of the year.

“That was one of the most athletic plays I’ve ever seen,” Durant said. “I think it was probably the dunk of the year. He’s had plenty of highlights. But this one was unreal because of how high he jumped and how much he cocked it back.

“At 6-3, I’ve never seen nothing like that,” Durant said.

Blake Griffin was at it again Wednesday doing what he does best: throwing down ridiculously fierce dunks. He scored the Clippers’ first points in their game against the Lakers by following a Randy Foye missed three with a dunk over Pau Gasol.

As if that dunk wasn’t enough, Griffin threw down on Gasol AGAIN. Here was his monster dunk from the third quarter:

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The fourth quarter of the Clippers-Suns game Wednesday became a dunking clinic for Blake Griffin. The Clippers All-Star forward threw down a monstrous jam off a pick and roll pass from Chris Paul and just buried Channing Frye late in the game. It wasn’t as powerful as Blake’s dunk on Kendrick Perkins, but it was easily one of the better dunks in his career. Griffin finished with 27 and 14 in the 103-86 win.

Blake Griffin has put together several monster dunks during his short NBA career, and this is easily one of my favorites. Griffin, who once infamously tea-bagged Timofey Mozgov when the latter was with the Knicks, nearly repeated history Wednesday. Blake dunked over (or around) three Nuggets players in the third quarter of the Clippers’ 103-95 win. Griffin had 27 and 12, but those two were easily the most impressive. I honestly liked it as much as the Kendrick Perkins dunk.

This is Cal State San Bernardino forward Kwame Alexander. As you can see in the video, Kwame can jump high and Kwame can jump far. When Kwame jumps high and far, he looks like Superman flying towards the basket.

That incredible posterization seen above took place Friday against Cal State Stanislaus and is one of the best dunks we’ve seen this year. Even LeBron and Blake Griffin would have to be impressed (though LeBron better not tweet about it lest he feel the wrath of Kendrick Perkins).

Via Deadspin, The Dagger

What constitutes a dunk? When I first saw this video I was insanely impressed, but I was wondering if it qualifies as a dunk since Blake Griffin didn’t even touch the rim. According to Webster’s dictionary, it does: “A shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and attempts to thrust it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim.” Check and check.

Since we already knew Griffin was capable of throwing down dunks like this one and this one, he has to really work hard to make our jaws drop.  His dunk on Kendrick Perkins Monday night did exactly that.  How did he make the ball go in the hoop there? It pains me to even say that Perkins got posterized, because there was absolutely nothing more he could have done.  Perhaps Blake was trying to make up for that missed alley-oop from a couple weeks ago?  Between LeBron literally jumping over someone and now this, it has been a good few days for monster jams.

We’ve featured plenty of monster dunks over the years here at LBS, but we’ve had very few where a player actually jumped over someone during a game.

Sure we’ve seen it happen during dunk contests, but how often does it happen during an actual game? Not often. That’s why we have to feature this first quarter dunk from LeBron James where he literally jumped over John Lucas Sunday. I don’t care how short Lucas is (he’s listed at 5’11″), that’s an incredible in-game feat for anyone.

Blake Griffin’s second quarter dunk on Kris Humphries in Monday’s Clippers-Nets game is what we call a sports win.

Griffin, the NBA’s favorite dunker, hammered one home on Kris Humphries, the NBA’s least favorite player. It really doesn’t get any better than that.

As Ball Don’t Lie says, this is definitely the internet’s favorite dunk.

The Heat beat the Bobcats in Charlotte 96-95 thanks to Dwyane Wade’s go-ahead jumper off the glass. It might not have come down to that bucket had a LeBron James dunk off Gerald Henderson’s head counted. James threw down a vicious jam, but the ball bounced off Henderson’s head and the refs missed that it went through the hoop, so they didn’t count it. Here is the video via Ben Golliver at Eye on Basketball:

If that headline makes no sense to you, we completely understand. That’s because it is being used to describe a play that I can’t ever really remember seeing. The Miami Heat began their 2011-2012 campaign in a big way on Christmas Day by smoking the defending champion Mavericks in an NBA Finals rematch.  Since it was Christmas, even LeBron James found himself in a giving mood.  Instead of throwing down an alley-oop when he received a perfect pass from Mario Chalmers, LeBron tipped the ball to Dwyane Wade who slammed it home.  It was pretty much a double alley-oop.  Check out this video that LBS contributor Alan Hull called our attention to:

If you notice the score, you’ll see that the Heat were cruising the entire game.  LeBron said he wants to get back to having fun this year instead of being the villain, and Miami certainly looked like a relaxed bunch on Sunday.  Like them or not, the Heat are a team that reached the NBA Finals in their first season together and became extremely dangerous as the season progressed last year.  If healthy, I think they’re easily the best team in the NBA this season.