CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Props were the name of the game in this year’s Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend. Atlanta’s John Collins brought creativity with an homage to the Wright brothers in North Carolina by leaping over a small replica of a plane. New York’s Dennis Smith Jr. came with gravity-defying leaping ability over J. Cole.…
AP Published 10:55 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2019 | Updated 12:40 a.m. ET Feb. 17, 2019 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Reilly Opelka edged top-seeded John Isner the same way he knocked his fellow American out of the Australian Open, winning a match full of tiebreakers Saturday night in a New York Open semifinal that set…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Props were the name of the game in this year’s Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend. Atlanta’s John Collins brought creativity with an homage to the Wright brothers of North Carolina by leaping over a small replica of a plane. New York’s Dennis Smith Jr. came with gravity-defying leaping ability over J. Cole.…