Random Stat: Slam Dunk Leaders

Q: Who dunks the most? -- chocolatedivatude123 and others

A: Short and sweet, and that's an easy one...

Most Dunks (05-06 season to 3/29) Player Team FGM FGA FG%  Howard ORL 185  208  .889   O'Neal MIA 173  183  .945   Marion PHO 168  181  .928   Anthony DEN 150  155  .968   Wade MIA 135  145  .931   Gasol MEM 116  127  .913   Iguodala PHI 114  126  .905   Curry NYK 112  127  .882   B.Wallace DET 111  131  .847   Jefferson NJN 105  127  .827   James CLE 99  103  .961   Martin DEN 92  97  .948   Garnett MIN 89  92  .967   Wallace CHA 79  86  .919   Gadzuric MIL 78  80  .975   Bosh TOR 76  80  .950   Mourning MIA 74  76  .974   Richardson GSW 71  78  .910   Dalembert PHI 69  72  .958   Carter NJN 68  74  .919   Webber PHI 67  73  .918   Childress ATL 64  65  .985   Hunter PHI 64  73  .877   Villanueva TOR 62  69  .899   J.Smith ATL 61  63  .968   Camby DEN 61  63  .968   Haywood WAS 60  61  .984   Kirilenko UTA 60  62  .968   Prince DET 60  64  .938   Magloire MIL 58  60  .967   Gooden CLE 58  64  .906   Abdur-Rahim SAC 57  62  .919   Swift HOU 57  68  .838   Duncan SAS 56  58  .966   Chandler CHI 55  59  .932   Ming HOU 55  62  .887   Battie ORL 54  59  .915   Brand LAC 52  55  .945   Przybilla POR 51  60  .850   Brown LAL 49  52  .942   Lewis SEA 48  50  .960   Mason NOK 48  53  .906   Bryant LAL 47  50  .940   Bogut MIL 46  48  .958   Pierce BOS 46  49  .939   Wilcox SEA 46  49  .939   Ilgauskas CLE 46  50  .920   O'Neal IND 45  48  .938   Butler WAS 44  44  1.000   Harrington ATL 44  45  .978

Well it's safe to say that if Shaquille had played more he would be the easy leader, but spotting Dwight Howard an extra twenty games played has allowed Dwight to emerge as the NBA's #1 dunker. Now that's going by sheer quantity, without "style points" considerations and there's several other fine players in the top five, including Marion (who gets a lot on Alley Oops as we pointed out here), Carmelo, and Wade. Leaders in Dunk FG% (min 50 made) .985 Childress .984 Haywood .975 Gadzuric .974 Mourning .968 Josh Smith Worst dunkers in percentage (min 40 Att) .788 Dampier .800 Darius Miles .810 Rasheed Wallace .825 Petro .827 Richard Jefferson Highest Assisted % (min 40 made) 95% Haslem 93% Ilgauskas 92% Deng 91% Stevenson, Biendrins Lowest Assisted % (min 40 made) 52% Pierce 53% Gerald Wallace 56% Vince Carter Highest % getting dunks blocked (min 40 att) 11% Marvin Williams 9% Haslem 9% Krstic 8% Przybilla Lowest % getting dunks blocked (min 40 att) 0% Marion (181 Att) 0% Anthony (155) 0% Garnett (92) 0% Bosh (80) 0% Jason Richardson (78) Dunks per game 3.39 - Shaquille O'Neal 2.61 - Dwight Howard 2.40 - Marion 2.14 - Anthony 2.05 - Wade Minutes per Dunk Shaq -- a made dunk every 8.9 minutes!

Now another fun random stat suggestion we've had is who gets posterized the most and we'll look at that soon! For this piece though we also wanted to make a quick check of the biggest tippers in the NBA -- the Tip Shot kings...

Most Tip-Ins Player Team FGM FGA Ast  Ilgauskas CLE 52  96  .542   Chandler CHI 29  59  .492   Dampier DAL 27  51  .529   Bogut MIL 25  51  .490   Mihm LAL 22  39  .564   Gooden CLE 22  49  .449   Randolph POR 21  37  .568   Webber PHI 19  37  .514   Brezec CHA 19  38  .500   Haywood WAS 18  27  .667   Camby DEN 18  35  .514   B.Wallace DET 18  47  .383   Villanueva TOR 16  24  .667   Griffin MIN 16  26  .615   Duncan SAS 16  30  .533   Marion PHO 16  36  .444   Harrington ATL 15  21  .714   Foster IND 15  23  .652   Childress ATL 15  28  .536   Collison SEA 15  29  .517   Kirilenko UTA 15  33  .455   Pachulia ATL 15  36  .417

Well, well, well. If we don't have a standout in this department -- Mr. Z Ilgauskas, who has almost twice the number of the next best player. The reason this is so amusing is that we will also soon be running an article looking at whose missed shots lead to the highest rate of offensive rebounds and we have a hunch that there might be some interesting LeBron James stats for that! The list is dominated by big men who like to hang out near the basket. Highest Tip Shot FG% (min 20 Att) .714 Al Harrington .667 Haywood .667 Villaneuva .652 Foster .636 Okur Lowest Tip Shot FG% (min 20 Att) .318 Foyle .318 Kaman .323 Gasol .348 Najera

That's it for today, more fun soon!

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