{"id":603542,"date":"2026-02-14T23:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/603542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:05:15","slug":"who-won-the-nba-slam-dunk-contest-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/603542\/","title":{"rendered":"Who won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest last year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest brings together some of the most athletic players in the league for a slam dunk extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Who won last year&#8217;s edition of the Slam Dunk Contest?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Look no further than guard Mac McClung, who has won the contest for the last three years. McClung plays for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/chicago-bulls\/4\/\" data-autotag=\"405d8bcc-fb36-48bb-8870-95d5603bd7ae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> now, but he won last year&#8217;s Slam Dunk Contest as a member of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/19\/\" data-autotag=\"0beff9dc-ada3-4e62-b859-030ef8c2c69f\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Who will win this year&#8217;s Slam Dunk Contest? Well, it won&#8217;t be McClung, who is not participating. We should get a great competition <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/02\/14\/slam-dunk-contest-roster-players-list-2026\/88649553007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">with the guys who are competing<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m. ET The annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest brings together some of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[72400,7,48,6,47,76,3883,53093,72522,72404,72440,80392,72476,72445,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-603542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-magic","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-magic","14":"tag-orlandomagic","15":"tag-sstssportsnba","16":"tag-sstsnnba","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagchicago-bulls","19":"tag-tagmerit-prizes-contests","20":"tag-tagorlando-magic","21":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116071492851791543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}