{"id":443,"date":"2021-02-04T23:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2021-02-04T23:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:05:55","slug":"1988-nba-slam-dunk-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/1988-nba-slam-dunk-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">While this was not an actual game, it was nevertheless a monumental event in the history of the NBA as well as Michael Jordan\u2019s career. MJ took the world by storm, going head to head with Dominique Wilkins in an unforgettable battle for the dunking crown. Jordan created an iconic moment when he took off for a dunk from the free-throw line. The dunk so elegantly demonstrated his incredible hang time, that it ultimately inspired the symbolic figure of the Jordan posters and his brand\u2019s logo.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_13071\" class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/product\/artist-signed-michael-jordan-print-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jorsigsaderup.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jorsigsaderup.jpg 350w, https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jorsigsaderup-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this was not an actual game, it was nevertheless a monumental event in the history of the NBA as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-major-moments-in-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majormomentsinsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}