Inside Basketball's Absolute Greatest Milestones

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These are the most memorable moments in NBA history. And first, it's the alley-oop that nearly killed a man.

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Away from behind takes it away, Chalmers, Hall, Daym!

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That's sending it down with some power.

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Oh, come on, LeBron.

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This dude had a family.

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But number 19 is even colder, because Daym once ended a team season with a single shot.

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Lillard, long range three, and it's good! At the buzzer!
Damian Lillard, are you kidding me?

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Throw hit them with a dagger and the goodbye wave? He's ruthless. But few moments are as unforgettable as Vince Carter in the dunk contest.

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Scratch that.

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Aaron Gordon dunks might even be better.

**Michael Jordan** (0:51)
That might be Alfred Payton in that mascot.

**LeBron James** (1:02)
It's over, ladies and gentlemen, it's over, I can't.

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Unless you're Dwayne Wade, that dunk is a certified 10 But Alan Iverson might be an 11, because this dude waited until the 2001 NBA Finals, just to pull off the world's most disrespectful step back. Bothered by who?
No, imagine getting humiliated in front of millions. And worst yet, you're getting humiliated by your idol.

**Stephen Curry** (1:36)
First of all, like, just growing up, and he's only like two years older than me, but I still idolized him. You know, it was Jordan, then it was, you know, AI. Like, that's who I looked up to.

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Safe to say, this is a moment he'll never forget. But I can't say the same about Allen Iverson.

**Allen Iverson** (1:52)
I don't know how it happened. Like, the moment and just the feeling, like, when I stepped over him, it was like, I ain't know I did it.

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How's this dude gonna make the biggest play of his life? Only for it to feel like second nature, which is crazy, because Steph Curry makes the impossible look even easier. And in 2016, his three-point shooting revolutionized the NBA. A year earlier, he had a record-breaking 286 three-porters, the most ever in a single season. But in 2016, he broke that record in his sleep. This dude made an unfathomable 402 three-porters. And Curry was so unstoppable that he made one of the most iconic threes in NBA history.

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Won't go, rebound taken by Iguodala.
They do have a timeout, decide not to use it. Curry, way downtown, bang, bang! Oh, what a shot from Curry! With six tenths of a second remaining!

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Can you believe this man? And since this man could be nerfed, the world had no choice but to let him make history twice.

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Your 2016, Kia, most valuable player, Steph Curry.

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He's not only shattering records, he's also the first ever unanimous MVP. Yet Michael Jordan was also in the process of making history, until he threw it all away. He won a championship in 1991, 92, and 93, just to leave the NBA in shambles.

**Michael Jordan** (3:16)
I think everyone knows exactly what the circumstances are right now in terms of my decision not to play the game of basketball in the NBA. Doesn't mean I'm not going to play basketball somewhere else, but I just feel that I don't have anything else for myself to prove.

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My man traded a pair of high tops in exchange for a bat in cleats. But in the two years without MJ, the NBA simply wasn't the same, and the feelings were mutual, because Jordan also wasn't the same without the NBA.

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A two-word statement which is now just begging to have a Nike campaign built around it, quote, unquote, I'm back.

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All it took was one simple phrase, and the NBA was flipped on its head. However, Gerald Green also flipped the basketball world on its head, with just a single play.

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On the run, two on one, Green to finish!

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Wow, the LEU!

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Oh my goodness, he just didn't make that a normal catch and finish.

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Rowe threw it down, and nearly gave the rim its first ever kiss. But would you rather make out with the rim? Or would you get a chance to humiliate your idol? See, Allen Iverson was just the rookie, but already the NBA knew this kid was special because he was tasked against the world's most premier perimeter defender and any rookie's biggest nightmare. Michael Jeffrey Jordan. But instead of running from the spotlight, he decided to keep MJ up all night.

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Iverson has Jordan.

**Michael Jordan** (4:40)
The crowd is into it.

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The crowd loves that, but the guess was coming.