[EspressoParticipant]

Does anyone know where I can find that statistic?  

[mikeyvthedonParticipant]

Though CBS has a dunk leaderboard. It does say "2014-15 Dunk Leaders", but it looks like they are keeping track of this seasons totals:

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/stats/dunk-o-meter

DeAndre Jordan, Clint Capela, Dwight Howard, Rudy Gobert and Giannis Antetokounmpo leading the way so far. Blake Griffin coming in at 20th currently, and Anthony Davis at 27th, they tend to be pretty high up there usually.

Wish I had a better way, though another good one is Basketball-Reference.com if you go to their shooting section on a players profile. The data is only starts as of 2000-01, would have loved to have seen how many throw downs Shaq had in his young Magic days. In 2001-02 Shaq averaged 3.77 dunks per game, on 252 dunks in 67 games. To give that perspective, the most DeAndre Jordan has had in a season is 252 in 2014-15, and he played all 82 that year (3.07 dogg pound gangsters, or dunks per game, or dpg, whatever fits the bill).

Hope that helps, always thought it would be cool if NBA.com or somewhere beyond CBS (and their 2014-15 Dunk Leaderboard, although I do absolutely appreciate its existence, just wish it was better maintained) kept a running dunk leaders tally, where you could look up dunks per game. I did a few articles on Draft Prospect Dunk Leaders, though I relied on a site called Stat-Sheet.com to give me individual NCAA player play-by-play data. Seems that Stat-Sheet went under (or became a pay site? Either way, I miss it, was an excellent resource) and I have yet to find a site that offers the same thing.

So, if anybody knows of a site that does, am all ears. At the very least one that does individual player play-by-play data. Would be great to know NCAA Dunk Leaders as well and tally them for potential draftees. Dunks of course are not everything, if they were John Brown from High Point would have a NBA roster spot, but they are fun and a great display of raw athleticism.

Plus, sometimes I feel that there is a slight misconception of how players get their points, not to mention how difficult it is to get dunks in a NBA or even college game for that matter. As we usually see in the Dunk Leaders, size undoubtedly plays a factor, the top guys are lob catchers and than followed by many who combine size with athleticism. We only have three (classified as) guards in the top 50 with Zach LaVine (#39), Russell Westbrook (#41), and Andre Iguodala (#42). Feel like this is not only an easy stat to keep track of, but would be something fans would love to know. As stats get more and more interactive, specific, I hope dunks enter the equation.

[Robb_CParticipant]

Good Ole Stat-Sheet! I loved that site as well. Automated Insights was the company that operated Stat-Sheet, I believe they discontinued the site and focused in a different direction and sold the intellectual property to a different company… 

[Robb_CParticipant]

And to Answer your question.. StatMuse.com its a search engine for NBA Statistics, I use this site for all my NBA research.

[mikeyvthedonParticipant]

Kind of like a simple way to get things you want to know from Basketball-Reference, though I am wondering if you actually know how to get it to show dunk leaders or dunks per game? Does not seem to come up. If you could either give the question or the link, that would be awesome. I asked how many times LeBron and DeAndre Jordan had dunked, though it just gave either their games played or FGM. Still a great site, just not sure how you would use it for dunk leaders/dunks per game.

[Robb_CParticipant]

 Mikey, You’re absolutely right StatMuse doesn’t have any concrete Data on Dunks Per Game. I was referencing StatMuse because its a great PBP stat tool. I cant seem to find anything recent on Dunk Averages or DPG, it looks like 82games.com logged them but nothing recent on the 2016-2017 season 

[Author]

Posts