Capital Classic 3-point and Slam Dunk Contest

Yesterday afternoon I traveled to Gonzaga College High School to photograph the Capital Classic 3-point and Slam Dunk Contest. The Capital Classic is basically a bunch of outstanding, basketball-playing high school seniors who gather in the Washington DC area to compete in an annual all star game that pits the areas top talent against the top talent in the U.S.

The three point contest was just kids shooting threes, so I won't bore you with those pictures. Instead, I will bore you with these...


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Nothing that I haven't really seen before. When it comes to dunk contests, there are no new dunks. The actual contest has turned into the shit-you-do-before-the-dunk dunk contest. The only way to win a dunk contest, in my eyes, is to be 5'6" or shorter and do a backflip over a burning spaceship. But Isaiah Armwood of Montrose Christian took this year's crown by jumping over seven people one of which was 6' 10" teammate Mouphtaou Yarou.