During State Farm All-Star Saturday Night in Los Angeles tonight, Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell won the 2018 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, becoming only the second Jazzman to win the competition, joining Jeremy Evans who won in 2012.
In the two-round event, the participants performed a maximum of three attempts to complete each dunk in both the first round and the final round. Five judges scored every dunk on a scale of 6 to 10, resulting in a high score of 50 and a low score of 30. Mitchell scored a 48 on his first dunk, 50 on his second, 50 on his third and beat out Cleveland’s Larry Nance Jr.