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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3816659, member: 833"]
I spent a lot of Saturdays playing pickup in the Field House, and there were some really good players in that gym, including several dunkers.  Those guys were really freaking good and usually really freaking tall, not some 5'10" hack who played every now and then and then claims "but I could dunk back in the day".

My math above is a little off because I forgot that smaller guys generally have shorter arms.  A 5'9 guy needs to jump about 38-39 inches to dunk.  That is high D1 level athleticism.  A 6'4 guy needs to jump about 28-29 inches.  That is decent but not spectacular athleticism that you might find in a Saturday afternoon pickup game at the Field House in 1992.

Maybe one of the Boneyard posters was really that athletic.  Possible.  It is impossible that two were.  It is a ridiculous lie that 3 or more were.

I don't know what to make of your story that 3 guys under 5'10 on one high school team could dunk.  That seems really unlikely.  How many times did you see Kevin Ollie dunk in a game?  He was 6'1, and went on to an NBA career, and he did not have enough confidence in his dunking to do it in a game.
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