Darryl Dawkins, whose backboard-shattering dunks earned him the moniker "Chocolate Thunder" and helped pave the way for breakaway rims, has died. He was 58. The Lehigh County, Pennsylvania coroner's ...

The Richfield/Westonka Section 6AAA boys basketball game ended with a literal thud Wednesday night, after a dunk caused a ...

Darryl Dawkins was once summoned in the Philadelphia 76ers' locker room to meet a celebrity who wanted to meet the man known for dunking with backboard-breaking force. The guest was Grammy Award ...

Gideon Horton of Richfield High School delivered the game-ending play Wednesday against Westonka with the ...

Richfield High School junior Gideon Horne shattered the backboard off an alley-oop dunk on Wednesday night to put his team up by 39 points against Westonka, and the game was called off. Richfield is ...

He was never an All-Star. He never made an All-NBA team. Darryl “Chocolate Thunder” Dawkins, though, was a legend in his own right. Not only was he the first player to go straight from high school ...