{"id":"1793747026102-sports-segment","slug":"dunk-score-top-five-plus-a-wild-platform","title":"Dunk Score Top Five Plus a Wild Platform","summary":"NBA Dunk Score is a real NBA metric that uses player-tracking data to grade dunks on takeoff distance, vertical, defensive contest, power, style and more. The 2026-27 leaderboard is live on NBA.com. This is a promotional fight-week post from the UFC; no independent factual claim to check.","publishedAt":"2026-11-03T23:03:46.102Z","channel":{"id":"sports","name":"Oncast Sports","language":"en"},"show":"The Pregame","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: NBA Dunk Score is a real NBA metric that uses player-tracking data to grade dunks on takeoff distance, vertical, defensive contest, power, style and more. The 2026-27 leaderboard is live on NBA.com. This is a promotional fight-week post from the UFC; no independent factual claim to check.\nSource: [nba.com](https://www.nba.com/news/what-is-the-dunk-score) NAMES: NBA = National Basketball Association POST 2117753693424533664: NOCLAIM None NAMES: UFC = Ulti (https://x.com/NBA/status/2117753697446850798)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"NBA Dunk Score is a real NBA metric that uses player-tracking data to grade dunks on takeoff distance, vertical, defensive contest, power, style and more. The 2026-27 leaderboard is live on NBA.com. This is a promotional fight-week post from the UFC; no independent factual claim to check.","sourceName":"[nba.com](https://www.nba.com/news/what-is-the-dunk-score) NAMES: NBA = National Basketball Association POST 2117753693424533664: NOCLAIM None NAMES: UFC = Ulti","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/NBA/status/2117753697446850798","claim":"Dunk Score is BACK 🔥 Measuring takeoff distance, vertical, defensive contest and more… Dunk Score quantifies the top slams in the NBA. Check out the top five from 2026-27 so far! https://t.co/R5saQA5NOo","author":"@NBA"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/NBA/status/2117753697446850798","name":"[nba.com](https://www.nba.com/news/what-is-the-dunk-score) NAMES: NBA = National Basketball Association POST 2117753693424533664: NOCLAIM None NAMES: UFC = Ulti","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"@NBA"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793747026102-sports-segment-dunk-score-top-five-plus-a-wild-platform","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/sports","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793747026102-sports-segment-dunk-score-top-five-plus-a-wild-platform","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1793747026102-sports-segment-dunk-score-top-five-plus-a-wild-platform and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Liam","text":"The NBA just brought back Dunk Score for this season, and the top five slams are already live on the league's site."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Dunk Score. They grade takeoff distance, vertical, defensive contest—like a report card for a poster."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Give me all of it. A dunk can be nasty, but I want to know how nasty."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"If you need a formula to tell you a forty-inch dunk on a seven-footer was nasty, I don't know what to tell you."},{"host":"Liam","text":"No, no—it separates the highlight from the HIGHLIGHT. A clean lane dunk is not a contested finish over two guys."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"So you want a spreadsheet attached to every rim? That's not basketball, that's fantasy camp."},{"host":"Liam","text":"I want the NBA to quantify dominance. More data makes the game better."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Fine. But if Wemby isn't in the top five, the formula's broken."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Oh, he's probably three of the five. The league posted the top five so far, and I'm already mad at the snub potential."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"This is why you'd be a terrible dunk judge. You'd hand out a nine-point-five for a layup if the math was clean."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Speaking of platforms, Midwestern Uncle on X says don't be afraid to write him in on a ballot."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"His list: college football conferences back to two thousand nine, sixty-four-team March Madness, ban NFL international games, primetime kickoff permanently at seven-fifteen Eastern, and federal McDonald's price controls."},{"host":"Liam","text":"I'm not saying I'd write him in, but I'm not not saying it."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"You cannot be serious. Federal price controls on McDonald's—"},{"host":"Liam","text":"The rest of the platform is perfect! College conferences back to two thousand nine? Yes. Ban international games? Absolutely."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Okay, I'll give you conferences—realignment is a crime against geography. But price controls?"},{"host":"Liam","text":"I didn't say I'd vote for that plank. I said the rest is perfect."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"He's running as a package! Write him in means you get the whole menu, including the government setting the price of your Big Mac."},{"host":"Liam","text":"And what's wrong with a two-dollar Big Mac?"},{"host":"Marcus","text":"What's wrong? Shortages, lines, black-market McRibs. That's what's wrong."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Oh, come on. The guy's obviously joking. You're the one taking it too seriously."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I'm not taking it seriously, I'm saying it's a funny bit until you realize some people actually think price controls work."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Okay, then tell me this: banning NFL international games—why do you hate that?"},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I don't hate it. But the league is a business. They're not giving up London and Germany money."},{"host":"Liam","text":"They're giving up home fans. A team in Jacksonville shouldn't give up a home game to play in Munich."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Fans in Munich buy jerseys too. That's the whole point of growing the game."},{"host":"Liam","text":"So a fan in Jacksonville loses a Sunday because a fan in Munich might buy a jersey? That's backwards."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"It's not backwards, it's expansion. You sound like a college AD who misses the Wing-T."},{"host":"Liam","text":"I miss kickoff at seven-fifteen Eastern. You know I'm right about that one."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Seven-fifteen Eastern is undefeated. I'll give you that."},{"host":"Liam","text":"And sixty-four-team March Madness? Don't expand the bracket. We already have play-in games."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I actually agree. But that's two of five. The federal McDonald's price control kills the whole ticket."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Fine. I'd write him in anyway, just to see the press conference."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"So you'd write in a guy whose entire economic plan is a McDouble cap?"},{"host":"Liam","text":"I'd write him in for the chaos, and then we'd finally get seven-fifteen kickoff."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Unbelievable."},{"host":"Liam","text":"One more from college football—CFB Junkies on X says Wake Forest has quietly become one of the biggest success stories of the season."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Wake Forest? The team that lost to Miami?"},{"host":"Liam","text":"The post says aside from a surprisingly competitive loss to Miami, they've looked dominant, and they won on the road at then-number-sixteen Louisville."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"At Louisville? That's a real win if true."},{"host":"Liam","text":"That's the thing—this is a claim from a fan account. I can't confirm 2026 results, so treat it like a hot take, not a record."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"If they beat a ranked Louisville on the road, they're not a story, they're a problem."},{"host":"Liam","text":"They'd be a problem for the rest of the ACC, but I want to see the actual résumé before I call them a success story."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"You're just skeptical because it's a fan account. That board is loud for a reason."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Loud doesn't mean verified. I'll believe Wake at number sixteen when I see it from a real source."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Fine. But respect the buzz. CFB Junkies called it quietly—quiet wins are still wins."}]}