Taipei, April 29 (CNA) Reigning dunk champion Nate Robinson will head a group of eight National Basketball Association (NBA) players who will take part in a dunk competition in the southern port city of Kaohsiung in late August, organizers said Thursday.
The competition will be the first time an NBA dunk contest will have been held in Taiwan, said Chen Han-chuan, marketing manager of Bros Sports, the sports marketing company that organized the first NBA exhibition game in Taiwan last October.
Robinson, who plays for the Boston Celtics, is the first three-time dunk contest winner in NBA history. He will meet a pair of semi-finalists at this year's NBA dunk competition in Kaohsiung -- Demar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors and Shannon Brown of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Other participants include Nick Young of the Washington Wizards, Will Bynum of the Detroit Pistons, Dahntay Jones of the Indiana Pacers, Carl Landry of the Sacramento Kings and Terrence Williams of the New Jersey Nets, Bros Sports announced.
Robinson, who boasts a reported vertical leap of 110-centimeters, won the NBA dunk contest in 2006, 2009 and 2010. (By Chris Wang) ENDITEM/J