Seven players have dunked during WNBA games since the league formed in 1997. Lisa Leslie first broke the 10-foot barrier in 2002, when she rose up for a slam during a Los Angeles Sparks game.

Team Wilson celebrates following a dunk by Sylvia Fowles against Team Stewart during the 2022 WNBA All-Star Game at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago on July 10, 2022. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images) ...

There have been 37 dunks in WNBA history and the 6-foot-6 Malonga will likely join an exclusive list of eight players who have thrown it down in a regular-season or All-Star game.

Too many times, I have heard the criticism that what makes the WNBA less entertaining is that players don’t dunk. The solution some have offered is to lower the net.

Her dunk in the last All-Star Game of her career was far less of a "gimme." Fowles — the WNBA's all-time rebounds leader — announced her retirement at the start of the 2022 season.

Along with the dunk, Fowles made a three-point shot to begin the game. In her entire career, she has only shot—and made—a single three-pointer, and hasn’t done so since the 2010 season.

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And when she finally dunks on another WNBA player, Malonga would like to see LeBron James sitting courtside. "He is my idol, since I was a little kid," she said in an interview with We Need to Talk.

Kuier is the eighth player in WNBA history with a slam dunk and the first this season. Since the league started there have been 34 dunks, according to ESPN. 24 of them have come from Brittany Griner.