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Draft data of 32 basketball players (N = 32, age in draft year: 20.69\u00b12.28 years old, height without shoes: 196.75\u00b18.68 cm, weight: 96.85\u00b110 kg, body fat percentage: 6.07\u00b11.23%) participating in the 2000\u20132015 draft and 2003\u20132023 slam dunk contest was selected from national basketball association database. It was classified into finals group (FG) (N = 16) and elimination group (EG) (N = 16). Independent sample t-test with cohen\u2019s d was adopted for evaluating the statistical significance of intergroup difference and its effect size. The result indicates that Finalist group was significant less than elimination group on height without shoes (FG vs EG: 193.43\u00b19.47 cm vs 200.06\u00b16.52 cm, P&lt;0.05), standing reach (FG vs EG: 257.66\u00b112.32 cm vs 268.29\u00b110.03 cm, P&lt;0.05) and weight (FG vs EG: 93.38\u00b17.37 kg vs 100.33\u00b111.25 kg, P&lt;0.05). Conversely, compared to elimination group,finalist group has significant better performance on three quarter court sprint (FG vs EG: 3.15\u00b10.1 s vs 3.26\u00b10.12 s, P&lt;0.05), standing vertical jump (FG vs EG: 84.88\u00b15.13 cm vs 78.83\u00b14.9 cm, P&lt;0.05) and max vertical jump (FG vs EG: 102.39\u00b16.47 cm vs 94.79\u00b18.34 cm, P&lt;0.05). However, effect size analysis indicated that height without shoes,standing reach,weight (cohen\u2019s d = 0.73\u20130.959, 0.7\u2264cohen\u2019s d&lt;1.3, moderate) from the anthropometric indicator and three quarter court sprint, standing vertical jump, and max vertical jump (cohen\u2019s d = 0.97\u20131.21, 0.7\u2264cohen\u2019s d&lt;1.3, moderate) from physical fitness indicator has moderate effect size, whereas effect size of body fat percentage, wingspan and lane agility time (cohen\u2019s d = 0.31\u20130.67, 0.3\u2264cohen\u2019s d&lt;0.7, small) was small. To conclude, specific anthropometric and physical fitness indicator shows clear difference between finals group and elimination group. Height without shoes, standing reach,weight in anthropometry and three quarter court sprint, standing vertical jump, and max vertical jump in physical fitness are key indicator to slam dunk performance. In line with the result in the study, NBA staff can select suitable rookies for slam dunk contest. Similiarly, coach from NBA or other basketball league, who want to improve the player\u2019s slam dunk performance, should use specific training programs to develop the slam dunk-related indicator.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0299262","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,1]],"date-time":"2024-03-01T13:28:02Z","timestamp":1709299682000},"page":"e0299262","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Anthropometric and physical fitness indicators in the combine draft between the finalist and the eliminated player in the national basketball association all-star slam dunk contest"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-0455-795X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Tse-hau","family":"Tong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guo-wei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,1]]},"reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0299262.ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"396","DOI":"10.1519\/JSC.0000000000001798","article-title":"Predictive validity of National Basketball Association draft combine on future performance","volume":"32","author":"M Teramoto","year":"2018","journal-title":"Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research"},{"key":"pone.0299262.ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2359","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2019.02359","article-title":"Key anthropometric and physical determinants for different playing positions during National Basketball Association draft combine test","volume":"10","author":"Y Cui","year":"2019","journal-title":"Frontiers inPsychology"},{"issue":"15","key":"pone.0299262.ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1306","DOI":"10.1080\/13504851.2020.1809628","article-title":"Buying the hype? 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