SLAM Magazine

SLAM Magazine is an American basketball magazine that has been in circulation since 1994, and is published by PRIMEDIA. SLAM publishes nine issues a year to its circulation of over 500,000 readers worldwide.

Magazine features

• SLAMADAMONTH ? a short article describing a slam dunk accompanied by a photograph of the play. This feature usually features a dunk performed by an NBA player, but has featured college players in the past. The first SLAMADAMONTH (Spring 1994 issue) featured Chris Webber dunking on Charles Barkley.
• NOYZ ? a series of one-line jokes commenting on recent basketball events, written anonomously. The first NOYZ column appeared in the March 1995 issue.
• In Your Face ? short one-page profiles on NBA, college, female and international players.
• Last Shot? a former back-page column documenting a game-winning shot during a game. This feature was discontinued after the January 2000 issue.
• The SLAM high school diary ? In 1994, SLAM began a tradition of choosing a highly talented high school basketball player to keep a monthly diary recording their accomplishments as they moved toward playing college or professional basketball. Since the diary began, 6 of its 11 keepers have played in the NBA. Only LeBron James and Sebastian Telfair were not in their final ("senior") year of high school when they wrote the diary. The following players have been keepers of the SLAM diary:
• 1995 - Stephon Marbury: NBA All-Star
• 1996 - Ronnie Fields: CBA player
• 1997 - Edmund Saunders: won an NCAA Championship with UConn in 1999
• 1998 - Ray Young: CBA player
• 1999 - Mike Dunleavy, Jr.: NBA player
• 2000 - Andre Barrett: NBA player http://www.nba.com/playerfile/andre_barrett/index.html
• 2001 - Eddy Curry: NBA player
• 2002 - LeBron James: NBA All-Star
• 2003 - Sebastian Telfair: NBA player
• 2004 - Marvin Williams: NBA player; won an NCAA Championship with UNC in 2005
• 2005 - Eric Devendorf: Syracuse University player
• 2006 - Thaddeus Young: Mitchell High School, Memphis, TN senior