More from The Q&A: Russell Westbrook

Russell Westbrook is in the running for a spot in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.

As the Thunder rookie talked about in The Q&A today, he’s still a relative newcomer to the dunking world — he’s only been dunking since his senior year of high school — and yet, he is already one of the more dynamic dunkers in the NBA.

He’s a big fan of the dunk, too.

Jenni Carlson: Top three dunks of all time.

Russell Westbrook: I liked the Jordan on Ewing down the baseline. I liked Vince Carter over the 7-footer. And who else? LeBron. Any one of those. You know, he had one on Damon Jones.

JC: What about your best three dunks?

RW: I had one in high school. It was a fast-break. A guy tried to take a charge, and when a guy takes a charge and you hit ‘em, sometimes you go up another level. So, I hit him and I went up another level, so it looked real nice. Then, the two I had in college last year. The Oregon one and

JC: Which of the college ones do you like best?

RW: I’d probably have to say the Cal one.

JC: CBS still uses a dunk of yours in its college basketball lead-in.

RW: I still couldn’t dunk then. As I’ve gotten older, my legs have gotten better. I always used to work out on my legs, but I never saw nothing. Nothing every shows up. Eventually … I started jumping higher.