Terrence Ross of the Toronto Raptors was the winner of the annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday night, with a final dunk that involved a long distance leap and a somewhat terrified ball boy who had been utilised as a prop.

Watch the winning video here, or a collection of the various dunks Ross pulled off throughout the night in the following video, in slow motion. Slow motion always helps you get into that mode where you wonder at what point a jump legally becomes flying.

Note how close Ross comes to clipping the ball boy on his way to the rim, and to the peak of the slam dunk game, on the winning leap. Inches from disaster there.

As good as all of that was, of course, most people will argue (although with who we're not entirely sure) it wasn’t quite as imaginative, or impressive, as last year’s winner from Blake Griffin of The LA Clippers.

There is at least one point in the following video where you fully expect him to stop rising in the air. You know, in accordance with the, supposedly, immutable laws of gravity.