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It was in 1994, to end the 24-hour non-stop basketball week-end in Orchies (France, 59), when it all began.
Jeremy MEDJANA, a point guard for the National 4 local team, proposed to the male section's President, Patrick VANBLEU, to organize a dunk contest, inviting the best dunkers of the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
At the slam contest, the numerous spectators were in heaven, especially because it was a local player, Arnaud TONDEUR, who won the first edition, dunking over his friend and teammate Jeremy MEDJANA.
With such a success, MEDJANA asked, in 1995, his President for a bigger budget, promising an even better contest. He needed it to find new dunkers from farther away, especially from the Paris region.
That year, MEDJANA wrote down the names of the French National Dunk Contest winner and finalist, Omar MANE and Max Norbert GUENGUIE, a.k.a. SCOTTIE, and invited them to the second Slam Dunk Contest in Orchies.
However, the most important meeting was the one with rasta-baller Kadour ZIANI, during the National Finals of the 'France Basket Tour' at the Zenith Hall in Paris, where MEDJANA was participating as a finalist with his team.
That French 3X3 Championship consisted of games with direct eliminations. That explains why during the game opposing MEDJANA to ZIANI, it almost became a street fight instead of streetball.
Anyway, Jeremy's team won every game till the Finals, against teams from Nancy, Bordeaux and Marseille.
Actually, the half-time dunks 'stole the show' when ZIANI started dunking over his brother Nordine, or from the free-throw line, all this in front of an amazed Kareem ABDUL-JABBAR and a stunned Georges EDDY, a French TV basketball commentator.
Leaving their anger behind, Jeremy MEDJANA thought that Flying Rasta could be a potential winner of the next Orchies Slam Dunk contest.
Talks began with the Kadour ZIANI team, through Djamel ARABI, very good friend and teammate of ZIANI's.
Jeremy MEDJANA proposed a wild card to them for the next Slam contest, which ZIANI finally accepted.
Winning the France Basket Tour tounament against a team from Paris, MEDJANA won a ticket to the French All Star Game in Pau.
But MEDJANA and his team got to travel farther, with their win in the Finals, since the French Basketball Federation appointed them as the French Streetball team to represent the French Federation in New Caledonia.
So, there flew the team (MEDJANA, Arnaud TONDEUR, Gustave ROBIN and Fabrice DELCROIX) to the beautiful island, where the players spent 18 days, promoting basketball in Noumea's schools.
