West used to dunk in the NCAA, he stopped doing it by choice in the NBA despite entering the league with an impressive 11'4" max-reach
Bill Russell was a better high-jumper than Wilt Chamberlain, he was ranked 7th best in the world in 1956, was expected to compete in the Olympics that season if the U.S. basketball team snubbed him, and was predicted to actually break the world record if he'd stuck with it as his primary discipline.
Nuff said.