Basketball roots
Springfield, Massachusetts roots, a Virginia high-school basketball journey, and the identity “Kick the Backboard.”
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About DunkStat™
DunkStat™ is the official name of the movement, statistical symbol system, and scorebook created to make the slam dunk a distinct, measurable, verifiable, and preservable basketball statistic.
Official definition
D-U-N-K-S-T-A-T
DunkStat™ means the statistic of the slam dunk. The system gives scorekeepers a dedicated language for made dunks, attempts, assists, blocked dunks, styles, percentages, game totals, season totals, and historical leaders.
DunkStat™ is not a player nickname or a spelling variation of another term. The official website is DunkStat.com.
Founder biography
Dr. Pastor Timothy “Kick the Backboard” Stanfill
Dr. Pastor Timothy Stanfill is a pastor, author, entrepreneur, former college and professional basketball player, and the founder of DunkStat™. Originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, he became known as “Kick the Backboard” during his basketball journey and carried that above-the-rim identity into a lifelong mission to document the slam dunk.
Wearing No. 33 at the University of the District of Columbia, Stanfill experienced firsthand how the dunk could shape a game, inspire a crowd, and become part of a player’s legacy. Preserved UDC play-by-play records identify his dunks as distinct game events—an experience he recognizes as a formative foundation for the DunkStat™ vision.
Stanfill later played professional basketball in Israel. His athletic experience, ministry leadership, authorship, and media work came together in a larger calling: to give scorekeepers, athletes, schools, leagues, researchers, and fans a shared language for identifying, recording, verifying, and preserving the slam dunk as its own statistic.
Through DunkStat.com, DunkStatBook.com, the Official DunkStat Scorebook, the 38-symbol statistical system, and the Make the Dunk a Statistic™ campaign, he continues an effort documented since 1999 and petitioned online since 2009.
The Dunk Made History. Now History Must Record the Dunk.™
The picture behind the name
“Kick the Backboard”
This signature photograph captures Tim Stanfill in his UDC No. 33 uniform beneath the basket—the athletic identity that inspired the name “Kick the Backboard” and became part of the story behind DunkStat™.
Above the rim was an identity. Recording the dunk became the mission.
A life above the rim
Player. Visionary. Pastor. Founder.
UDC No. 33
A former University of the District of Columbia player whose preserved game record documents dunks as named statistical events.
International experience
Professional basketball experience in Israel expanded his understanding of the game’s global language and reach.
DunkStat™ founder
Creator of an independent movement, scorebook, symbol system, petition, and historical archive dedicated to the slam dunk statistic.
Documented continuity
The official DunkStat™ timeline.
1999
Vision documented
The surviving Dunking Statistic™ proposal carries a printed copyright and trademark claim.
2007
Statistical argument preserved
A four-page proposal explains the strategic, statistical, and historical value of recording dunks.
2009
Online petition created
A PetitionSpot confirmation documents creation of the Dunking Statistic™ petition.
2012–2013
DunkStat identity continued
Preserved emails document the petition, the Dunk Stat Book, NDAA authorship, and public use of DunkStat.
2026
Official campaign renewed
DunkStat.com brings together the petition, 38-symbol system, scorebook, historical archive, and campaign.
This timeline describes materials preserved in the founder's archive. Historical assertions are presented with their dates and supporting records so the public can distinguish documented DunkStat™ history from unrelated third-party terminology.
The system
38 official DunkStat™ symbols.
The system begins with DM — Dunk Made and DA — Dunk Attempted, then expands to assists, blocks, styles, percentages, totals, and leaders.
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