NBA icon Marques Johnson celebrates 70th birthday with a dunk.
For Milwaukee Bucks icon Marques Johnson, every birthday signifies another opportunity to dunk.
On Monday, as he celebrated his 70th birthday, Johnson leaped off both feet to execute a one-handed dunk.
The Bucks icon, who graduated from Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, remarked that this dunk would be his “last one” and dedicated it to his former school while donning a Crenshaw baseball jersey.
He then marked the occasion by singing a Crenshaw spirit song.
Still dunking at 70 years old!!! 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/2CGYFac1Hd
— Elder Marques Johnson (@olskool888) February 23, 2026
In recent years, Johnson has shared a social media post dedicating his birthday dunk to a specific cause. For his 68th birthday, he dedicated the dunk to “all the snubs,” referencing Jacob Toppin’s near victory in the dunk contest during All-Star Weekend and Beyonce’s omission from the Album of the Year award at the Grammys—a category she ultimately won in 2025 for “Cowboy Carter.”
Johnson, a five-time NBA All-Star, is a contender for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Milwaukee drafted Johnson with the No. 3 pick in the 1977 NBA draft, and he played seven seasons with the Bucks. He also had tenures with the LA Clippers and the Golden State Warriors.
In 2019, the Bucks retired his No. 8 jersey.
