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NBA Player’s Devastating Dunk Over Defender Is Something to Behold

Mar. 11, 2013 5:30pm Jason Howerton

Los Angeles Clippers forward DeAndre Jordan finished an alley-oop dunk in amazing fashion during a Sunday night game against the Detroit Pistons. The slam was so impressive that some have already named it “dunk of the year.”

Meanwhile, Pistons guard Brandon Knight, the player who had the extremely difficult and unfortunate task of defending Jordan on the play, has been made fun of across the web. The dunk was so ferocious that users took to Wikipedia shortly after the play and labeled the defender deceased from the dunk.

“On March 10, 2013 Knight died in a game vs the Los Angeles Clippers. The cause of death was determined to be DeAndre Jordan,” the page read.

Watch the amazing play below:

This was Jordan’s face afterwards:

NBA Players Devastating Dunk Over Defender Is Something Youre Going to Want to See

(via Zach Harper)

What do you think — is this the dunk of the year?

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tajloc
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:59am
Where is the analysis?
The guy with the ball had timed his jump perfectly and was even going up while his opponent had started down. See slo mo. They make these things all the time. If both jumps reach the apex at the same time then the dunk would be in question. I can not tell if dunker jumped higher than the dunkee but that would be important if they both were at apex at the same moment.
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Watch this vid…Black conservative for the 2cd:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/9RABZq5IoaQ?feature=player_embedded

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rdk36532
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:57am
So the defender partially slipped. The big deal is what?

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tntlassiter
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 9:05am
Well…he’s no Michael Jordan!

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nilo
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:05am
I would rather see a person’s life being saved by a good samaritan

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Rowgue
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:55am
It would be impressive if it weren’t both an illegal warding off with the off arm and a blatant elbow to the defenders face. So rather than being impressive it’s actually just yet another shining example of the blatant incompetence of officials.

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FISH_BONE
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:47pm
If I were 7 feet tall and was being paid millions of dollars a year to put a ball in a hole, I guarantee I could do the same thing. What’s more amazing is that these morons make $10 million a year, have had a basketball in their hands 24 hours a day 7 days a weeks since the time they were 5 years old and they still can only make at best 50% of their shots. I’m short, fat, white, and shoot a basketball maybe 2 or 3 times a year and even I can make at least 7 out of 10 free throw shots. If I were being paid $10 million a year and couldn’t make at least 90% of my shots, I would be embarrassed.

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- Winedude
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:46pm
  Yep. A collection of pituitary freaks making millions by throwing a one foot ball through a two foot hole from inches away…NOT very impressive.
  
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- rsanchez1
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:44pm
  Yeah, too bad basketball isn’t all free throws. But don’t worry, you would probably have gotten a ribbon for participating at the Y.
  
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- changedone
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:30am
  Yeah, these guys are making way too much money! And they’re not sharing it with anyone! They are complicit with the banking industry by providing money to be mismanaged by the banks! Their wealth must be redistributed!
  
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thetruthmustbetold
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:44pm
Looks like an offensive foul. Why wasn’t it called?

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:06pm
  Fouls are only called on the lower level player. In other words, there is a certain hierarchy among NBA players, the player lower on the ladder always gets the foul called on him. Case in point: Michael Jordan fouled all the time. Did he ever get called? No. The bigger the name, the less likelihood of a foul being called.
  
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- AAichaelC
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:31pm
  In order for an offensives foul to be called, the defender would have needed to be stationary in a defensively position AND outside of the restricted area arc. Clearly seen in the video, he was inside the restricted arc, and leaping into the air. The favored player theory doesn’t hold much weight, as Knight has more notoriety than Jordan.
  
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hersey10
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:53pm
IMO, could be a top 15 all time candidate.

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Eastinfection
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:35pm
it could have been worse for Brandon Knight… he could have received a tea-bag dunk ala Greg Paulus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3q8M3wqtHI

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Godssailor
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:33pm
This is kind of like what Judge Milton Tingling did to Michael Bloomberg today.

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landmark
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:31pm
Roger Brown did that to me, at the U of Dayton, many years ago!! Just about like that………………………..

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DoOrDie
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:18pm
Who cares, when the country is falling apart and the government is taking away all of our freedoms who really gives a ****? Uneducated basketball players making millions while the people that serve and protect our country make peanuts and are getting laid of by this POS president. What a f**ked up world we live in.

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- kyuss
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:50pm
  We NEED a like button!!!!! 10000x likes Doordie!!!!!!! God Bless My Friend.
  
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- rsanchez1
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:45pm
  Evidently, you care enough to post about not caring.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:13pm
People still watch the NBA??

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KickinBack
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 5:43pm
“What do you think — is this the dunk of the year?”

I don’t know. Perhaps if the link wasn’t broken.

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- KickinBack
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 5:49pm
  Ok, works now. For some odd reason, if it’s not a youtube imbed video, it runs like crap on my pc.. :(
  
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Valkaneer
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 5:43pm
Well I’m From Michigan, and I have to say that was a good dunk and the way we have been playing we deserved it.

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chips1
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 5:39pm
No!

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 5:44pm
  lol that was nasty
  
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