SALT LAKE CITY — Former Texas Tech star Mac McClung might have single-handedly restored the shine on a dunk contest that has been widely panned in recent...
might have single-handedly restored the shine on a dunk contest that has been widely panned in recent years.
A 540-degree dunk — not a 360, but a 540, him doing one-and-a-half rotations in the air, a move more reserved for figure skaters and skateboarders than basketball players — was his third perfect score of the night out of four dunks. By the time the judges’ scores came up it was already decided. Everyone in the building knew he’d already won.It was. And he immediately committed to defending his title at Indianapolis at All-Star Saturday next year.
“Ever since the beginning, I was the underdog,” said McClung, who put on a Gate City jersey — his high school and hometown in Virginia, population 1,600 — for the final dunk. “Proving others right instead of others wrong brings a little more satisfaction.”
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