This Basketball Murder Made Me Spit Out My Coffee That I Was Actually Drinking

I’m not sure of my MUST WATCH privileges, otherwise I would have for sure thrown that on the title of this blog. HOLY. SHIT. That’s all I kept saying to myself every time I watched that video. Now in today’s world of social media, seeing someone get absolutely dunked into the center of the earth isn’t all that new. We see it coming from camps, to your local YMCA or JCC (jk yeah right none of us Chosens are doing that), to summer leagues like The Drew and Pro Ams, things of that nature. But when you get something this ridiculous, it’s time to break this shit down like the goddamn zapruder film

We begin at the start of the play, where we get our first taste of this bad decision

Now I imagine there had to be some sort of bet or discussion that the dude in the black would be able to block the dude in the white’s dunk attempt. That is the only explanation for why you would even think to yourself that jumping/challenging here would be a good idea. You can tell from this picture the dude in the black is full of confidence and hope, not having any idea what was coming his way.

However, in a split second we see him starting to immediately regret his decision.

With his hands covering his face, he realizes that this dude is about to scoop a windmill right in his eyeball. Only problem is he’s already committed. I’m a firm believer it is in this moment that he knows there is no way this ends well.

One thing I won’t do is call the kid in black a quitter. His challenge at the height not the dunk actually wasn’t that bad

I would say he actually had a chance to block it, even if it was a very small chance.

Upon landing, that’s where reality starts to set in. This is when he realizes that yup, not only was this caught on camera, but he’s about to go viral as hell for all the wrong reasons

And sadly, as we all know you can run, but you can’t hide

Now the dunk itself was fucking nasty and shouldn’t be lost in this whole discussion. I cannot imagine the feeling that must have given the dude in the white to pull something like that off, and while I have no idea who he is, I’m willing to see him in this year’s dunk contest. I know it would never happen in a million years, but maybe the answer to saving the dunk contest is having some sort of competition where you have to dunk over someone. Like throw Rudy Gobert or DeAndre Jordan or Boban out there and have people try and dunk over them while doing insane windmills like this. Make the incentive like a million dollars or something so people actually want to participate. There are few better things to watch than seeing someone get put on a poster, and I’m pretty sure this video is proof of that.

RIP in peace to that dude in black and his desire to play basketball ever again.