Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Reactions as four judges gave MAC MCCLUNG 48 piece after dunking Shaquille O’Neal during dunk contest 2024.
He asked Shaquille O’Neal to squeeze into McClung’s old high school jersey, then grabbed the ball out of the big man’s hands and leapt clear over him to draw five perfect scores on his final attempt Saturday night.
McClung compiled 98.8 points on his last two dunks, while Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown finished with 97.8.
It was a dunk for the ages and it earned the 50 McClung needed, delivering him his a second straight championship. In consecutive years, McClung has electrified NBA All-Star Saturday night and given life to an event that is largely considered a fading phenomenon, even as he’s struggled to gain a foothold in the NBA.
“I’m trying to sit with it right now and take a second and understand what’s going on,” McClung said. “I feel like life is so fast sometimes, it’s just I’ll look back in 20 years when I can’t jump anymore and not as quick. But I know I’m a lucky dude.”
“Shaq was so cool to put that high school jersey on, man, it almost made me emotional that he would do that,” McClung said. “When he put it on, he said, ‘You better not miss it.’ I said, ‘OK, I won’t miss it.’”
Unlike some of his previous attempts, McClung made this dunk on his first try and was rewarded handsomely by the five judges.
As a result, the high-flying, 6-foot-2 guard who plays for Orlando’s G League affiliate, the Osceola Magic, became the sixth player with two or more Slam Dunk titles and the first to win in back-to-back seasons since Zach LaVine in 2015 and 2016.
So the 6-2 McClung found the biggest guy in the arena and not only dunked over him but did so with a thunderous reverse. McClung enlisted Shaquille O’Neal — the TNT analyst and 7-1 Hall-of-Fame center who was listed at 325 pounds in his playing days — asked him to wear a replica of McClung’s Gate City (Va.) High School jersey and gave him a basketball that he held over his head. McClung ran along the right baseline, lifted off from behind Shaq, grabbed the ball off his head, turned and threw down.
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