Last night's dunk from Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was one of the most impressive ones in recent NBA history and it ranks right up there with the best of them. Antetokounmpo did not realize it then, but he found out afterward how crazy his slam dunk over New York Knicks guard Tim Hardaway Jr. was.
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The fans went wild as the Bucks’ Khris Middleton threw a lob pass to a running 6-foot-11 Antetokounmpo who soared on top of the 6-foot-6 Hardaway. There was nothing the Knicks shooting guard could do as he stood by helplessly trying to stop the Bucks on the fastbreak.
Antetokounmpo was asked by Bucks beat writer Matt Velasquez for the Journal Sentinel what his reaction was and what others thought about it.
“Khris was going, I knew he was going to throw me the lob. It was a bad pass by Khris, but I was able to get up and go get the ball. I did not see Tim Hardaway under me. I just went up there and just went hard and tried to get the ball and dunk the ball.”
“I haven’t looked at my phone, but I know a lot of people are going to reach about me and ask me about the dunk, what happened, how I feel about it, which one's beter, mine or Vince (Carter's over Frederic Weis). But it was just a good play.”
The initial reaction from most people, naturally, is to compare it to Vince Carter’s dunk in the 2000 Olympics. Carter stole the ball from half court, ran from the left side of the lane where he leaped high and cleared the 7-foot-2 Frederic Weis to dunk the ball ferociously.
As impressive as Antetokounmpo’s dunk was over Hardaway, Carter’s is by far still the better one. At 6-foot-7, Carter had to leap over someone who was seven inches taller.
Even so, Antetokounmpo had a remarkable moment as he showcased his athletic brilliance for the world to see Tuesday night.
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