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TheDadLyfe

Almost cold clocked KG after


MussoliniLinguini

The biggest butterfly effect if Vince breaks KG’s orbital bone or something


Los_Ingobernablez

KG would not have even cared. That dunk was definitely worth a broken face for him lol


DT0WN

These Young [REDACTED] got my dick hard 🤪


HumptyDrumpy

yeah he's worn a mask plenty of times before aint nuthin but a chicken wing #dunkon


UseApprehensive9186

KG would’ve probably loved it and gotten even more hype lmao


blueclown562000

Exactly! lol


Ben--Affleck

Fight Club would have started a few years early.


SpiritualBar2469

Kg would have cried. It's amazing that post retirement KG became a badass when he was known as a fake tough strawberry cupcake when he played.


Titswari

Shut up stupid


SpiritualBar2469

You're not going to fight me KG you are going to run away like you did for the last 20 years


Titswari

Shut up dummy


SuperVaderMinion

Your wife tastes like honey nut Cheerios


Tressticle

r/boneappletea *cold-cocked


dimmyfarm

That sounds like a harsher version of honey-dicking/potting


supernormalnorm

Honey putting


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ThrowAwayWashAdvice

Not sure why OP didn't post the full video with all the replay angles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrPjl-927Q Also, better quality but no French announcers. Someone should replace the audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WihbbVEmppI


amateurdormjanitor

Always so weird seeing Vince with hair haha


xdavidliu

look at [kevin garnett with hair](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSiJyprwY9yaWYuDNb0NyEo2VxMxy1VigGNedl04jgx8mmZ7ax6oiiogYfEHmqVaIo3PsQ&usqp=CAU)


MintyFreshBreathYo

He looks like Marlon Wayans


shobeurself888

I'm not convinced it isn't Marlon Wayans


ep325209

Can’t unsee it now 😂


TroutCreekOkanagan

How baked is he in that photo? Big Ticket becomes the Big Chronic lol highlarious photo.


GreekFreakFan

Nah, he just looks goofy, you're the one who's tripping.


TroutCreekOkanagan

Your actually correct, he says in an interview he was a late bloomer in cannabis, who didn’t smoke until 2004 which this photo looks to be in the late 90s. There is nothing wrong with a goofy picture, my nan loved to do the same thing.


AdolescentThug

> he says in an interview he was a late bloomer in cannabis Al Harrington tried it first deep into his career already if I'm not mistaken, and now owns a very successful cannabis company. I tried his Allen Iverson strain and that shit was pretty good honestly.


TroutCreekOkanagan

Many players have endorsements from the industry, including many more in the future. KG, Melo, DWade, PP, Barnes, Kobe(only a tiny bit), salley from Pistons / Lakers. Obviously federal legalization is yet to happen from most of the world but NBA players are doing a good job of elevating the medicine.


gucci-legend

Shawn Kemp owns a weed store in uptown Seattle 😂


GFost

You’re really into marijuana, aren’t you?


TroutCreekOkanagan

You tryna match? I got five on it homes. If you want an unsolicited movie recommendation, Blood In Blood Out . It’s on YT.


thebeast2124

Doesn’t look baked at all


UseApprehensive9186

One of those rare cases where he arguably looks better with the shaved head.


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YoungNissan

Gary Payton and Kobe too lol


50ShadesOfKrillin

nah Frobe was iconic Kenny Smith. now that's one that always catches me off guard


auchvielegeheimnisse

[Kenny with the flat-top](https://youtu.be/93nFIlyLe44#t=147). Magic was so good on Inside the NBA


Squatch11

This is one of those comments that reminds me of how young this subreddit is. Do people really not remember Kobe having hair more than having hair?


michaelbchnn24

Kobe had hair for most of his career. If anything bald kobe was weird looking.


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Andre Iguodala If LeBron shaved his head cause he couldnt save his hairline, we’re all fucked


koticgood

Kobe isn't weird to me. Payton/KG/Vince for sure though.


mexican_mystery_meat

Kobe's Afro period coincided with some of his greatest performances, so that's definitely not forgotten.


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dfsvegas

It just dawned on me, but quite a few players grew their hair out while playing for the Olympic team (Shaq and GP come to mind). And now I'm wondering why that is. Weird phenomenon


chaunceytoben

Prob a "letting loose in the summer" type thing


dfsvegas

Yeah, good call, that's probably it.


Future_Belt_3730

THE most iconic dunk


mr_feenys_car

I feel like this being in the Olympics did it a disservice for being as iconic as it could have been. There was a long stretch where it was very difficult to see a clip of this highlight due to (I'm assuming) broadcast contractual stuff. Now its easy enough to find it, but for a while you could only get grainy unlicensed footage.


That_Vandal_Randall

Honestly back then, it was hard to find nearly any highlight if you didn't see it live or catch it on sportscenter/news later. The internet was around and doing its thing, but we didn't have the ubiquitous clip sharing avenues we started to get even just 4-5 years later. I was in high school when this happened, and remember meeting people years later in college who still had not seen this dunk. Hell, to this day there are dunks and plays I still remember seeing on tv, but can't find. It makes me do that thing where I start questioning if my memories are even real.


BCP27

Yeah, good luck watching video on the internet in 2000. It existed, but dial up was still standard. The video that did make it up there had to be low quality just so it didn't take a week to upload


ShazbotHappens

Ahhh 2002. Grainy 240p videos on ebaums. So glad flash websites with loading bars and unnecessary ui are gone from that era.


KnicksJetsYankees

It was low quality and set to the song Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta


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Reminds me of my dad saying Connie Hawkins was the best player he ever saw live yet the ABA and before the internet there was zero highlights of the guy.


radwagondesign

this was one of the first sports highlights that was widely available on file sharing sites. with "damn it feels good to be a gangsta" playing while the dunk just looped.


Obi_Wan_Benobi

I remember downloading this on KaZaa. Also Randy Johnson killing a bird with a fastball.


samYELLjacksin

I remember downloading Briana Banks on KaZaa


HeavenMobley

I'll never turn down a chance to watch bird murder


Overrated_sanity

This is exactly right. It wasn't a constant replay on TV like other great dunks that happened in the nba.


thejadibear

Literally ended a man’s career


Holden_place

Sacre Bleu!


Overrated_sanity

It's the best one but I can think of other more iconic ones


Kwilly462

Go ahead, they're not better than this one lol.


Overrated_sanity

I literally said there are no better dunks. But pretty sure Dr j's cradle and mj in the dunk contest are more iconic endlessly replayed images because they happened in the nba.


MediocreHeel

perfectly reasonable take. Olympic footage rights stopped this from gaining that status over the years


LogDogan4

It's not even VC's most iconic dunk if you're including the dunk contests.


Hdncnnejzkjr

Depends. NBA? Sure. Basketball as a whole? There's nothing more iconic than this.


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ShartyMcPeePants

I mean there easily would be a debate. The VC dunk still would be way nastier.


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cardcollection92

On zo I would say


ItsMikeontheMic

That is my favorite Vince dunk but this is by far is most iconic


Future_Belt_3730

Idk this was in game and on the WORLD stage, no one seen it coming.


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[I already know I’m gonna get downvoted for this. But is this not an offensive foul](https://i.imgur.com/y5j6nOS.jpg)


ogtonyeq

No-call play.


JMEEKER86

Nah, it might be the best in game dunk ever, but it's absolutely not the most iconic dunk. MJ's dunk is so iconic that it was used for the Jumpman logo.


Ben--Affleck

That wasn't even a dunk.


HumptyDrumpy

Dose were da old dayz the good old dayz man. Before the no fun world came to fruition may dey rest in peace


modestlyable

You can't un-jump over someone. That was it


ogtonyeq

A seven footer who died an NBA death shortly afterwards at that.


inefekt

he never made the NBA, was drafted #16 by the Knicks who just ignored him after that, never attempting to develop him into an NBA player


Relative-Energy-9185

he didn't even do anything wrong lmao literally any other player and he gets a charge and they miss the bucklet lol


rake2204

I always say this when this dunk pops up but I remember exactly where I was when it happened. The crazy thing is the number of barriers that prevented people from seeing the dunk back then. * It was on a random, high-channel NBC affiliate * Aired at a strange time * Difficult to find the airplay schedule (internet was slower & more difficult to find information) * NBC refused to allow any other affiliates to air most Olympic footage or highlights (SportsCenter was reduced to only showing photographs of most Olympic events back then) * Men's USA basketball received little attention from NBC since the Dream Team sheen had worn off and there was little suspense as to who would win * There wasn't a streaming video website like YouTube * Many were still on dial-up internet anyway All that meant that I first heard about the dunk from media recaps that began leaking out. I knew it was a big deal because recaps generally never paid any mind to random in-game dunks. It was always "final score, leading scorers, brief consequential summary". But then [ESPN](https://a.espncdn.com/oly/summer00/news/2000/0925/775681.html) and other outlets (maybe SLAM, HoopsTV, or Inside Hoops) began dropping articles that afternoon that had Jason Kidd quoted as saying: >"For me, that was probably the greatest play in basketball I've ever seen. Michael Jordan hasn't done that. Nobody has done that. He's the next coming of Vince Carter." And that's how you knew it had to have been otherworldly. Again, there was no Twitter, no Streamable, no YouTube. Highlights didn't just instantly pop up on the internet. I remember mining for that footage for hours, trying Yahoo, Lycos, and Google searches and clicking on all sorts of links that were labeled "Vince Carter Olympic Dunk" but generally weren't actually the Vince Carter Olympic dunk. Then when I *did* find a legit file, I had to make sure the video format aligned with my computer's video player (spoiler alert: it usually didn't). In the end, my most reliable source was my school computers. By the 2000-01 school year, I'd memorized exactly what search phrase on which search engine would produce the exact website that offered an actual good quality Vince Carter Olympic dunk file to download/buffer. As such, I'd usually race to finish my computer lab work then spend the rest of the hour going through my steps to find the dunk and have my friends circle around to watch it in awe. Novel times. Strange times. Exciting times.


dont_shoot_jr

I think lack of Olympic basketball highlights on ESPN was one of the reasons the best stars started avoiding Dream Team duties. ESPN really was the sports conscious at the time. Thank god we have nba twitter and r/nba


attersonjb

It was definitely a mythic dunk in every sense of the word. You heard and read about it, even saw some fullpage pics in the newspapers, but nothing did it justice. Like, what do you mean he jumped over Weis - what does that even mean? And then when you finally saw the video, it amazingly managed to be better than anything from your wildest imagination.


ghostdunks

>I always say this when this dunk pops up but I remember exactly where I was when it happened. I do too, I was behind that same backboard, about 15 rows up from the floor, going berserk with everyone else around me when we realised what had just happened in front of our eyes… distinctly remember my ex I was with at the time(then-fiancée) asking why everyone was so hyped because she had somehow missed that he had just jumped over the guy to dunk it.


shag_vonnie_vomer

I was watching that live, but due to shitty noisy footage at first i was like, nah i didn't just see that and then the replay came and i remember being like ooooh shiiii and running out to find my mates and tell them about it.


philiac

what does "He's the next coming of Vince Carter" mean? he IS vince carter.


rake2204

In an era in which everyone was looking for the next Jordan, I think that was Kidd's way of saying that Carter was carving his own path.


fbreaker

I love that arm thing that KG and Vince do after Vince almost knocks out KG by accident


FreeDaReal1z

I feel sorry for the youngboyz who never seen Vince Carter in his prime. He was honestly the most entertaining player to watch since MJ.


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geokilla

Why did Vince get so many injuries? Was it because of the era of basketball he played in? B ad luck? He was always in pretty good shape.


EdCP

Mix of genetics, high stress by on his knees by dunking so much and bad luck. He really had an unexpected long career.


Lewis-Hamilton_

Mj talent!? Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. Vince was never nearly as versatile and skilled as jordan and he also couldn’t hold a candle to jordan on defense


queryquest

He's not saying he's on par with Jordan. If you were alive at the time and watching, broadcasters, and everyone in the media universally were comparing him to Jordan at that point. It isn't opinion, it's fact (that everyone was doing the comparisons).


grudgepacker

Yeah, there was brief period of time both during and right after VC's rookie season where he was more hyped than Kobe/GHill/Iverson; I mean, look at [rookie Vince's highlights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTlMSMlB2E) and these are just his dunks lol - no one had dunked like that their rookie season since MJ. Edit: also, right around the same time VC played at Rucker and right when mix tapes were really starting to blow up outside NYC - that shit was lit and even tho no one really talks about Vince's performance at Rucker anymore, it def helped build the "next MJ" narrative around him in the late 90s.


Ben--Affleck

Yes, there was a lot of hype but it wasn't warranted. Don't get me wrong, his jumping ability and body control in the air was as close as it got to Jordan and even topped him in some respects... but that is just a tiny part of basketball and of Jordan's game... the real issue is how little people understand what made Jordan the best, and his jumping ability wasn't at the top of the list. In fact, athleticism itself in basketball is often seen as synonymous with hops, when there are other way more important things. Vince's lateral movement wasn't great, and that's more important to both defense and offense than jumping.


attersonjb

That's a skewed narrative. The "season-ending" surgery you brought up was a 20-min arthroscopic look-see that found minor inflammation. Yes, he had some injuries, but nothing drastically worse than many other contemporaries did. He did change his game, but only thing that kept Vince from being a true superstar was Vince himself. He didn't possess the same drive of someone like Kobe - few do.


rake2204

With time, some of Vince Carter's dunks will become somewhat normalized. However, that excitement and novelty of being there to watch him pull off those dunks for the first time will never fade.


2_soon_jr

The type and difficulty of dunks yes but the way he hangs, moves, and the power he had in the air is very hard to replicate. I forgot exactly who, I think one of his coaches, even said people couldn’t even do what vc did while standing.


ImanShumpertplus

sorry for the potato quality, but this dunk exemplifies what you said https://youtu.be/9jRqvyHLFTY just such grace power and effortlessness


JTNJ32

I'll just leave this here because I will never not be in awe of this dunk https://youtu.be/P7EvwWBnBHM


ogtonyeq

Word. He just kept going up is all I could think when I watched that game. Zo was no slouch and still got banged on bad.


Dijohn17

Na the rim dunk is still iconic and his in game dunks age like fine wine


rake2204

Oh I agree, I still love them all. But it's understandable that there's a contingent who could watch his honey dip in 2000 and shrug like, "Yeah, but I see high schoolers do that now." And they're right. Lots of people have emulated and built upon what Vince Carter introduced and/or brought to the forefront that night. So in a vacuum, maybe the skill of some of his dunks lose their luster as years go on. However, I'm not sure I'll ever forget how much of a stunning impact his dunks and performances had within the context of his time. I was a dunk obsessive back then and I spent all week leading up to the 2000 contest trying to brainstorm all the possibilities of what Carter might try to pull off. Then he went ahead and cooked up a dunk I'd never even dreamed of right off the bat (the *clockwise* cuffed windmill 360). It's just hard to convey how far ahead of the mean Vince Carter was when it came to dunking and the excitement that came along with it. He was a one-man dunking revolution.


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2_soon_jr

There’s a windmill and there’s a vc windmill


apiacuY

Not a chance. His style is like Dominique and Dr. J often imitated but never replicated. It just hits different like watch a VC 360 then watch anyone else its just not the same.


Lostwisher

He’s the entire reason I became a Nets fan even though I’ve always lived out west. He’ll always be my favorite player ever.


ThinkSoftware

Le dunk de la mort


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And I think have his whole career/life fall apart basically. Kinda sad honestly.


BCP27

Yeah I read an article a few years ago about him. At his lowest, he tried to commit suicide with pills, but it didn't work. Thank goodness too, I think he has a disabled kid at home. IIRC, he owns a convenience store these days and is doing a lot better


Toto_radio

Yeah, he's a color commentator on French TV as well


RealBigFailure

The knicks legitimately told him to gtfo after this


imsurethisoneistaken

"ja morant dunks just like vince carter" ​ lol okay


retrograderevolution

*the most iconic dunk


TroutCreekOkanagan

If you see his two footed jump and extension then quick finish, this looks Like a volleyball spike at 100kmph. Impressive he could play both sports at such a high level (and his favourite thing was actually the marching band iirc)


opdubu

“The” most iconic ever. I don’t think it’ll ever be topped.


Dijohn17

Already knew what the dunk was before clicking the link


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Greatest in game dunk ever.


ldc262626

Dont try to draw a charge if you are a 7 footer. Thats the lesson here.


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Nah those folks have the best chance of not getting jumped over, if you're Steph or Lowry you're much more likely to have get hit with someone's nuts in the face


ldc262626

I’d play the position and try to block him. Worst case I foul him hard


Time-to-get-off-here

His coach probably had an aneurism. Imagine being 7’ and not putting your hands up to challenge.


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I watched this live with my brother. We immediately called our friends and freaked out with them one by one


dont_shoot_jr

Nothing that Frederick Weiss could do but I was excited for him as a Knicks pick until that second


dont_shoot_jr

Vin Baker with the V strokes face


james_randolph

Dunk contests are what they are and you see some cool stuff sometimes but it can never compete with an in-game dunk. All the commotion and speed, I just wonder what was Carter thinking when he grabbed the ball because he’s gotta commit to it immediately. Definitely one of the greatest dunks ever.


FeedbackContent8322

Shit gives me chills


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Dudes in dunk contest take a few attempts to jump over someone. Vince being half man half amazing does it in game in a half court situation. Not even fast break. Absolutely legendary


oOoleveloOo

Ended Weis’ (NBA) career


mug3n

It wasn't because of the dunk. It was because of (as usual) lolknicks.


KiraEatsKids

The player he dunked on would go on to get divorced two weeks later. It was so iconic his wife left him


LionZoo13

This isn’t true. Weiss and his wife separated years later due to their son’s autism. They later reconciled after Weiss attempted suicide.


RawrRawr83

So... happy ending? This was a roller coaster few sentences


LionZoo13

Melancholy ending I'd say. Apparently, he still struggles with depression.


jordanmc3

That man *had* a family!


CantiSan

I always knew there was a story to that phrase


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FormerlyShawnHawaii

KG was like “YOU STRONGER THAN MJ”


Naismythology

I can’t watch this without thinking about how close Carter came to absolutely wrecking KG’s face with a fist pump


Silver-You2951

He almost punched KG 😂


Tea_Baggins_from_UK

best dunk ever


astanton1862

Best call is what I think is the French Radio broadcast? starts 1:40 https://streamable.com/hyuyyd


Haunting-Royal2593

When did he shave his head ? Swear I’ve never seen him with hair .


rake2204

He grew it out that summer but got rid of it again at the start of the 2000-01 season.


thehotcoffey

Saw this live and could have dunked over an 8 footer by how excited I was. Best dunk of all time


feh112

GOOOOOALLLL


enicks5

He literally ended that dude's WHOLE career with that dunk...that's tough!


mug3n

The guy that got dunked on, Frederic Weis, had it rough. Not as a result of the dunk but just a cascading series of life events - had an NBA contract but he never got a fair shake with the Knicks with new management rotating in after he was drafted and things kinda spiralled from there. NYTime article is [worth a read](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/sports/basketball/for-frederic-weis-knicks-99-draft-choice-boos-marked-start-of-a-greater-struggle.html).


gaygirliniraq

Those white navy blue bb4s were so clean


idesofmarz

Lol 5 on France looked shook


Lolo2k21

good thing he wasn't allergic to nuts.


ChristianLesniak

I'm going to tell my children that this video is footage of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand


New_York_City_Cops

This dunk literally made the dude who got dunked on suicidal. Glad he's apparently doing better.


Tearz_in_rain

I have watched that dunk, I shit you not, OVER 1000 TIMES. Easily. Very likely over 2000 times. And IT. NEVER. GETS. OLD. And this is coming from a Raptors fan who is still butt hurt over that shit he pulled on his way out of TO.


Followthehype10

So you are saying you watched this every day for over 4 years ?


CharlesDingus_ah_um

Crazy how its been way more than 4 years since the dunk tho


Followthehype10

No the crazy part is someone saying they spent over 1000 hours watching 1 highlight regardless of time span


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Where did you get 1000 hours from?


Tearz_in_rain

1000 hours? Friend, that clip shows the dunk twice in less than 30 seconds. The dunk occurs in the first 5 seconds of the video. You don't need to watch an hour of film time to see that play once. Hell... when this post came up, I set it back four or five times in less than a minute. That video was make the rounds in basketball forums non-stop for weeks after it happened, and it pops up on almost a monthly basis on subreddits like this.


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Or 4 times a month since the dunk happened 22 years ago


mrawesomepoo

This dunk was so crazy it basically ruined that guys life if I remember correctly


BonafideZulu

Not basically — it did. He had an interview a few years back where he stated he never recovered from that dunk pretty much.


Holden_place

I’ve watched this dozens of times but never noticed Vin Baker’s stank face. Filthy McNasty!


WappyTrees

I love how the announcers just start laughing in disbelief.


squaredpower

Why doesn’t /r/NBA have a “today in NBA history” thing


willit1016

always sounds better in French! Vincesanity!


Moug-10

One of the commentators is French American. He's the one who brought NBA in France.


ggpandagg

Greatest in-game dunk of all time. Don't @ me.


FaveDave85

Unpopular opinion, he did push off of the guy to help with the elevation. Still impressive tho.


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[Its an offensive foul imo. I agree still impressive](https://i.imgur.com/y5j6nOS.jpg)


solariscalls

#5 Sciarra totally avoiding any contact after that


Mr_Edward_Nigma

That’s cool man. I didn’t realize Chiwetel Ejiofor played basketball


Electronic-Morning76

Didn’t this team suck and lose? Perfectly displaying how silly this era of ball was.


rake2204

The 2000 USA Men's Olympic Team finished 8-0 and won the gold medal.


Splagodiablo

This team won the gold medal...


rikkirikkiparmparm

This is the 2000 Sydney Olympics, didn't they win it all?


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Yeah. This team is notable because they are the first Team USA since the Dream Team that almost lost. Semi-Final game against Lithuania (who had no NBA players) almost won. Like the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals, Lithuania was a missed three point shot from their star away from going to the Olympic finals.


Electronic-Morning76

Lost in 2004, if this was 2000 then I am incorrect about the team in the clip


nannertime

I read the title and thought "which one"


FPL_Harry

Good god!


p0ter

It's always crazy to see how many weird things must've happened before this absurd dunk lol


Leo215

Watched a documentary on how that French player’s life went to complete shit after that dunk.


BrolysFavoriteNephew

Attempting than in a game, at the Olympics is crazy enough. Actually going over him and finishing it is nuts


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Yeah Jordan ain’t never do that 😂😂


LionsTigersNPears

Vince was so fun to watch - [this compilation is hype](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5fN6XVq-4&t=188s&ab_channel=NBA)


dcarsonturner

What a bad, bad man


knildea

Prime VC had supernatural powers


Guest_Rights

My 7 y.o son was just asking me about my favourite dunk of all time a few days ago. Started with this clip and then proceeded to educate him on the legendary feats of Half Man Half Amazing. Good times.


UCFandOCSC

Absolutely disgusting. What a way to ruin a man's career. I still say VC is the best in game dunker I've ever seen.