Morant says sensational slam in Indy was his best one yet – WTOP News

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — To Ja Morant, the reply was a slam dunk. His ferocious jam Saturday night time was his finest one but.

“Yeah, simple,” he stated, due to its problem, when requested if it topped his quickly increasing assortment of sensational slams. “It’s what all people has been ready for. I lastly made it.”

Morant’s dunk got here within the third quarter of the Memphis Grizzlies’ 130-112 victory over the Indiana Pacers. He drove left into the center of the lane, put the ball in his proper hand and pulled his arm far again to simply throw it down over leaping Pacers huge man Jalen Smith.

Teammates jumped off the bench in pleasure and response adopted shortly on social media, with Morant admiring his work along with his personal tweet — and warning to fellow gamers — following the sport.

“Soar with me if you wish to go viral,” he wrote over a tweet from the NBA’s account displaying a number of angles of the dunk.

The No. 2 choose within the 2019 draft shortly emerged as one of many NBA’s highest flyers and has gone on to grow to be one among its finest gamers. The 2020 Rookie of the 12 months was a first-time All-Star final season and was voted the winner of the Most Improved Participant participant.

He would appear a shoe-in to win one other award, the trophy for the slam dunk contest, if he ever entered the occasion on the NBA’s All-Star weekend.

Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell, the 2018 winner, known as on Morant to indicate his expertise in Salt Lake Metropolis with a response to Morant’s tweet.

“Bruh simply do the … dunk contest,” he wrote.

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