Morant says sensational slam in Indy was his best one yet

INDIANAPOLIS – To Ja Morant, the reply was a slam dunk. His ferocious jam Saturday evening was his greatest one but.

“Yeah, straightforward,” he stated, due to its issue, 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 massive man Jalen Smith.

Teammates jumped off the bench in pleasure and response adopted rapidly on social media, with Morant admiring his work together 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 decide within the 2019 draft rapidly emerged as one of many NBA’s highest flyers and has gone on to change into considered one of its greatest 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, referred to as on Morant to point out 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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