The Minniefield family’s legacy in the basketball world was cemented in 1983, when Kentucky basketball great Dirk Minniefield threw down a dunk heard ‘round the world against Mississippi State.
While many folks assume today’s college players are by and large more athletic than their predecessors of four decades ago, the below clips show Cooper Flagg, Coen Carr, VJ Edgecombe and Adou Thiero have nothing on Dirk:
Dirk Minniefield: “I didn’t care, King Kong could have been standing back there. I was going to dunk that basketball.” pic.twitter.com/x93y51lSNa https://t.co/us1TXr0E43
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) February 8, 2024
Nowadays, his son Darin Minniefield is carrying the family torch as a graduate assistant for Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari.