It took three rounds to break a tie between Zach LaVine of the Timberwolves and Aaron Gordon of the Magic at the NBA Slam Dunk Contest tonight — an exhibition which should have had Neil deGrasse Tyson as one of the judges. An astrophysicist is possibly the only one who could explain Gordon’s next-to-last dunk, in which he used Orlando’s mascot, Stuff, as a prop for this …
The sit-down dunk is something mankind has imagined since the Wright brothers made the first powered heavier-than-air human flight — Gordon wowing the crowd at Toronto’s Air Canada Center with something no one could quite believe.