SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s 116-108 victory over heavily-favored Houston Wednesday night was shocking enough, but what everyone was talking as much about afterward was Donovan’s Mitchell’s fourth-quarter dunk.
Mitchell’s one-handed put-back dunk midway through the fourth quarter was replayed about a dozen times on ESPN’s SportsCenter from every possible angle and was the subject of numerous articles, tweets and videos after the game.
“Ferocious, incredible, spectacular, nasty, vicious” are just a few of the adjectives used to describe Mitchell’s dunk, which he tried to downplay afterward.
"To be honest with you, I was just trying to shoot a floater and grab a rebound, but I just happened to be up there.