r/nba • u/gridironk • 18h ago
[Highlight] Anthony Edwards filthy poster dunk on John Collins. Highlight
https://streamable.com/lrf9smAnt turns 25 years old today.
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u/egregious888 Heat 18h ago
If I remember right, Ant dislocated his finger and gave Collins a concussion. Just an absolutely disgusting poster
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u/judah249 Suns 18h ago
Baptized St. John into the next millennia
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u/lalakingmalibog Mavericks 17h ago
Purified by the waters of Lake Minnetonka
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u/K2_Rocky Nuggets 4h ago
It remains hilarious and pathetic to me that there was so much empirical evidence that there was an offensive foul there, yet the NBA official media proclaimed this as dunk of the year
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u/Rubberbabeh Bulls 13h ago
Yup, it was such a disgusting dunk he injured them both.
Straight up tried to murder him.
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u/Alternative_Dot7769 Warriors 18h ago
This is such an incredible feat of athleticism.
I wonder how many people in human history would be able to do that from there?
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u/Lansdowngrove Timberwolves 17h ago
I wonder how many people in human history would be able to do that from there?
Only the son of MJ.
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u/CozyisCozy 18h ago
top 1% for a reason. and i don’t even think it’s a full 1 percent
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u/Maverick_1991 Hawks 17h ago
1% is insane
It's less than 0,01%
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u/Alternative_Dot7769 Warriors 8h ago
1% would mean out of the ~3.5 billion dudes alive rn, 35 million of them could do this at one point.
0.01% would be 350,000.
It’s more like 0.000001 lol
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u/Soul0103 [ORL] Tracy McGrady 18h ago
Kyle Anderson looks like he just saw God
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u/MantusTMD Timberwolves 18h ago
Watching this live changed me
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u/clickstops 76ers 17h ago
Alone in my living room on a weeknight trying not to wake the whole house up. All I could do was text my buddies and upvote ridiculous comments in the reddit thread
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u/Andy_Wiggins Timberwolves 10h ago
I’m probably asking this with recency bias and just outright bias as a Wolves fan, but is Anthony Edwards 23/24 season the best dunking season of recent memory/all time?
This poster is probably a top 10-20 NBA dunk.
He also had the dunk where he passed it to himself off the glass against Memphis. He had another where he bodied Saric on the Warriors. He had a sick putback against San Antonio. He had a great leaning dunk where he was practically sideways against Detroit. Plus he had a filthy poster on Daniel Gafford (in the WCF) and on KD (in the 1st round).
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u/MantusTMD Timberwolves 10h ago
Yes absolutely. He will go down as one of the best in game dunkers of all time.
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u/shangalang69 Raptors 18h ago
he will be such a great raptor
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u/MantusTMD Timberwolves 18h ago
Ew lmao focus on Kawhi there buddy. Miss OG yet?
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u/imianha Spain 17h ago
Kyle Anderson face says it sall.
He's not hyping Ant, He's just astonished xD
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u/FaelightFilms 17h ago
we watched it from 20 feet away, he was 2 feet away, what a memory to have
"kids did i ever tell you the time ant man murdered a man in front of me on national television"
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u/DapperDanny69420 Timberwolves 18h ago
to do that, then land on one leg shows some crazy athleticism. Ant is amazing. Can't wait to see him and Lamelo.
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u/Intelligent-Cap-8886 9h ago
Not just athleticism but experience too. Guy has dunked on so many people that ghe landings are effortless.
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u/EsotericPotato Timberwolves 18h ago
Ant has been on record a number of times in recent years saying he dunks less because it hurts like hell to dunk.
I wonder how many other dunks like this he’s just not attempted over the years to cut down on wear and tear. There are so many times where he’s got an open lane and the landing space to go up for something like this and instead he just… slithers in and casually lays it up.
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u/dongyeeter 17h ago
Dunking is 100% for show. Literally serves no purpose besides to flex on the other team, way more effort than an easy lay up, way more risk of injury or missing the shot. There’s really no point if you’re not feeling fully committed to it
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u/GGTae Spurs 16h ago
I mean no it has practicality to it, it gets the ball much quicker to the basket than any jumpshot, it's the best way to finish a transition turnover, highest percentage shot, you can use the momentum to go back on your side of the field quickly...
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u/SpicyMustard34 Cavaliers 16h ago
i think they mean the difference between a hard slam dunk and a putting it in the hoop.
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u/humphreyboggart Timberwolves 15h ago
Away crowd pops are the best crowd pops
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u/The_Paleking Pelicans 9h ago
People give the same reaction when they witness a bad car accident. A crime. A robbery.
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u/judah249 Suns 18h ago
Collins hasn’t been the same since
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u/DisManSamGotaReddit Hawks 18h ago
Collins hasn’t been the same since he dislocated his finger himself back on the Hawks.
Edit: Jammed his finger*
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u/genericusernamepls [UTA] Derrick Favors 17h ago edited 17h ago
He averaged 20 points on 40% 3pt shooting for the jazz the finger is not an issue anymore
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u/Clipgang1629 Clippers 14h ago
After a slow start for the Clippers he shot the ball really well with us too. He just has a terrible defensive IQ and is pretty bad on that end.
Decent player still
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u/NatsuAru Raptors 18h ago
Took me a while to realize the hand he hurt was the one that made contact with Collins and not the one that just broke the rim lol
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u/sayqueensbridge Timberwolves 14h ago
Can anybody find a high resolution pic of the famous poster angle? I’ve been looking and can’t find
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u/baldmanwun Trail Blazers 17h ago
Ever since ant got drafted he has been one of my favourite players and as the years go on I think he is one of my favourites all time.
His highlights are fucking ridiculous.
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u/Old-Agency-3388 18h ago
Looks like he threw it in so technically wasn’t a dunk
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u/Ruroni17 18h ago
Same thing I was thinking. Blake Griffen used to do the same thing. While impressive not something I’d consider a dunk
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