720 Dunk in a basketball game ... yes, 2 360's in a row.

purbeast0

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"The best, however, came with time winding down at the end of the game.

After grabbing a rebound, "The Main Event" fired a long pass down to a wide-open Fontenette. After taking a few stutter steps, Fontenette jumped into the air, did two complete 360-degree turns and slammed the ball.

I was stunned. The crowd was speechless. Even the players on the court didn't know how to react.

"I've been planning that dunk for two years," Fontenette said, unable to wipe the smile off his face. "That was the first time I had ever done it on a 10-foot goal. I've done it on a 9-and-a-half before, but never a 10-foot."

Was that dunk even humanly possible' Apparently so.

Once everyone realized what had just happened, the AND 1 players lifted Fontenette onto their shoulders as he flashed a "Hook 'em Horns" sign.

Fontenette has complained in a recent AND 1 commercial that people have been claiming his 360-degree between-the-legs dunk as their own.

"Everyone has been saying that dunk is theirs, but I'd been doing it since high school,' he said. "So I had to do a dunk I knew hadn't been done before."

Until Wednesday night, I thought a 720-degree dunk was a move reserved for over-the-top video games. I stand corrected. "

Here is a downloadable link.

Here is the video on youtube.

i THINK this is the video, as youtube doesn't work here at work. pretty damn impressive I must say.
 

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Don't forget to check them out at RealestNiggas.com

*smirk*

Are white people allowed to type that in without being racist?
 

MotionMan

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Oh, come on! He totally did not make it all the way around on the the second 360 before he dunked it. That's a 700, at best.

Pft.

MotionMan
 

GagHalfrunt

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Not even close to 360. His back is to the hoop when he takes off. He then angles from the front of the basket to the side, saving himself another quarter turn. He actually does only about 1 1/4 turns in the air, certainly less than 1 1/2 turns. Call it somewhere between 480 and 540, he's not even close to doing a 720.
 

purbeast0

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Originally posted by: MotionMan
Oh, come on! He totally did not make it all the way around on the the second 360 before he dunked it. That's a 700, at best.

Pft.

MotionMan

most 360 dunks are closer to 320 as well.
 

Pastore

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Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Not even close to 360. His back is to the hoop when he takes off. He then angles from the front of the basket to the side, saving himself another quarter turn. He actually does only about 1 1/4 turns in the air, certainly less than 1 1/2 turns. Call it somewhere between 480 and 540, he's not even close to doing a 720.

Jesus you guys are a bunch of retards. I could say, "Hey, I just ate this whole pie!" And you'd say, "No you didn't you freaking liar I see 13 crumbs on that tin plate!"

Why can't anyone appreciate something around here for what it is.
 

GagHalfrunt

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Originally posted by: Pastore
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Not even close to 360. His back is to the hoop when he takes off. He then angles from the front of the basket to the side, saving himself another quarter turn. He actually does only about 1 1/4 turns in the air, certainly less than 1 1/2 turns. Call it somewhere between 480 and 540, he's not even close to doing a 720.

Jesus you guys are a bunch of retards. I could say, "Hey, I just ate this whole pie!" And you'd say, "No you didn't you freaking liar I see 13 crumbs on that tin plate!"

Why can't anyone appreciate something around here for what it is.


ROFL!! Congrats, you're the biggest retard of all. 13 crumbs would be what, 0.00000000001% of a full pie? But 1 full revolution is only 50% of a full 720. Tell me Skippy, since you seem to love the pie analogy. If you left 40% of a pie on your plate would you then claim to have eaten the entire pie? Get a clue.
 

oboeguy

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Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: Pastore
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Not even close to 360. His back is to the hoop when he takes off. He then angles from the front of the basket to the side, saving himself another quarter turn. He actually does only about 1 1/4 turns in the air, certainly less than 1 1/2 turns. Call it somewhere between 480 and 540, he's not even close to doing a 720.

Jesus you guys are a bunch of retards. I could say, "Hey, I just ate this whole pie!" And you'd say, "No you didn't you freaking liar I see 13 crumbs on that tin plate!"

Why can't anyone appreciate something around here for what it is.


ROFL!! Congrats, you're the biggest retard of all. 13 crumbs would be what, 0.00000000001% of a full pie? But 1 full revolution is only 50% of a full 720. Tell me Skippy, since you seem to love the pie analogy. If you left 40% of a pie on your plate would you then claim to have eaten the entire pie? Get a clue.

No kidding. We can "appreciate it for what it is" but claiming that it's something it isn't, well, that kinda ruins things, no? It wasn't even close to a full two revolutions.
 

SirChadwick

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Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Not even close to 360. His back is to the hoop when he takes off. He then angles from the front of the basket to the side, saving himself another quarter turn. He actually does only about 1 1/4 turns in the air, certainly less than 1 1/2 turns. Call it somewhere between 480 and 540, he's not even close to doing a 720.

Oh c'mon it looks like a 720 to the human eye in "real time" without rewinding the video over and over. Some people make things waaay too technical. This isn't going in the Guiness book or anything.