G Leaguer Mac McClung topped Jaylen Brown in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest
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00:00 We've got to give Jalen Brown a lot of credit for just entering the NBA slam dunk contest.
00:08 The star players of the league just don't do that anymore.
00:11 It's been six years since anyone who is playing in the All-Star Game that same weekend even
00:17 bothered to enter the slam dunk contest.
00:20 This was once a marvelous event with the likes of Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins taking
00:26 center stage, but in the last half dozen years it's been mostly people you've never heard
00:31 of.
00:32 And that included Mack McClung, who no one had heard of until he won the event last year.
00:38 He's a G League player.
00:40 He's played in four NBA games in his life.
00:44 He came back on Saturday night and he won it again and he deserved it.
00:48 But he's a dunker.
00:49 That's what he does.
00:50 He plays in the G League and he spends his time perfecting his dunks.
00:53 He apparently was a sensation all the way back to high school dunking the basketball.
00:59 Jalen Brown is one of the most athletic players in the NBA.
01:02 He's a spectacular player, a two-time All-Star.
01:06 He's a much better player than Mack McClung will ever hope to be.
01:10 And everyone knows it.
01:11 But in this stage, in this particular circumstance, Mack McClung gets it done.
01:18 Jalen Brown will have a lot of great dunks the rest of the season and into the playoffs,
01:23 which Mack McClung will not be part of, but McClung owned tonight.
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