Speaking of Shattered Backboards …
High School Sports, Video January 25th. 2008, 11:52am
… some kid named Elijah Jones of Palm Beach Lakes high school shattered one recently. (Obviously, that’s not him in the photo, but rather Dr. J, dropping the hammer on Michael Cooper in one of the most memorable NBA dunks of all-time.) The Palm Beach post has the story and video, which we’ve posted after the jump. It’s a pretty filthy baseline slam, the kind of thing a young boy dreams about. Seriously – a walk-off home run, game-winning touchdown, or shattering a backboard? One club’s exclusive, the other two, not so much …
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January 25th, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Only this kid missed the dunk…
January 25th, 2008 at 11:55 AM
I realize the joy in this is the glass shattering…however this dunk doesn’t even get through the net?
January 25th, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Walk off homer is the best.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:57 AM
1. Daryl Dawkins wonders what’s wrong with your online blog that a missed dunk gets props these days.
2. Shaquille O’Neal sighs at shattered backboards past.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:59 AM
seriously…theres no way that dunk is good.
walk off homer, easily. you get a good minute long trot around the bases with everyone goin nuts. come on, its not even close.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:59 AM
@spencer096
and you get to hug it out with your team.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Can you fix that f’n link as not to play each time I refresh
January 25th, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Back in the day we used to call that “getting hung”, if that backboard doesn’t break, he is flat on his back.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Yeah getting to home plate would be the best part of the walk off homer. Just having all your teammates go nuts like that, damn I wish I had been born athletic.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:03 PM
yeah, patphish sent this to me prior to TBL. my first reaction, he blew the dunk.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Coming soon on TBL: a guy striking out and then breaking a Gatorade cooler with a bat.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:05 PM
OJ Mayo just offered him a scholarship
January 25th, 2008 at 12:06 PM
I’d venture that more people on this blog have hit a walk off at some level in baseball, at some point.
And I predict .0000001 % of readers here have shattered a backboard. And none have it on video …
January 25th, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Breaking cheap backboards does not impress me.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:10 PM
its impressive, but he blew the dunk.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Walk-off, easy. Getting to toss your helmet as you round third…jogging past 5 players from the opposing team as they hang their heads in defeat…getting mauled by your teammates…stamping both feet on home-plate. I’d take that feeling of euphoria over busting a rim any day. Plus, I’m barely six feet tall, so it’d be pretty hard for me to break a rim with a text-book left handed layup.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:13 PM
what about a no-hitter? better, worse or same as a walk-off home run?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I was just going to say, nothing would touch a no-hitter.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:16 PM
@bigpappawes
Our high school coach, (Dan Majerle’s brother!) used to say “If you are six feet tall and can’t dunk, you are a peice of shit.”
January 25th, 2008 at 12:17 PM
what about catching a hail mary pass to win the game?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:17 PM
I think a no-hitter would be better, if only because some teams have never had one (Mets) and there are far more chances for a walk-off during a season than the likelihood for a no-hitter.
The bigger question is what is the most dominating performance possible for an athlete in any sport? My buddies and I came to the concensus that an NL pitcher throwing a perfect game and hitting for the cycle in the same game would be the most impressive athletic performance in any sport.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:18 PM
MM- I’m rougly a quarter-of-an-inch away from being a piece of shit then.
At least in basketball terms.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:20 PM
speaking of no-hitter/perfect game. think we will see another in a world series (don larsen)?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Actually, I’d like to change mine from no-hitter to 20 strikeout game. It must feel awesome to know that your opponent’s third time through the lineup, they’re thinking, “I have no chance in hell against this guy.”
January 25th, 2008 at 12:21 PM
I am a piece of shit and my retort to him would be, nice job coaching high school basketball while your brother makes millions in the NBA, who’s the bigger piece of shit now?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:24 PM
1. I was part of a combined no-hitter when I was 16.
2. I caught the last out of the championship game when I was 11. (line drive double play).
3. I went 1 for 2 with a bases clearing double in the first round of the little league WS when I was 12. (no it’s no big deal, it was the very very very first round, which is basically any team that enters can play).
4. I once stole 2nd, 3rd and home in succession when I was 23.
No walk off homer though.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:25 PM
the all-time greatest thing any single athlete can achieve is shooting a round of 59 in a PGA tournament.
there are 3 people who have done that in the entire history of the sport(kim jong-il nonewithstanding). talk about greatest feeling.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:25 PM
but, I can grab rim!
/6′2″
January 25th, 2008 at 12:26 PM
you can grab rim on a 6′2″ rim?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:27 PM
I can dunk the hell out of the ball on a Fisher’s Price Rim, what?!?!?!
January 25th, 2008 at 12:28 PM
@ weeze, I remember when Kerry Woods had his 20K, no walk 1 hitter someone said it was greatest game ever pitched. I think it was his second start.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:28 PM
no, I’m 6′2″, but I can only grab rim. I dunked a volleyball once … in high school
January 25th, 2008 at 12:28 PM
I remember a guy named Brandon Robinson had a dunk in an Auburn game that broke the rim. Screws popped out, the rim bent, and the players went bat shit crazy for 15 minutes. I like to think they went nuts because they understood the structural weaknesses in the apparatus and the physics behind why one skinny black kid could break the rim on one dunk but the skinny black kid that dunked before him couldn’t.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Gonzo keeps his own stats in his softball leaue. He prints them out for everyone at the end of the year pizza pary.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:30 PM
didn’t darvin ham break one too? tractor trayler did as well, but thats because a 400lb man shouldn’t dunk.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Darvin Ham’s was pretty sick, he did it in the second round of the tournament against my boys UNC.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:31 PM
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Darvin+Ham+breaks+backboard
January 25th, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Wood’s 20K game was his fifth start and the only hit was a five-hole grounder between Kevin Orie’s legs that should have been ruled an error…
I think he struck out the Killer B’s (Biggio, Bagwell, Derrek Bell) 10 times combined.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Livan Hernandez 15K in the playoffs was more impressive, impressive in how cheap it was beacuse that fat ass Eric Gregg gave him a steak zone the size of his and Charlie Weis’ guts combined.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:35 PM
mmm…steak zone
January 25th, 2008 at 12:35 PM
My bad…he struck out the heart of the order 9 times. Bonus points if you can name the catcher who called the game.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:37 PM
i cheated and looked it up. surprising. im not gonna spoil it just to get any mythical bonus points tho.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:37 PM
I know, I know.
S Martinez
January 25th, 2008 at 12:38 PM
@bigpappawes
SAL FASANO?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:39 PM
I used to work with a guy that graduated high school with Orie. Said he was the biggest cocksucker ever.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Sandy Martinez. CBH got it. He was my favorite Cub du’jour for about half that season. A great year to be a young, innocent Cubs fan.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:46 PM
@ BIGPAPPA
is it damon berryhill ?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:52 PM
I went to the same high school as Chip Lohmiller.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:06 PM
i went to same high school as Chad Smith (drummer Red Hot Chili Peppers)and Daniel Stern (Home Alone, voice of Adult Kevin Arnold)
January 25th, 2008 at 1:08 PM
I went to the same high school as Ahmad Brooks, LB for the Cincinnati Bengals.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:23 PM
that dunk would of been better if he would of made it
should of made a lay up instead, showboat
January 25th, 2008 at 1:55 PM
I’m leaving the Dana Jacobson thread and coming over here for a little levity.
Are we talking about situational context for these occurences TBL? I think Joe Carter hitting the walk off Series winning home run off Mitch Williams in front of the hometown crowd certainly qualifies as the best feeling I can imagine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AG6GcSwQCE
I always loved the call of “Touch em all Joe! You’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life.”
January 25th, 2008 at 4:50 PM
I went to highschool with Jon Lester (cancer survivor, Red Sox Pitcher) the guy was MVP of the our 4A league as a Freshman, sick athlete.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:50 PM
But could he dunk?