TORONTO (AP) — Zach LaVine was fresh out of dunks, having been pushed to the limits by Aaron Gordon in an epic final round that put the slam dunk contest back on top at All-Star Saturday night.
In need of some magic, he reached deep down into his repertoire and found just enough left for one more go.
"We were looking in our bag of tricks. Ain't nothing left," LaVine said. "I just found a little piece of dust."
LaVine pulled off a between-the-legs dunk from the free throw line on the second tie-breaker to take home his second straight dunk contest trophy, becoming just the fourth player to pull off that feat.
The Minnesota Timberwolves guard had never tried the dunk before. Not in practice. Not at that playgrounds back home in Seattle. But he had already used all four of the dunks he planned to do when fellow contestant Will Barton told him to try it.
He pulled it off, putting an emphatic punctuation on a contest that instantly drew comparisons to the showdown betweenMichael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins in 1988.
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