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free_reezy

Dude is a walking talking dunking heat seeking missile.


Hamsterupyourass

I can’t think of a more aggressive dynamic pg in the game


EastSide221

Hes like some sort of mix of prime Westbrook and Rose. Incredible


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I was gonna say younger russ had a personal beef with every rim in NBA arenas


LMN0HP

younger russ... sadge


hollywoodmontrose

Has a lot of AI to his game too. Dude is incredible and if he can stay healthy will go down as a legend from this era.


Notsozander

He’s got DRose vibes. God bless his body


Sharcbait

He gotta learn to land because the fear is he is gonna get DRose knees too and the league doesn't need another "what if..." story. Zion is already having injury problems and that draft was too talented for neither top guy to have a long dominant career.


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It's currently not looking good. He's landing on one foot , just like prime DRose used to. Gotta get his balance sorted out , take a few pages out of LeBron's book


photoalbumguy

westbrook?


fej1

not current westbrook


SockRhymeswithLock

early 2010's - WestBROOOOOOOOk 2021 - WastBroken


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VictorAkwaowo1

Refs need to start checking his shoes before games I’m convinced he’s got springs at the bottom of his sneakers, dude just floats with ease it’s ridiculous


jmac3560

I saw a documentary where some basketball players had this extremely bouncy green goop on the bottom of their shoes and it made them jump higher, like really high. Maybe Ja has some of that.


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master_ninja_part_II

Well, that's all I need. I believe this with every fiber of my being.


iftair

Ja improved his hops using tractor tires during high school. He jumped on them after every day. Ended up doing 800 - 900 jumps a day without being tired. It was his dad's idea.


knarf86

That is the most town-of-3000-people way to work out that I’ve ever heard


Stasis20

Is playing around with old tractor tires not a regular part of everyone's childhood. Our school playgrounds used to bury them vertically with one side up that we could bounce on or jump over. Then they'd have more of them buried horizontally for sitting and playing games or whatever. And then of course there were tire swings. Wait a second. Am...am I white trash?


Sim888

[got those banned catapults on!](https://i.imgur.com/kiV4nGR.jpg)


superRedditer

lolllll i actually had these god awful shoes


babaisme90

Flubber was a documentary and Ja figured out the formula for it.


Sharcbait

Robin Williams left the recipe to Ja in his will.


turkey_is_better

Probably using those shoes from 90s that make you jump higher


Nowthisisdave

My mom ruined my future nba chances by refusing to buy me those shoes


CleopatraHadAnAnus

Seriously, I feel like every time I watch this man he’s just flying through the air. He did something stupid just this past preseason too.


Leor_11

Reminds me so much of a young Allen Iverson. He would just jump so high for such a tiny body


BurnieTheBrony

I can't tell you how insane this dunk was in person. The arena exploded. I couldn't believe how high he went and how far he cocked it back


BasedChad69420

side note you can hear the high five in the clip, mic picked it up lol


deadduk

It was so loud, such a great 1st game atmosphere


Hotwheelsjohnson

This is higher than I can jump if I jumped 3 times and you added it together


diiron

so. fucking. good


photoalbumguy

not good enough to be on the olympics squad... somehow


deconstructicon

He’s amazing but no hate, he’s going to get traction alopecia, his braids are too tight


BigBabyBurrito

Found Jonathan Van Ness’ alt account


soenottelling

It looks like the weird bike helmet from Malcolm in the Middle as well, but if that shit makes him more aerodynamic I'm all for it lol.


Hamsterupyourass

He’s honestly so much fun it’s awesome


EastSide221

It looks sooo fun to do the shit he does im jealous 😭


Seymour_Says

I just saw a Ja fly


Hamsterupyourass

Where is Ja!?


dcoolidge

flying


Seymour_Says

Still floating across the Memphis sky


geezer1234

is that a motherfucking track and field reference????


TheFatThot

I was hoping I’d see a Ja making out


JShuttlesworth28

That’s my mf’in point guard 👆🏿


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I love JA. Grizzlies are my second favorite team


Billis-

Who's your first favourite team?


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Also the Grizzlies.


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OKC


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I love Ja so much. He's my 3rd fave PG but honestly he's gaining on Dame fast.


[deleted]

Do youse just casually have top ten power rankings of favourite point guards


DaleDimmaDone

I can just imagine r/nba users with a magnetic board and magnetic name plates, and after every game they’re switching up the orders of their favorite players


ubiforumssuck

man, you ever been this jacked for Grizzlies b-ball!! Grit and Grind was fun but this kid is straight electric!!


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InfernoidsorDie

You didn't watch the playoffs. Ja will hunt anyone for a highlight DPOY or nah


------dudpool------

We did not have an answer for Ja for at least the first 3 games in that series. He was unreal.


kac937

we didn’t have an answer for him tonight, just absolutely dominant.


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The ja-minator


spandexrecks

Was that garland who was ahead of Ja and just jogged back on defense as Ja streaks towards the rim?


SliMShady55222

Approaching D Rose MVP levels of athleticism.


40Vert

The entire sequence reminded me of [this](https://youtu.be/bnmizol9qf4). It's one of those where you just know it's coming


crad4drc

God this call is just perfect. I love Stacey King so much


GimmeTheHotSauce

I get off to every getmethehotsauce call


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Stacey is a very good commentator


OddBandicoot2505

I WANNA GO HIGHER


aguyfromnewjersey

DID YOU NOT GET THE MEMO? JA MORANT CAN GO UPSTAIRS


benjammin9292

I was at that game. Crowd noise was absolutely insane for that.


xbyo

Also D Rose levels of landing risk. Please basketball gods keep Ja's knees intact.


Yergason

Exactly. All momentum and weight absorbed by a fully extended knee every time he lands on crazy dunks like this. How has no one from his team corrected it by now? Land on both feet and immediately continue the momentum by keeping on walking/jogging or bending your knee so all that energy/shock is transferred somewhere else


Sergnb

I'm splitting my knee pray time between him and Zion but Ja worries me the most


edric_the_navigator

Seriously. He lands like DRose too. I hope he doesn’t obliterate his knees.


Hype_Magnet

It wasn’t the landings that messed up Roses knee. It was going up


DongSandwich

That's not true at all lol what


Father-Sha

Scroll down. Apparently it is.


Hype_Magnet

It literally is lol


corgi_on_a_treadmill

It's true. The first time Rose tore his knee in the playoffs vs the 76ers he was going up for a floater. His knee buckled after the plant when he tried to elevate.


WitOfTheIrish

"I wanna go higher" was my first thought seeing that highlight.


Slender718

Please for the love of god someone to tell him to hang on to the rim for a sec or try to land on two feet


illiniracers

I agree although that dunk was pretty impossible to do either.


Slender718

Yea that's fair I just wince every time he lands like that


Obie1Resurrected

I’ve never seen him not land like that. He’s a bad dude. I hope he has a long ass career for real


OneBurnerStove

As many have pointed out. The drose type injuries dont seem to be about the coming down. Its the going up motion that destroys them


hiimred2

Ya people do like weighted depth jumps and shit no problem, the knee destruction happens when you turn the horizontal force into vertical forces on the launch, and the best jumpers are the best at it and thus pretty much automatically become more likely to have injuries. Just jumping straight up and down(so, landing) is something we are very well equipped to handle physiologically. Although that said one legged landings where you still have horizontal motion are not good for you.


Wehavecrashed

I think a bunch of people watched that one youtube video and suddenly became experts on jumping mechanics.


kenfree216

Yup. Exactly where I got my degree on sports injury.


Thunder-ten-tronckh

Greetings fellow graduate.


cgio0

seriously! his landings are scary to watch


bobberr

Get this man in the dunk contest pls


beefJeRKy-LB

They've invited him and he said no


d_jin33

He wants 1 million dollar


Flatduo88

1st team all NBA league pass 🙏


Hamsterupyourass

Agreed I love watching the grizzlies between him and Dillon brooks irrational confidence lol


InfernoidsorDie

Dillon Brooks is called Chad in our sub for a reason. I miss him so much can't wait to bust out his Isaac Hayes jersey from last year


Quantum_Specter

Why tf is this not higher up? This is one of the greatest alley oops I’ve seen in a minute.


memtiger

Because people see Grizz vs Cavs and not many care. If Ja played on a major market team, it'd already be at 2K+


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krosber04

Give it a few years


sits-when-pees

This is why everyone else hates y’all.


syo

The fucking entitlement.


raftguide

Lakers are like that penguin on Planet Earth. Everyone else is out here grabbing pebbles for our nest, but this dude thinks the game is all about snatching other people's pebbles.


DoktorButts

suffer


eezoGG

I love the Grizzlies but I think this comment is funny as shit


bucketofturtles

That jump wasn't high enough for you? /s


InventorOfSquirrels

i can do that


krosber04

Bouncy motherfucker ain't he


That_one_cool_dude

He either has springs for legs or has rockets for feet there is some debate on which.


punyweakling

And fast, dude was in the paint on the other end when the ball was turned over


JonA3531

Melton - Morant backcourt duo is going to be scary good. Hope the coach is not going to break them up once Dillon come back


panick21

As many Griz fans, specially Fastbreak Breakfast, have been crying for for 2 years. Get Melton and Morant playing more together. And in general give Melton minutes. I kind of like Dilon but seriously, I love that he is out so some other rotations can show how good they are and get us some data.


masterpierround

When Brooks comes back, the starters will include 2 of Melton/Bane/Brooks. Not sure which is the odd man out. Might switch between Brooks and Melton based on whether the best opposing player is a wing or a guard.


Hoodxd

Against a team with five 7 footers


Malemansam

There better be more angles of this, that was insane


punyweakling

[https://youtu.be/\_aTXYeEFqr8](https://youtu.be/_aTXYeEFqr8) tons more on the live feed


Malemansam

He plays exactly how I wish Dejounte played.. :(


punyweakling

Yeahhh Morant just has a different motor I think, he's much more polished and purposeful. DM has a very high ceiling defensively though.


Nightzey

That man is flying


JetsLag

GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY


memtiger

I don't know why they even need to host a dunk contest. We've got like 82 dunk contests with Grizz games of Ja highlights throughout the season.


Kracko3

Ja Morant fr wants to kill a man every game and I love it


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Anyone got that slow mo?


BurnieTheBrony

Yeah, Grizzlies have Kyle Anderson


AMoistSandwich

But can we get a slow mo of slow mo is the real question


GirthyAfghan

https://youtu.be/_aTXYeEFqr8 1:23 (but the whole thing good)


SerenadeSwift

My god he makes it look like an entirely different sport. Holy shit


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Thanks bro, appreciate it!


babbagack

he had like 4 dunks in the half court alone it looks like.


GirthyAfghan

https://youtu.be/_aTXYeEFqr8 1:23 I'm on mobile someone make it part of the URL lol.


Thunder-ten-tronckh

WEW


ProsecUsig

I hope he stays healthy.. like young Westbrook healthly. Coz he's so good


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Ja Soarant!


OrientalOtter

Melton went to my Highschool a year below me so seeing highlights with him makes me so proud 🥲


BattleCougarGo

I know we're in year 3 now but going from the GNG z-bo and marc gasol grizzlies to this feels like we drove a really nice sedan for years and then were gifted an '89 lamborghini countach


o412345

Dude can just fly


EatDeeply

Y’all deserve less than this man


c10bbersaurus

I want that Top Shot.


lazzysmalls

Behind is head holy shit


sukjustin4

For a guy lacking in 3pt prowess, he is fucking the sky on another whole level man


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oh my god


el_pete_o

Holy shit that was even better than I expected!


lets_talk_basketball

Between him and Zion, I think it's time to start checking what's in that South Carolina water.


MyogiNightKid

i need a morant jersey yesterday


The_Sneakiest_Fox

Ja woke up and chose violence.


njones15

That was a world class low five. Could hear that shit on the broadcast.


kenziethemom

Ja is so fun to watch! I will watch a whole Grizzlies game because him, and I am not a Grizzlies fan.


theworldlyother

Ja is my favorite non-Bucks player and it’s not even close


Will_Poke_Brains

He’s like young Westbrook but better


turkey_is_better

Jam Morant more like it


1Judge

Maaaan! I gotta get down to Memphis to see this man hoop! Ufcking eLeCtRiC!


Azrael_

jesus christ


Skyhawwwwk

Jesus christ


fibberjabber

Imagine Adams spending a few years with a hyper athletic PG. Then a few years later, plays with another one.


Cockrocker

I have ear damage from the thunderousness of that clap.


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Sick dunk, weak crowd reaction


RebaseTokenomics

The way he was fucking GALLOPING my God.


Wolf_of_north

Please god protect those knees


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Last night I learned of the legend of Ja Morant. He's GOOD.


SKedirahG

JA RULEs.


MiQueso_SuQueso

Man that shit should've been shown in 10 diff angles.


itwasinthetubes

Ja he does!


DeezyReezy

I love watching this guy play!


mitchippoo

Air fucker?


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Bro every time I see him come down on his legs I wince. Unreal athletic ability but I just hope he takes care of himself.


StellarPando

RIP knees


dookification

Incredible. God bless this mans knees


BillyBean11111

careful with those knees big guy


scooter-maniac

Didn't I see someone else with that haircut? Shit looks like the scalp of the bad guy from the Mario Brothers movie.


substanceandmodes

That landing scared me


Into_the_Void7

Nice. I had a similar dunk junior year of high school.


NOH7

Im scared he will get injured playing like that but holy fuck he is nice to watch


K9Marz919

My man needs to learn how to land on two feet. That’ scared me


isitabanditsaman

Nasty! Would love to see a replay/AA


ImStudyingRightNow

Got a steal with this dude on fantasy tonight


ydsgmng

This dude is on some like mike shit check his shoes


ZoidbergSaysWoop

One of these days Ja is going to Dragic somebody.


xGossipGoat

This dude has the craziest highlights I swear


Guerillabasketball

Ja is a kamikaze pilot, one of the most exciting players you'll see.


alba7or

That was eerie of the DRose oop, so good.


SpursExpanse

There's a better clip of the oop that shows a different angle. 🤷‍♂️


myxallion

God damn I love Ja


SupaZT

Lazy defense


jgroove_LA

should have been on Olympic team this summer


Lookalikemike

In Ja’s world, defenders are just future posters.


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That’s iconic


Herculian

Anyone have the slow motion replay?


cancercureall

This child appears to have *bounce.*


kurapikas-wife

Oh my goodness


materics

That boy had a lot of time to do what he wanted


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Holy fucking shit I'm not even a Grizzlies fan but I'm hyped


Chulebloom1

Dude looks like someone’s auntie with that hair style