4-star high school basketball star throws down dunk of the summer; is he really only 5-foot-9?

It wouldn't beryllium nine hoops play without a comparatively mini defender throwing down an insane dunk.

Here we person a viral entrant for precocious schoolhouse dunk of nan offseason from a personnel of Team Loaded, which came successful nan 2nd half of a competitory nonaccomplishment to Indiana Elite successful Adidas 3SSB play.

First of all, this is an insane dunk and show of leaping expertise whether nan dunker successful mobility was 5-foot-5, 6-5, aliases 7-5. No matter his height, his assemblage power and region from nan level speaker for themselves.

But was he really only 5-9 for illustration nan tweet said?

He surely was nan smallest subordinate connected nan floor, taking disconnected acold from nan rim and switching hands successful midair earlier jamming it pinch emphasis. Based connected his proximity successful size pinch nan different players connected nan floor, 5-foot-9 passes nan oculus test.

However, nan subordinate successful mobility was 1 of nan bigger defender recruits successful nan South/East Coast successful 4-star rising elder Yohance Connor of Combine Academy (NC). Connor is listed astatine 6-2 and classed 104th successful nan Class of 2026 by 247Sports.

The truth is, players successful nan vicinity of 6-1 and 6-2 often do look to beryllium 5-9 erstwhile sharing nan level pinch assemblage and professional-sized wings and frontcourt players. For those who watched nan 2025 NBA playoffs, look nary farther than T.J. McConnell, who stands 6-0.75 barefoot and 6-2 successful hoops shoes. In nan NBA Finals against nan Oklahoma City Thunder, he was often nan only subordinate connected nan level beneath 6-foot-5 successful bare feet.

Even if 6-foot-2 is simply a agelong for Connor successful bare feet – which it mightiness not beryllium – he's surely obscurity adjacent 5-9. But nan dunk was still genuinely insane, and nan truth that he's each of 6-foot-2 astatine astir alternatively of 5-9 doesn't diminish its viral-worthiness. That was 1 of nan much awesome and visually jarring dunks you'll spot from a mini guard, and that's that.

Connor vanished nan crippled pinch 22 points contempt nan loss. While it takes much than conscionable elite athleticism to play precocious awesome assemblage shot astatine 6-foot-2, it's easy to spot why he's astir a top-100 enlistee successful his people pinch 12 offers that see Auburn, Arizona State, Illinois, LSU, Wake Forest, and Virginia Tech.

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