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01st Mar 2015

Vines: Toronto and New York engage in failed dunk contest

This is bad basketball

Gareth Makim

There’s no better sight in basketball than a powerful, athletic dunk

Equally, though, there are few things more embarrassing than winding up for a highlight reel jam, only to fall flat on your face.

Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan saw Play of the Day as he led the fast break for the Atlantic Division-leading Raptors on their trip to New York last night, but his attempted 360-degree dunk ended pretty miserably.

Of course, the Knicks are a downright shambles this season and refused to be outdone on their own court, so when forward Louis Amundsen has the chance to send down his own statement slam he couldn’t but mess that up too.

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dunk,NBA,Viral