Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Mac McClung didn’t get a 50 score despite perfect dunking over Shaq during dunk contest at the 2024 NBA celebrity all-star game.
He asked Shaquille O’Neal to squeeze into McClung’s old high school jersey, then grabbed the ball out of the big man’s hands and leapt clear over him to draw five perfect scores on his final attempt Saturday night.
McClung compiled 98.8 points on his last two dunks, while Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown finished with 97.8.
So the 6-2 McClung found the biggest guy in the arena and not only dunked over him but did so with a thunderous reverse. McClung enlisted Shaquille O’Neal — the TNT analyst and 7-1 Hall-of-Fame center who was listed at 325 pounds in his playing days — asked him to wear a replica of McClung’s Gate City (Va.) High School jersey and gave him a basketball that he held over his head. McClung ran along the right baseline, lifted off from behind Shaq, grabbed the ball off his head, turned and threw down.
It was a dunk for the ages and it earned the 50 McClung needed, delivering him his a second straight championship. In consecutive years, McClung has electrified NBA All-Star Saturday night and given life to an event that is largely considered a fading phenomenon, even as he’s struggled to gain a foothold in the NBA.
“I’m trying to sit with it right now and take a second and understand what’s going on,” McClung said. “I feel like life is so fast sometimes, it’s just I’ll look back in 20 years when I can’t jump anymore and not as quick. But I know I’m a lucky dude.”