Daily News | Sixers guard Mac McClung’s slam-dunking rise to celebrity shows the evolution of basketball
, has just 2,000 residents and is located in a county whose population is more than 97% white and less than 1% Black. His father, Marcus, who was a tight end and linebacker at Virginia Tech in the early 1990s, started having Mac do plyometric exercises — pop squats and burpees and box jumps — when the kid was in seventh grade. His legs strengthened by those workouts, Mac dunked for the first time when he was 15. “One foot, one hand, pretty boring,” he said.
He didn’t miss a dunk Saturday, and his final attempt was a 540-degree spin-o-rama that was a reasonable facsimile of the trademark move of his favorite dunker: Vince Carter. “His athleticism shows up with his speed, with his first burst. He has great balance. He is a freak athlete, effortless athlete. Even starting out at practices, he’s able to get up and go.”
In early October, McClung was in Japan with the Warriors, who opened their preseason with two games in Tokyo against the Washington Wizards. There, he said, he got a phone call from Michael Levine, the NBA’s senior vice president of entertainment and marketing, who told him that the league wanted him in the dunk contest. Four months later, McClung signed a two-way contract with the 76ers on Feb.
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