The Best Plays You’ve Never Seen Before, Featuring Darius Miles

Good morning NBA fans, happy May 17th!  Since the 16th didn’t provide any games for me to write about, I will instead give to you the second installment of the best NBA highlights on Youtube with under 25,000 views.  There’s nothing super-old in this assortment, but that doesn’t make it any less spectacular, and it’s a nice throwback to what I like to call the NBA’s “hip-hop era.”  Let me warm up the time machine… First up, I’ve got this sick facial dunk by a young Tracy McGrady–and by young Tracy McGrady I mean Raptors Tracy McGrady…   You know what’s really crazy about this dunk?  Notice how he drives into the paint at an angle nearly parallel to the backboard, then is somehow able to explode towards the basket from the dotted f@cking line and posterize a seven-footer.  I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen anything quite like that before.  T-Mac is basically driving across the court, then he just de...