A 15-Year-Old High School Girl Dunked In A Game, Let’s Score It
Seeing a girl dunk a basketball is rare, extremely rare. That’s not a slight toward girls, it’s just a fact.
Hell, I can go to the gym everyday for the rest of my life, build tree trunks for legs and jump as many times as I want to, but that won’t erase the fact that I’m 5-foot-9 and have the same size hands as a 10-year-old. So calm down, I’m not talking down female athletes.
Fran Belibi, a 15-year-old at Regis Jesuit High School in Colorado, made history Friday night throwing down what is reportedly the first dunk ever in a Colorado high school girls basketball game.
First of all there is going to be a ton of assholes out there claiming that this isn’t a dunk, that it doesn’t look like she actually grabbed the rim and loads of other bullshit excuses, but this is a dunk, screw off.
This isn’t a half-assed effort either. It’s not like she had the luxury of taking all the time she wanted to pull this off as she had defenders trailing her.
It’s pretty clear she was going to attempt this and it’s safe to say she made the right decision.
Overall athleticism to attempt the dunk: 10
Notice where she took off from? She didn’t take off from right under the basket. She leaves the ground at the second block, that isn’t that close to the basket, but it also isn’t Vince Carter standard or anything like that.
Launching point: 9.4
SHE THREW IT DOWN WITH ONE HAND.
Sure, I think it’s a little easier to jump with one hand in the air as opposed to two, but come on, a one-handed dunk from a 15-year-old girl (her hands can’t be that big, right?) that’s kick-ass.
Let’s reiterate this one more time. She’s 15-years-old, and this also isn’t just at practice, this is a live game.
OVERALL SCORE: 9.9
She would’ve gotten a 10 if her celebration was better. Then again, she acted like she’d been there before, which is sort of cool too.
