Want To See A Dead Body? Wendell Moore Jr Detonated For One Of The Most Perfectly Executed Posters You'll Ever See

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I don't mean to interrupt your night of football, but I unfortunately have a murder to report. The NBA season officially begins in 9 days with games that actually count, but after what took place tonight in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, I am here to report that we already have our first Dunk Of The Year candidate. As the self-appointed official record keeper of such a thing, despite nobody asking me to do it or that there even needs to be a Dunk Of The Year record keeper, but nevertheless, that is the cross I bear. 

The beauty of watching someone get absolutely yammed on, is the fact that it doesn't really matter the context in which it happened. Could be a scrimmage, could be an open run, could be some friends at the park, or it could be in an NBA preseason game. A sick ass play is a sick ass play, and this my friends, is a sick ass play

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Wendell Moore Jr is on an Exhibition 10 deal with the Celtics this season, which basically just means he has a camp invite and is probably hoping/looking to join the Maine Celtics. Well after a play like that, I say welcome to the system. With JD Davison gone, the Maine Celts could use a point guard with some bounce, and given the fact that he just sent that dude to the center of the earth, I think he'd work out just fine.

In terms of the dunk itself, 10/10 no notes. That's a perfect body. It had everything you need when talking about a Dunk Of The Year candidate, just go down the list

Starting off, a good launch point outside the circle

Off two feet to generate the most power, it's at this moment that Moore is loading up. This is the foundation of everything you're about to see.

Next up, once you're airborne, can you meet your defender at the apex and absorb the contact while overpowing him and staying on your path to the rim? Check

With every one of these types of dunks, at the apex there needs to be a moment where you sort of stop in mid-air and it's as if time stops. There's a "pause" if you will. That moment came as Moore started to bring his arm forward. 

Now the important part. The finish. After absorbing the contact, it's time for the hammer. To pull off a legit murder level dunk, you not only have to finish strong, but it has to be clean. None of this throw the ball in the rim bullshit. True posters are clean rim grabs. 

Check.

With a clean release and a quick moment to talk your shit, you have now checked every box required for entry into The Dunk Of The Year Race for 2025-26. For me, this is one of the fun storylines of the season every year. Who doesn't love a sick ass poster? While this is a great way to kick us off for this season, just wait until we see what guys like Anthony Edwards, Ja Morant, Shaedon Sharpe etc have in store over the next handful of months. This was awesome, and it's going to get even better as the year goes on.

On a side note, the Gap Year Celtics are currently destroying everything in their path so far this preseason while playing other teams' backups (minus that whole blowing a 27 point lead thing), and while we have no idea how many games they'll actually win this season, what we can say is that they are going to be fun as hell to watch

It's not much, but I'll take it until Tatum returns. Oh yeah, we're at this stage with Tatum now on his journey back. He'll probably be practicing by Halloween at this point