Alex Caruso Chats Dunk That ‘Started The Social Media Craze’
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00:00I'm Jill Painter-Lopez for Sports Illustrated here with another fun chat about Alex Caruso.
00:07Alex Caruso and fun just go together.
00:09Well, for Bleacher Report, he and Kevin DeBrenna, a soccer player from Manchester City, they
00:14were just talking about life in general, their mentors, and one of the things that they did
00:18was they both watched Alex Caruso's dunk over Kevin Durant in 2019.
00:23It was just such a crazy dunk.
00:25LeBron James, who was on the bench in street clothes and injured, came off the bench and
00:30put his hand to his head, and it was like almost amazement and disbelief in the same
00:34time.
00:35Well, that dunk, of course, as Alex Caruso told Kevin, it started the whole social media
00:39craze, and he said, you know, nobody remembers the game, how bad it was, how much we were
00:44getting beat by, how much we lost by against the Warriors, he said, but everybody remembers
00:49that dunk.
00:50And Caruso was laughing.
00:51He's like, you know, I even started that game over six.
00:53He said, my first made shot was that dunk.
00:56So just an interesting thing to see him talk about that dunk again, which, of course, led
01:01to his big popularity with the Lakers.
01:04And Kevin, who said he's been watching the NBA for the last 10 years, and big LeBron
01:08James fans told him it's been nice to see, watch his growth and progress.
01:13So just more fun times during the pandemic when all these athletes are having to stay
01:18at home, but many of them getting to have fun conversations with one another.