This HBCU Baller May Have Dropped The Dunk Of The Century

Pack it up. Everybody go home. The dunk of the year – no, the century – has been awarded, and it’s not courtesy of any of the likely candidates. It’s not a Duke or Kansas high-flier. It’s not LeBron James, or Russell Westbrook, or Zach LaVine. It’s not Vince Carter turning back the clock. It comes from a DII school in Atlanta, and you’re going to want to watch this one quite a few times.

That’s Derek Harper, a 5’11 guard who recently went over 1,000 points in his Panthers career on Monday night.

He skies then basically climbs his defender to throw it down with such ferocity I’m surprised the camera didn’t turn off right then and there, the lights pop and go dark, and the crowd transported to another dimension. There are dunks, and then there’s what Harper did. That was a straight up baptism. Look at his own teammate Tajai Johnson (No. 32), he fell to the ground and might be just now waking up.

HBCU Gameday alerted us to the fact that Clark Atlanta’s coach Darrell Walker played with Michael Jordan, and a quick search shows he was on the 1993 Bulls, averaged 7.1 points in 28 games and got himself a ring. There are shades of MJ on that dunk, between the anger, the confidence, and the downright bounce. Somebody send Harper a pair of AJ12s.

Here are some of Harper’s junior year highlights. The kid’s got game.

(Via HBCU Gameday)