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Some NBA gamers who win the league’s Slam Dunk contest throughout All-Star weekend are well-known and have very profitable careers, however others fizzle out quite shortly.
Mac McClung is among the extra inconceivable Slam Dunk champions basketball has ever seen — after a number of stints within the G League, he gained the dunk contest in 2023, regardless that he hadn’t performed a single NBA recreation but that season.
The Philadelphia 76ers.had signed him to a two-way contract simply days earlier than his All-Star weekend triumph, and after spending final season with the G League’s Osceola Magic and successful one other Slam Dunk contest, the Orlando Magic have signed him to {a partially} assured deal, per Shams Charania.
McClung completed final season because the Most Worthwhile Participant of the G League by averaging 25.7 factors, 4.7 rebounds and 6.6 assists a recreation whereas capturing 47.0 % from the sector and 36.0 % from 3-point vary.
He went undrafted in 2021 after spending two years at Georgetown College and one 12 months at Texas Tech College.
The Magic have an intriguing younger workforce that options 2022-23 Rookie of the 12 months and 2023-24 All-Star ahead Paolo Panchero, ahead Franz Wagner and guard Jalen Suggs, and so they’re coming off their first playoff look since 2020.
They’re hoping to take the subsequent step and win their first playoff sequence since 2010, the 12 months after they unexpectedly reached the NBA Finals.
Orlando has gone from a laughingstock to a good workforce by embracing protection, and it resulted in them rating third in defensive ranking this previous season.
After all, they’re hoping McClung turns right into a diamond within the tough who will assist them enhance much more.
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