Dwyane Wade Dunk VIDEO: Wade Demolishes Anderson Varejao

During last night's loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, there was one bright spot for Miami. Late in the first quarter, Dwyane Wade grabbed a rebound and ran down the court before completing an epic dunk on Anderson Varejao. Wade finished the game with 36 points in the 111-104 loss.

WATCH DWYANE WADE'S AMAZING DUNK:

Comments

[malcolmnext]

02:34 PM on 11/14/2009

pwnd!

[Somali]

02:24 PM on 11/14/2009

I was watching that. D-Wade owned him in every sense of the word lol

[lamberton]

12:43 PM on 11/14/2009

It was a great dunk, with some very unusual aspects that made the dunk much more difficult than it might at first appear. First, the 6’ 4’ Wade approaches the 6’11” Varejao who is guarding the basket. The crowd anticipates dunk. Then Wade crosses over right to left with his right leg, moving him away from a direct line to the basket. Varejao reacts moving to Wade’s left. Then Wade changes direction again back to the basket, leaps off his left leg and is able to get high above Varejao despite these 2 changes in direction. He puts his hand way back to prevent a block and loses control of the ball on the way up. He regains control at the apex, starts to throw it down, and again loses control as the ball goes down into the rim. The ball hits the back of the rim, goes half-way down, rolls back up again and around to the front of the rim. Here, Wade , hand still above and in the rim, finally regains control and dunks it again for a second time on the same play. So, 2 changes of direction on his last 2 steps, monstrous jump over and through Varejao, loses ball control twice in the air, then dunks the ball a second time when it appears it might roll out of the cylinder. Some of this is only apparent on frame by frame advance.

[ohiomark]

11:47 AM on 11/14/2009

Anderson Varejao is very good at "flopping" to take a charge. He does it all the time. Sometimes he gets the call, sometimes he gets the foul.

Sure, it was a good dunk by Wade, but "demolish" is a bit strong.

[phazeroftruth]

02:46 PM on 11/14/2009

... no, he got demolished lol.

[ohiomark]

03:22 PM on 11/14/2009

Check the scoreboard. The Cavs won! That's all that matters in the end.

All the rest is just fluff.

[haval2]

11:03 AM on 11/14/2009

Getting a standing "O" in my living room for D Wade too. Fab-u-lous!

[Fanis Siampos]

10:54 AM on 11/14/2009

great dunk!
but see this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hR5ZkvHl5c

[beelzabubbleboy]

10:52 AM on 11/14/2009

big deal. he knocked the defender down while dunking. there was no block attempt---V just got ran over. I hope he repaid the favor before the game ended. in the old days b4 the 'circle' this might have been a charge.

[centsable]

11:25 AM on 11/14/2009

There was no block defense? are we watching the same video or does your bifocals need cleaning. Probaly the latter.

[beelzabubbleboy]

11:30 AM on 11/14/2009

i meant he didnt jump to block but yes my bifocals also need cleaning.

[beelzabubbleboy]

11:32 AM on 11/14/2009

my bad---watched it again---V did offer a weak jump. i should become a baseball ump!

[asichii]

10:10 AM on 11/14/2009

"....loss"
thanks, that all i wanted to know.

[CNYObamaFan]

01:08 PM on 11/14/2009

That's all that matters amirite?

[WebCommoner]

08:01 AM on 11/14/2009

Pure theatrics.

[pilgrimboy]

07:38 AM on 11/14/2009

You know what I like about this dunk. After he knocks the guy over, Wade steps over Verejao and does not even help him up. I really do not want my children watching or mimicking this behavior. Classy.

[Smurfaveli]

11:43 AM on 11/14/2009

What? Adjust your panties and keep quiet.

[blindjester]

12:25 PM on 11/14/2009

Flagged.

There's a whole lot of misanthropy in your short note.

[JamesRiddle]

02:14 PM on 11/14/2009

Go back to watching your chess match Pointdexter.

[blindjester]

06:20 PM on 11/14/2009

This isn't playoff basketball. Classy players have always extended a hand to the opponent during the regular season.

[customgreen]

07:19 AM on 11/14/2009

A decent dunk, but not to much to remember except for him telling everyone how great he is. Go back to the ABA days and you will see some real stuff. Dr. J would put on a show every game. Jordan had hundreds of dunks better than this one. This one wasn't even that pretty in slow motion, he almost lost the bal while coming down for the dunk.

[phazeroftruth]

02:50 PM on 11/14/2009

wade has already been crowned king of the dunk. check out his top 100. notice i said hundred and not 10

[customgreen]

07:25 AM on 11/15/2009

King of the dunk. That is truely laughable. Thats like all these surveys that want to know what best television show ever is. You get knuckleheads saying it is Everybody loves Raymond. Just silly. 100 dunks....big deal. Nothing, silly, laughable.

[kirtlandpat]

07:01 AM on 11/14/2009

The better dunk happened at the end of the game:

CAVS 111
HEAT 104

[Brautigan]

03:48 AM on 11/14/2009

Anyone who says this wasn't a spectacular dunk doesn't watch alot of bball. Yeah, Varejao may have done some flopping, but if he did, there was no reason for it at all since he was in the key, right? He went down the way he did because of the INCREDIBLY GUTSY chest bump by Wade while both were in the air.

Takes alot of guts to go DIRECTLY into a defender like Varejao HEAD ON for the dunk.

In short, this was spectacular, end of story.

[blindjester]

01:16 PM on 11/14/2009

Exactly. I agree.

Now compare your well-worded appreciation for the athleticism of the play to other people's celebration of the a**kicking.

I enjoy the physical achievement. Others enjoy the intimidation.

Two different flavors of testosterone, I guess....

[Kyuzo]

02:46 AM on 11/14/2009

It was a good dunk, but most of the "aftermath" was Varejao flopping...which is what he has been notorious for for four years now.

Congratulations, Sideshow Bob. Maybe this "Kodak Moment" will inspire you to STAY ON YOUR FEET like 6'11" center is supposed to.

[fuzzycuffs]

02:43 AM on 11/14/2009

Meh I've seen better posterizations. Baron Davis on AK47 comes to mind. And of course last season's Sasha Vujacic on some unnamed Kings. That was great because it was Sasha.