When Heat forward Derrick Jones. Jr. goes up for a dunk, it’s usually special.
But the alley-oop Jones completed with 2:52 to play in Sunday’s 125-104 loss to the Raptors was on another level. The man known as “Airplane Mode,” whose vertical leap was once measured at 48 inches, seemed to defy gravity and hang up in the air to take the lob from Bam Adebayo on a fast break.
Once Jones took the lob, he was so high and so far away from the rim that he threw it down into the basket. Yes, it came in “garbage time,” but the dunk was still quite impressive.