On Dec. 29, 2014, Michael Porter Jr.’s life changed forever when he took off from just inside the free-throw line at the Jefferson City High School gymnasium and soared for a one-handed dunk.
By the end of the day, Porter Jr., then just a sophomore at Columbia’s Father Tolton High, would own the top play on the evening edition of ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”
Nearly three years removed from the game, Porter Jr. is the nation’s top-ranked recruit and starts his college basketball career at his hometown school, where he’s expected to revive the Missouri Tigers’ program.
He, his Tolton coaches and teammates, and Cannon Carlock, who shot the only known video of the dunk, relive the game and the aftermath.