Prior to this weekend, 6’3 senior guard Nubian Spann hadn’t gotten much attention nationally despite leading his Panther Creek, North Carolina squad to a nearly unblemished 13-1 mark heading into a match-up against rival Apex.
But that all has changed after Spann made Sportcenter’s Top 10 plays for shattering a backboard in the 2nd quarter of their contest with Apex, that caused the game to be suspended to a later date.
Spann received a perfect alley-oop pass from teammate Juan Munoz on a fast break before throwing down a thunderous dunk that nearly brought down the entire backboard support in addition to glass going everywhere.
Spann reportedly did receive a cut high on his neck near his back but didn’t require any stitches.
What makes the story a bit more interesting that following an interview live on ESPN, Spann revealed that this had been his first ever dunk finished off in an official game.
After this, hopefully some Division I schools will take notice of the athletic senior…
Allen Moll has been a lifelong NBA and NCAA College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously, and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Allen has also provided content to Bleacherreport.com, Upperdeckblog.com, Cleveland.com, CSN Philly.com, Buckets Magazine, in addition to being a tenured NBA and NCAA columnist for TheHoopDoctors.com.
