New Headline: Coen Carr Lights Up NCAA Showcase With Pistons' Thriving Dunks and Stunning Victory Over MSU's Star
There was a time when Coen Carr couldn't dunk, Now, rims and backboards shake and explode after the Michigan State basketball junior slams on them.
EAST LANSING – Coen Carr believed he could fly. And then he did. Baskets have been quaking in his wake since.
“The first time I dunked? ” the Michigan State basketball junior said Monday, March 16, repeating the question asked of him shortly after a practice filled with rim attacks inside the Spartans ’ practice facility. A few months after exploding a backboard in his hometown .
That prompted Carr to drive down memory lane and deliver his recollection of his origin story as maybe the best dunker in all of basketball right now – better than almost every NBA player, many feel, even as a 21-year-old college player heading into his third NCAA Tournament appearance. RELATED: Tom Izzo's March Madness message to Michigan State basketball is clear The Atlanta native’s debut dunk happened when he was 14, before he was about to enter ninth grade. Carr went nearly a year trying to throw one down when he was a 6-foot eighth grader but couldn’t.
Then one day that summer, while playing fullcourt with his middle school teammate after their season and school ended, the adrenaline kicked in and the burst arrived. “I got it finally,” he said. “That was a great day for me.
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