Video: Dudes can't stop dunking on Andre Drummond at the Drew League
Maybe it was payback for the vicious block Andre Drummond unleashed on a Danish child in June.
Or maybe the Detroit Pistons center’s recent five-year, $127 million contract added some motivation.
Either way, the 7-foot Drummond got posterized not once, but twice by a pair of players with lesser basketball résumés and more to prove at the elite pro-am Drew League in Los Angeles on Sunday.
A rough day at #thedrew for @AndreDrummondd. Posterized by both Sek Henry and @djshump18. #DunkCam. WILD! pic.twitter.com/YgSsfKfTEo
— Drew League (@DrewLeague) July 25, 2016
The first one came courtesy of former Nebraska guard Sek Henry, who played for Spain’s CAI Zaragoza this past season. Granted, Drummond wasn’t the only opponent to whiff on the play, as Henry also crossed up two more would-be defenders, but the Pistons star was certainly the most recognizable.
D-League forward D.J. Shumpert delivered the second serving of stuffing, turning on one dribble into a two-handed facial of Drummond. The 6-foot-7 Shumpert listed himself as a software engineer on social media before joining the L.A. Defenders in 2015-16, and while the former job is sexier for a headline like, “Software engineer posterizes Andre Drummond,” the latter role — as a big man chasing an NBA dream who’s talented enough to earn minutes in the D-League — is more important here.
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While it’s startling to see Henry and Shumpert dunking on a dude who just got a max NBA contract, it’s important to remember they’re a whole lot more motivated to show up Drummond than the Pistons center is to go all out on a block attempt that could end in a collision during the offseason.
Still, Drummond got dunked on twice at the Drew League, and somewhere a Danish child is smiling.
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