As in, a 720 dunk, as in somebody turning 720 degrees in the air, as in double a 360. It happened in Houston last week, on the And 1 Mixtape Tour - the streetball show that simultaneously is bringing a different style of basketball to the masses, and being blamed for the ruination of the NBA and, probably, for only getting a bronze medal in Athens in 2004.

Regardless, a video of the dunk - by a player nicknamed Air Up There - landed in my in-box over the holiday weekend, and I couldn't believe my eyes. I also couldn't figure out how to post the video on this blog. Thank goodness, then, for YouTube. I came to this site late, but now I'm as addicted as everybody else, and it allowed you to see this if you haven't yet. I can't decide, though, which I enjoy more, the dunk or the little kid's reaction to it.

Also, this is an eyewitness account from a writer for the newspaper in Galveston, Tex.; it also includes some good reporting on the dunker (real name: Taurian "T.J.'' Fontenette, from Hitchcock, Tex.).

FYI: the And 1 Tour comes to Verizon Center in D.C. on Saturday, Aug, 12.

Back to YouTube: if it's been a while since you've seen the Pistons-Pacers brawl, the site has the feeds from ESPN that night, and from Channel 4 in Detroit. (I first saw this on The Sports Guy's website on ESPN.com. Gotta give credit where credit is due.) What stood out once again on yet another viewing: how much the Bulls' new $60 million man, Ben Wallace, got away with. Watch everything he did to instigate and escalate the incident before the fan even hit Artest with the cup, and then wonder how he only got suspended for six games. Then think about that contract and try not to get too depressed about the inherent injustice in the universe. Unless you're a Bulls fan; then not only are you not going to be depressed, you probably won't even remember he was in that fight.