The Chicago Bulls lost to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday, kicking off 2025 with a dud against one of the worst teams in the NBA. If one of the team's resolutions was to win more this year, well, that's not a great way to start.
Still, there were positives. Like Lonzo Ball dunking a basketball, for example. Ball hadn't dunked a basketball in an NBA game in three years. Ball had missed the last two full seasons with injuries and undergone a number of surgeries. He was back for the season opener, but then missed most of November.
But now he appears to be turning a corner. He played nine of 12 games for Chicago in December and was up to 19.1 minutes per game. And then the dunk, which was clearly a big moment. You can hear it in the voices of the announcers Adam Amin and Stacey King who immediately recognize the moment as something special and celebrate it.
According to this post on Reddit, Ball's previous dunk came on December 8, 2021 against the Cleveland Cavaliers, which would have been 1,120 days ago.
Ball finished with five points, eight rebounds and four assists, three steals and a block.
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