Kansas City Star
The best dunk of Thomas Robinson’s Kansas basketball career will be in the pregame video montage someday soon. Very soon, actually, like probably the next home game. You’ve probably seen it by now. If not, turn on one of the highlight shows. You won’t wait long.
You will see a fast break, Robinson somehow ahead of nearly everyone, Tyshawn Taylor coming down the right side, eying his friend, lobbing the ball over two Baylor players and watching Robinson grab the ball with his right hand and throw it down through the rim and 16,300 people began to go hoarse.
Probably a little deafer, too, the defining moment of KU’s 92-74 win over No. 4 Baylor on national television, and the biggest reason Robinson and Taylor couldn’t stop giggling afterward.
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