Alabama high school basketball game halted after Mississippi State commit brings down whole hoop on dunk
Sports fans everywhere are familiar with backboard-shattering dunks. A future Mississippi State Bulldog, however, did more than that with his Friday-night dunk.
KeShawn Murphy of Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama brought the whole basket down Friday night, as you can see in the video below:
A scary moment as the entire basket fell down.
(via @Videoboostt1, @kballer_21) pic.twitter.com/zxHfRNckaa
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 23, 2021
Thankfully, all the players in the Ramsay-Carver game managed to get out of the way and are safe. As for the game, play was halted and will resume on Thursday. Ramsay had a 61-44 lead at the time.
Carver game will be finished @ Ramsay next Thursday after the Carver/Ramsay game #2. We will finish the remaining 4:00 min. Goal malfunction @ Carver.
— Ramsay Basketball (@RamsayHoops) January 23, 2021
Murphy committed to Mississippi State on Nov. 3, 2020. He is rated 3-stars, the No. 3 recruit in Alabama, No. 26 power forward and No. 147 prospect nationally in the class of 2021 on the 247Sports Composite. He also had offers from Alabama, Auburn, UAB and Western Kentucky.
Player malfunction, not goal malfunction.
I agree
Really should have been a technical foul for swinging on the rim.
Only time they should swing is when it’s a extremely fast break dunk and they gotta catch themselves.
He’s clearly jogging up to rim then jumps.
He should have never grabbed onto the rim in the 1st place
It was an equipment malfunction. There is no way a kid hanging on the rim should bring the entire goal down, disconnected from the ceiling. Breaking the backboard, or bending the rim you can make excuses for, but not a malfunction of this magnitude.
It was answered prayers that a kid was not seriously injured or killed.