Late in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs ' season-opening 125-92 blowout win over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday, Victor Wembanyama faced up against P.J. Washington on the right wing. He shot faked. Washington bit. And what Wembanyama did next was, if you didn't actually see it with your own eyes, truly unbelievable.

A 7-foot-5 human being took one dribble before launching into a cradling, up-and-under, damn-near double-pump reverse dunk ... in traffic ... on the opposite side of the rim.

"A figment of our basketball imaginations!" was the early submission for call of the year from ESPN's play-by-play announcer Ryan Ruocco, and honestly, those are the only words that could have come close to sufficing in that moment. It was a perfect call for what might be an honest-to-

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