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This makes four posts I've written on the USA Select Team, so I should probably stop calling it "the Scrimmage Thing." Anyway, NBA.com has a nice, stirring account of the scrimmage won by the young'uns. Most striking, though, is the dynamic feat pulled off by recently-added Senior Team member Nick Collison:

The players had been shooting around for just a few minutes when a everyone heard a loud bang from the corner of the gym. We all looked to where the noise came from, and we saw Nick Collison standing under one of the side baskets with the rim at his feet.

Several players started yelling, "Yeah Nick!"

For his part, Collison played it modest, figuring that "something must have been wrong with the rim, because he didn't dunk it that hard." However, LeBron definitely had the best reaction:

"I was hoping practice would be over," LeBron James told me afterwards. "I was hoping coach would say, 'Hey, practice is cancelled.' That's the first thing that came to my mind. The second thing is 'I hope he didn't shoot a jumper and the basket fell.'"

Ah, the life of a global icon. All concern for others and better things to do than basketball.

(via Supersonicsoul)