Kornet has hilarious reaction to Grimes posterizing him in Celtics-Mavs

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Kornet has hilarious reaction to Grimes posterizing him in Celtics-Mavs originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

The Dallas Mavericks fell to the Boston Celtics in a 2024 NBA Finals rematch Saturday at the American Airlines Center, but Mavs guard Quentin Grimes did produce one of the best dunks of the season.

And unfortunately for Celtics backup center Luke Kornet, it came at his expense.

Grimes posterized Kornet with a thunderous one-handed slam in the final 30 seconds of the third quarter. The dunk brought the crowd, and the Mavericks bench, to their feet.

It was actually the NBA’s highest-graded dunk of the season so far.

What does Kornet think of the dunk and its high score? He responded with typical Kornet humor during an exclusive interview with NBC Sports Boston’s Abby Chin.

“Obviously, dunk score is a very crucial element to our game,” Kornet said with a smile, as seen in the video player above.

“What do I think (of the dunk)? You know, they say humility is the virtue of knowing God is the author of all good things, and he made Quentin Grimes well. Because that boy — he’s got some quick twitch, as they say. Frankly, when someone has an opportunity to display their athleticism, it’s on me to try to combat that, and sometimes you end up on the defeated side of the endeavor and you have to willfully accept it.

So kudos to him. It was a great jump, great dunk.”

The Celtics were still up by 20 points after the dunk, but Kornet isn’t the type of person to respond by pointing to the scoreboard.

“Yeah, but the thing is, you don’t want to kind of go the whole ‘scoreboard’ route because then it undermines like, hey, no, that happened. You don’t want to try to back out of it,” Kornet explained. “You accept the things that happen.”

Kornet deserves credit for at least challenging the dunk. A lot of players in his situation would have made what is commonly referred to as a “business decision” and just let Grimes dunk without any resistance.

“The business decision is always to do the thing that you think helps the other team score less and your team score more,” Kornet said. “I was…

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Publish date : 2025-01-27 14:32:00

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