Once upon a time, Tracy McGrady seemed like the coolest athlete in the world for throwing himself a lob off the backcourt for a thunderous dunk in the NBA All-Star Game. More than two decades later, the self-oop off the glass has become one of the hottest plays of the 2023-2024 season. Anthony Edwards pulled off the move, so did Joel Embiid, and Donovan Mitchell did it, too.
On Saturday against the New York Knicks, Tyrese Haliburton put his own unique spin on the self-lob off the backboard. The Pacers genius did a step through towards the basket, threw a hard chest pass off the backboard to himself,
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