The Los Angeles Lakers currently have their hands full during Game 1 of their first-round series with the Portland Trail Blazers but both teams got a short break in the second quarter when Dwight Howard did some damage to the basket after a powerful two-handed dunk.
Howard didn’t pull a Shaq and break the whole backboard but his dunk did tilt the rim and basket enough that a crew had to come out and fix the hoop, which is something we haven’t seen in quite some time.
Check out this dunk from Howard that brought the game to a halt for a few minutes:
Dwight dunked so hard he shifted the rim đ¤ pic.twitter.com/cIznjODqDy
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) August 19, 2020
The Lakers' rim got tilted after a Dwight Howard dunk. Now it has to be fixed đ pic.twitter.com/YAJaEnkNNo
— SB Nation (@SBNation) August 19, 2020
LeBron James and Co. took a close look at the hoop and saw it was tilted down a bit:
Dwight Howard bent the rim đś pic.twitter.com/pGgcZjpRvX
— Blue Wire Podcasts (@bluewirepods) August 19, 2020
NBA fans had jokes:
LOL Dwight Howard been mad all game and he broke the rim đ
— the Sports ON Tap (@thesportsontap) August 19, 2020
Dwight Howard just dunked and âtilted the rim to the leftâ in honor of the #DNCConvention pic.twitter.com/KadXFIilLa
— Karthik Pandian (@karlthicke) August 19, 2020
nah Danny Green's bricks tilted it
— Carlo Miguel (@migssup3rpan) August 19, 2020
Pretty sure it was all the bricks the lakers were throwing at it
— âď¸CobyWhiteSznâď¸ (@TrubiskySzn69) August 19, 2020
Nah it was all those bricks thrown by this guy pic.twitter.com/9td5bzRqxS
— Frobeđ (@Kobe_Szn) August 19, 2020
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