YouTube has become a repository for buzzer-beaters, trick shots and sports news of the absurd. Every week we view a video that, at the time, is the most amazing thing we have ever seen, and a week later the process repeats itself. Today's offering: 60 seconds worth of truly nasty dunks perpetrated against helpless junior high schoolers. The kid dominating these poor souls? That would be 14-year-old Jamar Ergas. Currently in eighth grade and living in suburban Toronto, Ergas has already won a high school dunk contest. Which is easy to understand after you watch him him pull off a 360-degree jam during a recent game.
As for Ergas' future, he'll be heading south, to the States. Via Yahoo's Prep Rally blog:
Like top Canadian prospects before him, including Texas freshmen Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph -- both of whom have already stepped forward to mentor the 14-year-old -- Ergas will leave his home in search of more competitive fields next fall, with his freshman season scheduled to take place at Christian Faith Center Academy in Creedmoor, N.C. The move will help put Ergas under the microscope of top-level American high school hoops, while sitting him in the immediate vicinity of four premier ACC programs.The most amazing part of that last paragraph? That anybody considers NC State a "premier ACC program." That aside, I'm looking forward to following Ergas' career.
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