YouTube Gold: Grant Hill Slams One Home Over Tim Duncan

This is seriously cool. Grant should make a T-shirt out of it.

When Tim Duncan came to Wake Forest, he was a little-known kid from St. Croix. He was expected to be a backup to a more prominent recruit in the same class, Makhtar N’Diaye. An NCAA recruiting issue meant he wasn’t allowed to play for the Demon Deacons so he left for Michigan (later he transferred to UNC where he became a controversial player who had a particularly shameful moment in the Final Four after UNC lost to Utah).

As a freshman, he exceeded expectations, but it’s safe to say very few people thought he was a future Hall of Famer and perhaps the top power forward in NBA history.

In the 1993-94 season, Grant Hill was a senior finishing up a legendary career at Duke and was on his way to a third NCAA title game that spring.

Here though, Duke is visiting Wake Forest and Hill sees an opening, takes off down the lane and slams one home over the freshman Duncan.

It was just one more brilliant play in a spectacular four-year career by Hill. As for Duncan, he was a promising freshman but hardly great. Soon enough, he would be.