Enjoy Reggie Jackson’s Bold Toy – Orange County Register

Reggie Jackson dunks are something delicious, an event to enjoy.

“I’m immersed in the game-changing moments of, hopefully, trying to keep my feet at 31,” Jackson said after Tuesday’s slow-motion thriller at Crypto.com Arena, when the game was late. His hit Nikola Jokic was the proverbial cherry on top of the personal 9-0 victory that helped the Clippers hit the 25-point return win over Denver.

Jackson is only 3rd this season for the 6-foot-2 keeper, and is immediately being contested, Jackson said, for the #1 spot of his career.

“I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but it’s definitely up there,” Jackson said. “Especially I can say at this point everything comes at once so when that happens, yes, I can feel my teammates even more confident. So yeah, it’s up there. When I look back at it, it will be there.

“And I won’t lie, he is… the reigning MVP. It feels so much better to play big, play big and then find a way to win. I don’t want to say it’s #1, but looking back, it probably was. I just don’t want to put that out there yet. ”

As special as Jackson’s hit, it came 2nd place in the NBA Top 10 Nightly Countdown (“Kn it out of the park”) after Brandon Ingram’s 3-pointer in-game with 1.3 seconds left to give New Orleans – Thursday’s Clippers opponents – a 128-125 victory over Minnesota.

Furthermore, Jackson’s juicy jam may have even been surpassed – judging by the enthusiastic fan response on Twitter – by Brian Sieman’s call on Bally Sports SoCal describing Jackson’s audacity. in this moment.

“Oh my God! With the guts of a day thief!” The broadcaster delivered each famous play with his seemingly bottomless Amir Coffey-inspired pun, such as “The Brim Reaper” !” of Tuesday. and “Caffeine Supreme!”

Twitter can be easily overstated, but @cactusenvy claims that Sieman’s description of Jackson’s song “possibly the biggest call of all time.”

He was joined on Thursday on a call from Cuttino Mobley, a former Clipper who is working for Sieman’s regularly rotating partners Jim Jackson and Mike Fratello. Kristina Pink joined the call for Sieman for Saturday’s loss to Memphis in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to take on game calling duties for a local broadcast of the Clippers game.

She then earned plaudits from Hall of Fame broadcaster Ralph Lawler, who retired in 2019 after 40 seasons as a Clippers player.

“@Kristina_Pink is an exceptional talent,” Lawler tweeted. “She almost had a shot in my final season when Corey Maggette was suddenly absent from a road game in Minnesota. FSW decided to let pre-match host Mike Hill work with me. I would love to play a game with Kristina. ”

You’re right. @Kristina_Pink is a special talent. She almost had a shot in my final season when Corey Maggette was suddenly out of a road game in Minnesota. Even so, FSW decided to let pre-match host Mike Hill work with me. I enjoyed playing games with Kristina. https://t.co/Y8kvTjUfNN

– Ralph Lawler (@Ohmeomy) January 9, 2022

ALL STARS VOTE

Clippers star Paul George slipped one spot to 4th among strikers in the All-Star fan vote in the league’s second update, with a total of 1,773,447 votes. elected – 56,286 after Andrew Wiggins of the Golden State.

LeBron James leads the Western Conference’s top voting participants, with 4,386,392, and Jokic comes in second (3,016,380). The Warriors’ Steph Curry led the Western Conference defenders and Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant led the Eastern Conference main lineup while Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan came out on top among backcourt players.

All-Star voting ends at 9pm on January 22. Fan votes – cast on NBA.com or by tweeting #NBAAllStar and a hashtag followed by your first and last name players – will take 50% of the vote to determine the starting time for the 2022 NBA All-Star Game. Current NBA players and a media panel will each make up 25% and the head coach will choose those substitute for the game.

A seven-time All-Star, George has missed 11 games since the Clippers reported at Christmas that he had torn an accessory ligament in his right elbow and will be out indefinitely. But in 27 games this season, he leads the team in points (24.7), assists (5.5) and steals (2.0), and his 7.1 rebounds-per-game ranks second. two on the team.

#PaulGeorge #NBAAllStar

– Luke Kennard (@LukeKennard5) January 13, 2022

Paul George is in fourth place – behind Andrew Wiggins. https://t.co/exejDE11SO pic.twitter.com/dhZgK3YCUB

– Mirjam Swanson (@MirjamSwanson) January 13, 2022