Victor Oladipo was a highlight machine during Thursday's USA Basketball showcase game. The former NBA dunk contest contestant scored 25 points, grabbed 9 rebounds, dished out 5 assists, had 2 steals and 2 great plays on the man who beat him out for the Rookie of the Year award: Michael-Carter Williams.

The first play came with 3:50 minutes left in the 4th as Victor did a crossover and pulled up for a 3 in MCW's face. Then a minute later, he crossed MCW again and went down the middle for a dunk that had the bench on a woman behind the basket going crazy. It was almost a scene out of the new Kevin Durant/Zach LaVine Footlocker commercial "Eruption."  Oladipo then put the cherry on top of the highlight by celebrating with a little shimmy that would make Antoine Walker (happy belated birthday) proud.

Oladipo also had a 360 earlier in the game which was nice but not as nice as his off the wall 360 in practice.

Cool, but let's take a few more looks at his cross and dunk on MCW again.

After the dunk Oladipo asked Blake Griffin if it was going to be on Sportscenter and Blake replied "yeah, it's going to be on Top 10."

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I know it's only been two games but this Philly squad sure doesn't look like they are trying to tank the season.  Evan Turner has been great and rookie Michael Carter-Williams followed up one of the best NBA debuts ever with an impressive 14 point and 5 assist performance against John Wall and the Wizards.

Wall did get the best of him with 26 points, 6 assist and 1 baby Shammgod move but it was Williams that made the big 4th quarter 3 pointer and helped the 76ers to their first 2-0 start since 2006.

John Wall also became the first player to receive a flopping warning this season.  He will be fined $5k for his next warning.

If you don't know the story of the "Shammgod" move made popular by the player God Shammgod then watch this video.

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After a summer of hearing about how the 76ers are going to tank so they can increase their chances of getting Andrew Wiggins and then a day of gambling jokes as Vegas predicted hell will freeze over before the 76ers win a championship, the Philadelphia 76ers had an answer for everybody Wednesday night against the Heat and it couldn't have happened on a better night.

With Sixers greats Dr J, Moses Malone, Charles Barkley, Bobby Jones, Billy Cunningham and Allen "The Answer" Iverson, who finally made his retirement official, in attendance to honor Sixers employee Jeff Millman for 50 years of service, 22 year old rookie Michael Carter-Williams put on an epic performance in his NBA debut as Philly beat Miami.   Williams messed around and flirted with a rare quadruple double by racking up 22 points, 12 assists, 7 rebounds and a rookie record of 9 steals!  He also hit 4 3-pointers, only turned the ball over 1 time and started his career with a dunk in front of the 19,523 fans in attendance.

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