[Video] Nick Johnson's nasty tip slam over Ramon Sessions

There has been 3 or 4 fast breaks we're he has started to take off about a step in from the free throw line only to be fouled or not finish. I can't wait to see him finish one of those.

 

Rudy Gay's expression is funny.... Like " Damn, he can get it" lololol

 

I'm pretty sure Kostas was thinking "why is Dwight pushing me so hard?" He doesn't understand our American customs lol.

 

Yeah that was strange. The final run really started when we went with the fresh small lineup that included 4 guards (Daniels, Johnson, terry, harden)

 

His daddy kinda foine.

 

d*mn LOL

Rocket River

 

LOL!!! that is fantastic!

 

From Wiki:
"The Nail"

While [Gus] Johnson (no relation to Dennis/Joey/Nick Johnson) was at Idaho in 1962–63, he earned a reputation as a leaper of the highest order. On one evening at the "Corner Club", a tavern on north Main Street in Moscow (Idaho), Johnson was challenged by its owner, Herm Goetz (1925–93), to demonstrate his outstanding jumping ability to the assembled patrons. The "Corner Club" was a modest establishment with minimal furnishings, converted to a bar in 1948 from a small white stucco chapel with hardwood floors and substantial beams on its ceiling. From a standing start near the front bar, Johnson leapt to touch a spot on a beam 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) above the floor level. The spot on the beam was marked with a ceremonial nail by Goetz, who next proclaimed that anyone who could duplicate that leap could drink for free, something that he knew was highly improbable. A 40-inch (1 m) diameter circle was painted on the floor below that beam, and any potential duplicator of the leap had to have both feet on the floor, within this circle, to ensure a standing start. Twenty-three years elapsed, with a considerable number attempts to touch Gus Johnson's Nail, including some by the 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) UCLA All-American Bill Walton during the summer of 1984. But not even Walton, then a pro at age 31, could touch that high up ("...too much pizza and beer tonight..").

That was until late January 1986, when the team bus of College of Southern Idaho, a junior college in Twin Falls, stopped in Moscow, en route to a game against North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene. Joey Johnson (Nick's Dad), the younger brother of the NBA star Dennis Johnson, was brought into the closed bar by his coaches for a try, before opening time. The 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) guard had already recorded a remarkable 48-inch (1.22 m) vertical leap during basketball practice.

Joey Johnson laced up his game shoes and touched "The Nail" on his first try, but this attempt was disqualified because he did not start with both feet inside the given circle. His next attempt came from a legal static start, but was slightly short. On his third try, Johnson leaped, grabbed, and bent the legendary nail, a landmark event in local sports history. Mr. Goetz next pulled "The Nail" out of its beam, and he pounded it back in, a half inch (1 cm) higher.

A 1985 graduate of Banning High School in Los Angeles, Joey Johnson led CSI to the national junior college title in 1987 and also won the national JC title in the high jump twice. He transferred to Arizona State, where his vertical leap grew to 52 inches (1.32 m) and he was known as "Jumpin' Joey."

Here is a pic of Joey Johnson posted by Nick on his Instagram for Father's day:


Notice how high he is. He's eye-level with the rim. My eyes are 5 inches +/- below the top of my head. Joey Johnson is 6'3". So by my estimation, he's got a 50" vertical in this photo. This lines up with more legends of Jumpin' Joey that he'd put his chin to the rim or dunk with a baseball cap and flip it off from the bill.

Nick recorded a 47" running vertical at Arizona, which detractors have scoffed at calling it some home cooking since it was his school. Were it anyone else, I'd consider the alma mater embellishment. But Nick is legit. Matt Bullard said last night that "It almost looks unnatural how he can get up like that." And it does. Looks like sorcery or something out of those Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon movies.

We saw this put-back last night and we saw a great athletic block against Golden State. I'm stoked to have this youngblood on the team. I think once he settles down he's going to start regularly finishing his athletic leaps to the basket.

 

Johnson had a 41.5 inch max vert at the combine - which is incredibly huge. Not many guys clear 40.
Fun fact Isaiah Canaan has a 40.5 inch max vert

 

Canaan always be laying it up too, hes gotta dunk that ish!

 

Yeah I think a lot of people was awaiting a nice monster dunk for NJ.

 

How's it taste M**** ******?!

 

Oh, that's the best. When your own teammate can't contain himself.

 

What made me LOL was when they replayed it later on TNT, one of the guys (I think Shaq) said "Oh oh" when Nick was hanging right above Sessions.

 

Nick the Pogo Stick.

 

Yes mom and Blake Griffin is also white. Skip Bayless- "I have pride in Blake Griffin because his mother is white." Silly white people smh. I am jk.

 

Dwight had me dying

 

Hahaha, rudy the 1 day rocket

 

For some reason that's not legit. Canaan very is false. He has maybe a 31 inch vert.

 

Idris Elba got the hops!