Jackson remembers the contests, too, and even he was shocking himself.
“I used to know how you can dunk. I was alright,” Jackson stated. “I’m not going to say I used to be Donovan Mitchell with the dunks, I wasn’t profitable [dunk] contests or something like that. Freshman 12 months, I noticed him throwing alley-[oops] to himself. I’m simply going off momentum. I’m simply hyped simply seeing it.
“[It was] my first time assembly him and the basketball gamers. I simply threw one off the wall, and I caught it. I used to be simply pumped, I used to be like, ‘Okay, I’ve slightly bounce and stuff like that.'”
While Jackson wasn’t a dunker like Mitchell, who’s an NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion, he nonetheless had sufficient in him to hype up the basketball group.
Jackson additionally got here to Louisville in the identical class as WNBA standout capturing guard Asia Durr, who was the second-overall decide of the New York Liberty in 2019 and most lately performed for the Atlanta Dream.
“Louisville had been had a reputation, however we simply made our place in Louisville, so it is dope,” Jackson stated. “It was dope for him to inform that story, too.”
