Caleb Houstan de Magic, with 6 feet 8 inches, somehow has never submerged in an NBA game

Cole Anthony turns a high story.

Orlando’s Magic Guard insists that the 22 -year -old wing, Houstan, once posted another teammate, the great man of defensive mentality Wendell Carter Jr., in a scrimmage years ago. According to Anthony’s count, Houstan flew by the court in transition, he got up in Carter and hit the basketball on Carter’s head already through the hoop.

Anthony Tesora the highlight, although he adds: “(Houstan) probably doesn’t remember that.” And for a good reason. Anthony’s story, although fascinating, may not be true, or, at least, there may be the details of a smidgen.

Houstan, who was standing to the right of Anthony when the mad guard described a detonation at the same time with which Albert Einstein warned, warned it, he returned the return at the time.

“I don’t remember that,” Houstan said. He stirred a pinch of Sass in his tone.

There is a reason why Anthony (whose main purpose in life seems to be to make his close friends, a group that includes both Houstan and Carter, uncomfortable for their own entertainment) insisted that a dump whose existence remains in question occurred : Houstan, a Houstan, a 6 -foot 8 -inch Hustler, is the highest classification player (500 minutes played) currently in the NBA who has never submerged in The game.

You can do it in other environments. He immersed himself in college. He has done it in open gyms. And according to Anthony, he once brutalized Carter in a scrimmage, even if Anthony, better known for his practical joke, seems to be the only one who remembers the moment.

“Caleb never immersed me,” Carter said. “That is a cap.”

The center he has played with Anthony for five seasons and Houstan for three could not help laughing. This, he declared, was just his outbreak being a “charlatan”, as always.

“He’s always chatting. … it’s from New York, “Carter said, laughing at Anthony’s attempts to spread what he called lies.” You know how that is going. “

Anthony could not provide evidence of this call, which seems to be compensating with the hope of embarrassing two of his friends for a long time: Houstan, because he is not an attention and carter seeker, because he wants the world to believe that one of the Team defensive columns once failed in such a degree that he somehow transformed a man who did not immerse himself in Vince Carter.

But do not be wrong about it: regardless of whether this happened, they hoard can soak. More than one stopped while he was at the University of Michigan, at high school and in the G. League and has done so in practice, even if there were no defenders around him, including a wind mill that Anthony captured in his iPhone, a video with which you shared The Atlético and demanded to be put in the registration of this story (possibly to be able to promote his statements that Houstan submerged himself in Carter).

So, if Houstan can immerse themselves, which should not surprise us given its height and that is barely a lazy on the court, why has it gone 2,073 professional minutes, enough to see the documentary of “The Civil War” of Ken Burns ? times in a loop, without ever doing it?

“I never had the opportunity to immerse,” said Houstan. “Most of my shots are 3s. But when the time comes, then. “

If you ever throw one, Matt Ryan of the New York Knicks, a 7 -inch 6 -inch sniper, would take care of the crown as the highest active player in the NBA without a blow in the game.

“For a shooter, you need a good amount of minutes in many games for an overturning opportunity,” said Ryan, who will immerse himself in the warm -up.

In that sense, Ryan and Houstan conforms to the bill. During his three -year career, 85 percent of Houstan’s shots have been behind the 3 -point arch. It does not leave many opportunities for a Tomahawk, or even a lazy finger.

It does not filter much. It is excessively fundamental, boxing opponents instead of scratching the other way for fast breaks.

During their rookie season, Houstan really failed a rare opportunity. After a robbery of Orlando, he received the basketball races on the other hand without anyone around him … or so he thought. He got up for a two -handed blow, but an old Robin López racked a nail in the basketball, which was released.

No basket. And without overturned.

Hushan does not seem to import that moment today, but maybe he will do it from now on. After all, he could be the highest active player in the NBA without a blow, but, unless he becomes a medicinal wonder, cultivating two or three inches while he is already 20 years old, he will never become the real wonder without flying of the League.

This title belongs to the Steve Novak of 6 feet and 10, a 3 -point shooter who played from 2006 to 2017, worked for 5,657 minutes from the NBA (more than eight visits to the “Civil War” of Ken Burns) and never submerged .

Novak would immerse himself during practice or heating throughout his career. He did not realize that he was the king of soil level until he saw a publication of social networks about it after he finished playing.

Now? “I have 100 percent,” said Novak, although he clings to repentance.

His lost opportunity happened more than 10 years ago, during his time with the Knicks. New York had reduced a robbery, and the ball ended up in the hands of a striped novak, who only saw the basket in front of him. But when Novak approached the hoop, he heard the footsteps of Milwaukee Bucks shot Larry Sanders crawling behind him, which dissuade him from what he did not realize at that time would have been a cube that changed the race. Instead of a dump, he lay in the basketball of the glass.

Later, he realized that Sanders was not as close as he thought.

“I blame Larry,” said Novak. “If it weren’t for Larry, it would certainly not be part of this conversation.”

But now, he is, and it will always be.

Houstan, however, is only 22 years old. He still has time to touch the edge.

If he is ever found in a similar situation, only with the opportunity to hit, he says that “probably” would sink it, although he joked that he would consider putting it alone to be too good to immerse.

Ah, the overtown, impressive only for the humble servants of the basketball airspace.

“That would be fun,” he said.

If it ever happens, Houstan will not celebrate. “I feel you have to get multiple of them,” he added.

But he can’t speak for his teammates.

Carter and Anthony are not the only two members of the conscious magic of this niche of Trivia. The team knows that Houstan has never submerged. And if you ever do it, don’t look at the man who finishes his first career. Instead, turn to the Bank of Orlando.

As Carter said, “we have to appear.”

Anthony says it is their goal to get Houstan to be a dump in the game. If the two are at a fast break, have the guard to deliver it to their teammate. What if they really end up ending it?

“I could make a setback,” said Anthony. “Do you ever see who ‘Speed’ is? The streamer (YouTube)? There is a clip of him recently; I was in a current. He has just made a random setback to his configuration. That will be when Caleb receives a dump in a game. “

Of course, Carter is not buying the acrobatics of Anthony either.

“Another example of him chatting,” Carter said. “He is always chatting.”

(Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Atlético; Fernando Medina / NBAE through Getty Images)