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Daily Buzz: When good dunks go bad

Published Nov. 12, 2013 12:00 a.m. ET

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Sam Gardner

A Harlem Globetrotters player may be lucky to be alive after he narrowly avoided being crushed by a falling backboard during a game in Honduras.

In the video below, William “Bull” Bullard tried to put his feet up on the backboard while hanging from the rim after a dunk during a game in Tegucigalpa. While Bullard was hanging, the basket support collapsed, and the backboard came hurtling toward the ground, eventually shattering on the floor.

Fortunately for Bullard, the backboard missed his head, and he escaped mostly unharmed, aside from a cut on his face. But it’s still a startling video that will forever be part of an illustrious list of “did you see that?!?” backboard moments.

Here are a few other entries, both new and old, on that list:

• On Monday, we showed you a video of Florida College’s Anthony Allen ripping a rim right off the backboard with a dunk:

• Shaquille O’Neal wreaked havoc on backboards on several occasions during the early part of his career:

• Shaq’s protege, Dwight Howard, didn’t rip down a backboard, but he did break the shot clock with a dunk against Cleveland:

• Last year, the Pacers’ mascot shattered a backboard during an appearance at a high school game:

• A player named Tiny shattered a backboard on New Year’s Eve 2009 — and didn’t even complete the dunk:

• And Kevin Love shattered a backboard with a breakaway dunk in high school:

Where will Bullard’s dunk rank in backboard-destroying lore? It’s probably too early to say, but it sure was awesome, and most importantly, we’re glad he’s OK.

Now, for some links:

• A BYU cross-country runner was stripped of a year of eligibility for his participation in a costumed fun run.

• Did Johnny Manziel’s friends hint that he might stay in college another year?

• Marvin Williams never had a chance of blocking this J.J. Hickson dunk:

• Not quite, Stanford basketball, but close…:

• Mike Babcock says Steven Stamkos will be on Canada’s Olympic hockey roster regardless of whether his broken leg is healed by February or not.

• Should the Florida Gators bring back Tim Tebow as a member of the football staff?

• Via The Big Lead, this does not seem smart:

• Hey, kid, that’s not your seat:

• David Stern says the Malice in the Palace was the most trying situation he faced as NBA commissioner.

• The ball boy from Michael Jordan’s “Flu Game” is selling MJ’s game-worn shoes and opening up about his experience on the sideline that night.

• Speaking of Jordan, this Yahoo! parody takes you inside the Space Jam game:

• Via Bob’s Blitz, a hockey linesman gets knocked out trying to break up a fight:

• The mayor of Montreal made the Canadiens mad when he tweeted about a player on the team.

• Sporting Life Arkansas profiles the shortest road trip in college football.

• One proposal for the new Braves stadium:

• We should all have this much fun at football games:

• Percy Harvin was finally activated from the PUP list.

• Michigan debunked the suggestion that its university president was intoxicated during a speech at Saturday’s game.

• Joe Mauer is making the move from catcher to first base in the wake of his latest concussion.

• Lady, just minding her own business, walks onto the Cavaliers’ pregame set:

• The Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie can dunk:

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