{"id":685041,"date":"2026-05-21T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:23:12","slug":"watch-stephon-castles-dunk-of-the-playoffs-with-poster-over-hartenstein-in-spurs-thunder-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685041\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Stephon Castle&#8217;s &#8216;Dunk of the Playoffs&#8217; with Poster over Hartenstein in Spurs-Thunder Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Stephon Castle had one of the best dunks in recent memory on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">During Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, the San Antonio Spurs star threw down a tomahawk dunk over Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Teammate Victor Wembanyama was among those impressed:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Others have already formed a consensus opinion that Castle&#8217;s slam is the dunk of the playoffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Castle clearly had plans of recording a poster on Wednesday, as moments before his dunk over Harteinstein, he attempted to dunk on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Castle might be a guard, but he&#8217;s shown time and time again that he can dunk with the best of them. After all, he was a finalist in the 2024-25 Slam Dunk Contest when he was just a rookie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Castle, who is in his second season, has put together a solid campaign, averaging 16.7 points, 7.4 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game. He had 17 points and 11 assists in Game 1 as he helped the Spurs win in double overtime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Castle and the Spurs will look to use the momentum from his monster dunk to propel them to a win in Game 2. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephon Castle had one of the best dunks in recent memory on Wednesday. During Game 2 of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-685041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}