{"id":431682,"date":"2026-01-25T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:20:09","slug":"dominique-malonga-dunks-for-breeze-during-unrivaled-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431682\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominique Malonga Dunks for Breeze During Unrivaled Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5q\">Storm and Breeze center Dominique Malonga\u2019s formidable vertical leap has long preceded her. The six-foot-six French international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/news\/teenage-sensation-malonga-throws-down-a-dunk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dunked in a club game<\/a> in Switzerland in Oct. 2024, making headlines across the women\u2019s basketball world.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">On Saturday, she did it again on the other side of the pond. With the Breeze leading the Lunar Owls 14\u201310 in the first quarter of Unrivaled three-on-three action, Malonga took a pass from forward Rickea Jackson and slammed it home to wild cheers from the fans in Miami.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8DOMINIQUE MALONGA DUNK ALERT\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rCFvtvy8OY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rCFvtvy8OY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexa Philippou (@alexaphilippou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexaphilippou\/status\/2015224030089855333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">Malonga, 20, is averaging 15.2 points and 9.8 rebounds per game in Unrivaled. In her first WNBA season, she averaged 7.7 points and 4.6 rebounds assists per game with Seattle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">After being picked second in the 2025 draft out of ASVEL F\u00e9minin in France, Malonga floored the Storm by dunking in her first practice with the team.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">&#8220;I love it because everybody&#8217;s hyped,&#8221; Malonga said of her dunking abilities. &#8220;I&#8217;m hyped and I feel like it&#8217;s going to give me a lot of energy to put on the court after. It&#8217;s a great feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"68\">The first player ever to dunk in a WNBA game was Hall of Fame Sparks center Lisa Leslie, who did so in the summer of 2002.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm and Breeze center Dominique Malonga\u2019s formidable vertical leap has long preceded her. The six-foot-six French international dunked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-431682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}