{"id":430041,"date":"2026-01-26T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430041\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:37:10","slug":"dominique-malonga-makes-first-dunk-of-the-season-in-unrivaled-league-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430041\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominique Malonga makes first dunk of the season in Unrivaled league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique Malonga had the first dunk of the season in the 3-on-3 league Unrivaled on Saturday night. The French player got a pass from Breeze BC teammate Rickea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI(AP) \u2014 Dominique Malonga had the first dunk of the season in the 3-on-3 league Unrivaled on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The French player got a pass from Breeze BC teammate Rickea Jackson and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Unrivaledwbb\/status\/2015226283601301618?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">easily dunked it<\/a> with her right hand in the first quarter of a game against the Lunar Owls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels really good. I was practicing a lot,\u201d Malonga said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a practice (dunker), I want to do that in-game. So, I\u2019m happy about that. I was happy to feel the love from the whole arena, actually. Everybody was so hyped up \u2014 it was a great moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-6 Malonga, who was the No. 2 pick by the Seattle Storm in the WNBA draft this past season, became the second player to dunk in the two years that Unrivaled has existed. Brittney Griner had the first dunk in the inaugural season last year.<\/p>\n<p>Malonga, who is 20 years old, finished the game with 21 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominique Malonga had the first dunk of the season in the 3-on-3 league Unrivaled on Saturday night. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-430041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}