Basketball star pulls off crazy spinning dunk

To be honest, until 20 minutes or so ago we'd never even heard of Rafal Lipinski.

If pushed, we'd have guessed that he was a struggling tennis pro on the verge of the world's top 100. Or perhaps a Ukrainian-Peruvian poet of the post-war period.

But no: Rafal is a man who has dedicated his life to pulling of superb basketball dunks. And that time has not been wasted, because this crazy, spinning leap with an under-the-legs flourish is simply mesmerising.

That tapping noise you hear is the sound of 1,000 wannabe screenwriters bashing out what they hope will become a draft of 'White Men Can't Jump 2'.

Unbelievably, Lipek didn't win this weekend's dunking event in Berlin with his effort. Instead, judges went for Jordan Kilganon for this effort.

The explanation apparently is that Lipinski's dunk had a lower degree of difficulty because the guys he leapt over were crouched down a bit.

But honestly, what rot. We know which one we were more impressed by.