Vince Carter Took The Eastbay From Jameel Pugh? Gymrats ’99

First off to clear up confusion, the first person known to eastbay was Orlando Woolridge (JR Smith would make it popular in 1994). The first person known to eastbay off TWO feet was Joey Johnson in 1990. Jameel however was the one who brought the two foot eastbay to Vince Carter’s attention. I’m NOT claiming Jameel was the first to eastbay or eastbay off two feet, merely his 2 foot eastbay was inspiration for Vince doing it in 2000. Now that we have that out of the way…

Here is Jameel Pugh in high school killing the Gymrats Midnight Madness dunk contest back in 1999. Vince Carter had been quoted in the paper that he had seen Jameel’s 2 Foot between the legs dunk and decided to use it in the 2000 NBA Slam Dunk Contest taking a bounce lob from Tmac.