{"id":381320,"date":"2024-04-02T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=381320"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:01:55","slug":"watch-as-jalil-bethea-puts-on-a-show-at-the-powerade-jam-fest-dunk-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=381320","title":{"rendered":"Watch as Jalil Bethea puts on a show at the Powerade Jam Fest Dunk Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalil Bethea put on a clinic on Monday night, winning the Powerade Jam Fest Dunk Contest. The guard, who committed to Miami in September, showed off his highlight ability in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Bethea put on a show, with multiple dunks involving him jumping over a player. He was in a battle on the night with Ace Bailey, the <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Rutgers basketball<\/a> commit who also had his own impressive dunks.<\/p>\n<p>A five-star guard from Archbishop Wood (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Bethea will play on Tuesday night in the McDonald&#8217;s All-American Game. Bethea chose Miami over <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/Jalil-Bethea-46135664\/\">an offer list that also included<\/a> Kansas and Villanova among others.<\/p>\n<p>He was ranked the sixth-best recruit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/252154\/jalil-bethea\">in the nation by ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the dunk that won Bethea the contest:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jalil Bethea wins the 2024 Powerade Jamfest Dunk Contest with this INSANE dunk <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f92f.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd2f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McDAAG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@McDAAG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IJU4vZj9yZ\">pic.twitter.com\/IJU4vZj9yZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 League Ready (@LeagueRDY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeagueRDY\/status\/1774976385892675958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also showed lots of potential in practice during the week, showcasing his ability offensively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nasty work from Miami commit Jalil Bethea today today <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f35f.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf5f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f354.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf54\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JalilBethea2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JalilBethea2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VGTk32CtfG\">pic.twitter.com\/VGTk32CtfG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 League Ready (@LeagueRDY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeagueRDY\/status\/1774853784381817054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for Bailey, the top-ranked player in the nation according <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/boys-high-school-basketball-recruiting-2024-top-players\">to USA TODAY High School Sports<\/a>, he produced some very strong moments in the slam dunk contest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ace Bailey! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AiriousB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AiriousB<\/a> <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f354.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf54\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Powerade Jamfest 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/McDaag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McDaag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rZzrFe7kfS\">pic.twitter.com\/rZzrFe7kfS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gerard \u201cLeft\u201d Iniwan (@Leftisland88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leftisland88\/status\/1775162337508675905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jalil Bethea wins the Powerade slam dunk contest.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381322,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381320\/revisions\/381322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}