Andrew Wiggins dunks on NBA player in his first Kansas Jayhawks open scrimmage

Wed, Jun 19, 2013, 6:25 p.m.

Andrew Wiggins evidently has no respect for his elders. This is just a dunk in a summer scrimmage, but Maple Jordan added to his burgeoning legend on the first possession in front of a live audience with the Kansas Jayhawks on Tuesday.

The last man back for the Jayhawks alumni team, itinerant NBA big man Cole Aldrich, is six years older than Wiggins along with having three inches and 35 pounds on the 18-year-old phenom from Concord, Ont. And Aldrich knew trying to block Wiggins skying to the basket to throw down a dunk was just an exercise in futility (bearing in mind, it was a scrimmage).

Andrew Wiggins' first play as a Jayhawk was a poster dunk on Cole Aldrich, so yeah... That happened. #RockChalk
— We Are Kansas (@ThisIsKansas) June 19, 2013

Consider the beast fed. It will be a real challenge not to get caught up in the blind hype surrounding the Canadian wing. The ESPN commentator Dick Vitale says Wiggins is on "another level" above Ben McLemore, who will be selected very early in the NBA draft. It's not an out-there opinion, either.

From Gary Parrish, following Wiggins' first practice with Kansas earlier in the week:

I asked somebody close to the KU program how that practice went.
"Wow!" the source said. "Like watching a video game. He'd be the No. 1 pick this year."
OK, then.
And, remember, this is the same KU that just had Ben McLemore, a prospect so talented he could go No. 1 in next week's NBA Draft. But not if Wiggins was in it. Because this 6-foot-7 wing is apparently operating at a different level, and that's precisely why he should be a preseason First Team All-American and the top pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.
Simply put, Wiggins isn't a media-created sensation. (CBS Sports)

Suffice to say, Kansas' bandwagon north of the border ought to be growing. There's a little turnabout in the coincidence Wiggins dunked on Aldrich. Kansas made a tour of Canada in 2008 during Aldrich's first season as a starter; the big man threw down a huge breakaway dunk in a game vs. the Carleton Ravens in Ottawa.

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