dunk

In the modern game, which has become overrun by monstrously tall super-athletes who can swish 3-pointers as easily as they throw down dunks, every franchise is searching far and wide for the next big thing.

At the start of the weekend, that looked like a slam dunk.

As a pre-teen, freshly sprung from an orthodontist’s chair, my idea of heaven was a Wendy’s fry — natural-cut, skins freckled along the edges, salt like tiny rhinestones clinging to grease — dunked into a chocolate Frosty.

He starts each morning by folding his hands in prayer, dunking his face in a sink full of ice water afterward.

"It feels like a big undertaking but you're just slicing bread, you're dunking it in some eggs, and calling it a day."