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Suns Retorter: Gerald Green is a Video Game

“Gerald Green is a video game.”

That’s what Suns guard Goran Dragic told Jon Bloom and myself on the Suns Interactive Postgame Show after the Suns home victory over the Denver Nuggets last week.

Sure, Green can jump high and hit 3-pointers, but video game-like? The Slovenian playmaker must be partaking in inadvertent hyperbole, right?

Wrong.

If you get the chance to see Gerald Green in person, you can’t help but confirm Dragic’s hypothesis. The things he is capable of are otherworldly to the point where you think you might need to get your vision checked. They are the kind of moves you thought were reserved for All-Star games or the CGI of Space Jam, and all of a sudden they’re playing out in real time courtesy of his athleticism.

Take Sunday night for example. The Orlando Magic’s Victor Oladipo appeared to have locked down Green near the top of the key. That’s when the cartoonish freak athleticism came to life. The Four-Fingered Assassin drop-stepped, threw the ball off the glass, caught it in mid-air and threw it down.

It would have been a play more confounding than the end of Interstellar if it weren’t for one small detail. We had seen it before from Green just last season.

The 6-8 guard basically made a carbon copy of a move he had pulled on the Portland Trail Blazers back in April. The same little step move, same throw and a similarly emphatic throw-down.

The pair of plays are two of the best in-game dunks ever and definitely two of the premier slams in the YouTube era. Sure, Tracy McGrady had one like it in traffic during that exhibition game in February called the All-Star game. Others like LeBron have done similar moves off the glass on fastbreaks, but they pale in comparison to what Suns fans have witnessed in a matter of months.

Gerald Green has video game like skills. Dragic was right. The only question left is, when can we get a special edition of NBA Jam where Green is the cover boy? We had NBA Jam TE. Why not NBA Jam GG? Make it happen EA Sports. He was basically the real life version of the game anyways.

YOUR TURN: Which Gerald Selfie-Oop was better, this season against the Magic or last season versus the Blazers? Leave your vote in the comments below.