Austin Reaves and Tyrese Haliburton react to their famous dunk photo

The Los Angeles Lakers‘ Reaves and Indiana Pacers’ Haliburton talked about the moment in a video posted by the NBA on X:

Reaves on the play: “This is one of my favorite pictures of all time honestly.”

Haliburton on the play: “Austin wasn’t gonna dunk it at first. He was like, ‘Should I dunk it?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, dunk the ball.'”

Reaves: “Oh yeah, he was yelling at me to dunk the ball. I was thinking about dribbling it out, but once I heard him yelling at me, I was like, ‘All right I guess I got to (dunk the ball).'”

That Austin Reaves-Tyrese Haliburton photo is going down in basketball history as one of the greatest pictures ever taken. Haliburton being so excited that he jumped as high as the dunker. You usually see this kind of expression when the guy throws an alley-oop.

Check out the original Austin Reaves dunk during the Team USA vs. Germany FIBA World Cup exhibition game: