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Nah that's probably close level to the rim... so ~40.

who said it was 55"? point is he clearly had a significant part of his head over the rim. in the middle of a game.

i'll never forgive him for not doing the dunk contest. fuck elbow in rim, lebron looks like he could do armpit in rim.

Look at the original angle (0:03). Does that seem head over rim to you?

The original angle is much worse that the slow-mo , very far and very sharp ( 45' or more ) it is terrible for making any kind of measurements. But it's not like i care if that was a 40'' or 45'' or 50'' jump , it is just awesome!
Just for the talk , i would guess around middle of head or so, headtip ~6'' to 8'' above rim.

who said it was 55"? point is he clearly had a significant part of his head over the rim. in the middle of a game.

LOL , it would be 55'' for the lebron teen fan that sees 'neck at rim" so ~15'' above - 55''.
I was playing the hater role, uses distortion and all and makes an estimation much lower than the lebron fan , to end up on a still unbelievable thing ( mid head above , 45''+ ) , then hater silenced from respect to the achievement.
I was expecting you'd catch the sarcasm...  

i'll never forgive him for not doing the dunk contest. fuck elbow in rim, lebron looks like he could do armpit in rim.

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Nah, LeBron just isn't a creative dunker (see Cannon Brown in the dunk contest). So it works only if you like power dunks/very high dunks (I like them by the way).

yeah but if he'd put even a little thought and practice in he could have done anything except javale mcgee's awesome two-basket dunk. you can't practice height, and even more important you can't practice an 18-foot wingspan.