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Matthew Ford "Mac" McClung (born January 6, 1999) is an American professional
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player for the
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of the
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(NBA), on a
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with the
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of the
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. He played
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for the
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and the
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. He was a consensus three-star recruit and among the highest-ranked high school players in
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. He is one of two players to be a three-time
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champion, alongside
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, and the only player to win three consecutive Slam Dunk Contests. McClung went unselected in the
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and spent time during the 2021–22 season with the
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and
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. He won the 2021–22 NBA G League Rookie of the Year award with the South Bay Lakers of the G League. McClung joined the Blue Coats for the 2022–23 season and signed with the 76ers in February 2023. He won the
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at the
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, and
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. He earned the 2024 NBA G League Most Valuable Player Award.


Early life

McClung grew up in Gate City, Virginia, a small town of about 2,000 in the
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straddling the
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–Virginia border, where he initially began playing
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—a sport that is far more popular than basketball in
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. Family members recalled in a 2018 interview that McClung was extraordinarily competitive as a child. His father Marcus said of him, "Mac was just born with it. If you’re fixing a bowl of cereal, he’s going to make a competition." His older sister Anna would add, "He would just come at you every day, no matter how small he was." His parents built a basement gym in their home, initially for Anna, but Mac would regularly use it as he grew up—though he was so competitive that his father would frequently ban him from the gym to allow Anna to work out undisturbed. He received his first significant exposure to basketball just before entering the seventh grade, when his mother Lenoir signed him up for a local youth league. Scott Vermillion, who was McClung's coach at Gate City High School, recalled in 2018, "He ducked his head inside for a minute and basically never left." McClung soon became more interested in basketball and began training for the sport regularly, with hopes of making the
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(NBA), and his father was silently pleased when he gave up football after his freshman year of high school. According to McClung, his shooting form improved after he broke his arm while
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in eighth grade, and he honed the skill with Greg Ervin, the former head coach at Gate City High.


High school career

McClung first started dunking as a sophomore playing varsity basketball at Gate City High School. He grew in profile as an acrobatic dunker through the rest of his high school career.
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labeled him "one of nation's most exciting players." As a junior, on February 24, 2017, he scored a career-high 64 points in a loss to Dan River High School at the
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(VHSL) Region 2A West tournament. It was the best scoring performance in school history and the highest among Virginia public schools since 1984. After the season, he was averaging 29 points, 5.5 assists and three steals per game for the Blue Devils and was tabbed Southwest Virginia Boys' Basketball Player of the Year by the ''
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''. In the summer, he committed to play for
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in college. On December 12, McClung made his senior debut by scoring 47 points, shooting 18-of-23, in a 96–43 win over Lee High School. Among those in attendance was Georgetown head coach
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. On January 11, 2018, after opposing coach James Schooler reportedly told him "you're going to Georgetown to sit", McClung scored 44 points against Fern Creek High School of
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, at the
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Classic tournament in
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. McClung broke the VHSL single-season scoring record previously held by Hall of Famer
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during the 2018 VHSL regional playoffs on February 21, surpassing Iverson's record of 948 points in 25 games—five fewer than it took Iverson to amass the previous record. He ended his high school career with Gate City's first state championship, scoring 47 points in an 80–65 title-game win over Staunton's Robert E. Lee High. The 47 points broke a VHSL all-classes scoring record for a championship game that had been held by former NBA player
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. McClung finished the season with 1,153 points and 2,801 for his career, also a VHSL all-classes record, and was again named Southwest Virginia Player of the Year by the ''Herald Courier''. He won the slam dunk contest at the
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.


Recruiting

Prior to his final high school season, on October 6, 2017, McClung decommitted from Rutgers. Over one week later, he committed to Georgetown.


College career


Georgetown (2018–2020)

On December 22, 2018, McClung scored a freshman season-high 38 points for Georgetown in a 102–94 victory over
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. As a freshman, he averaged 13.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and two assists per game, leading
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freshmen in scoring. McClung was named to the Big East All-Freshman Team. In February 2020, during his sophomore season, he missed several games with a foot injury. McClung only played 21 games due to the injury, averaging 15.7 points, 2.4 assists and 1.4 steals in 27 minutes per game as a sophomore. After the season, he declared for the
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and signed with an NCAA-certified agent to maintain his collegiate eligibility. On May 13, he withdrew from the draft and entered the
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.


Texas Tech (2020–2021)

On May 27, 2020, McClung left Georgetown and announced that he would transfer to
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. He was granted a waiver for immediate eligibility on October 30. In his Texas Tech debut on November 25, McClung scored 20 points in a 101–58 win against
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. As a junior, he averaged 15.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. McClung entered the transfer portal again in April 2021 while simultaneously declaring for the
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. In May 2021, McClung confirmed via
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that he would remain in the draft and forgo his remaining college eligibility.


Professional career


South Bay Lakers (2021)

After going undrafted in the
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, McClung joined the
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for the
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, and signed afterward with the team on August 10, 2021. However, he was waived on October 13. On October 23, 2021, he signed with the
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of the
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, the affiliate team of the Los Angeles Lakers. McClung's debut with South Bay consisted of a game-high 24 points, nine assists and six rebounds in a 112–105 victory over the NBA G League Ignite on November 5, 2021.


Chicago / Windy City Bulls (2021–2022)

On December 22, 2021, McClung signed a 10-day contract with the
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. He signed a second 10-day contract with them on January 1, 2022. On January 4, 2022, the Chicago Bulls assigned McClung to their
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affiliate, the
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. McClung debuted the next night, scoring 19 points and adding nine assists in a 112–108 loss to the
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. On January 6, 2022, McClung was recalled to the main roster.


Return to South Bay (2022)

On January 11, 2022, after his 10-day contracts expired, McClung was reacquired by the
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. He was named the 2021–22 G League Rookie of the Year.


Los Angeles Lakers (2022)

On April 9, 2022, McClung signed a
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with the
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. On June 29, Los Angeles declined his $1.62 million qualifying offer, making him an unrestricted free agent. He joined the Lakers for the California Classic in the
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. After playing two games for the Lakers' summer league team, McClung joined the
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' summer squad. On July 22, 2022, McClung signed a one-year, non-guaranteed contract with the Warriors. On October 3, McClung was released by the Warriors.


Delaware Blue Coats / Philadelphia 76ers (2022–2023)

On October 9, 2022, the
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signed McClung to an Exhibit 10 contract before waiving him a day later. He later joined the
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's
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for the 2022–23 season. Later that season, he was named to the G League's inaugural Next Up Game. On February 14, 2023, McClung signed a two-way contract with the
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, and on February 18, he won the 2023 NBA Slam Dunk Contest; 19 out of his 20 scores from the judges were a perfect 50, with a lone 49 in his second dunk of the first round. On April 7, he won the NBA G League title with the Blue Coats. On April 9, 2023, in Philadelphia's last game of the regular season, McClung recorded a near-
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with 20 points, nine rebounds and nine assists to help the 76ers defeat the
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, 134–105.


Orlando / Osceola Magic (2023–present)

On September 13, 2023, McClung signed with the
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but was waived on October 21. On November 2, he joined the
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. On February 17, 2024, McClung won the 2024 NBA Slam Dunk Contest for the second consecutive year, joining
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,
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,
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and
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as the only players to win back-to-back contests. Furthermore, he became the first and only player on a G-League team to win the contest, as he had been called up by the 76ers a day before the previous year's contest. On April 5, he was named NBA G League Most Valuable Player after averaging 25.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 6.6 assists in 27 games while scoring 30-plus points in eight of them. On September 20, 2024, McClung re-signed with the
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and on October 19, his Exhibit 10 contract was converted into a
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. On February 15, 2025, McClung won the 2025 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, having four dunks that were scored a perfect 50 by the judges. McClung is the only player in NBA history to win the Slam Dunk Contest three years in a row. He also joined
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as the only players in NBA history to win the contest three times.


Career statistics


NBA


Regular season

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College

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Personal life

McClung is the son of Marcus McClung and Lenoir McClung. During his birth, his umbilical cord was tightly wrapped around his neck; his father recalled, "He was blue as a
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." The attending physicians quickly freed him, and he almost immediately recovered. His parents met at
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, where Marcus played
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and Lenoir was a cheerleader. His father became an attorney, serving as Commonwealth Attorney for
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as of 2018, while his mother was teaching driver's education at Gate City High. According to a 2018 story in ''
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'', as well as a story in ''The Undefeated'', his parents' background aided McClung in his athletic pursuits. His father served as trainer for much of his youth, and the family was able to afford placing him on a
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-based AAU travel team. His sister Anna, who completed her high school
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career as the VHSL's all-time goal scoring leader, played the sport at
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and
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, and his uncle
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competed with two
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(MLB) teams. His cousins Correne and Colette both played Division I college hockey and pro hockey; Correne also played with the Canadian national team. Although Houston rapper Riff Raff originally claimed that he is Mac McClung's cousin by way of their mothers being sisters, this has been denied by Mac McClung in an interview.


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