High-flying NC State Basketball rookie steals Primetime show

An NC State basketball spoiler alert is now officially in order. That is to say, as long as Trey Parker is with the Wolfpack, it certainly feels like a given that the 6-foot-1, 165-pound guard from Fayetteville, N.C., will don the winner’s bling with the Pack at the end of every Primetime dunk contest.

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“We’ve been waiting two years for Trey Parker to win this dunk contest,” eighth-year NC State basketball head coach Kevin Keatts told the media Friday evening during the roster introduction festivities at Reynolds Coliseum.

Keatts dropped his jaw a few times as he watched the flight paths of the apparently helium-filled Parker, who committed to the staff in Raleigh in November 2022 as a member of the 2023 Wolfpack recruiting class before later being reclassified to 2024.

Here was Keatts’ reaction to Parker’s decisive strike over the 6-foot-2 Brandon Huntley-Hatfield and the 6-foot-1 Ismael Diouf, not to mention Mr. Wuf for added effect:

But you could say that Parker’s first-round dunk, despite flying over just one teammate in Diouf, was the most sensational highlight of the evening:

Freshman guard Bryce Heard, senior wing Dontrez Styles and senior guard Breon Pass deserve praise just for having the confidence to compete on the same slam-dunk stage as Trey Parker. And there were some creative rim shakers in there.

However, as Keatts reiterated to NC State Wolfpack On SI and the rest of the press present at the event, Parker’s win was a foregone conclusion for him.

“I told Dontrez Styles, ‘You don’t have a chance,’” Keatts joked. “He said, ‘I’m going to win, coach.’ And I thought, ‘You don’t have a chance.’

“And I think after the first dunk (by Parker), it just deflated everyone else in the dunk contest because it was so special.”

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