JaVale McGee officially holds a world record

Specifically, the most amount of basketballs dunked in one jump.

[W]e now have confirmation in the form of an e-mail from the Guinness people.

"The most basketballs dunked in a single jump was three by JaVale McGee (USA) during the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest at the 2011 NBA All-Star Game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 19 February 2011. McGee jumped with two basketballs in his possession before dunking each and receiving a third basketball to dunk via alley-oop from teammate John Wall (USA)." [...]

JaVale has since tweeted a pic of his certificate, which we suppose makes it official. At least it looks official, what with the foil stamp and all. [...]
We reached out to the Guinness people to find out who solicited the record and the response was "JaVale did directly, or his manager did". Maybe JaVale was a little more bitter about losing the contest than we thought. It's like his triple-double all over again.

Decent compensation for finishing as the runner up in the dunk contest, though it's pretty funny that he actually sought it out. Anyway, so we can enjoy it one more time:

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I bet somebody's gonna try 4 soon.

Damn, had he only made it in one attempt, that would have been the most amazing thing I ever saw. The two-rim-dunk was pretty sick, too.

Next, three basketballs in two hoops. THAT WOULD BE SICK.

F that, someone can/will do 4 balls 1 hoop, I don't see how someone could have enough hang time to do 3 balls in 2 hoops...There's always next year.

Decent compensation for finishing as the runner up in the dunk contest

Very true, but he had no chance against Blake in the 2nd round, even if they didn't do fan voting.

F that, someone can/will do 4 balls 1 hoop

Looks like McGee's 2012 dunk contest is going to be a little too predictable.