5 – Luol Deng poked the ball loose from Kevin Martin before swinging the ball behind the back as Martin came back for more and instead ended up off-court. He then dished to Norris Cole for the layup to complete the nice play.

4 – As James Harden attempted to cut through the Sixers’ defence for the umpteenth time, rookie power-forward Nerlens Noel stepped forward and viciously smack away the attempted layup, to land himself on this reel.

3 – In the clutch, Gordan Hayward sped away from a floored LeBron James before hitting Tristan Thompson with a nifty stepback move to sink the buzzer-beating game-winner against Cleveland.

2 – Sixers’ centre Rudy Gobert, perhaps unluckily, will be on yet another DeAndre Jordan-created poster. The Philadelphia big-man diligently went up to try and intercept Chris Paul’s alley-oop to DeAndre Jordan but was flailed to the floor in the whirlwind of Jordan’s mighty dunk.

2 – In leading Toronto’s rout of Washington, Kyle Lowry also took it upon himself to crush the confidence of Andre Miller. The Wizard guard was left on the floor, off the crossover from Lowry who further penetrated the paint with a spin move before dishing to Jonas Valanciunas for the dunk.

— Yakum Fitz-Henley