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Update: Westchester student's slam dunk makes ESPN highlight

Thursday, January 28, 2010
(Updated Friday, January 29 - 8:06 am)

UPDATE: Jay Harris, co-host of the 6 p.m. SportsCenter on ESPN, will interview Westchester junior Deuce Bello for tonight's broadcast, according to John Ziomek, coordinating producer for SportCenter.

"Brian Kenny and Jay Harris just went crazy with it," Ziomek said of the SportCenter hosts, "and those guys were screaming that they coudln't believe the dunk."

Tonight's interview with Bello will air about 6:50 p.m. on ESPN, he said.

Bello made it onto an ESPN highlight reel with a recording of a between-the-legs dunk during a Jan. 12 game at Burlington Christian.

The footage aired Wednesday on ESPN, and can be seen below.

Bello is one of the nation's top-100 basketball recruits in high school, according to ESPN.com. And Scout.com ranks 6-foot-3-inch Bello at 17th nationally among players at his position, small forward.

Bello has received attention with his dunks before. Another clip from Jan. 16, 2009 showed him in a double alley-oop play, which was also aired on ESPN. According to a YouTube hit counter, the earlier video has been viewed 3 million times in the last year.

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