Vines and Basketball are a match made in heaven. For those that don’t know, Vines are 6-second videos that come from the “Vine” app. For the most part, 6 seconds is plenty of time to encapsulate a basketball highlight, and it doesn’t require changing camera views like baseball or football. Vines was made for basketball, and throughout the season, Duke Twitter has routinely dubbed Justise Winslow a “Vine All-American” for the one-man highlight reel that he has become. While Jahlil Okafor is probably the National Player of the Year, he does not routinely deliver the jaw-dropping highlights that Winslow has throughout the year.

The #VineAllAmerican hashtag got me thinking – if Justise Winslow is a “Vine All-American,” who would be the other 4 players? I took to twitter and searched around for some of the best highlight reel players in the nation and put together the list of players that have put together the best highlight packages.

First Team

F – Willie Cauley-Stein (Kentucky)

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ON BOTH ENDS OF THE FLOOR

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F – Justise Winslow (Duke)

This whole post started by me talking about Winslow, so let’s just bask in a few examples of Justise Winslow Vine Time:
On Offense

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On Defense

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In Transition

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F – John Brown (High Point)

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G – Keifer Sykes (Green Bay)

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G – Melo Trimble (Maryland)

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Second Team

F- Montrezl Harrell (Louisville)

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F – JP Tokoto (North Carolina)

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Stanley Johnson (F-Arizona)

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G – Michael Qualls (Arkansas)

After doing this last year to beat Kentucky…

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…he followed it up with plays like this in 2015

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G – Fred VanVleet (Wichita St)

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Third Team

Karl Anthony Towns (F-Kentucky)

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F – Kyle Collinsworth (BYU)

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Dez Wells (G-Maryland)

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DeAngelo Russell (G-Ohio St)

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Cameron Payne (G-Murray St)

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Honorable Mentions

Jahlil Okafor (F-Duke)

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Rakeem Christmas (F-Syracuse)

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Jerian Grant (G-Notre Dame)

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I can’t decide which one so you get two Jerian Grant vines
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Derrick Marks (G-Boise St)

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Tyler Haws (G-BYU)

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Dishonorable Mentions

Flop of the Year

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Breakaway Fail of the Year

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1-on-1 Fail of the Year

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Inbounds Pass Fail of the Year

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Endgame Defense Fail of the Year

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