Naperville Basketball Player Making National Headlines By Using His Head!

If you are a sports fan, you may have already seen this video, but you may not know it’s a local kid!

His name is Blaise Meredith (awesome name!), a Naperville hooper who plays for North Central College. He was on the road playing in a game versus Augustana when THIS happened:

Oh my. This man got so high up on the block he caught a backboard to the FACE

(via @Skubie3Mageza) pic.twitter.com/yxkDJtGeJl

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) January 3, 2019

Not only did Sports Illustrated pick it up, but so did every major sports outlet and blog in the entire country!

Looks eerily similar to this guy.

This isn’t the first time his skills above the rim have been documented. He was doing this stuff in high school at NVHS!

And this: