‘Really athletic’ Penn State hoops commit Nazeer Bostick says he once dunked on a 6-foot-9 policeman

PennLive.com, “part of a series exploring the recruiting successes of the Penn State basketball program in Philadelphia”:

Throwing down on a 6-foot-9 police officer tends to get a teenager excited.

[Nazeer] Bostick explained the story like this: He was playing against a group of South Philadelphia cops this summer at an event called Peace Not Guns.

With dozens of spectators circling the park, the 6-foot-4 forward remembers catching a pass on the baseline and driving toward the paint, where the policeman waited near the rim.

When the lanky cop rose to try and swat Bostick’s shot, the future Penn State Nittany Lion “just took off.”

“And, I dunked on him,” Bostick said. “Everybody went crazy and ran on the court.”

Bostick’s slam over one of South Philly’s finest makes for a dynamite conversation starter, but it also illustrates the head-turning athleticism that helped him become an integral part of Penn State’s most heralded recruiting class in recent memory.

The first of three players in his class from Roman Catholic to pledge to the Lions, Bostick is ranked as the seventh-best prospect in Pennsylvania and 60th-best small forward in the country by ESPN.

Bostick and teammates Tony Carr and Lamar Stevens, the state’s top two talents, are expected to sign with PSU on Wednesday.

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