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Sometimes you can watch so much basketball you forget how hard it really is to dunk. Guys like LeBron James and Dwight Howard make highlight reels for dunking on a daily basis, and any college basketball player worth his weight in Nikes can throw it down when given the chance.

That is where Brittney Griner comes in. See, we've never had a female basketball player that made dunking look easy. Lisa Leslie and Candace Parker have both flushed it before, but it looked more like they were trying to avoid ripping their arm out of socket than to dunk. Griner is 6-foot-8 and can dunk on the run, in traffic and even, as the video after the jump will show, in a girl's grill.

Griner is heading to Baylor next season with the expectations of the world on her shoulders. That will probably be the first time you see Griner, though, because though she's a McDonald All-American this season, her high school won't let her miss class. To go to an All-American game. Yes, shaking your head at this point is acceptable.

This is Brittney Griner, a high school girl who can dunk a basketball. Easily:

That video actually shows Griner when she was a 6-foot-5 sophomore. She's now a 6-foot-7 junior, and she doesn't just dunk in practice, she also dunks in games, and not just those "dunks" where the player's fingers are about an inch above the rim. I'm talking about dunks where her elbows are hitting the rim.

Griner, who has 29 double-doubles in 29 games this year, has committed to Baylor, and the Bears' recruiting class of 2009 is being called one of the best in women's basketball history. I have a feeling we're going to see her dunk a lot in the coming years.