Manifestation works in strange ways.

Before Brooklyn’s matchup against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday , rookie forward Danny Wolf admitted he’d been half-joking with teammates that he might go out and dunk on somebody. But when a lane opened for him with 2:03 left in regulation, the joke suddenly had a chance to become real. He attacked the rim with force, rose up with authority and caught a body.

Wolf, all 6-11 and 252 pounds of him, needed only one dribble to glide from the 3-point line to the basket. Then he unloaded a vicious right-handed slam over Miles Bridges, one of the league’s most explosive leapers. There was no howl, no over-the-top celebration. Wolf simply strutted along the baseline, arms swinging, owning the moment like he’d been there before while the Nets’ bench erupt

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