{"id":523970,"date":"2026-01-08T03:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:19:14","slug":"rasheer-fleming-dunks-on-jaren-jackson-jr-for-1st-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523970\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasheer Fleming dunks on Jaren Jackson Jr. for 1st poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Suns rookie forward Rasheer Fleming got the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KellanOlson\/status\/2009079227384254909?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first poster<\/a> of his young NBA career on Wednesday when he dunked on Memphis Grizzlies big man Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming was coming across the baseline from the left corner when he got the feed from a cutting Oso Ighodaro and avoided the block by Jackson en route to the rim.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YESSIR RASHEER!<\/p>\n<p>First NBA poster for the rook \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4gbK6Qlwer\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4gbK6Qlwer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/2009081422531998088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dunk gave Fleming his first points since he had five against the New Orleans Pelicans on Dec. 27, needing seven shot attempts to get there.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming played five minutes in the first half on Wednesday, already beating out eight of his appearances on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie drafted at No. 31 overall entered Wednesday\u2019s matchup with 20 games played this season (seven minutes per game), landing in the points column in 11 contests.<\/p>\n<p>He had played more total minutes (177-140) with the <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/rasheer-fleming-shines\/3605741\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">G League Valley Suns<\/a>, despite only appearing in five of those games. Fleming is averaging 17.4 points (50.8% overall, 40% on 3s), 7.4 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game in the developmental setting.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along with the rest of Suns-Grizzlies on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns rookie forward Rasheer Fleming got the first poster of his young NBA career on Wednesday when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[1516,7,1515,6,2065,1514,472,4045,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-523970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-home","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","14":"tag-phoenix-suns","15":"tag-phoenixsuns","16":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115857324075164604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}