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Toddler perfect! Dallas 1-year-old goes viral with basketball trick shots

Video of a 1-year-old from Dallas has gone viral thanks to ESPN. The toddler named Jaxon is shown making a variety of trick basketball shots.
Video of a 1-year-old from Dallas has gone viral thanks to ESPN. The toddler named Jaxon is shown making a variety of trick basketball shots.

Some are just born with it.

A Dallas toddler named Jaxon has gone viral with a video compilation of basketball trick shots.

ESPN’s video on TikTok already has more than 1.2 million views.

@espn This 1-year-old kid is a BUCKET (via @Jaxon - Baby Athlete) #kid #sports #trickshot #basketball sᴛᴇʀᴇᴏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛs - nash

It shows the right-handed, 1-year-old making shots in all sorts of ways, including bank shots off walls and from an indoor balcony. He even has his own YouTube channel.

“We knew he had something when he was throwing a ball into a basket before he could even walk, before he was even 1 year old,” his father Joseph told KXAS/Ch. 5.

This story was originally published March 31, 2022 at 1:49 PM.

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Stefan Stevenson
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Stefan Stevenson was a sports writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1997 to 2022. He covered TCU athletics, the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Cowboys.
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