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VIDEO: Blazers' Leonard cleans up miss; Shaq calls him 'Baby Sabonis'

Anthony Gruppuso / US PRESSWIRE

Meyers Leonard is not a 7-foot-3 Lithuanian.

He is 7-foot-1, and American.

But let's not split hairs here.

The Portland Trail Blazers center rose above several oblivious Memphis Grizzlies defenders for a put-back dunk after a missed C.J. McCollum 3-point attempt, which prompted TNT analyst Shaquille O'Neal to nickname Leonard "Baby Sabonis."

The player Shaq referred to with his nickname is former Blazers center and Lithuanian legend Arvydas Sabonis, a Hall of Famer who was an admirable foe of O'Neal's back in the day.

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