Bulls' Lauri Markkanen gets smashed into floor by Nets' Jarrett Allen

Tom Gatto

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Lauri Markkanen had a nice run.

The Bulls rookie was wiped out Monday by the Nets' Jarrett Allen, who went so hard at the youngster on this dunk, the rim might still be shaking. 

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Markkanen's dunk earlier in the game looks tame by comparison.

(Well, to be honest, Allen's dunk makes every other dunk look tame by comparison.)

Markkanen attempted to repay Allen about three minutes later, but Allen was having none of it.

A closer look at what could have been a poster, too.

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Worse for Markkanen, the Bulls lost by 17. Two of those points will live on in history.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.