Sean Pedulla tried to throw an alley-oop. The ball sailed over the rim, kissed the bottom of the net from half-court, and dropped through. Then he stole the inbound, flicked a behind-the-back pass to Norchad Omier, and watched the 6-foot-7 Nicaraguan flush it.
Two clips uploaded to Streamable and circulated on Reddit’s r/nba captured the sequence — one with the full play, one with replays — and together they’ve drawn a few dozen views and a steady trickle of attention for a pair of rookies most NBA fans couldn’t pick out of a lineup. Both videos show Pedulla, the Clippers’ two-way point guard, casually burying the deep heave before immediately turning defense into offense with the steal and the no-look feed.
Here’s the thing about that half-court shot: it wasn’t a shot. Pedulla launched it as an alley-oop pass, and the arc carried it straight into the cylinder. Basketball’s a game of inches and luck, and sometimes the football gods who govern bounces decide to give you one. The film doesn’t lie — the ball was going up, not at the basket, and gravity did the rest.
What makes the sequence land harder than your average viral clip is the backstory of the two players involved. Neither Pedulla nor Omier heard their name called in the 2025 NBA Draft. Both scraped their way through the G League and earned two-way contracts with the Clippers during the 2025–26 season — Pedulla signing on February 20, 2026, after a Rip City Remix campaign that saw him average 23.6 points, 6.7 assists, and 1.6 steals en route to being named NBA G League Rookie of the Year. Omier, the first Nicaraguan-born player to appear in an NBA game when he debuted on March 2, 2026, averaged 19.3 points and 12.3 rebounds for the Cleveland Charge before joining the Clippers on his own two-way deal.
Both were named to the 2025–26 NBA G League All-Rookie Team, announced April 7, 2026. Pedulla took home the top rookie honor outright; Omier finished third in the voting.
Pedulla’s path ran through Edmond Memorial High School in Oklahoma, then Virginia Tech, where he earned third-team All-ACC honors as a junior before transferring to Ole Miss for his final college season. He hit a game-winner against Oklahoma in February 2025, then another to lift the Rebels past Arkansas in the SEC tournament. The Clippers saw enough in his G League tape — the playmaking, the deep range, the defensive activity — to bet on a 6-foot-1 undrafted guard.
Omier’s road was longer and stranger. A native of Bluefields, Nicaragua, he didn’t start playing basketball until he was 13, when a local coach noticed his height. He averaged 26.7 points and 20.3 rebounds at Miami Prep, became the first Nicaraguan to sign an NCAA Division I scholarship, and put together a college career spanning Arkansas State, Miami, and Baylor. His undersized-but-physical interior play drew comparisons to Charles Barkley in basketball media — a comp that’ll make any old coach squint, but the rebounding numbers back it up. Twelve-point-three boards a game in the G League. The film doesn’t lie.
The exact game and date of the highlight sequence weren’t specified in the clip postings, and the Streamable videos carried minimal metadata. Given both players’ two-way status and assignments to the San Diego Clippers, the G League affiliate, the footage most likely originated from a San Diego Clippers game — though that couldn’t be independently confirmed from the available sources.
What’s verifiable is this: two undrafted rookies, both G League All-Rookie selections, both on two-way contracts with the same NBA organization, connected on a play that’s equal parts accident and instinct. The alley-oop that became a half-court bucket is luck. The steal and the behind-the-back dime are reps. And the dunk is what happens when you put the ball where a 248-pound center can go get it.
Pedulla made his NBA debut March 11 against Minnesota, scoring six points in six minutes. Omier debuted nine days earlier. Neither has logged significant NBA minutes yet. But sequences like this one — circulating in low-view clips on a Tuesday — are how two-way players start turning heads.
Sources:
- Streamable — Pedulla half-court shot, steal, Omier dunk (full play)
- Streamable — Pedulla half-court shot and behind-the-back pass (with replays)
- Reddit r/nba — Discussion thread 1
- Reddit r/nba — Discussion thread 2
- Wikipedia — Sean Pedulla
- Wikipedia — Norchad Omier