A university freshman is six figures richer after beating Milwaukee Bucks’ Damian Lillard in a excessive stakes capturing contest.

Jaren Barajas, a enterprise pupil at Los Medanos School in Pittsburg, Calif., received $100,000 after besting Lillard in MrBeast’s three-point shootout contest in the course of the NBA’s All-Star sport on Sunday, Feb. 16.

“That is going to imply the world to me, it’s going to assist my household rather a lot and positively my future,” Barajas stated, per the Related Press. “Hopefully it’ll assist me pay for my training, which it should.”

Within the head-turning match, held at San Francisco’s Chase Middle, Barajas was chosen at random from the group. To win, he needed to make one shot from the brand at half-court earlier than Lillard made three from the identical spot.

After taking turns for a number of rounds, Lillard scored two baskets and Barajas had zero. He wanted to make one earlier than Lillard scored his third with the intention to win. After Barajas’ ultimate probability (and a few sideline recommendation from Kenny Smith, Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry), he made the basket because the buzzer went off, sparking a roaring celebration from the group.

“Kenny tried to offer me recommendation. He stated ‘Maintain your follow-through.’ Shaq instructed me to shoot a bit greater,” Barajas instructed FOX affiliate KTVU. “The final shot got here down proper earlier than the buzzer. I threw it up there and it went in.”

Requested if he knew the ball would go in, Barajas stated sure, stating that that shot was “positively extra aligned” than his earlier makes an attempt. “I held my follow-through on the finish so Kenny’s recommendation [worked].

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He additionally credited an old-school tip from his father for serving to him sink the successful shot.

“It was coming right down to the wire, we had 30 seconds left and my dad at all times tells me use the backboard,” Barajas stated, per the AP. “That’s what I needed to do to make it go in.”

Barajas cemented the win by leaping right into a life-size dice full of money. Lillard additionally helped throw the money prize on Barajas.

The second nearly did not occur as Barajas revealed his father, Michael Barajas, “stunned” him with tickets to the sport the day earlier than after looking for ticket costs he might afford. Barajas instructed KTVU he was at his grandfather’s eightieth birthday when he discovered he and his dad had been going.

“I could not maintain a smile off my face after that … [the seats] had been a few rows from as tall as you will get.”

Barajas stated after he arrived early, round 3:30 p.m., he was approached by somebody who requested if he was occupied with going to the courtroom.

“I didn’t even know I used to be coming to the sport, so to have this expertise it’s so surreal. I’m so grateful,” stated Jaren to the AP. His father added, “It was all luck, meant to be, I don’t know. I can’t imagine it.”

He thanked his father for taking him to the sport and “letting me shine within the second.”

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Barajas plans on saving “plenty of” the cash he received, and placing one other portion towards faculty and serving to his household, he stated in a video shared on the NBA’s official X account. “It has been powerful a bit of bit however this may assist rather a lot. Assist with my future and my household.”

“I nonetheless cannot course of that that is taking place,” he added. “To fulfill all these gamers I grew up watching … a loopy expertise.”

If Lillard, an Oakland, Calif., native received, $100,000 can be donated to charity. Though the NBA star misplaced, the league introduced by way of X that it could nonetheless give $50,000 to the Damian Lillard Students Program and $50,000 to the Boys and Ladies Golf equipment of Oakland and San Francisco.

As for Lillard, even he was a fan of the buzzer-beating win.

“It was dramatic, he made it because the clock was going off,” he instructed the AP of the ultimate seconds. “I like being a part of stuff like that the place you may impression any person else.”

Nonetheless almost breathless after his gorgeous win, Jaren the outlet: “I simply beat Damian Lillard.”