Brooks won $100,000 for sinking a basket from half-court, making him the first Mandalay Bay "Big Shot Jackpot" winner of this season.
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"My brother said, 'Man, if you make this shot, if you make this shot, yada, yada, yada," Brooks recalled in an interview with ABC7. "After the first quarter I was like, 'Alright, bro, from here on out we're not talking about it.'
"As you can see in the film, I dropped," Brooks added. "I dropped and my eyes got big, my mouth got wide and I was just ready for it to go in."
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He said he planned to invest some of the money and use it to help his mother, a cancer survivor.