In high school physics class, we had a project to build a catapult that could launch a projectile into a cup roughly 12 feet away.  While it was fun, I always wondered what the ultimate goal was.

Little did I realize that this was a secret government project.  The winner of each catapult contest around the country was kidnapped and sent to work in a top secret lab, where the military was developing an android capable of throwing projectiles into cups from great distances.  This android was to be deployed in the battlefield as an assassin.  Only... he escaped. And plays basketball.

I refuse to believe there is any other explanation for what Lebron James does in this clip.