Former Horsham basketballer Mitch Creek has had a hot start to the 2021/22 NBL season.

The Phoenix sit top of the table after wins against the New Zealand Breakers (twice) and Melbourne United, with Creek's form something to behold.

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The 29-year-old scored 19-points in the first game against the Breakers, a career-high 36-points in the second and 16-points in the Phoenix's 8-point win in the Throw-down.

Included in those 16-points was a spectacular poster dunk on Melbourne United's Matthew Dellavedova, which became a talking point after the match.

Following the dunk, Creek appeared to celebrate over Dellavedova before United's Mason Peatling knocked Creek to the ground with a shoulder to the jaw.

This sparked a scuffle between the teams that led to the ejection of Peatling and Creek's teammate Izayah Le'afa given an unsportsmanlike foul for his role in the melee.

Creek received a technical foul for taunting Dellavedova.

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"I looked up, got a shoulder to the face and after that I was like 'that's not okay'," Creek told ESPN following the game.

"We don't play basketball that way. I'm never going to let anyone play that way ... that's not how you play basketball.

"It's not rugby, it's basketball."

Creek's dunk went viral and was shown on the US show Sportscenter, while the NBL reported that it had been viewed 10 million times on Monday.

The Phoenix travel to Sydney for their next game against the fourth-placed Kings on Saturday, December 18.

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