Fuck Cancer.
Go Goose.
Steve Nash was my favorite NBA player growing up. Go Suns.
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I was wondering where this would go after the first sentence, but totally agree with your take. While I’ve lived in Cincinnati for a large majority of my life, I was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and go back at least a couple times a year. To say Larry is revered too highly in the area is a severe understatement.
He has a case for top 5 forward of all time, but top 5 overall, let alone #2, is wild.
There were a few!
- MJ. Like most in the midwest, I was deep on the Bulls train
- Kobe. He was my favorite during my most formidable years of basketball fandom, as I was pretty young during MJ’s run.
- White Chocolate. J-Will was so much fun, and showed that people that weren’t giants could perform in the league.
Give em hell, Goose! Fuck Cancer.
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One of my favorite shirts. S/O cheese fries.
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There are few cities in this country I dislike more than Terrrible Haute. The gauntlet of stoplights on 41 is miserable. I’m also immature and hate that my athletic career ended for a second time two blocks from 41 (honestly still stunned I was even there, but that’s a whole nother shit show to unpack).
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Cedric Ceballos - junk man extraordinaire! I basically stopped caring about the NBA on June 20th 1993, when John Paxton ended the Finals run against (my superior) Suns squad. Dude was ALWAYS in the right spot
(Note, I woulda said Richard Dumas from that team, but things didn’t go so good for him)
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I didn’t see this part in the OG post from our guy and was super confused as to why everyone was doing this.
Anyway, I’ll go with Grant Hill. I wish he hadn’t signed with FILA and wore inferior shoes that led to injury. Healthy Grant Hill was so good and fun to watch.
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My all time favorite 33. Special Agent Charles Peanut Tillman of the FBI. He was so much fun to watch. The Peanut Punch never got old. A true Monster of the Midway.
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After talking shit about Larry Legend, I realized that I never commented on this. As the rare kid who grew up in Indiana and somewhat disliked Basketball, I would probably going with Jermaine O’Neil from his time with the Pacers or Blake Griffin just because of my love of the Sooners. I freely admit too that I became a Bandwagon Bron Bron fan after watching him drag Big Z to the NBA Finals against the Spurs during round 1 in Cleveland.
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Hahaha I love all of that!
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Fuck Cancer
Easy to say MJ was my favorite basketball player when growing up, but I’m going to dig a little deeper and say Len Bias.
Lenny was the best player in college basketball during his time. I think if he hadn’t made the choices he did, he would have been a perennial All Star and possibly been MJ’s foil.
Also shoutout JR Reid for helping make the Box cut a thing.
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RIP Len Bias.
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Nothing can prepare you for how big Shaq is in person.
I was at the pro am of a Tour event about ten years ago when I saw Shaq break a golf cart. When he sat down, something in the frame snapped and one of the back tires exploded.
“Again, Shaq?!? You gotta be kidding me, big man,” came a taunt from behind all of us.
Tiger rolls up and says “guess you’re walking like the rest of us now.”
They ended up driving Shaq around in one of those Toro 4-speed maintenance buggies because it didn’t have a roof. Shaq apparently broke that too when he got out of the shattered cart.
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I got invited to the set of NBA shoot around a few years ago. I sat in his chair and couldn’t touch the ground. When I shook his hand his fingers went halfway up my forearm. It was unbelievable. He is just a massive, massive, human…
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LFG GOOSE!
This is the first thing that jumped in my head, I loved them growing up. Still have black Nike socks I wear on the course and still confused that Mitch Albom also wrote Tuesdays with Morrie.
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This is an amazing story.
It’s also somewhat relevant to almost any NBA player. The Warriors used to do an annual summer scrimmage against the Cal basketball team at Kezar Stadium. It was super casual and fun. Jason Kidd was playing for Cal (I’ll pause while you all gasp at JUST HOW OLD I AM) and we headed out to see this. I sat in the second row for a bit and next to me was an absolute unit. Just muscles everywhere, probably about 6’0, 6’1" but just incredibly physically imposing.
After I gave him the male nod and turned away, I paused and looked back because … it was my favorite player, Tim Hardaway. The “little” guy running point for the Warriors who looked absolutely tiny on the court in relation to almost everyone else out there. And he was so physically large i couldn’t believe it.
I cannot even manage to understand how big someone like Shaq is in person. I remember sitting behind a backboard at a Warriors game when Larry Johnson thunderdunked it and I was literally physically scared for a brief moment it was SO violent and physical.
These guys are not built like us.
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Had to watch a pre nap time episode of Bluey to celebrate.
Wasn’t much of a basketball fan growing up since I don’t have a team nearby. Nate Robinson was in his prime and had his run with the Knicks when I was in junior high/high school. I loved his heart over height slogan and thought he was fun to watch. You didn’t know when, but something exciting was going to happen.
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Bluey is the true GOAT. Props to the Aussies for making a show that both my kids and I get excited to watch. It’s gold.
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