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Roundball_Rock
12-29-2009, 02:23 AM
Which was the weirdest to see? Here are some recent greats who were associated with one team.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/06/03/odd.uniforms.ad/gallery_17_olajuwon.jpg

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/150809/p1_malone_all.jpg

http://members.fortunecity.com/bonecrackersworld/pippen_254_021210.jpg

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper410/stills/41mv292o.jpg

http://urbansportstalk.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/kgarnett.jpg

http://chattahbox.com/images/2009/04/allen_iverson_pistons.jpg

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/10/richmond.jpg

http://www.nba.com/media/magic/9899_dwilkins200.jpg

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/knicks/docs/images/6ae07llk.jpg

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0316/rise_g_cwebber1_400.jpg

StroShow4
12-29-2009, 02:25 AM
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0316/rise_g_cwebber1_400.jpg

I'll take it even further with C-Webb..

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0617/nba_g_webber_400.jpg

miller-time
12-29-2009, 02:25 AM
haha i never knew dominique went to the spurs. that one!

i thought he finished with the magic..?

phoenix18
12-29-2009, 02:27 AM
C-Webb was terrible, but those Jerseys werent strange.

Detroit is his hometown and GS is the first team he played for. Completely understandable. Should he still have been playing with no knees at this point? Hell no.

I think Ewing in Seattle is just flat out disgusting.

MJ in Washington just was not a good look. He couldnt get them to the playoffs in the LEAST?

Roundball_Rock
12-29-2009, 02:27 AM
haha i never knew dominique went to the spurs. that one!

i thought he finished with the magic..?

I forgot he went to Orlando after the Spurs. I'll edit the OP photo.

Stro Webber going to the Warriors was kind of fitting imo since he started his career there.

Samurai Swoosh
12-29-2009, 02:28 AM
I'll take it even further with C-Webb..

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0617/nba_g_webber_400.jpg
He started his career with them, bro ...

StroShow4
12-29-2009, 02:29 AM
He started his career with them, bro ...

I'm aware... but I bet lots of people weren't aware that he finished his career there as well.

Samurai Swoosh
12-29-2009, 02:32 AM
I'm aware... but I bet lots of people weren't aware that he finished his career there as well.
Yeah but the topic was like seeing known players in strange jerseys. He had some good years in GS, and his most memorable highlight IN that jersey.

StroShow4
12-29-2009, 02:34 AM
Yeah but the topic was like seeing known players in strange jerseys. He had some good years in GS, and his most memorable highlight IN that jersey.

Well IMO it is a strange jersey. The GSW jersey everyone saw him play in looked like this..

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2008/writers/marty_burns/01/30/webber.warriors/p1.webber.jpg

crisoner
12-29-2009, 02:36 AM
C-Webb left the Warriors because he said he was afraid of Earthquakes....I hated dude since then.

Soopa
12-29-2009, 02:40 AM
http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0804/nba.patrick.ewing/images/ewing-2000-02-sonics-magic.jpg



http://assets.gearlive.com/endscore/blogimages/shaq33.jpg



http://weslowery.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/shaq-in-cleveland-jersey-crop.jpg

JayGuevara
12-29-2009, 02:42 AM
Hakeem in Toronto, MJ as a Wizard, and Pippen as a Bull the second time around have always been some of the weirdest ones to me.

How bout Sheed in Atlanta (not end of career, but still strange) and Rodman in LA?

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/rwallace_300_080221.jpg

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ws161900/goofystuff/lakers/rodman3.jpg

crisoner
12-29-2009, 02:43 AM
http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0804/nba.patrick.ewing/images/ewing-2000-02-sonics-magic.jpg



http://assets.gearlive.com/endscore/blogimages/shaq33.jpg



http://weslowery.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/shaq-in-cleveland-jersey-crop.jpg


Shaq is like a door knob in the NBA....everyone gets a turn!!!!

crisoner
12-29-2009, 02:46 AM
http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/02/23/kemp_zoom.jpg

http://images.dailyradar.com/media/uploads/ballhype/story_large/2009/04/08/mullin.jpg

http://www.bballone.com/glenr/lakers/images/lakers3.jpg


Can't believe nobody put this up yet...this was just wrong..........

http://fourhorsementattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/jordanwiz.jpg

Roundball_Rock
12-29-2009, 02:49 AM
Rodman in LA. :oldlol: Don't forget this either:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/nba/2000/0220/photo/a_dennisr.jpg

I liked Pippen ending his career with the Bulls. No one knew he had nothing left for his final year but at the time he went back it looked like a good idea. I am glad AI is back with the Sixers. If a player can't stay with the same team for his entire career retiring with "his team" is the next best thing imo.

Crisoner, I put Pippen and Jordan in the same photo. Pippen in Portland and Jordan in Washington were weird enough but them playing against each other in strange jerseys? :eek:

These two were not NBA but weird as hell:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0808/icons.at.end.of.the.road/images/emmitt-smith.jpg

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee50/kurtenblog/joemontana.jpg

ProfessorMurder
12-29-2009, 02:50 AM
I just took these pics for this thread, jersey straight out of my closet.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q225/kennerguy66/CWebb1.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q225/kennerguy66/CWebb2.jpg

But honestly, every time I see this, it hurts:

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/150809/p1_malone_all.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q225/kennerguy66/DavidCross.gif

InspiredLebowski
12-29-2009, 02:58 AM
Hakeem in purple. Just...WTF.

Samurai Swoosh
12-29-2009, 03:01 AM
http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/150809/p1_malone_all.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q225/kennerguy66/DavidCross.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/MitchMatch/KobeWTF.gif

HylianNightmare
12-29-2009, 03:13 AM
http://www.nba.com/media/act_shawn_kemp.jpg

crisoner
12-29-2009, 03:16 AM
http://img2.allposters.com/images/PHO/AAGM006.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2690700258_ddafab5eee_o.jpg

http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/warrensapp.jpg

miller-time
12-29-2009, 03:34 AM
http://moondogsports.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-sports/allen_iverson_memphis_grizzlies.jpg

this could have been iverson..

luckily he made it back to the sixers.


I forgot he went to Orlando after the Spurs. I'll edit the OP photo.

i'd never seen him play for the spurs, so i thought it was alot more shocking.

i forgot he went to the clippers to. for some reason i thought he left the hawks and went straight to the magic for a few seasons.

Venja42
12-29-2009, 04:04 AM
http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/25/250811.jpghttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/09/05/sports/05cnd-rice.jpghttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=330389811812
Jerry Rice NOT wearing #80

Venja42
12-29-2009, 04:06 AM
http://www.mkrob.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/NFLF-Emmitt_Smith_102404.jpg

Just plain weird!!

crisoner
12-29-2009, 04:06 AM
http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww57/bpdouglass/610x-7.jpg
Jerry Rice NOT wearing #80


That ain't Jerry Rice............?

gyu
12-29-2009, 04:13 AM
Why are a bunch of you posting football players?

http://www.realclearsports.com/Jordan%20baseball.jpg

icemanfan
12-29-2009, 05:11 AM
http://www.psacard.com/smrweb/backissues/smr0203/cp_3_sm.jpg
The saddest for me, George Gervin finishing up in Chicago as MJ's mentor.

chitownsfinest
12-29-2009, 05:25 AM
http://www.psacard.com/smrweb/backissues/smr0203/cp_3_sm.jpg
The saddest for me, George Gervin finishing up in Chicago as MJ's mentor.
Kinda sucked him and MJ didn't have a chance to play more together. MJ had the foot injury in Gervin's only season here which caused him to miss most of the season. Gervin, even despite being past his prime, would have made a really exciting duo with a young MJ for a full season.

Soopa
12-29-2009, 05:30 AM
Rodman in LA.
Crisoner, I put Pippen and Jordan in the same photo. Pippen in Portland and Jordan in Washington were weird enough but them playing against each other in strange jerseys? :eek:



http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2002/12/10/wizards_blazers/lg_pippen_ap.jpg

Toizumi
12-29-2009, 06:13 AM
*not all true legends, but all great players at some point.


Glen Robinson on the Spurs

http://aol.nba.com/media/act_glenn_robinson.jpg



Penny on the Heat (or Knicks for that matter)

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/037b29Q4Ra3nN/340x.jpg



Nique on the Magic

http://www.nba.com/media/magic/9899_dwilkins200.jpg



GLEN RICE ON THE CLIPPERS (Couldnt even find a picture of it)



Mitch Richmond on the Lakers

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/10/richmond.jpg

Thugnificent
12-29-2009, 07:32 AM
GLEN RICE ON THE CLIPPERS (Couldnt even find a picture of it)



Mitch Richmond on the Lakers

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/10/richmond.jpg

wow at those two and Webber in GS

Detlef Schrempf in Portland

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/10/29/2003981241.jpg

Muggsy in Toronto

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,564367,00.jpg

Nick Anderson in Memphis

(no photo)

LJJ
12-29-2009, 10:30 AM
Since people are posting football players as well.

Best athlete I can think of for this:

http://i50.tinypic.com/n5lvrk.jpg

MK2V1GP
12-29-2009, 12:44 PM
http://img2.allposters.com/images/PHO/AAGM006.jpg


http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/warrensapp.jpg

Ouch. That one hurt. Sapp should NEVER have left the Bucs. And as a Bucs fan, I WISH Tim Brown never came here. That was just Gruden's love affair with over the hill, washed out players. But Tim Brown does not even look right in a Bucs jersey.

MK2V1GP
12-29-2009, 12:46 PM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2002/12/10/wizards_blazers/lg_pippen_ap.jpg

That is like, bizarro world or something. I can't believe the universe didn't explode during this game. That's just wrong. Pippen on the Blazers. Jordan on the Wizards. AGAINST each other. GUARDING each other. You know Jordan loved that game though. Could you imagine all the trash talking he did to Pippen when they were guarding each other?

HylianNightmare
12-29-2009, 12:52 PM
Penny on the Heat (or Knicks for that matter)

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/037b29Q4Ra3nN/340x.jpg





so wierd, i never got used to seeing him in anything but a magic jersey, i was upset they bought him out when we got him back a few years ago. man helped make the magic great with shaq back in the day, at least let him come home and get his last run around the track

Disaprine
12-29-2009, 03:26 PM
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/10/richmond.jpg

http://www.nba.com/media/magic/9899_dwilkins200.jpg

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/knicks/docs/images/6ae07llk.jpg
These are the weirdest to me. The MJ vs Pippen picture made me laugh :lol

JohnnySic
12-29-2009, 03:35 PM
A few legends who finished up with the winning team:

Artis Gimore:
http://www.celtic-nation.com/images/interview_photos/artis_gilmore6.jpg

Pete Maravich:

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/81801480.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1934B869679A269F9CC5E551E4428FF3EE3 26FD13ED7B73D4BC

Bill Walton:

http://art.allayers.com/images/large/bill_walton.jpg

Dominique Wilkins:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/06/03/odd.uniforms.ad/gallery_10_wilkins.jpg

Gary Payton:

http://origin.nba.com/media/celtics/gary-payton-200.jpg

beeboywhoo
12-29-2009, 04:13 PM
even though hes a team hopper..

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Philadelphia+76ers+v+Orlando+Magic+4fmq3otX6Ibl.jp g

1987_Lakers
12-29-2009, 04:32 PM
Robert Parish
http://product.images.fansedge.com/33-30/33-30289-F.jpg

Undisputed
12-29-2009, 07:17 PM
Can't believe nobody put this up yet...this was just wrong..........

http://fourhorsementattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/jordanwiz.jpg

Completely wrong. :banghead:

I would've loved to see MJ come back to the Bulls instead of the damn Wizards, even if he couldn't win us another championship.

SsKSpurs21
12-29-2009, 10:33 PM
http://www.stilettosetsports.com/wp-content/uploads/barkley-pippen.jpg

http://cdn.bleacherreport.com/images_root/slideshows/375/slideshow_37581/display_image.jpg

RainierBeachPoet
12-29-2009, 11:24 PM
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/487784954_340cd3fb6d_o.jpg

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U2020739.jpg?size=67&uid=831F773F-3363-4508-B933-418FC7CC4E23

RainierBeachPoet
12-29-2009, 11:46 PM
http://cdn.bleacherreport.com/images_root/slideshows/537/slideshow_53746/display_image.jpg

RainierBeachPoet
12-29-2009, 11:57 PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.fanhouse.com/media//2007/12/charles-oakley-240-mjd-20634uotiug24u56t49o8ygghkdjlgh.jpg

RainierBeachPoet
12-30-2009, 12:02 AM
http://lowposts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tim_hardaway_pacers.jpg

RainierBeachPoet
12-30-2009, 12:14 AM
http://espn.go.com/media/nba/2005/1222/photo/topps_jackson.jpg

http://www.clap.name/images/pj.jpg

http://deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/04/1965-PhilJackson.jpg

RainierBeachPoet
12-30-2009, 12:18 AM
http://www.nba.com/media/history/blazers_19701975_240.jpg

RainierBeachPoet
12-30-2009, 12:23 AM
http://www.moyerstuff.com/cards/image_197.jpg

RainierBeachPoet
12-30-2009, 12:31 AM
http://hoopedia.nba.com/images/9/97/Connie_hawkins.jpg

D.J.
12-30-2009, 01:47 AM
-Charles Barkley in Houston

-Patrick Ewing in Seattle and Orlando

-Shawn Kemp in Orlando

-Michael Jordan in Washington

-Dennis Rodman in Los Angeles and Dallas

-Gary Payton in Miami

-Mitch Richmond in Los Angeles

-Karl Malone in Los Angeles

-Allen Iverson in Memphis

Thugnificent
12-30-2009, 02:08 AM
http://lowposts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tim_hardaway_pacers.jpg

THAT IS JUST SO SO WRONG!

Underballer
12-30-2009, 04:27 AM
http://www.mouthpiecesports.com/blogmedia/2009/02/jordan_baseball.jpg

Alhazred
12-30-2009, 05:02 AM
Robert Parish
http://product.images.fansedge.com/33-30/33-30289-F.jpg

I think I just shat bricks.

Toizumi
12-30-2009, 05:29 AM
http://lowposts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tim_hardaway_pacers.jpg

damn.. I also remember Timmy playing for the Nuggets, just weird.




how bout these:

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/nba/_photos/2004-07-20-nick.jpg

http://www.nba.com/media/act_nick_van_exel.jpg

Nick van Exel on the Warriors and Spurs




http://www.rivalfish.com/rivalroom/uploaded_images/Kenny-Anderson-2006092200_20839-777650.jpg

Kenny Anderson on the Clippers




http://photos.upi.com/topics-CHARLOTTE-BOBCATS-STEVE-SMITH/3b61370f0381a8fe26060d7cfc49c1c4/S.jpg

Steve Smith on the Bobcats

icemanfan
12-30-2009, 06:33 AM
http://cdn.bleacherreport.com/images_root/slideshows/375/slideshow_37581/display_image.jpg
Kerr won two championships with the Spurs, 99 and 03 so of his 5 rings 2 came in a Spurs uni soooooooooooooooooooooooooo, he looks fine in that uni.

icemanfan
12-30-2009, 06:35 AM
wow at those two and Webber in GS

Detlef Schrempf in Portland

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/10/29/2003981241.jpg

Muggsy in Toronto

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,564367,00.jpg

Nick Anderson in Memphis

(no photo)
Webber started in GS right? So no big deal. Like AI going back to Philly.