What is your most hated basketball act of all time?

[Kblaze8855]

Not off the court. Something done by a player with a ball in their hands at the time or playing basketball.


I took a moment to think about this earlier and had a number of things come to me.

Ive seen hard foul that were pathetic.
Ive seen Toni Kukoc get beasted for a rebound by John Starks.
Ive seen Ricky Davis throw the ball off his own backboard trying to get a rebound.

Ive seen Shawn Kemp almost get himself cut on the spot when he missed a huuuuuuuuuuge windmill dunk as a rookie trying to show off.

Ive seen Marbury with Keith Vanhorn right under the basket on a fast break instead run like 6 dribbles up the court to dunk it himself instead of passing it to Keith uncontested under the rim.

Ive seen awful acts of selfishness and bad decisions and cringe inducing shot selection.

Ive even seen Mark madsen shoot a 3. But you know who...after 25+ years of watching games(First game I went to that I remember seeing was in 1983)....pissed me off the most?




Josh Smith. Why you ask? Josh is a hustling, fun to watch, young guy with no major in media issues and no known personality problems with teammates. I made a video on him a while back:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avA8Y0sQCI

He is...as the song suggests...a go getter.

How did Josh Smith piss me off more than Karl Malone breaking Isiah Thomas face and acting tough that he can do that to someone 8 inches and 70 pounds smaller than him?

The dunk contest.

Not the good one. Not the year he did the Nique Jersey thing. Windmill over Kmart. The reverse 360 windmill nobody on earth has a good angle on somehow.

I mean the other year. When he came back.

What did it?

The FT line dunk. This jackass came out and put al ine of tape like 4 feet behind the line. Crowd goes crazy. Kenny smith says if Josh dunks from there hes leaving the building. Barkley says its impossible.

Me? Im home. Both online and talking to some friends of mine who were over. When we see the line we think "No way....."but an argument starts.

He wouldnt try this the first time now would he? He HAD to have done it before.

This guy is about to take off from like 19 feet and dunk it.

It couldnt be...but for just a brief moment....I was a kid again.

It WAS going to happen. I believed.

For one brief moment we all believed. For just a moment my whole circle of friends had "Opulence...I has it" direct TV russian guy status. Nothing was impossible. Cats can sing. The moon really is made of cheese. The Grizzlies can win a playoff game! Anything is within reach if this guy can dunk from there.

He backs up like 90 feet. Stands in the crowd of media on the other end of the court. He sprints up...

I stood. Everyone in silence.

And this....piece of shit...

Takes off from the FT line!

Why was the tape there? Why did he did that to me? To us? Who greenlit that idea? He took me from 7 year old christmas morning overjoyed to 15 year old last day of summer vacation pissed off.

He and the Hawks can burn in hell.


Im glad they just signed JJ to a deal worth 70% of the cost of producing a Lord of the Rings movie.

Im glad they lost by like 86 points in game 7 vs the Celtics.

Im glad all they got out of the misery of a 13 win season was drafing Marvin Williams over Paul and Deron when they clearly needed a young point.

Im glad they handed the Pistons the last piece to a title team by trading all star Sheed for Bob Sura.

Im glad they traded Pau Gasol for Shareef Abdur Rahim.

Im glad they traded model citizen and part of several 50-56 win teams Steve Smith for Isiah Rider who then got caught smoking weed, missed some meetings, and got cut. Im glad they didnt make the playoffs for like 10 years after that too.

Im glad they traded Mutombo for Theo Ratliff and like...Toni Kukoc or something.

Im glad they gave up the greatest Hawk of all time for Danny ****ing Manning who both got hurt(not happy about that) and left them for the Suns(loved it)

Im glad that greatest Hawk didnt make the top 50*kinda do feel bad about that one*.

Im glad they got both the first and third picks in the 75 draft and both of them signed in the ABA rather than play for atlanta(one of them being hall of famer David Thompson)

Im glad a judge decided Doctor J couldnt join the Hawks to team up with Pistol Pete tobethe most exciting open floor team of all time. He was drafted to the Bucks I believe but just before the ABA brokeup he signed with the Hawks. The Bucks(or his aba team..dont remember) sued and the Hawks had to pay like 200,000 for every preseason game he played in and they had to give him up.He and Pete were the most insane duo of all time some say....and it ended before the regular season. And im happy about it.


Im glad they had to then trade their most popular(but league wide not very wanted) player Pistol Pete for next to nothing to his home town because they had an expansion team and needed him for attendance.

Im glad the only ring they ever won was in st.Louis and not Atlanta and it took the biggest * of all time to win it(Bill Russell got hurt in the finals).

Im glad they drafted and traded away BOTH Bob Cousy and Bill Russell and watched the Celtics dominate.

Josh Smith murdered the last bit of kid inside me and because of it im glad...the Hawks are the Hawks.



You?

[RoseCity07]

I think Gilbert Arenas threw the ball off a players face during a rookie sophmore game. It really showed me the kind of guy he is. Never really like him for that.

[Kblaze8855]

I remember Jason Richardson doing that to Carlos Boozer and Boozer being heated over it.

[Younggrease]

Watching Dirk refuse to post up Steve Nash and instead call for the ball 20 feet from the basket.

Watching Chris Bosh get shut down by Jason Collins in the playoffs.

Watching Lamar Odom refuse to take open lanes to the basket with his right hand and just run over people. He has some of the worst charges of all time.

[Kblaze8855]

Seeing Dirk not post up Tony Parker one on one did kinda piss me off.

[DatWasNashty]

It has to be Barkley overplaying on MJ's pass to Pippen. Caused the whole defensive breakdown that led to the Paxson dagger. I can't blame Chuck that much since he's the one who got us here but I can't help but think what happens in a G7.

Honorable mention to Stockton's three at the buzzer in the 1997 conference finals. Deeply wanted Charles and Hakeem to win that year. To make it worse, it only happened cause of Karl Malone's illegal screen on Glide.


Im glad they gave up the greatest Hawk of all time for Danny ****ing Manning who both got hurt(not happy about that) and left them for the Suns(loved it)
Same ... until he got injured. I firmly believe we beat the Rockets in 1995 if he was healthy.

[MasterDurant24]

Not off the court. Something done by a player with a ball in their hands at the time or playing basketball.


I took a moment to think about this earlier and had a number of things come to me.

Ive seen hard foul that were pathetic.
Ive seen Toni Kukoc get beasted for a rebound by John Starks.
Ive seen Ricky Davis throw the ball off his own backboard trying to get a rebound.

Ive seen Shawn Kemp almost get himself cut on the spot when he missed a huuuuuuuuuuge windmill dunk as a rookie trying to show off.

Ive seen Marbury with Keith Vanhorn right under the basket on a fast break instead run like 6 dribbles up the court to dunk it himself instead of passing it to Keith uncontested under the rim.

Ive seen awful acts of selfishness and bad decisions and cringe inducing shot selection.

Ive even seen Mark madsen shoot a 3. But you know who...after 25+ years of watching games(First game I went to that I remember seeing was in 1983)....pissed me off the most?




Josh Smith. Why you ask? Josh is a hustling, fun to watch, young guy with no major in media issues and no known personality problems with teammates. I made a video on him a while back:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avA8Y0sQCI

He is...as the song suggests...a go getter.

How did Josh Smith piss me off more than Karl Malone breaking Isiah Thomas face and acting tough that he can do that to someone 8 inches and 70 pounds smaller than him?

The dunk contest.

Not the good one. Not the year he did the Nique Jersey thing. Windmill over Kmart. The reverse 360 windmill nobody on earth has a good angle on somehow.

I mean the other year. When he came back.

What did it?

The FT line dunk. This jackass came out and put al ine of tape like 4 feet behind the line. Crowd goes crazy. Kenny smith says if Josh dunks from there hes leaving the building. Barkley says its impossible.

Me? Im home. Both online and talking to some friends of mine who were over. When we see the line we think "No way....."but an argument starts.

He wouldnt try this the first time now would he? He HAD to have done it before.

This guy is about to take off from like 19 feet and dunk it.

It couldnt be...but for just a brief moment....I was a kid again.

It WAS going to happen. I believed.

For one brief moment we all believed. For just a moment my whole circle of friends had "Opulence...I has it" direct TV russian guy status. Nothing was impossible. Cats can sing. The moon really is made of cheese. The Grizzlies can win a playoff game! Anything is within reach if this guy can dunk from there.

He backs up like 90 feet. Stands in the crowd of media on the other end of the court. He sprints up...

I stood. Everyone in silence.

And this....piece of shit...

Takes off from the FT line!

Why was the tape there? Why did he did that to me? To us? Who greenlit that idea? He took me from 7 year old christmas morning overjoyed to 15 year old last day of summer vacation pissed off.

He and the Hawks can burn in hell.


Im glad they just signed JJ to a deal worth 70% of the cost of producing a Lord of the Rings movie.

Im glad they lost by like 86 points in game 7 vs the Celtics.

Im glad all they got out of the misery of a 13 win season was drafing Marvin Williams over Paul and Deron when they clearly needed a young point.

Im glad they handed the Pistons the last piece to a title team by trading all star Sheed for Bob Sura.

Im glad they traded Pau Gasol for Shareef Abdur Rahim.

Im glad they traded model citizen and part of several 50-56 win teams Steve Smith for Isiah Rider who then got caught smoking weed, missed some meetings, and got cut. Im glad they didnt make the playoffs for like 10 years after that too.

Im glad they traded Mutombo for Theo Ratliff and like...Toni Kukoc or something.

Im glad they gave up the greatest Hawk of all time for Danny ****ing Manning who both got hurt(not happy about that) and left them for the Suns(loved it)

Im glad that greatest Hawk didnt make the top 50*kinda do feel bad about that one*.

Im glad they got both the first and third picks in the 75 draft and both of them signed in the ABA rather than play for atlanta(one of them being hall of famer David Thompson)

Im glad a judge decided Doctor J couldnt join the Hawks to team up with Pistol Pete tobethe most exciting open floor team of all time. He was drafted to the Bucks I believe but just before the ABA brokeup he signed with the Hawks. The Bucks(or his aba team..dont remember) sued and the Hawks had to pay like 200,000 for every preseason game he played in and they had to give him up.He and Pete were the most insane duo of all time some say....and it ended before the regular season. And im happy about it.


Im glad they had to then trade their most popular(but league wide not very wanted) player Pistol Pete for next to nothing to his home town because they had an expansion team and needed him for attendance.

Im glad the only ring they ever won was in st.Louis and not Atlanta and it took the biggest * of all time to win it(Bill Russell got hurt in the finals).

Im glad they drafted and traded away BOTH Bob Cousy and Bill Russell and watched the Celtics dominate.

Josh Smith murdered the last bit of kid inside me and because of it im glad...the Hawks are the Hawks.



You?
:wtf:

Wait, did you say Nique is the best Hawk over Bob Pettit? When you said that the greatest Hawk didn't make the top 50.

[RoseCity07]

I remember Jason Richardson doing that to Carlos Boozer and Boozer being heated over it.

Yeah ok, I think I got it mixed up. I remember it because they were both on Golden State and acting arrogant in that game. He didn't do it lightly, he threw it kind of hard.

Another act I hated was when Rick Fox was so mad Portland was about to win game 6 of the WCF's, he tried to start a fight with Scottie Pippen. It was so classless. The camera caught him throw a elbow towards Pippen, then act like Pippen attacked him out of the blue when the retaliation came.

It was really a sign of weak emotion and fear on Rick Fox's part.

[ShaqAttack3234]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xH85iDDIs

[Rose]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xH85iDDIs
Why that?

[G-train]

Everything Ricky Davis did/does.

[G-train]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xH85iDDIs

thats just funny

[ShaqAttack3234]

Why that?

It summed up Randolph's first(and only full) season in New York. Idiotic selfish play. After making a fool out of himself with his attempt to take his man off the dribble, he pulls up and takes a 26 footer with plenty of time on the shot clock and air balls it.

Edit: Look at the idiot here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13PKLR-HyY He makes up his mind with over 5 seconds left that he's going to take a 30 footer down by 2, he air balls it and then smiles.

[Rose]

It summed up Randolph's first(and only full) season in New York. Idiotic selfish play. After making a fool out of himself with his attempt to take his man off the dribble, he pulls up and takes a 26 footer with plenty of time on the shot clock and air balls it.
Oh okay. I was like I thought him attempting to be the guy with his handles was funny, and the shot was stupid but unsurprising(at the time). I see your point though!

[Stephen_H]

In the 01' Finals seeing Shaq elbow Mutombo multiple times in the face while spinning to the hoop, only to have a defensive foul called as Shaq proceeds to dunk the ball in Dikembe's face.

[Dwade305]

I seen Kendall Gill brick so many shots, it gave me inspiration.

[Horde of Temujin]

Stackhouse's fragrant foul on Joe Johnson in '05 playoffs, JJ was on a breakaway dunk and Stack clipped him from behind causing JJ to fall straight on his face. Dude had to get surgery and missed most of the rest of the playoff. He returned towards the end of the San Antonia series in the Conf. Final but by that time it was too late.

Man how painfully close the Suns came.

[Rondo'd]

Seeing Ron Artest hit that late game 3 in the finals this year is pretty hated to me considering he took some of the worst shots in NBA history during the finals/playoffs. It was just so perfectly awful.

[ProfessorMurder]

Kblaze are you sure he didn't line up the tape as a point of eye reference so he knew when to get ready to jump? Dwight Howard setting the tape behind the line, then jumping a whole step in front of it, and not ever dunking was awful.



In the 01' Finals seeing Shaq elbow Mutombo multiple times in the face while spinning to the hoop, only to have a defensive foul called as Shaq proceeds to dunk the ball in Dikembe's face.

That is way up there for me too.

[DetroitPiston]

1. Rasheed Wallace not guarding Robert ****ing Horry in game five of the 2005 NBA finals. The instant I saw Horry get the ball, the first thing in my mind was "Oh ****." I was a big fan of Sheed when he was at the Pistons, but I will never, ever forgive him for leaving one of the most ice cold shooters in playoff games so wide open that you could land a jumbo jet in that space. We win that, no game 7 and we win another Pistons title.

2. Whenever Antoine Walker played against us, he always had this smug look on his face when he took a shot against us.

[lurch67]

Pippen not taking the court when the play was drawn up for Kokoc. Lost a lot of respect for him that day.

[MasterDurant24]

Portland not putting Damon Stoudemire back in against the Lakers in 2000.

[Kblaze8855]

Wait, did you say Nique is the best Hawk over Bob Pettit? When you said that the greatest Hawk didn't make the top 50.

My bad. somehow forgot him even though he came to mind a moment later.

[Penny37]

1. Rasheed Wallace not guarding Robert ****ing Horry in game five of the 2005 NBA finals. The instant I saw Horry get the ball, the first thing in my mind was "Oh ****." I was a big fan of Sheed when he was at the Pistons, but I will never, ever forgive him for leaving one of the most ice cold shooters in playoff games so wide open that you could land a jumbo jet in that space.
I take it you've seen Snatch

[Skip Bayless]

Prince James blatantly quitting on his team in a vital game 5.

[laronprofit9]

A lot

My Favorite Player Kobe:
His Game 7 against the Suns in 2006.

Lebron James
His game 5 against the Celtics in 2010.

Ricky Davis's "Triple Double"

Vince Carter tipping off the Sonics.

TMac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjbkXewxlGI

[HisJoeness]

When dumb people refer to Championships as "chips".

[catch24]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylV_2mT7BE

Odom, and Walton not boxing out on Marion in the '06 playoffs. One f'ing play and LA advances to the second round. What the f*ck is Kwame doing out on Nash, anyway?

[SinJackal]

Not off the court. Something done by a player with a ball in their hands at the time or playing basketball.


I took a moment to think about this earlier and had a number of things come to me.

Ive seen hard foul that were pathetic.
Ive seen Toni Kukoc get beasted for a rebound by John Starks.
Ive seen Ricky Davis throw the ball off his own backboard trying to get a rebound.

Ive seen Shawn Kemp almost get himself cut on the spot when he missed a huuuuuuuuuuge windmill dunk as a rookie trying to show off.

Ive seen Marbury with Keith Vanhorn right under the basket on a fast break instead run like 6 dribbles up the court to dunk it himself instead of passing it to Keith uncontested under the rim.

Ive seen awful acts of selfishness and bad decisions and cringe inducing shot selection.

Ive even seen Mark madsen shoot a 3. But you know who...after 25+ years of watching games(First game I went to that I remember seeing was in 1983)....pissed me off the most?




Josh Smith. Why you ask? Josh is a hustling, fun to watch, young guy with no major in media issues and no known personality problems with teammates. I made a video on him a while back:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avA8Y0sQCI

He is...as the song suggests...a go getter.

How did Josh Smith piss me off more than Karl Malone breaking Isiah Thomas face and acting tough that he can do that to someone 8 inches and 70 pounds smaller than him?

The dunk contest.

Not the good one. Not the year he did the Nique Jersey thing. Windmill over Kmart. The reverse 360 windmill nobody on earth has a good angle on somehow.

I mean the other year. When he came back.

What did it?

The FT line dunk. This jackass came out and put al ine of tape like 4 feet behind the line. Crowd goes crazy. Kenny smith says if Josh dunks from there hes leaving the building. Barkley says its impossible.

Me? Im home. Both online and talking to some friends of mine who were over. When we see the line we think "No way....."but an argument starts.

He wouldnt try this the first time now would he? He HAD to have done it before.

This guy is about to take off from like 19 feet and dunk it.

It couldnt be...but for just a brief moment....I was a kid again.

It WAS going to happen. I believed.

For one brief moment we all believed. For just a moment my whole circle of friends had "Opulence...I has it" direct TV russian guy status. Nothing was impossible. Cats can sing. The moon really is made of cheese. The Grizzlies can win a playoff game! Anything is within reach if this guy can dunk from there.

He backs up like 90 feet. Stands in the crowd of media on the other end of the court. He sprints up...

I stood. Everyone in silence.

And this....piece of shit...

Takes off from the FT line!

Why was the tape there? Why did he did that to me? To us? Who greenlit that idea? He took me from 7 year old christmas morning overjoyed to 15 year old last day of summer vacation pissed off.

He and the Hawks can burn in hell.


Im glad they just signed JJ to a deal worth 70% of the cost of producing a Lord of the Rings movie.

Im glad they lost by like 86 points in game 7 vs the Celtics.

Im glad all they got out of the misery of a 13 win season was drafing Marvin Williams over Paul and Deron when they clearly needed a young point.

Im glad they handed the Pistons the last piece to a title team by trading all star Sheed for Bob Sura.

Im glad they traded Pau Gasol for Shareef Abdur Rahim.

Im glad they traded model citizen and part of several 50-56 win teams Steve Smith for Isiah Rider who then got caught smoking weed, missed some meetings, and got cut. Im glad they didnt make the playoffs for like 10 years after that too.

Im glad they traded Mutombo for Theo Ratliff and like...Toni Kukoc or something.

Im glad they gave up the greatest Hawk of all time for Danny ****ing Manning who both got hurt(not happy about that) and left them for the Suns(loved it)

Im glad that greatest Hawk didnt make the top 50*kinda do feel bad about that one*.

Im glad they got both the first and third picks in the 75 draft and both of them signed in the ABA rather than play for atlanta(one of them being hall of famer David Thompson)

Im glad a judge decided Doctor J couldnt join the Hawks to team up with Pistol Pete tobethe most exciting open floor team of all time. He was drafted to the Bucks I believe but just before the ABA brokeup he signed with the Hawks. The Bucks(or his aba team..dont remember) sued and the Hawks had to pay like 200,000 for every preseason game he played in and they had to give him up.He and Pete were the most insane duo of all time some say....and it ended before the regular season. And im happy about it.


Im glad they had to then trade their most popular(but league wide not very wanted) player Pistol Pete for next to nothing to his home town because they had an expansion team and needed him for attendance.

Im glad the only ring they ever won was in st.Louis and not Atlanta and it took the biggest * of all time to win it(Bill Russell got hurt in the finals).

Im glad they drafted and traded away BOTH Bob Cousy and Bill Russell and watched the Celtics dominate.

Josh Smith murdered the last bit of kid inside me and because of it im glad...the Hawks are the Hawks.



You?

Huge, good list. Repped.

For me, I'm gonna have to go with Jordan retiring. Every time I think about it, it pisses me off. I try to not be too upset about it due to what he was going through, but it's just irritating to think he could've won 8 straight, or at least 7 of the 8. At the time though (I was young, just before I was a teen at the time), it just seemed like he was abandoning the team.

For a more recent thing, I'll go with Elton Brand lying to Baron Davis about going back to the Clippers, leaving him hanging.

[50inchvertical]

Stackhouse's fragrant foul on Joe Johnson in '05 playoffs, JJ was on a breakaway dunk and Stack clipped him from behind causing JJ to fall straight on his face. Dude had to get surgery and missed most of the rest of the playoff. He returned towards the end of the San Antonia series in the Conf. Final but by that time it was too late.

Man how painfully close the Suns came.
He didn't even regular foul him much less flagrant, JJ just slipped off the rim.

2 above posters have mentioned the Dirk inability/refusal to post up must smaller players and always end up having to settle for a fadeaway over guys 8 inches shorters and 50lbs lighter. Nothing used to piss me off more during my Mavs fan era. And back to that same team, I'd have to say Dirk's MVP yr game 6 against the Warriors. It was just a horrendous performance, even Mo Ager outscored him.

The yr LeBron shitted on the Pistons in the playoffs was the first time I ever noticed how dirty Rip Hamilton is. He gives up like 70lbs to LeBron so it didn't matter, but he has a tendency to continue to foul after the whistle has long been blown and play stopped, give you an extra elbow, try to trip you after ball stoppages, things like this. Of course, guys like Nocioni and Bowen do as well but they have always been know and correctly judged for it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgny3lyPf3U
On this dunk, Stromile Swift dunked on Dirk Nowitzki, big woop wanna fight about it, but the swing back up and wrap his legs around him move was unneccessary. What bothered me as much if not more, was the fact no Mav, including Dirk himself, said or did anything. It was actually Pau to come over and take Swift's balls almost literally from Dirk's face. You don't have to go all Rafer Alston and slap hm, but say something, fake get in his face, the refs will allow you that, at worst you get a double T. I feel like if we still had Fortson, or Raja Bell in the incarnation of him we had (before he turned into a flopper and developed a 3pt shot), they would've stood up for Dirk.

[catch24]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgny3lyPf3U
On this dunk, Stromile Swift dunked on Dirk Nowitzki, big woop wanna fight about it, but the swing back up and wrap his legs around him move was unneccessary. What bothered me as much if not more, was the fact no Mav, including Dirk himself, said or did anything. It was actually Pau to come over and take Swift's balls almost literally from Dirk's face. You don't have to go all Rafer Alston and slap hm, but say something, fake get in his face, the refs will allow you that, at worst you get a double T. I feel like if we still had Fortson, or Raja Bell in the incarnation of him we had (before he turned into a flopper and developed a 3pt shot), they would've stood up for Dirk.

Definitely unnecessary. You can see he blatantly tried to wrap his legs onto Nowitzki's neck... Ball facial lol.

[jlauber]

Not sure if this qualifies, but the officiating in the Gold Medal Game in the 1972 Olympics...

[Fatal9]

Jamario Moon tried that the year after except I think he might have actually been able to do it. When he was about to make his attempt they told him that he had to use a teammate so he had to change his dunk completely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfL9Ew3b0uE

I almost buy it.

[the_wise_one]

Ive seen Marbury with Keith Vanhorn right under the basket on a fast break instead run like 6 dribbles up the court to dunk it himself instead of passing it to Keith uncontested under the rim.



That's racism.

[the_wise_one]

Kobe Bryant breathing.

[lurch67]

I take it you've seen Snatch
Plenty

[AirJordan&Magic]

Ricky Davis "triple double".

Josh Smith showboating (and embarrasing himself) in the playoff series vs the Heats.

Demarcus Cousin's childish elbow vs Louisville.

LeBron James dancing like an idiot during the Bulls' game.

Kobe Bryant's chucking in games 1 and 4 of the 2004 Nba finals.

Jerry Stackhouse swinging on Jeff Hornaceck.

Shawn Kemp's failed windmill attempt (as KBlaze stated).

Xavier McDaniels choking Wes Matthews.

Andre Blatches' "failed triple double".

Raja Bell's clothesline to Kobe.

[boozehound]

malone taking zeke down with a hard foul and shortening/ending his career. all out of spite too.

[AirJordan&Magic]

Another moment that kind of ticked me off, was the Pippen-Kukoc incident in 1994.

Honorable mentions:

Chris Paul's nutcheck during his time at Wake forest.

Nick Van Axel pushing the referee back in 1997-98. (And I'm a Lakers' fan)

Greg Anthony's dumbass hitting Kevin Johnson from behind in the 1993 Suns-Knicks brawl (And the idiot was not even active in the game :facepalm )

[KenneBell]

Not one mention of JR Smith doing anything? Is that possible in this thread?

[AirJordan&Magic]

Not one mention of JR Smith doing anything? Is that possible in this thread.

He makes me ad in every game he plays. Unbelievable talent but makes the dumbest choices.

"JR, you're 35 feet away from the basket and you getting hounded? Do you want to..."

"Don't mind if I do"

*Takes contested 35 foot turnaround fadeaway 3*

Karl: :facepalm

:oldlol: Agreed.

Pretty Much anything J.R Smith does ticks me off.

[DuMa]

not done by a player, but rather done by referees. tim donaghy and his band of rogue referees. the famous game 6 of the 2002 WCF comes to mind. no rightful basketball fan can say they saw that game and enjoyed basketball at all.

the other acts of trying to get triple doubles, stat padding are not that big of a deal to me. only hurts the stat junkies the most, and if stats play a big effect on how you see the game, then you're seeing the game wrong.

[lurch67]

Did anyone mention the "Malice at the Palace"?

[Rose]

Did anyone mention the "Malice at the Palace"?
I dig your new avy.:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

[KenneBell]

Did anyone mention the "Malice at the Palace"?
I didn't hate that one.

Jermaine's sliding dragon punch might have been one of the funniest punches I've ever seen.:roll:

[lurch67]

I dig your new avy.:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Thanks:cheers:

[ILLsmak]

I could say something Bruce Bowen did or a time that CP punched someone in the nuts, but the one that hit the closest to home was LeBron quitting...

I admit it was because I wanted to see Shaq get back to the finals, because I don't really care about LeBron, but that was probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen someone do. The fact that he let so many people down... on purpose, and you know they all knew it.

Quitting because you are hurt... quiting because you are getting outplayed... those are really bad, but to quit just because you want an excuse to leave is by far the worst.

-Smak

[laronprofit9]

A lot

My Favorite Player Kobe: His Game 7 against the Suns in 2006.

Lebron James: His game 5 against the Celtics in 2010.

Ricky Davis's "Triple Double"

Vince Carter tipping off the Sonics.

TMac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjbkXewxlGI

Add:

Carmelo Anthony Sucker Punch

Bruce Bowen stepping under people's feet on jumpshots.

Robert Horry Hip Check on Steve Nash.

Ben Wallace losing his cool and starting Malice at the Palace, and stupid fan.

[jlip]

NCAA Moment...
Christian Laettner steps on Jamal Mashburn during the '92 NCAA tourney.

[LA KB24]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylV_2mT7BE

Odom, and Walton not boxing out on Marion in the '06 playoffs. One f'ing play and LA advances to the second round. What the f*ck is Kwame doing out on Nash, anyway?
Yeah, I was f*cking pissed that day. :mad:

[lurch67]

Speaking of Bruce....

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa258/thefreshprince101/Sports%20Gifs/5ybu0k8.gif

[LA KB24]

Oh and this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2GU42QvEGY#t=0m45s

b1tch move by Dr J.

[laronprofit9]

Speaking of Bruce....

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa258/thefreshprince101/Sports%20Gifs/5ybu0k8.gif

Look at how high he jumps lol.

:roll:

[Horde of Temujin]

Speaking of Bruce....

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa258/thefreshprince101/Sports%20Gifs/5ybu0k8.gif


how is that not on purpose, from that gif it clearly looks intentional

I HATED BOWEN, dirty player, i wonder how many ankles he turned in his career. He would put his foot directly under a shooters foot when they elevated for a jumpshot.

What an ass hole

[Horde of Temujin]

Heres a clip asshole Bowen got away with this for years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxXvkMB6gA&feature=related

[Nanners]

Every time KG has slammed an illegal screen into a 6'1 white euro guy, or that time he was taunting Bayless.

[DetroitPiston]

I take it you've seen Snatch

One of my favorite movies.


malone taking zeke down with a hard foul and shortening/ending his career. all out of spite too.

Look at it the way I do, Zeke's got two championships, Malone's got shit. Made all the more sweeter when we denied him a chance of a ring in 2004.

[ZenMaster]

I could say something Bruce Bowen did or a time that CP punched someone in the nuts, but the one that hit the closest to home was LeBron quitting...

I admit it was because I wanted to see Shaq get back to the finals, because I don't really care about LeBron, but that was probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen someone do. The fact that he let so many people down... on purpose, and you know they all knew it.

Quitting because you are hurt... quiting because you are getting outplayed... those are really bad, but to quit just because you want an excuse to leave is by far the worst.

-Smak

I'm under the impression that he quit because Delonte was screwing his mom and none of his teammates told him.

[EmilDrillz]

Anyone who says LeBron James was not trying vs the Celtics last year obviously missed game 3 in the Garden when the Cavs needed to regain home court advantage and James gives Boston the biggest beating they had received ALL SEASON.

Now to name a few


-LeBron James dancing like an idiot during the Bulls' game.

-The one moment that I always see replay in slo mo is Robert Horreys clutch Hip-Check on Nash which set in motion the events that lead to no Stoudemire and I believe Diaw for the next game. That was the SUNS year to win. Nash, Stat, Marion, Bell, Diaw plus Dantoni & Staff got robbed of a Finals Apperance and probably a ring the cavs were about as deep as a puddle that year PHX just had to get there..

[B-Low]

Ricky Davis' fake triple double. Just embarrassing on so many levels

LeBron blatantly quitting on the Cavs in the Celtics series this year

The Sacramento/Lakers/refs series

And one that hasn't been mentioned and doesn't get mentioned much period...the 03 All Star game. Jordan hits what everyone thinks is the game winning shot with only a few seconds left. The East had been SHAMELESSLY force-feeding Jordan the ball the entire game lol...but everyone wanted this to happen. You could see the excitement on EVERYONE's faces after Jordan hit that shot, even Jordan was tryin hard to keep his "too cool to care" expression that he always had after game winners. Hell even the Western team was lookin excited. Then Kobe falls outta bounds and trips backwards on Jermaine O'Neal whose hands were obviously straight up in the air. Kobe gets the free throws, ties the game up, OT, West wins, Kobe has fap fodder for the rest of his life. I guarantee he closes his eyes and sees that moment every time he's f*cking Vanessa

[LAClipsFan33]

-Mike Bibby "fouling" Kobe's elbow with his face

- Tyrus Thomas dunking for a check in the 2007 dunk contest (Worst effort in a dunk contest ever)

- Kobe Bryant doing his best to try to embarrass an old Michael Jordan in Jordan's last all star game in 2003

- Darius Miles...nothing more needs to be said. This dude being in the league infuriated me

[PurpleChuck]

-Mike Bibby "fouling" Kobe's elbow with his face

- Tyrus Thomas dunking for a check in the 2007 dunk contest (Worst effort in a dunk contest ever)

- Kobe Bryant doing his best to try to embarrass an old Michael Jordan in Jordan's last all star game in 2003

- Darius Miles...nothing more needs to be said. This dude being in the league infuriated me

This, talk about respect...

[LAClipsFan33]

This, talk about respect...

He's supposed to be your idol and you going so hard out of your way to embarrass him in the twilight of his career ? This really pissed me off. It was probably the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen in an all star game.

[Stringer Bell]

Not off the court. Something done by a player with a ball in their hands at the time or playing basketball.


I took a moment to think about this earlier and had a number of things come to me.

Ive seen hard foul that were pathetic.
Ive seen Toni Kukoc get beasted for a rebound by John Starks.
Ive seen Ricky Davis throw the ball off his own backboard trying to get a rebound.

Ive seen Shawn Kemp almost get himself cut on the spot when he missed a huuuuuuuuuuge windmill dunk as a rookie trying to show off.

Ive seen Marbury with Keith Vanhorn right under the basket on a fast break instead run like 6 dribbles up the court to dunk it himself instead of passing it to Keith uncontested under the rim.

Ive seen awful acts of selfishness and bad decisions and cringe inducing shot selection.

Ive even seen Mark madsen shoot a 3. But you know who...after 25+ years of watching games(First game I went to that I remember seeing was in 1983)....pissed me off the most?




Josh Smith. Why you ask? Josh is a hustling, fun to watch, young guy with no major in media issues and no known personality problems with teammates. I made a video on him a while back:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avA8Y0sQCI

He is...as the song suggests...a go getter.

How did Josh Smith piss me off more than Karl Malone breaking Isiah Thomas face and acting tough that he can do that to someone 8 inches and 70 pounds smaller than him?

The dunk contest.

Not the good one. Not the year he did the Nique Jersey thing. Windmill over Kmart. The reverse 360 windmill nobody on earth has a good angle on somehow.

I mean the other year. When he came back.

What did it?

The FT line dunk. This jackass came out and put al ine of tape like 4 feet behind the line. Crowd goes crazy. Kenny smith says if Josh dunks from there hes leaving the building. Barkley says its impossible.

Me? Im home. Both online and talking to some friends of mine who were over. When we see the line we think "No way....."but an argument starts.

He wouldnt try this the first time now would he? He HAD to have done it before.

This guy is about to take off from like 19 feet and dunk it.

It couldnt be...but for just a brief moment....I was a kid again.

It WAS going to happen. I believed.

For one brief moment we all believed. For just a moment my whole circle of friends had "Opulence...I has it" direct TV russian guy status. Nothing was impossible. Cats can sing. The moon really is made of cheese. The Grizzlies can win a playoff game! Anything is within reach if this guy can dunk from there.

He backs up like 90 feet. Stands in the crowd of media on the other end of the court. He sprints up...

I stood. Everyone in silence.

And this....piece of shit...

Takes off from the FT line!

Why was the tape there? Why did he did that to me? To us? Who greenlit that idea? He took me from 7 year old christmas morning overjoyed to 15 year old last day of summer vacation pissed off.

He and the Hawks can burn in hell.


Im glad they just signed JJ to a deal worth 70% of the cost of producing a Lord of the Rings movie.

Im glad they lost by like 86 points in game 7 vs the Celtics.

Im glad all they got out of the misery of a 13 win season was drafing Marvin Williams over Paul and Deron when they clearly needed a young point.

Im glad they handed the Pistons the last piece to a title team by trading all star Sheed for Bob Sura.

Im glad they traded Pau Gasol for Shareef Abdur Rahim.

Im glad they traded model citizen and part of several 50-56 win teams Steve Smith for Isiah Rider who then got caught smoking weed, missed some meetings, and got cut. Im glad they didnt make the playoffs for like 10 years after that too.

Im glad they traded Mutombo for Theo Ratliff and like...Toni Kukoc or something.

Im glad they gave up the greatest Hawk of all time for Danny ****ing Manning who both got hurt(not happy about that) and left them for the Suns(loved it)

Im glad that greatest Hawk didnt make the top 50*kinda do feel bad about that one*.

Im glad they got both the first and third picks in the 75 draft and both of them signed in the ABA rather than play for atlanta(one of them being hall of famer David Thompson)

Im glad a judge decided Doctor J couldnt join the Hawks to team up with Pistol Pete tobethe most exciting open floor team of all time. He was drafted to the Bucks I believe but just before the ABA brokeup he signed with the Hawks. The Bucks(or his aba team..dont remember) sued and the Hawks had to pay like 200,000 for every preseason game he played in and they had to give him up.He and Pete were the most insane duo of all time some say....and it ended before the regular season. And im happy about it.


Im glad they had to then trade their most popular(but league wide not very wanted) player Pistol Pete for next to nothing to his home town because they had an expansion team and needed him for attendance.

Im glad the only ring they ever won was in st.Louis and not Atlanta and it took the biggest * of all time to win it(Bill Russell got hurt in the finals).

Im glad they drafted and traded away BOTH Bob Cousy and Bill Russell and watched the Celtics dominate.

Josh Smith murdered the last bit of kid inside me and because of it im glad...the Hawks are the Hawks.



You?

:oldlol:

[PurpleChuck]

He's supposed to be your idol and you going so hard out of your way to embarrass him in the twilight of his career ? This really pissed me off. It was probably the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen in an all star game.

Jordan hit the "gamewinner", 3.00 secs left. Kobe fouled shooting a 3, gets 3 free throws. Should have missed those damn free throws as a sign of respect to MJ.

[chazzy]

Then Kobe falls outta bounds and trips backwards on Jermaine O'Neal whose hands were obviously straight up in the air.

Nah, JO fouled him

[Stringer Bell]

Although before my time, this is definitely one of the most disgusting things I've seen on a basketball court.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxnCY0CZ1pE


*Bill Laimbeer's cheap shots and whiny expressions

*The Duke-Kentucky 1992 game is one of my most hated and loved moments. Hated because I can't stand Duke, but I love it because it was such an amazing game.

[PurpleChuck]

Although before my time, this is definitely one of the most disgusting things I've seen on a basketball court.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxnCY0CZ1pE


*Bill Laimbeer's cheap shots and whiny expressions

*The Duke-Kentucky 1992 game is one of my most hated and loved moments. Hated because I can't stand Duke, but I love it because it was such an amazing game.

I feel sincerely sorry for Luke Witte. Career f-ed up by a bunch of thugs!:banghead: :cry:

[evilmonkey]

A teenage cocky Kobe punching the legendary veteran Reggie Miller after Reggie told him: "Keep padding those points kid..." after Kobe took those 3's in his face with seconds to go of the game while the Lakers were leading by 20-30 points.

Any of Kobes crushing elbows thrown at opponents faces after he gets blocked by those opponents...

Kobe making all of his teammates pass him the ball and continues to stay ingame thru out the blowout game just to padd as many points and FG attempts as he can.

[Blzrfn]

I feel sincerely sorry for Luke Witte. Career f-ed up by a bunch of thugs!:banghead: :cry:

Yeah, that 72 Minnesota-Ohio St. game was one of the ugliest incidents in sports history. Musselman should have been banned from NCAA coaching for a minimum of 20 years, and those players that instigated it should have been banned from competing in the NCAA after that.

I heard that Luke Witte was a pretty good player, but he had a nondescript career in the NBA after that incident. However, he did end up becoming a minister, and he ended up meeting with some of those former Gopher players ten years ago to iron out their differences:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/18/20070218-E5-00.html

[Orlando Magic]

Kobe's entire career.

[PurpleChuck]

Kobe's entire career.

Doesn't match with your avy. Lost an avy bet?

[Tha Catalyst]

A teenage cocky Kobe punching the legendary veteran Reggie Miller after Reggie told him: "Keep padding those points kid..." after Kobe took those 3's in his face with seconds to go of the game while the Lakers were leading by 20-30 points.

Any of Kobes crushing elbows thrown at opponents faces after he gets blocked by those opponents...

Kobe making all of his teammates pass him the ball and continues to stay ingame thru out the blowout game just to padd as many points and FG attempts as he can.
Ok we get it you hate Kobe.

[PowerGlove]

-Kobe not passing the ball when Odom and Brian cook were WIDE OPEN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcgy6xLrEM

-The tape dunk as Kblaze mentioned.:oldlol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSC5m7AkbPg

-Derek Fisher pulling Monta Ellis down to get a foul call that won them the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou9TKwjMD3U

Bruce Bowen trying to injure VC because Carter was destroying his ass in a historic fashion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5jkfyjNHo

-Shaq pummeling Mutombo's face over and over...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3FXLyNFew

[gasolina]

Greg Anthony's dumbass hitting Kevin Johnson from behind in the 1993 Suns-Knicks brawl (And the idiot was not even active in the game :facepalm )
Doesn't matter. GA had the most epic shirt in all of NBA brawl history :oldlol:

[Droid101]

Not one mention of JR Smith doing anything? Is that possible in this thread?
Ha ha, where's that animated gif when you need it? Ah yes, here it is.

http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/434941/1nyb80_jpg.gif

Agreed, anything JR Smith (and most things Kenyon Martin) does pisses me off.

[Droid101]

He's supposed to be your idol and you going so hard out of your way to embarrass him in the twilight of his career ? This really pissed me off. It was probably the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen in an all star game.
Please, go back and watch the game. Marion was the one defending (and punking) Jordan.

Now, the 98 All Star game, that's a different story. The coach had to take Kobe out of the game to stop him from trying to deface Jordan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOo9EcbraW0

[LAClipsFan33]

Please, go back and watch the game. Marion was the one defending (and punking) Jordan.

Now, the 98 All Star game, that's a different story. The coach had to take Kobe out of the game to stop him from trying to deface Jordan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOo9EcbraW0

I watched it. Kobe was playing playoff intensity basketball trying to embarrass Jordan.

Against the other players he was casually playing 3/4 speed. Against Jordan on offense or defense he suddenly was playing NBA Finals caliber basketball trying to one up an old man...who he supposedly admires and respects.

Then after Jordan hits the "gamewinner" it only takes two seconds to guess who called timeout in an all star game to try to get his shot at one upping the old man.

[Younggrease]

I watched it. Kobe was playing playoff intensity basketball trying to embarrass Jordan

no he wasnt...he wasnt even guarding Jordan the majority of the time.

Contrast that to Jordan playing old Julius Erving in his career and you would see a difference. Jordan went out of his way to embarass an old Erving.

[Droid101]

no he wasnt...he wasnt even guarding Jordan the majority of the time.

Contrast that to Jordan playing old Julius Erving in his career and you would see a difference. Jordan went out of his way to embarass an old Erving.
NUU! It's okay when Jordan does it! DERP

[LAClipsFan33]

no he wasnt...he wasnt even guarding Jordan the majority of the time.

Contrast that to Jordan playing old Julius Erving in his career and you would see a difference. Jordan went out of his way to embarass an old Erving.

I never saw that game. I saw the 2003 game live. Kobe did everything he could to embarrass Jordan.

If Jordan did it to Doc it's just as bad

[PowerGlove]

no he wasnt...he wasnt even guarding Jordan the majority of the time.

Contrast that to Jordan playing old Julius Erving in his career and you would see a difference. Jordan went out of his way to embarass an old Erving.
IN THE ALL STAR GAME???

[LAClipsFan33]

IN THE ALL STAR GAME???

Yeah that is significant. If its a regular game going hard on anybody is fair game.

[catch24]

Who cares if someone was 'trying' during an allstar game? You were selected to play THAT GAME because of your skills anyway. Give the fans what they pay to see. Anyone remember how hard Marbury and Iverson went at the West in '01? Contrary to popular belief, the stars do try to win these games.

[beermonsteroo]

Scottie Pippen/ Ton Kukoc incident.
:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm
As a Bulls owner I would have kicked him off the team forever.

[b0bab0i]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdHC-jbE1-g

[SinJackal]

how is that not on purpose, from that gif it clearly looks intentional

I HATED BOWEN, dirty player, i wonder how many ankles he turned in his career. He would put his foot directly under a shooters foot when they elevated for a jumpshot.

What an ass hole

Scorers are always kneeing people when they go for dunks, kicking defenders when they take jumpshots for cheap fouls. . .flopping, whining, and always trying to create cheap calls. Yet, that's rarely brought up. Scorers are "heroes", even if they're dirty when they do it. But defenders are always the hated players despite doing nothing worse than those other guys do on offense (constant push offs, charges, flops, flails).

Turning an ankle while landing is karma imo. If they weren't always trying to kick their legs out to draw fake contact and maybe they won't turn an ankle when their one foot landing happens to be on a defender's foot. :confusedshrug:

[LA KB24]

I watched it. Kobe was playing playoff intensity basketball trying to embarrass Jordan.

Against the other players he was casually playing 3/4 speed. Against Jordan on offense or defense he suddenly was playing NBA Finals caliber basketball trying to one up an old man...who he supposedly admires and respects.

Then after Jordan hits the "gamewinner" it only takes two seconds to guess who called timeout in an all star game to try to get his shot at one upping the old man.
Bawwww moar.

[RaceBannana]

there are many reasons to hate Kobe Bryant but what happened in the All star 2003 is not one of them....

first, Jordan made a career of humiliating people.... the last thing he deserve is mercy...

second, what do you expected Kobe to do???? to let Jordan kick his butt so everybody can say "look look, 40 years old Jordan killing twenty-something kobe, lol at this chump being compared to the GOAT!" .... given the same circumstances, i would have done the same.

[praneel]

I love this thread!

Probably the first time I read every post when the thread hit 6+ pages.

*I disliked the Cavs dancing and prancing around during games last year, I thought it was really disrespectful and the wrong message to send to young kids watching.

*JR Swish and his dumb antics always get me.

*I kept seeing the Shaq "elbow to face" post move against Mt. Mutombo, but I think that was justified. How many faces did Mutombo break with those sharp elbows himself? Too many to count. Payback is a mutha... and the slow motion replays of it always made me crack up, just the look on Mutombo's face was priceless.

*Reggie Miller's kick out was pretty bad

*Flopping kills me too

*Double fouls? But the tech to "get control of the game" is lame

[kumquat]

Add to the kobe list, him cheering michael finleys missed dunk in the dunk contest :roll:

Dude was mega serious

[G-train]

I get neg repped for saying Ricky Davis?


Only at ISH.....

[Horde of Temujin]

Scorers are always kneeing people when they go for dunks, kicking defenders when they take jumpshots for cheap fouls. . .flopping, whining, and always trying to create cheap calls. Yet, that's rarely brought up. Scorers are "heroes", even if they're dirty when they do it. But defenders are always the hated players despite doing nothing worse than those other guys do on offense (constant push offs, charges, flops, flails).

Turning an ankle while landing is karma imo. If they weren't always trying to kick their legs out to draw fake contact and maybe they won't turn an ankle when their one foot landing happens to be on a defender's foot. :confusedshrug:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxXvkMB6gA

Watch this and the related videos on the list and then come talk to me.

I dont know what you are trying to get at. There are plenty of celebrated defenders in the L and ill sing their praises too, such as Shane Battier, Ron Artest Tayshaun Prince,

Bowen is different because he intentionally tried to injure people
BIG TIME *****

[Droid101]

I get neg repped for saying Ricky Davis?


Only at ISH.....
I didn't neg you, I do agree Ricky was a punk... but damn, he had one of my favorite dunks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DigJFIvDM0

[lurch67]

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn200/nbacardDOTnet/zz%20NBA%20Photo%20Gallery/z%20Funny%20NBA%20Photos/Funny%20Situation/Kick/-bruceleebowen.jpg

The Magic weren't the oly ones to face Bruce Lee Bowen

(Love Paytons reaction)

[Killer_Instinct]

A teenage cocky Kobe punching the legendary veteran Reggie Miller after Reggie told him: "Keep padding those points kid..." after Kobe took those 3's in his face with seconds to go of the game while the Lakers were leading by 20-30 points.

Any of Kobes crushing elbows thrown at opponents faces after he gets blocked by those opponents...

Kobe making all of his teammates pass him the ball and continues to stay ingame thru out the blowout game just to padd as many points and FG attempts as he can.

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt248/cgutta2790/d0c154ef5f701daf654183410e4e2e97711.gif

[PowerGlove]

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt248/cgutta2790/d0c154ef5f701daf654183410e4e2e97711.gif
:roll:

[Mavsfan31]

lebron rapping last year while in bounding the basketball :wtf: :blah

[LosBulls]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylV_2mT7BE

Odom, and Walton not boxing out on Marion in the '06 playoffs. One f'ing play and LA advances to the second round. What the f*ck is Kwame doing out on Nash, anyway?

Kwame knew the ball was going in Nash's hands and he did the right thing. Don't blame Kwame, blame Tim Thomas for being so lucky.

[Doranku]

Vujajic/Pau's defense on Ray Allen in game 4 of the 2008 NBA Finals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewt_9R-3qes

Everything about Kobe's 2004 Finals performance.

Leon "Halftime Show" Powe being gifted calls left and right during Game 2 of the 2008 NBA Finals.

LeBron James.

[kabalcage]

Vujajic/Pau's defense on Ray Allen in game 4 of the 2008 NBA Finals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewt_9R-3qes

Everything about Kobe's 2004 Finals performance.

Leon "Halftime Show" Powe being gifted calls left and right during Game 2 of the 2008 NBA Finals.

LeBron James.

Not a Lakers fan, but man oh man gifting Leon Powe a coast-to-coast dunk UNCONTESTED, in the NBA FINALS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdzEKPRsGOg#t=1m3s

Pathetic effort. No wonder they lost that year.

[Shaquille O'Neal]

He's supposed to be your idol and you going so hard out of your way to embarrass him in the twilight of his career ? This really pissed me off. It was probably the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen in an all star game.

How about in the 98 all star game when Kobe waived off the Karl Malone screen?

Horry taking out Nash a few years ago.

[LAClipsFan33]

How about in the 98 all star game when Kobe waived off the Karl Malone screen?

Horry taking out Nash a few years ago.

I don't recall what happened with that Kobe/Malone screen incident

When Horry took out Nash I laughed. I never liked Nash or the Suns with their Mickey Mouse offense.

[SinJackal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxXvkMB6gA

Watch this and the related videos on the list and then come talk to me.

I dont know what you are trying to get at. There are plenty of celebrated defenders in the L and ill sing their praises too, such as Shane Battier, Ron Artest Tayshaun Prince,

Bowen is different because he intentionally tried to injure people
BIG TIME *****

You act as if I denied a player's ever gotten hurt when playing against Bowen.

Most of those videos are annoying complaints against completely legitimate play. Bowen always spreads his legs out while defending so it's harder for people to get past, and it's claimed he's "trying to trip players" when they try to force their way past. He's simply trying to make it harder to get by.

I'm watching these "related videos", and I'm not seeing anything dirty. "Bowen undercuts Crawford", supposedly, and yet nothing looks wrong with the play at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ8ubgYYEdc&feature=related

"Bowen elbows Sasha", he touches his chest with his elbow to create distance, and Sasha flops. Cute video, but not dirty. This was more of an elbow to Sasha than Bowen's. :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUUah2xtLqY

Again, Bowen plays good defense and stays in front of guys. When people like Francis and AI slam into the lane at full speed, you cannot expect them to be injury free. Same with Wade. Getting injured is bound to happen to players who charge into the lane while be defended by players who have the mobility to stay in front of them. Establishing your position isn't dirty. Maybe they should watch where they're stepping if they don't want to turn their ankles.

I can't stand this "halo rule" mentality where perimeter players are expected to not be touched at all and have free reign to bulldoze into the lane and knee and kick people while taking shots and dunking, but it's "dirty" if they turn their ankles on another player's foot while otherwise not being touched at all throughout the game. Please.

Also, I love how the videos read shit like, "Bowen breaks AI's ankle", and yet, AI didn't miss any subsequent games. I guess he was playing on a broken ankle and still putting up 30+ point games right after. -_-

How many times has Bowen ACTUALLY injured a player? 1? 2? Most of those videos are vs the Suns, when there was a huge anti-Spurs campaign by Suns fans all over the net. There always had to be an excuse for the losses. It's because they're dirty! Even though the Suns employed Raja Bell, one of the dirtiest players of this era who kept setting hard blind screens to knock players to the floor, and Shaq who was clotheslining Parker and Ginobili on multiple plays. Note that most of those videos are 2008., and around the same month.

If Bowen was actually such a dirty player, he would've been suspended for it more than just the time Chris Paul flopped and lied to the ref about Bowen to get him ejected since he was having trouble with his defense.

So, sorry, but no. Bowen did not try to "intentionally injure people". If he did, he's clearly done a very poor job at it since he's almost never done it.

You can find videos of stupid shit like that all over youtube for just about any player. Looking at these videos, one could jump to the same conclusion that Dwight Howard is a "dirty player" by your standards, since there are a few videos on youtube of him doing a few dirty plays.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQnPKBSjHc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6OWBUQsvVQ


So it doesn't really matter what happens in a few videos. Every player in the league has done some questionable plays. A few instances on youtube over a guy's dozen year career doesn't mean anything. Just look at how many actual injuries have taken place. Very few. Pesky defender? Yes. Deserved reputation for injuring players? Clearly no.

It's no different from shooter kicking people when taking jumpshots, or slashers kneeing people while driving to dunk. Or clowns raking people across the eyes to uh, "block" the ball. Or Dirk elbowing people and breaking their noses on drives. Those things aren't called dirty, but spreading your stance out while defending is? :facepalm

[50inchvertical]

Bowen sticks his foot under where the defender is about to land, and he has injured many players doing it. I could find the list, but I want to say it was about 12 different guys have landed on his foot coming down from his jumpshot. He has kicked 3 different guys in the face playing defense. How you can defend that as not dirty is beyond me. Very few other players have that type of track record and aren't dirty. I mean, you certainly have Malone and kicking/kneeing/elbowing people and he was well known and considered dirty for it ditto Lambeer.

[Solid Snake]

- Kobe Bryant doing his best to try to embarrass an old Michael Jordan in Jordan's last all star game in 2003



About that, there's a lot of people who believe Kobe intentionally missed that second free throw, he didn't want to win so anti-climatically.

Anyway, I'll forever hate Jermaine for erasing what would've been an epic Jordan moment, fadeaway over Shawn Marion. Then that dumb shit Jermaine commits a foul...

[Glide2keva]

The refs not calling fouls on rondo in the 2009 playoff series against the bulls and allowing him to play dirty ball.

Kobe whining for calls everytime he shoots the ball.

Bibby fouling Kobe's elbow with his face in 2002, as a matter of fact, that whole series.

Bill Walton cheeleading for the lakers from the announce table

Espn

Kendrick Perkins acting like he never fouled anyone in his entire career.

Vince Carter for never living up to his full potential

Fans today who overrate players based on stats and hardly watch any games

lebron and his hype

[97 bulls]

The refs not calling fouls on rondo in the 2009 playoff series against the bulls and allowing him to play dirty ball.

Kobe whining for calls everytime he shoots the ball.

Bibby fouling Kobe's elbow with his face in 2002, as a matter of fact, that whole series.

Bill Walton cheeleading for the lakers from the announce table

Espn

Kendrick Perkins acting like he never fouled anyone in his entire career.

Vince Carter for never living up to his full potential

Fans today who overrate players based on stats and hardly watch any games

lebron and his hype
Lol great post keva.

[necya]

About that, there's a lot of people who believe Kobe intentionally missed that second free throw, he didn't want to win so anti-climatically.

Anyway, I'll forever hate Jermaine for erasing what would've been an epic Jordan moment, fadeaway over Shawn Marion. Then that dumb shit Jermaine commits a foul...

yeah i won't say nothing about Bryant trying to win the game but more on jermaine and the referees. don't makee a foul dumber and don't call the foul of the dumber would give a better end.

[momo]

Reading about Nick Van Exel and his "Cancun, Cancun" chant in a laker huddle during the young and dumb shakobe era. Van single handedly fcuked his teams heads in with that...

I loved his game & brash confidence, but his mentality that produced that brashness also doomed him... it is like a love hate thing with me and this guy. He was slightly great and slightly tragic.

I do not think I am a competent enough writer to sum it up at all to be honest. I could go on and on about it & never hit the nail on the head.

[Da KO King]

Kirk Hinrich being a dirty jackass. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDfhTENn-z0#t=0m12s) How so many people missed this I have no clue.

Bruce Bowen being a dirty jackass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxXvkMB6gA) As a guy who has never had a growth spurt due to a busted ankle (forced premature hardening of growth plates) player who go after other guy's ankles should die in my opinion

Bobby Hurley and his bear hug defense (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsF0Xe1_8Ss#t0m17s) This is how lil kids play defense. I need you to do better than that.


Just a few of mine

[BarberSchool]

As much as I hated the Knicks during the early 90's Bulls rivalry, and as much as I hate Duke university...

...This insidious, insipid sack of excrement (Mr. Bowen) embracing the Larry O'Brien trophy,
is quite easily my most hated moment in basketball history.

http://www.sportsgrindent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/brucebowen.jpg

[midnight_show]

The refereeing in the Lakers/ Sacramento series was enough to put me off basketball for a few years. It deadset destroyed it for me. Such obvious bias and leniency all in one disgusting series. Kings had the team, the talent and the desire to win that series. They just didnt have the referees, and that was such a shame. Cos that was their last real chance with that roster, to see what the team has become since is a bit sad.

ANYTHING Derek Fisher has ever done. Easiest player in the game to dislike. By a mile.

The way Mike Brown and the Cavaliers sat around as if they were celtic fans and just watched an eleven year old boy in Rondo destroy them in last years series. That was disgraceful and every member on that teams roster should be ashamed of themselves.

[EmilDrillz]

"The way Mike Brown and the Cavaliers sat around as if they were celtic fans and just watched an eleven year old boy in Rondo destroy them in last years series. That was disgraceful and every member on that teams roster should be ashamed of themselves. "

Thank you. LeBron James being called a quitter is funny because if he quit so did his entire team. LBJ didnt throw the series Rondo took the series. LeBrons game 3 in Boston is one of the best performances of his career and people have the nerve to call him a quitter gtfo.

[momo]

Reading about Nick Van Exel and his "Cancun, Cancun" chant in a laker huddle during the young and dumb shakobe era. Van single handedly fcuked his teams heads in with that...

I loved his game & brash confidence, but his mentality that produced that brashness also doomed him... it is like a love hate thing with me and this guy. He was slightly great and slightly tragic.

I do not think I am a competent enough writer to sum it up at all to be honest. I could go on and on about it & never hit the nail on the head.

Funny, I just read a bit about Van getting a gig with lanta due to just the mentality I was talking about. Good read.

http://blogs.ajc.com/hawks/2010/09/29/atlanta-hawks-van-exel-helping-teague-find-his-inner-dog/?cxntfid=blogs_hawks

[QUOTE=some blog or page]hey called Nick Van Exel

[dbugz]

Lakers-Rockets 08-09 playoffs

Kobe and Fisher doing their dirty tactics of elbowing players(Artest, Battier and Scola) :no:

[Go Getter]

Reggie Miller's push off on Jordan is up there for me.

[zadok]

Heres a clip asshole Bowen got away with this for years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxXvkMB6gA&feature=related

This was mine as well, you're not even trying to prevent a player from making a play, just trying to injure them. No room in the game for that.