John Starks: "Safeway was a tougher gig than the NBA"

[FKAri]

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/18/sports/sports-of-the-times-john-starks-remembers-safeway.html

MJ perimeter rival? :biggums:

[SpaceJam2]

HOLD TF UP

So MJ's greatest opponents were

Knicks = John Starks = grocery bagger
Sonics = Ervin Johnson = grocery bagger
Jazz = Hornacek = door-to-door vaccum salesman

:wtf:

[bigkingsfan]

Could he even bag groceries efficiently today with the plastic bans.

[scuzzy]

Could he even bag groceries efficiently today with the plastic bans.
:roll:


god damn milk crates aren't made like they use to

[keep-itreal]

the struggle :oldlol:

[FKAri]

MJ GOAT!




















































*record scratch*

https://media1.giphy.com/media/3mISSzQUAVwmQ/giphy.gif

[warriorfan]

John Starks was a slightly better Jason Terry...

Imagine if Michael Jordan got outscored by John Starks in one of the biggest series of his career.


That

[SomeBlackDude]

this y'all MVP?!!!!


Giannis Antetokounmpo Recalls Selling Goods on the Street, Will 'Stay Humble'


As Milwaukee Bucks playmaker Giannis Antetokounmpo prepared for Sunday's NBA All-Star Game, he stressed how he is always going to remain humble given his beginnings.

"You can just never forget where you came from," Antetokounmpo said, per Chris Haynes of ESPN.com. "I know that they're going to go out there and they're going to sell it, but I used to be that little kid or that little guy that was selling stuff in the street."

...

Haynes noted Antetokounmpo would sell products such as watches, DVDs and CDs with his brother as children in Greece to help his family survive and make money after his parents came there as immigrants from Nigeria.

this is who is dominating in legoat's era?

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/sunglasses-on-sale-alex-vishnevsky.jpg

:biggums:

[East River Livn']

JJ Barea the 5'8 lemon picker guarded Lebron straight up :roll:

[FKAri]

this y'all MVP?!!!!



this is who is dominating in legoat's era?

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/sunglasses-on-sale-alex-vishnevsky.jpg

:biggums:
Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:

[SomeBlackDude]

Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:

far as i know, the glide wasn't selling incense on the streets like the current defending mvp. :confusedshrug:

[FKAri]

far as i know, the glide wasn't selling incense on the streets like the current defending mvp. :confusedshrug:
Oh, word? Which autoshop was he at then?

[bigkingsfan]

Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:
Clyde couldn't even dribble without looking at the ball. That merchant actually has good awareness.

[SpaceJam2]

Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:

:roll: :roll:

[SpaceJam2]

this y'all MVP?!!!!



this is who is dominating in legoat's era?

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/sunglasses-on-sale-alex-vishnevsky.jpg

:biggums:

Try again:

Haynes noted Antetokounmpo would sell products such as watches, DVDs and CDs with his brother as children in Greece to help his family survive and make money after his parents came there as immigrants from Nigeria.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2760138-giannis-antetokounmpo-recalls-selling-goods-on-the-street-will-stay-humble

[NBASTATMAN]

So a GRocery stock boy dunked over MJ and Co. .. :roll: :applause:

[ArbitraryWater]

Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:

:roll: :roll: :roll:

[MrFonzworth]

Could he even bag groceries efficiently today with the plastic bans.
Nope. He benefited from working in a softer retail era.

[The Iron Fist]

this y'all MVP?!!!!



this is who is dominating in legoat's era?

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/sunglasses-on-sale-alex-vishnevsky.jpg

:biggums:
Vince Carter says it

[fourkicks44]

TBF players working those blue collar jobs get more respect from me than those sitting down playing fortnite against 12 year olds in their free time.

[Manny98]

Grocery bagger era :roll: :roll: :roll:

[bison]

Grocery bagger era :roll: :roll: :roll:

with today's game being dominated by europeans, its even MORE embarrassing now that guys like lebron and leonard are being dominated by slovenian sausage vendors and serbian cab drivers :facepalm

[SpaceJam2]

Grocery bagger era :roll: :roll: :roll:

:lol :lol

[FKAri]

with today's game being dominated by europeans, its even MORE embarrassing now that guys like lebron and leonard are being dominated by slovenian sausage vendors and serbian cab drivers :facepalm
They're Aryan Gods. Meanwhile in the 90's you had weak AMERICAN whites actually becoming stars! Genetic garbage. I'm not being racist but it is what it is. Putrid genetic make up not properly vetted by natural selection. Again, no racist! I have many friends with shitty AMERICAN white genetics.

[LoneyROY7]

Oh, word? Which autoshop was he at then?

:oldlol: :oldlol:

[scuzzy]

with today's game being dominated by europeans, its even MORE embarrassing now that guys like lebron and leonard are being dominated by slovenian sausage vendors and serbian cab drivers :facepalm
International NBA scouting pool is 50x the size it was in the 80's-90's

There was a total of 5 international NBA players that rostered on non-USA teams in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics

Dream Team was playing against university kids

[Overdrive]

They're Aryan Gods. Meanwhile in the 90's you had weak AMERICAN whites actually becoming stars! Genetic garbage. I'm not being racist but it is what it is. Putrid genetic make up not properly vetted by natural selection. Again, no racist! I have many friends with shitty AMERICAN white genetics.

Slavs were the 2nd most targeted people by the Nazis. :lol @ aryan.

Fat ****s like Luka and Jokic being MVP candidats. That's like Oliver Miller being a superstar in the 90s.

[Trollsmasher]

Slavs were the 2nd most targeted people by the Nazis. :lol @ aryan.

Fat ****s like Luka and Jokic being MVP candidats. That's like Oliver Miller being a superstar in the 90s.
Slavs and Germans are descended from the same neolithic peoples

Hitler was just a corrupt idiot, a tool of the Rothschilds

[3ball]

asking people paper or plastic for 8 hours at minimum wage is a tougher gig than playing basketball for millions of dollars?

no shit

[Uncle Drew]

Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:
:roll:

[Rico2016]

I miss OP <3

[ArbitraryWater]

Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:

:roll::roll:

[34-24 Footwork]

They're Aryan Gods. Meanwhile in the 90's you had weak AMERICAN whites actually becoming stars! Genetic garbage. I'm not being racist but it is what it is. Putrid genetic make up not properly vetted by natural selection. Again, no racist! I have many friends with shitty AMERICAN white genetics.

Lol. Not gonna lie. Fakri probably the best troll on ISH.

[Pipes2.0]

Lol. Not gonna lie. Fakri probably the best troll on ISH.

Been lurking this site since 2015 and Fkari is my most favorite poster. Followed by Uncle Drew.

[SATAN]

Guys, shitting on essential workers isn't cool :facepalm

[TheCorporation]

HOLD TF UP

So MJ's greatest opponents were

Knicks = John Starks = grocery bagger
Sonics = Ervin Johnson = grocery bagger
Jazz = Hornacek = door-to-door vaccum salesman

:wtf:

90s 'tough guy' era :roll:

[3ball]

I love this guy!

[Hey Yo]

"He swiped the ball from Derrick Coleman and Drazen Petrovic during a 19-point run and scored 16 points in the final period last night, with Pat Riley calling plays for his big two: Patrick Ewing and John Starks.

LOL @ Starks (in 1991) being referred to as the other half of "the big 2" with Ewing.

[ELITEpower23]

Is that Clyde Drexler? :oldlol:

:roll:

[Shooter]

So John "Safeway" Starks was a real thing. Wow

https://i.postimg.cc/8k0GGqxs/Safeway-Starks.jpg

[Docs Orders]

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/18/sports/sports-of-the-times-john-starks-remembers-safeway.html

MJ perimeter rival? :biggums:

:roll:

[And1AllDay]

So John "Safeway" Starks was a real thing. Wow

https://i.postimg.cc/8k0GGqxs/Safeway-Starks.jpg

:oldlol::roll:

[And1AllDay]

So a GRocery stock boy dunked over MJ and Co. .. :roll: :applause:

:oldlol::oldlol:

[Bronbron23]

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/18/sports/sports-of-the-times-john-starks-remembers-safeway.html

MJ perimeter rival? :biggums:

Once again stupid bron stains pin themselves in a corner. Starks also said mj is the goat:facepalm

[highwhey]

can't make this shit up :roll:

[ELITEpower23]

can't make this shit up :roll:

Shit is pretty damn hilarious :roll:

The team that gave MJ the most fits had a #2 option fresh off the check out line.

[deathawaitu]

Safeway is a real job unlike NBA.

Most of the Lebron stans should know since they are cleaning toilets or flipping burgers their whole life

[And1AllDay]

"He swiped the ball from Derrick Coleman and Drazen Petrovic during a 19-point run and scored 16 points in the final period last night, with Pat Riley calling plays for his big two: Patrick Ewing and John Starks.

LOL @ Starks (in 1991) being referred to as the other half of "the big 2" with Ewing.

this was the team that could take down mikes bulls :oldlol:

mike had his handsfilled with grocery bagger opponent, he def isnt ready for the modern rea of bball :oldlol:

[Shooter]

this was the team that could take down mikes bulls :oldlol:

mike had his handsfilled with grocery bagger opponent, he def isnt ready for the modern rea of bball :oldlol:

:lol :lol

[highwhey]

Shit is pretty damn hilarious :roll:

The team that gave MJ the most fits had a #2 option fresh off the check out line.

:roll:

[Shooter]

Shit is pretty damn hilarious :roll:

The team that gave MJ the most fits had a #2 option fresh off the check out line.

:roll::roll:

Is this your Goat?! :lol NAH

[Shooter]

Shit is pretty damn hilarious :roll:

The team that gave MJ the most fits had a #2 option fresh off the check out line.

Starks guarding MJ like "paper or plastic?!"

[And1AllDay]

90s ball

[Airupthere]

Im sure the gamers of today spoiled by their parents have much better basketball backgrounds. See ben simmons.

[And1AllDay]

Shit is pretty damn hilarious :roll:

The team that gave MJ the most fits had a #2 option fresh off the check out line.

my goodness

:oldlol::roll:

[And1AllDay]

Im sure the gamers of today spoiled by their parents have much better basketball backgrounds. See ben simmons.

https://i.postimg.cc/3NtBbwk3/grocery-bagger-90s-lol.jpg

[Sulico]

John Starks was a slightly better Jason Terry...

Imagine if Michael Jordan got outscored by John Starks in one of the biggest series of his career.


That

Nope. Jason Terry had better counting stats, advanced stats, better peak, better longevity, won more. How is John Starks better than him?

[Sarcastic]

Just shows how much talent there was back then compared to how little there is now.

How many grocery baggers can dunk a basketball in the modern era? Answer is zero.

[And1AllDay]

Just shows how much talent there was back then compared to how little there is now.

How many grocery baggers can dunk a basketball in the modern era? Answer is zero.

screen name checks out :oldlol:

[red1]

jordan was a real competitor I'm sure he'd bag groceries faster than starks any day

[imdaman99]

I don't appreciate y'all besmirching my fav player of all time's name just for your agendas... :mad:

[red1]

I don't appreciate y'all besmirching my fav player of all time's name just for your agendas... :mad:

hope all is well dude. we have a ton of respect for every day heroes like john starks :applause:


its clowns like 3ball that hype up playing against the original trash bros and literal grocery baggers that make us die of laughter :roll: :roll:

[red1]

asking people paper or plastic for 8 hours at minimum wage is a tougher gig than playing basketball for millions of dollars?

no shit

complete shambles :roll: :roll: :roll:

[red1]

the reason MJ's rivals are mocked is almost the same reason lebrons rivals are worshipped


one guy beat everyone... the other guy lost to everyone


if jordan won 2 out of his 6 finals the 90's looks amazing


imagine if malone had a ring and finals mvp

imagine if drexler had a ring and finals mvp

imagine if barkley had a ring and finals mvp

imagine if payton had a ring and finals mvp


malone is top 11 all time
drexler and barkley are top 15
payton is top 20

actually no - talent was well distributed in the 90's cant knock the bulls for drafting the GOAT and building a better core than the rest of the two-star teams with inferior talent.


the bulls wouldnt have a 6-6 record if they were playing the kd warriors or the spurs in the finals. instead of payton/kemp, barkley/johnson, malone/stockton etc etc- even the mavs that lebron choked against swept the defending champion lakers and were a deep team of veterans :oldlol:

[ELITEpower23]

hope all is well dude. we have a ton of respect for every day heroes like john starks :applause:


its clowns like 3ball that hype up playing against the original trash bros and literal grocery baggers that make us die of laughter :roll: :roll:

Bingo dingo

[ELITEpower23]

the reason MJ's rivals are mocked is almost the same reason lebrons rivals are worshipped


one guy beat everyone... the other guy lost to everyone


if jordan won 2 out of his 6 finals the 90's looks amazing


imagine if malone had a ring and finals mvp

imagine if drexler had a ring and finals mvp

imagine if barkley had a ring and finals mvp

imagine if payton had a ring and finals mvp


malone is top 11 all time
drexler and barkley are top 15
payton is top 20

You're completely wrong. Someone else said it better than I, but LeBron stopped many major dynasties from over achieving.

If LeBron doesn't stopped KD in 2012 maybe KD is the GOAT and not LBJ
Also, if he doesnt stop Tim in 2013 and Tim goes 6 for 6 we have a different convo.
Also, if he doesnt stop a 73 win team that crush 72 wins and Curry gets 5 Finals and goes 4/5 or 5/5 even?

He stopped all of that and changed the entire history of basketball. His wins are iconic, no one's celebrating wins against part time bankers and mechanics.

[TheMan]

You're completely wrong. Someone else said it better than I, but LeBron stopped many major dynasties from over achieving.

If LeBron doesn't stopped KD in 2012 maybe KD is the GOAT and not LBJ
Also, if he doesnt stop Tim in 2013 and Tim goes 6 for 6 we have a different convo.
Also, if he doesnt stop a 73 win team that crush 72 wins and Curry gets 5 Finals and goes 4/5 or 5/5 even?

He stopped all of that and changed the entire history of basketball. His wins are iconic, no one's celebrating wins against part time bankers and mechanics.

Sounds really nice when you put it like that but let's put what you said into context...

KD, Westbrook, Harden and Ibaka were all 22 or younger, way before they became what they became, that you cannot deny or rewrite. The 2013 Spurs had a core that were already past their prime with a young pup in KL, they were literally in their last legs, they only made one more Finals run after that, coincidentally against LBJ and they proceeded to hand him his worst Finals defeat up to that point. The 2016 Warriors weren't the same in the playoffs as they were in the reg season, hell OKC should have eliminated them, being up 3-1, but they hobbled their way to the Finals where LBJ, yeah he had a great Finals but he also had Kyrie as a GOAT Finals sidekick who manhandled a hobbled Curry in those 7 games. If KI doesn't own Curry the way he did, the Cavs don't win that series regardless of what LeBron did...

Save the rewriting of history for the youngsters who didn't watch those seasons, you ain't fooling those of us who did.

[Bawkish]

i'll bet you Bron couldn't even bag a grocery himself, so he'll ask help from the cashier to carry his groceries

[And1AllDay]

i'll bet you Bron couldn't even bag a grocery himself, so he'll ask help from the cashier to carry his groceries

oh sick burn bro!


:oldlol:

[TheCorporation]

https://i.postimg.cc/3NtBbwk3/grocery-bagger-90s-lol.jpg

Golden

[warriorfan]

Nice life