NBA references in rap songs...

[NY Comeback]

Joe Budden - "Overkill"

Rappers ain't fond of me, fruck 'em! My ma' should be
The game's fixed anyway (and) you could ask Tim Donaghy

[starface]

and then the plot thicken on point like rod strickland, glock spittin makes the hardest ni[COLOR="Black"]gg[/COLOR]a clock stop tickin

you still actin, my points still stackin, thats why my CEO be thinkin he phil jackson.

im like shaq n kobe, i'll beef for 4 quarters

seen sprewell smokin the post, you know me i step to him open approach, "yo spree, i respect you for chokin your coach. but me, woulda opened the toast.."


i could go on for days

[jamal99]

Swagger like us

Na-Na-Na, how it feel to wake up and be the (****)
And (Urine) Na-Na-Na-Na-Na
Trying to get that Kobe number, one over Jordan

[iggy>]

duck when that round fly by/ im a a gun like the answer when we down by five

n*gga where im from, u gotta keep a gun/ glock cocked like mcgrady eye, quilly aint the one.

u do it, but i do it sumthin better/ got a shot like paxon and jordan put together

N*iggas hackin michael jordan couldnt see us/ im the answer, aint no question they better d-up

rap game on a string....keep hatin/ fiends on my tail, sonic like g-payton

when im stressed i blaze haze, when u stressed u smoke newports/ i aint copped a nick since pat ewin played for new york

i dont smoke reggie, all i blow is killa/ got a bad b*tch, she shootin like reggie milla

i was gettin hamiltons from the rip n*igga/ now its more like ben franklins in my mitt n*gga

wopper on dat bul waist, hold a scotty pippen/ my man hit heem wit the tech, rasheed for the pistons/ my man got them cannons n, them cannons dismantle him/ shoot wit a mask, rest u in peace like hamilton

i be twistin that weed, i be gone off the ooo wee/ blowin blueberry got me zoned like a 2-3

the real n*ggas in ya hood got respect for me/ highschool to the league like im kevin g.

u know the flees go....everywhere the g's go/ b*tches let us hit we score easy like a freethrow

choppin dimes, i aint up, but im fine now/ in the game like ea sports, youl get a live round

n8ggas talk the most sh*t but be hidin/ headshot dye his head red dennis rodman

got da powder in da cap, powder give me staks/ powder make da fiends hit da glass, sort of like ben wallace when he tap/ money drugz b*tches, gotta watch ya back/ i been doin dis since wallace went ta gratz

just a couple from my favorite rapper, quilly millz.

[NotYetGreat]

http://www.rapbasement.com/audio/the...s-pennies.html
Listen to that. A bunch of references.

Damn. You beat me to it. :oldlol

Nas' Hip Hop Is Dead is the only one I can think of right now.

Most intellectuals will only half listen
So you can't blame jazz musicians
Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues

[Huey Freeman]

Kanye West:

"Class back in session so I up't it a grade. Two years the Dwayne Wayne became the Dwyane Wade. And a...
Please don't start me. I'm like Gnarls Barkley meets Charles Barkley."

[Rake2204]

You play for the Charlotte Hornets, I don't believe you!

You sellin' Knicks tickets, I don't believe you.

Speaking of Kool Keith:

"Scottie soft, you play like Jan van Breda Koff
New Jersey Nets real man, you ain't no Darnell Hillman
Bald head like Slick Watts, I run rap like Mayor Koch" - Kool Keith, "Livin' Astro"

"I'll see you a ten, with a haircut, like Scottie Pippen" - Kool Keith, "Static"

"Playin center I block your wack raps like Bill Cartwright" - Kool Keith, "I Don't Play"

And a few more slightly aged contributions:

"I bang though, like Vince Carter from the baseline" - Hittman, "Some L.A.N.", Chronic 2001

"Butcher Me On The Court
Too Many Elbows To Report
Now You're Poking Me In The Eye
Bill Laimbeer ____________, It's Time For You To Die" - Beastie Boys, "Tough Guy"

"Goin' off the hook like Latrell Sprewell" - Beastie Boys, "Unite"

"I got books with hooks and it looks like rain
Would someone on the Knicks please drive the lane?" - Beastie Boys, "Unite"

"Can I beg your pardon?
I'm gonna see the Knicks at Madison Square Garden
And like the Knicks I got game like I worked at Hasbro. . ." - Beastie Boys

"I get my hair cut correct like Anthony Mason" - Beastie Boys, "B Boys Make With the Freak Freak"

[ChiBulls7]

Wale references bball all the time, with some sick lines like-

...young Ben Gordon, I play through all the bull****

Haters I ain't seeing em/ Don't even believe in em/ They Skip Bayless/ I'm the forward from Cleveland.

^ Nightlife f/ Tre and Young Chris

Police come around don't nobody say nothin
And you be with the cops, you ****** is McLovin
Dark liquor till we busted
Till I got a buzz like that ***** Chris Mullen

^ Chillin

...and what's the deal with the nets though? like being in the east aint enough hell for em? Two carters I thought they'd get better but they gettin rid of kid, like a miscarriage

^ The Opening Title Sequence

[KB8tHeGrEaT24]

Slim Thug: KG of the game LeBron James you ni**as must no know my name im Slim Thug mothafu**a be the king of the south or was it north lol...

[32jazz]

End thread/ Kurtis Blow
I don't know half the rest of that stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yoPVAOJTk

1st verse:

Basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up & down the court
Just like I'm the the King on the microphone
So was Dr J & Moses Malone

[IlliniFan]

The lonely island - I'm on a boat

If I could take this boat to the moon some how,
Like Kevin Garnett, anything is possible!

[KB8tHeGrEaT24]

Jay Z: MJ MJ fadeaway perfect!......

[KB8tHeGrEaT24]

The Game: Ron Artest play better for the west.....

[KB8tHeGrEaT24]

The Game mixtape i think: Melo bit*h ass ni**a u do the ballin ill do the rappin!... sum lil diss to Carmelo Anthony i forgot why...

[sonicman]

Jurassic 5 - The Game (basically the whole song)
Colour Changin Clique - NBA on NBC freestyle (again, basically the whole song)
Colour Changin Clique - Play Dirty - "break your nose like Rodman did Pippen"