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Honouring the legends of the NBA with daily random drops of vintage hoops brilliance, rare basketball gems and retweets of the players you know and love.
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Please note:
If you come round here with any displays of gross disrespect or slander towards any of the NBA legends we tweet out, you're getting hit wit the block wit the quickness. Zero tolerance policy for that mess.
- management
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LeBron's eighteen seasons worth of poignant fan moments >>>>> one loud mouth "25 year old" courtside Karen
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Jimmy Butler watching a game with his collection of his friend Demaryius Thomas' jerseys.
(2016)
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In 1991, Charles Barkley decided to change jersey numbers as a tribute to Magic who had recently retired. A firestorm ensued when 76ers fans hit the radio call-in lines to criticize him for having Billy Cunningham's retired number "pulled down".
This was Chuck's response:
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LeBron, Moses, Melo, Cynthia, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
This still the coldest photo to surface in 2020.
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In his third season in the NBA, Michael Jordan is the brightest young star in the league. He is challenged by 16-year-old Eric Barber to a game of wheelchair basketball. First to 20 wins (1987)
Watch...
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Youngest MVP ever in NBA history.
2010-11 Derrick Rose was fearless.
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Stare down.
This one of the coldest photos of Kobe and LeBron of all time.
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Kobe Bryant jams one home at the Adidas Streetball Challenge (1997)
The event was held in the grounds of a 15th century old castle in Milan.
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Patrick Ewing arriving to the All-Star Game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City (1993)
Blade didn't hit cinemas until 1998.
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“Kobe is Michael Jordan, just on steroids”
Roll tape...
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Michael Jordan posters are a gift and there are some absolute classics in this montage.
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This photo is literally GOATED.
Pele, Ali, Jordan, Montana, Brown, Kareem, Evert, King, Nicklaus, Russell, Elway and Holyfield all in the same room at MSG (1999)
📸: Walter Iooss
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This out-take of Kobe and Derrick Rose playing NBA 2K is so wholesome.
"He made me pay my dues.” - Rose on Bryant who arrived 3 hours late for the commercial shoot.
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'The Redeem Team'
You rarely saw these guys all interviewed together.
This was filmed shortly after their gold medal winning victory over Spain in 2008.
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It's been 13 years since UCLA's last trip to the Final Four.
When Russ and DRose faced off.
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Just some of the utterly ridiculous things Michael Jordan could do with a basketball.
#MJMondays
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Elevation.
Michael Jordan grabs the backboard whilst blocking a shot to prevent himself from flying through the Madison Square Garden ceiling.
Which is also the roof.
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This Michael Jordan & Vince Carter mix is straight 🔥 🔥 🔥
IG: Vintage Vinsanity
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The one thing i’d never wear is…
"a Miami Heat jersey."
- Jimmy Butler, 2013.
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Michael Jordan in his bag and giving the Pistons some work.
😤
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Show us another NBA great who has a one-handed highlight mixtape like Michael Jordan does.
We'll wait.
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'The Shot' 33 years ago today.
The Bulls down by 1 and on the brink of elimination when Michael Jordan stuck it to 'em in Cleveland.
Timeless.
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16-year old LeBron James throwing one down at ABCD camp in Teaneck, NJ. (2001)
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Good morning! Here's a photo of a kid trying to score on Shaq at the Crunch Hot Shots Camp. (2005)
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Michael Jordan with what some might consider the greatest lay-up in the history of lay-ups. (1991)
Spectacular stuff
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This is Curtis Perry, who played for the Suns in a hockey mask after suffering a facial fracture that had sidelined him for nine games.
This is not photoshopped and that is Pat Riley trailing.
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High school sophomore Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown at Kevin Durant’s Skills Academy (2014)
From KD's camp to now facing him in the Playoffs as teammates.
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Carmelo Anthony on court for Towson Catholic High School and rocking the Nike Air Bakins. (1999)
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That time Queen Latifah pulled the robbery on Shawn Kemp & then finished the break with the lay (1994)
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25 years ago today, Magic Johnson returned to the NBA and brought some Showtime back to the Forum.
The Sprewell fake is still a thing of beauty.
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This 27-year old Tim Duncan Sprite vending machine sits all alone outside a barn in Austin, TX, just waiting for someone to take it home. The asking price? $2600 or best offer.
Who's going to save this rare '90s artefact?
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7 years ago today...
LeBron James' mid-dunk stare down of Bobcats owner Michael Jordan.
Iconic savagery
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Jimmy Butler...
- never knew his Dad & was homeless at age 13
- was the 73rd ranked SG in Texas
- received no D1 offers
- faxed his letter of intent from a McDonalds.
- was the 30th pick overall
- traded twice
All the kid from Tomball, Texas knows is hard work and adversity.
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Arvydas Sabonis introduces his kids. Big Blazer fans back in 1999.
Shout out to
@iam_sheed
and
@bwgrant
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Allen Iverson with the knee-pads like Ewing and Air Jordan 1 Royals like MJ. Photo circa '86-87.
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NBA players with back to back 50 point Playoff games:
1. Michael Jordan
2. The list ends there.
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Hugo the Hornet, Kriss Kross and Muggsy Bogues in one of the most '90s photos ever.
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The Kobe Bryant and Derrick Rose 2K commercial is a bonafide classic. (2010)
Timeless.
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DeMar DeRozan skies for the dunk over a group of teammates during the Christmas Classic Dunk Contest at Mission Prep High School in San Luis Obispo, CA.
(2007)
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Karl Malone wasn't alone in not wanting Magic Johnson to play in the NBA due to his HIV diagnosis in 1991.
However, he was the most ignorant and outspoken at the time. No surprises there.
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Len Bias poses with his Smurf collection at his home in Baltimore, MD. (1985)
The University of Maryland standout passed away 35 years ago today.
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Derrick Rose shovelling a friend's Bentley out of the snow. (2015)
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17-year-old Kobe shows out against the nation’s top H.S. players at Magic Johnson’s Roundball Classic.
2 months later Bryant became the first ever guard drafted straight to the NBA out of high school.
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18-year-old Allen Iverson vs. 17-year-old Kevin Garnett.
Nike Camp (1993)
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Michael Jordan goes full court.
Two dribbles.
One jam on Laimbeer's head.
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Former Big State star Jesus Shuttlesworth talks with his father prior to the Seattle SuperSonics taking on the Lakers (2003)
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The Team USA squad that left Athens with the Bronze. (2004)
Let this image serve as a reminder that Manu Ginobli was a problem.
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Months of our lives were spent playing this game.
You just had to be there.
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A young DeMar DeRozan guards Kobe Bryant during a scrimmage at the Kobe Academy Basketball Camp at Loyola Marymount.
(2008)
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Michael Jordan rocking up to the '85 All-Star game in a fur coat is a level of cool to aspire to be
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Had social media been a thing when Vince Carter was in high school, heads would have melted.
📼:
@VntgeVinsanity
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10 years ago today...
Derrick Rose spoils Christmas for the Lakers.
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16-year old Kobe Bryant poses with his Dad at the Donofrio Championship (1996)
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Charles Barkley's Inside the NBA Debut (October 31, 2000).
Chuck was locked and loaded from night one.
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That time Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin,
@criscarter80
, Ken Griffey Jr.,
@BarryBonds
, Tim Brown and Mike Conley Sr. competed in the Footlocker Slam Fest (1992)
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Who remembers this Knicks squad of walking buckets?
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33 is way too damn young. Tomorrow's aren't promised. Live your life to its fullest, people.
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Kobe from behind the backboard.
Had James Harden looking helpless. 🤣
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The time Dikembe Mutombo reminded Michael Jordan he hadn't dunked on him in the six years he'd been in the league.
MJ: "I'll get you one day."
3 months later...
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T-Mac, Horace, Grant Hill and Pat.
On paper this was a championship waiting to happen.
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The Converse Weapon sneaker commercial from 1986. Iconic.
Have you seen the blooper reel tho?
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'I Don't Mind Straight People As Long As They Act Gay In Public'
Dennis Rodman. (1996)
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Larry Bird enjoying some beers while Michael Jordan plays table tennis. (1992)
Happy Birthday Larry Legend!
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Bet you didn't know that Bob Saget was briefly the head coach of the Clippers back in 1991.
Rest easy Bob, thanks for the laughs.
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Diego Maradona training in a Michael Jordan Team USA jersey.
"He is my idol, I would love to meet him.” Maradona speaking of his reverence for Jordan in 2005.
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Shawn Kemp, Concord High School circa '87-88.
Look at the faces and dropped jaws of the students. Priceless.
📸 courtesy of
@Shaqdapunisher
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'The Greatest Game That Never Was!'
Fat Joe's Terror Squad (Melo, Yao, Starbury, A.I.) was to go head to head with Jay-Z's Team S.Carter (LeBron, Shaq, Jamal Crawford) at the Rucker.
Then a city wide blackout shut it all down. One of the great what ifs...
🎥: freshfocussports
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Derrick Rose doing the Garden filthy in 2011 is how we're choosing to celebrate DRose today.
So cold. 🥶
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We guarantee you there are some Shawn Kemp detonations in this mix you probably have never seen or long forgotten.
🎶: Evil Thoughts - Lil Kev
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30 years ago today...
Michael Jordan sends one home during Game 5 of the 1991 NBA Finals.
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Allen Iverson getting his hair braided by his mother Ann during the middle of an NBA game.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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20-year old Arvydas Sabonis shattering the backboard during a Christmas tournament game between the USSR and Real Madrid (1984)
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Michael Jordan did this 21 years ago today...
51 points.
At age 38.
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Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James go head to head (2002)
Bron scored 36 in those adidas kicks, which were gifted to him prior to the game by Kobe.
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Michael Jordan circus shots are art and there are some priceless works in this collection.
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Kobe Bryant daps up LeBron James prior to the Sprite Slam Dunk Competition at NBA All-Star Weekend. (2007)
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T-Mac and LeBron's duel on Christmas Day, 2003.
41, 8 and 11 for McGrady
34 and 6 assists for Bron.
Who said we can't celebrate Christmas greatness in July?
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No, this ain't no warm up line dunk.
Simeon's Derrick Rose goes through the legs during a game at Ben Wilson Gymnasium on Nov 18, 2006.
😤
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To celebrate DRose's Birthday, here's the new mini doc...
Derrick Rose: Son of Chi
Dir. Oscar_Castillo on IG
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Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson chat during All-Star practice (1992)
With the Malcolm X beanie, Bordeaux VIIs and high waisted denim with a black belt, this also might be a peak '90s MJ fit.
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"I don’t like Michael Jordan because I don’t like Michael Jordan." - Rookie Tim Duncan (1998).
"And I took that personally." - Michael Jordan.
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This Shawn Kemp highlight montage aired on Seattle TV screens in 1994. Thirty years on, it is one of the best things you'll see today.
Bring back the Sonics.
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After losing his Dad's dominos years ago, Kendrick Lamar makes it up to his Pops with courtside seats and a meeting with Kobe. (2016)
#MambaMondays
🐍
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Michael Jordan "chats" with Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee during a break in a game. (1991)
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23 years ago today...
19-year old Kobe Bryant suits up for his first All-Star game at MSG.
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14-year old Giannis putting in work.
📸:
@GrigorisMelas
(The Antetokounmpo brothers former coach.)
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Shawn Kemp recreating his classic photo of him wearing a yellow rain slicker with the Seattle skyline as the backdrop.
Those Kamikazes tho.
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Kawhi Leonard working at his Dad's Compton car wash. (2006-07)
Peep the size of his teenage mits.
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Muggsy was a whole lot of trouble.
NBA on NBC Feature (1993)
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