🧵 With the news that TNT might lose the NBA, it’s time to share the story about Ernie Johnson and the @NBAonTNT halftime show he made for my Bar Mitzvah.
It began w my dad and ended w me being called a drug addict & ballhog (fair, tbh) in front of family & friends
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New Jersey Nets got Michael Jordan 48 hours after he scored 51. Kenyon Martin said, "Maybe his legs will be a little tired after 51 point game." Jordan probably read the newspapers that day.
45 points... He destroyed Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin that night.
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)
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Damian Lillard had a lot to say today regarding the current culture around young basketball players and yes men.
He says his Formula Zero Camp is about teaching kids how to have the characteristics beyond talent in order to survive and stick in the NBA.
Aight. Here’s my favorite 2 stories about Bill Russell.
Both stories reveal how much of a humble human being he is. And one blows my mind because it dismantles what we think about the evolution of sports.
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Bill Russell story…
Senior year of college. I’m the GM of our student radio station. Get a PR pitch email asking if we are interested in interviewing Mr. Russell, who was promoting what I recall to be an arthritis medication….
If you want to teach a kid how to shoot, teach them how to land first. Put em on a line with no ball and see if they can land on 2 feet, then jump forward 1/2 a foot and land on 2 feet simumtaneously again. You'd be surprised at how many kids cannot do it without practice.