When surfing YouTube one day, I stumbled upon this video.
It is of former NBA guard Isiah Rider, who played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trailblazers, ATL Hawks, LA Lakers, and Denver Nuggets, trying to save the ball from going out of bounds and the ball winds up going inside the hoop for a three pointer. This just looks freakin impossible to replicate.
Also the Rasheed Wallace 3/4 of the court shot was pretty ridiculous as well.
This should be this decade's play of the decade.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
My First Blog
Hello. This is my very first blog which means I am kind of a "newb" at these certain things. Also to note, I am not a very good writer, so please excuse my grammar, punctuation, spelling , etc. In my blog, I will first start off with a random person/athlete that popped into my head, whom I wish to discuss, followed by some links pertaining to that person. After that, I will write about some randomness and/or followed by more links that i also might want to discuss. I hope you enjoy.
My first player is no other than, Fat Lever. Some of you guys might have never heard of him. He is a former NBA basketball player who played for the Portland Trailblazers, Dallas Mavericks, and Denver Nuggets.
Why I bring him up is because when I was a young child, I collected hundreds of basketball cards. But what stood out Lever from all the rest of the cards was that his first name was FAT! I couldn’t believe this. I would always just make fun of his first name because it was FAT and I wouldn't even bother to look on the reverse side of card to see his statistics. But after a decade or so later, I decided to research him on Wikipedia, and to my surprise his name is not actually Fat, and that it actually stands for Lafayette. Also to my surprise, was that how good he was for a 6 foot 3 point guard named Fat. For 4 years out of his 11 years as a basketball player, he averaged around 20 ppg, 8 apg, and 9 rpg. This is amazing! During those four years, he had played basketball at a level somewhere from a Jason Kidd level to an Oscar Robertson level(really good guards who can score, dish out assists, and rebound.)
Now here is a general lesson that you should learn from : Do not judge a basketball player based on his/her height, weight, and name, judge them on how many points, assists, and rebounds they get in a basketball game.
My first player is no other than, Fat Lever. Some of you guys might have never heard of him. He is a former NBA basketball player who played for the Portland Trailblazers, Dallas Mavericks, and Denver Nuggets.
Why I bring him up is because when I was a young child, I collected hundreds of basketball cards. But what stood out Lever from all the rest of the cards was that his first name was FAT! I couldn’t believe this. I would always just make fun of his first name because it was FAT and I wouldn't even bother to look on the reverse side of card to see his statistics. But after a decade or so later, I decided to research him on Wikipedia, and to my surprise his name is not actually Fat, and that it actually stands for Lafayette. Also to my surprise, was that how good he was for a 6 foot 3 point guard named Fat. For 4 years out of his 11 years as a basketball player, he averaged around 20 ppg, 8 apg, and 9 rpg. This is amazing! During those four years, he had played basketball at a level somewhere from a Jason Kidd level to an Oscar Robertson level(really good guards who can score, dish out assists, and rebound.)
Now here is a general lesson that you should learn from : Do not judge a basketball player based on his/her height, weight, and name, judge them on how many points, assists, and rebounds they get in a basketball game.
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