Julian Esteban

gotemcoach:

DEREK FISHER’S GAME-WINNING THREE.

In the ugliest game ever to be played with a basketball, the Lakers beat the Dallas Mavericks on the very, very old, but trusty left hand of Derek Fisher.  #GotEmCoach

I’ve seen that once or twice.

Thanks Fish.  Now don’t ever play more than 12 minutes in a game the rest of your Laker career.

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lol look at lamar tryna all hard.

gotemcoach:

More impressive: Kobe’s alley-oop reverse dunk or those #IllegalGermanKnees?

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gotemcoach:

MUST WATCH:  The “Pine Box”

One of my favorite dunks of all-time.  The Daddy sticks The Admiral in a pine box.  There have been many since, but this was the first dunk I ever saw where I assumed the other guy was dead.

From Shaq’s 2002 auto-biography Shaq Talks Back:

I got some revenge at the 1995 All-Star Game at the Alamodome, dunking on Robinson as hard as I’ve ever dunked and knocking him to the ground.  That was a message.  I wanted to show him that he’ll never be able to stop me, especially when I’m coming like that.  I kind of showed the rock to him, then had to bring it back a little bit, and I just threw the thing down, right on him.  Wah-pah!  And when he fell, I just looked at him, “Stay down, don’t get up.”

Of course, it was the ‘96 AS game, and he didn’t fall, but whatever.  Still a pretty great paragraph. 

Want to see more basketball murder?  Watch:  [Young Shaq wheels on David] + [O’Neal diesels Robinson]

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