Team USA / Argentina Rivalry Started With a Dunk on KG
This is from a story on ESPN.com today that dissects the Team USA/Argentina rivalry:
The teams have played eight times since 1999, back when a then-unheard-of teenager named Andres Nocioni posterized Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett during a preliminary round game at the Tournament of the Americas inside a hot, humid gymnasium in San Juan, Puerto Rico — a dunk that served notice there was a new kid on the Pan American block.
We found the video on YouTube:
Source: ESPN.com
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August 21st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
McLovin says:
kg has been dunked on a few times…ask devin harris
August 21st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
smity far away says:
where’s that devin harris link McLovin. tease the people like that
August 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
smity far away says:
by the way, i didnt even remember that…nocioni must have decided (while growing up) that it’s more fun to be dunked on than it is to do the opposite
August 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
ERIC says:
I remember this as a Slam-a-da-month in SLAM Magazine
August 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Kobeef says:
BREAKING NEWS
OKC SomethingorOthers cut Donyell Marshall, give him $6 million to pull a keith van horn
Also,
Nawlins gets a new logo that looks like a…flying squirrel
http://blog.nola.com/gladow/2008/08/hornets_unveil_new_branding_to.html
August 21st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
the mamba says:
What’s crazy is, I think argentina basically has the same team as back them minus pepe sanchez. Wonder why pepe never found a spot in the league
August 21st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Jim says:
Iranian Invasion
http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/21/1281086.aspx
August 21st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Young Lebron 23 says:
@ 5 who cares about Marshall?! Not me.
Can’t wait for D-Rose to lobit up to Nocioni. Or the other way around…
August 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Ashlov says:
I can’t wait to see Argentina get bent tomorrow.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Brandon Hoffman says:
Great find.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
daquest?on says:
i remember that i was there!
August 21st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
daquest?on says:
wtf ?!?! that gymnasium is a coliseum first of all and it wasnt neither hot nor humid cuz there was airconditioner.. that fool probably wasnt even there making shit up lol
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 am
Ernesto says:
Nocioni’s athleticism still surprises from time to time.
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 am
Tomasz says:
Well, KG can dunk too:
http://www.squidoo.com/KG
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
luke says:
Damn that was nice, Nocioni does occaisionally bust out a poster, this might be the best example of how to commentate basketball I’ve ever seen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbxzfVl_7c4&feature=related
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Ernesto says:
Like blocking Kobe’s reverse in the Olympics semis. That was a surprising effort.