The 10 Best Crossovers In NBA History
Dime #1
We’ll call this the list Gary McGhee loves to hate…
I’ve been on both sides of the coin before. But it’s the embarrassing times you remember. One in particular stands out for me. College. Sophomore year. Preseason. Every fall at a D-III college is always the same: there are the returning players and then there are dozens of kids from high school, all coming together and all believing they’ll be one of the three or four kids who actually make the team. They all have some game – or at least a little bit – and they’re all cocky.
It’s during this first month when emotions are highest, the competition fiercest. I picked the wrong time to get cracked. The gym was flooded with wannabe players. I jumped too hard at a wing player, and fell backwards as he went by me. Kids on the sidelines nearly rushed the court. The rest of the afternoon, I was in a quiet rage.
You’ve gotta laugh about it. That’s all you can do. If you’ve never been dropped before, chances are you’ve never really played. Even the best players in the world get put on their ass, some just worse than others. That’s this list, the all-time greatest crossovers in NBA history. As I did with the greatest assists of all time, and the greatest alley-oops ever, I spent hours researching, reminiscing and watching videos to try to find the very best. Did I? No. That’s literally impossible. But hopefully I came close enough.
Just as those did, this list had a few rules:
1) it had to be in an NBA game that counted and…
2) the play had to finish in a bucket.
And just as I’ve always done, this IS NOT an “Honor the best guys in NBA history” list. If someone helped mold and create the crossover, that doesn’t mean he’ll make this list. If John Crotty laid down the hammer, then he was going to make the cut (luckily he didn’t). I would’ve thrown in Starbury collapsing the Great Wall of China, but that wasn’t necessarily a great move… it was more Yao just seeing a real offensive move for the first time in his life and his feet didn’t cooperate.
With that, here are the 10 best crossovers in NBA history (and Honorable Mentions):
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10. Jamal Crawford Barbecue’s Ray Allen
Classic YouTube comment on this video: “This was so nasty I switched to porn when my mom came in.” That’s the only way to describe it. Crawford is known for his “shake-n-bake” but this might be the best move of his career. Jesus just collapsed on the final crossover, unable to keep up.
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November 10th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
panchitoooo says:
someones been watching NBA anklebreakers Vol 1 & 2
November 10th, 2011 at 5:59 pm
BiGShoTBoB says:
I would have put the one Kobe got Scott Pippen with. You know the one they made a commercial out of that ended with a lob to Shaq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ikaIDz-Ck
November 10th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Liemjordi says:
What about AI getting a taste of his own medicine?
Might have pushed him, but Stuckey made the dude end up on his chest…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOBYemd1ek
November 10th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
deagletime says:
this entry makes me sad. END THE LOCKOUT ALREADY!!!!!!!
November 10th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Slick Ric says:
Man that cp3 crossover was the weakest on here and you talking about excluding tim hardaway from this list? that cp3 crossover shouldnt be on here, I know he has better or someone else defintely has better. smh
November 10th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Mitch says:
marbury dropping yao ming???? doesn’t even get honorable mention???
November 10th, 2011 at 11:12 pm
JM says:
AI stepped on Vaughn’s foot…not the same.
November 10th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
dagwaller says:
Kirk Hinrich cooked Jamal Crawford just as bad the way back down, fyi
November 11th, 2011 at 12:13 am
Chicagorilla says:
Very good list. I know the AI on MJ was the most famous, but it wasn’t the best. The crossover AI put on J. Vaughn was the best to me.
Steve Francis was just an a$$hole for the way he did Hudson lol. So unnecessary
Derrick Rose on miller was nice, but I like the one on Tyreke Better. He turned Tyreke into a breakdancer on that move. Had Reke looking like he was playing Twister n’sh!t lmao.
And I don’t think the UTep 2step should have made it. It was great for its time, but Timmy’s handles ain’t really flucking with the guards from the mid-90′s and on.
Deron Williams and NAte Robinson could have been all over this list for some of the sh!t they’ve done.
November 11th, 2011 at 1:15 am
!!! says:
no love for d-wade. crossover against ALLEN and KG.
November 11th, 2011 at 8:22 am
DZ says:
No Starbury? Get the f*ck outta here!
November 11th, 2011 at 10:39 am
baloogawhales says:
MICHAEL!
November 12th, 2011 at 5:25 am
brokejumper.com says:
There should be a rule that stepping on a defenders foot causing him to trip during a cross over is an automatic change of possession. This probably happens in 25% of all YouTube crossover videos.
November 12th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Chicagorilla says:
@brokejumper
I see you have been a vic of the crossover lmao. You can’t change the rules because you got got. Man up and get back on D.