As you’re surely glued to you T.V. watching No. 2 Villanova take on No. 15 Robert Morris in OT, I figured I’d pull up the footage from the last time a 15-seed defeated a 2-seed in the NCAA tournament. The year was 2001, and it was 15-seed Hampton who defeated 2-seed Iowa State, 58-57, after Jamaal Tinsley missed the winning lay-up.. Check it out.

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Whenever you talk about guys that could have been great in the NBA, Drazen Petrovic is name that is mentioned. But most people never had the chance to see him play. The guys over at A Stern Warning found some footage of Petro from the 1987-88 (when he was playing for Cibona Zagreb) when he scored 49 points. Check out the video below: Read More »

Known as a basketball institution, the Kentucky Wildcat basketball program is widely regarded as one of the best programs in all of college sports. But it was the 1995-96 men’s team that was arguably the greatest team ever assembled. With nine NBA first round picks, and a 34-2 season that capped off with a NCAA Championship, the facts are hard to argue with. That’s why Derek Anderson has produced a must-see documentary, The Untouchables: The Greatest Team Ever, chronicling that legendary season. Read More »

Watch as Jason Kidd, Gary Payton and Damon Stoudamire talk about their likes and dislikes as they wait for some clothes the dry. Classic.

Watching the Suns-Clipper game on Christmas Night was interesting to say the least. As the Suns pulled away the announcers went on a number of tangents and were obviously annoyed by every timeout. The announcers just wanted to get home for Christmas and watching Steve Nash dissect the Clippers was keeping them from that. During one of their many 4th quarter side comments one of the announcers began talking about how Nash is not only a great point guard but a great break dancer too. The ESPN research department dug up this video from the summer of 2008 produced by Steve Nash and Baron Davis (aka Boom-Nasty Productions) to back up his statement.

The Windy City has seen better days as of late. This season, the Bulls have been embarrassed by Toronto 78-110 at home, lost to the previously one-win New Jersey Nets and went 1-5 on a vicious road trip to close out November. But what happened last night in the United Center has to make Bulls’ fans cringe with disappointment. Read More »

With Wake Forest on TV right, I don’t know why, but it got me thinking of how good Randolph Childress was for the Demon Deacons – especially during the 1995 ACC Tournament. Named tournament MVP, Childress carried Wake to the title averaging a ridiculous 35.7 points and 7 assists per game. In the championship game against a UNC team featuring Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace, Childress dropped 37 and 7 in addition to the game-winning jumper with 4 seconds left in overtime, but it was this crossover on Jeff McInnis that will go down as one of the all-time greats.

With Kentucky plowing through everyone this season to a current No. 3 ranking in the country, and their trio of impact freshmen (John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe) playing beyond expectations, it got me thinking about past great UK games. One game in particular will always stand out in my memory: the 2005 Elite Eight, Kentucky vs. Michigan State. Read More »

As EA Sports and 2K Sports scramble to produce the most realistic NBA video game it is important to remember where we came from. In the early 90s Midway developed their NBA video game franchise, NBA Jam. The games were 2 on 2 and pitted the NBA’s best (with the exception of His Airness) against one another. Even though you couldn’t play with the best player in the world, the proper cheat codes allowed you to play as Vice President Gore and President Clinton. NBA Jam included some of the best basketball sayings of the era such as, Boom-shaka-laka, Slam-a-jamma, From Downtown and most famously He’s On Fire. The ridiculous dunks and on court hot spots didn’t make the game realistic but it made the Stockton-Malone connection all the more entertaining.

This week is Jimmy V week on ESPN which means they will show clips of Jimmy Valvano’s 1993 ESPY speech. I realized today that I had never seen this speech in its entirety. 16 years later I finally saw the speech that launched the Jimmy V Foundation and it is as inspiring as ESPN promotes it to be.