Filed under: Basketball, Brawls, Bread City, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Video | Tags: David Stern, Derek Harper, Jo Jo English, John Starks, Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, Rivalries, Scottie Pippen
It’s the Eastern Conference Semifinals, and the Knicks are rocking black sneakers for good luck. This is their shot. 1994: the year without Jordan. New York has to win now, while they can. Because whatever little fantasy MJ is living out at that moment – pretending to be a baseball player, Indian chief, astronaut, or whatever – they all know it won’t last.
And the Knicks are winning the series 2-0, when the scuffle breaks out between Derek Harper and Jo Jo English in Game 3. These teams hate one another. Pippen and Charles Smith had technical fouls before the game even started. Now the benches clear quick.
The fight goes down to the ground on some bad jiujitsu. Arms and legs everywhere. John Starks is about to throw a punch when Phil Jackson grabs him from behind. They both get tackled into the stands, and security bodies Starks up. Ewing and Pippen play the old hold me back, hold me back game. And Pat Riley’s not even mad until Derek Harper puts hands on coach’s suit.
But the best part? David Stern sits a few mere rows from the melee. He’s literally close enough to reach out and break up the fight himself, but he can’t move. The commissioner just stares, bug-eyed, into his own personal slow motion disaster reel, as both teams crush the heavy spenders sitting courtside.
New York went on to win the series in 7 games, and Jordan returned to basketball the following season.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York Knicks, Video | Tags: Basketball Documentary, Jeremy Lin, Linsanity
via Got’em Coach a.k.a. the director.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Chicago Bulls, New York City, Video | Tags: 1990s NBA, Charles Oakley, John Paxson, Violence in sports
NYC IS A STATE OF MIND, BEST REPRESENTED BY CHARLES OAKLEY’S ELBOW. I’LL BE BACK.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Brooklyn, New York Knicks, Video | Tags: Internet Culture, Stephon Marbury, Weed, Worst Knicks Ever
Stephon Marbury’s internet livecam is 100% the best reason for the internet. In case you forgot: this guy once ran the floor in the Garden. Now there is a 24/7 window into the depths of his basketball-free bad judgment and paranoia. I’ve been dreaming of a show like this for years.
With just a little clicking around youtube highlights you can see him blazing roaches in the back of the black Phantom, getting into car accidents, eating Vaseline, and running his mouth way too much in sporting goods stores, in no particular order. But who cares about highlights? As long as this thing exists, I am watching live.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Los Angeles Lakers, Video | Tags: DVR Culture, Kobe Bryant
Wait for it. Clip gets slowmotion classic about 17 seconds in. A perfect video companion to your NBA Finals.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Poetry, Sneakers, Video | Tags: 1980s Culture, Karl Malone, Marketing
Take some some sunshine, some tank tops, some LA Gear. Take two people. Have them pretend to have fun while pretending to play basketball while not knowing how to play basketball. Have them hop back and forth with the ball, blatantly traveling. Have them regress into childhood. The playground bully goes through the motions but does not know how to get what he wants. The girl-next-door knows how not to give it to him. This guy will never call her out on double-dribbling. Have them dance. Have them not pretend to not know how to play basketball. Take a theme song. LA Gear. LA Gear. You’ve got the moovvves. LA Gear.
Sneaker Fact: Karl Malone rocked these.
Filed under: Basketball, Brawls, Bread City, College Basketball, Philosophy, Sports Photography, Video | Tags: Dave Winfield, Luke Witte, Mugging in Minnesota, Ohio State, University of Minnesota
As our team sat in the dark, dingy locker room … I emerged from a near-comatose state and jumped up, wanting to finish the game. I have no memory of anything that occured from halftime to the next morning … What happens to the human psyche when a person suffers traumatic harm? What does a person do with the deluge of emotions that infiltrates his mind and changes from minute to minute? One minute I felt that everything would be fine, that healing was happening. The next minute all I could think about was hatred and retribution … Emotionally and philosophically, I was in a crisis. Ron Behagan, Clyde Turner, Corky Taylor, and Coach Bill Musselman had become objects of what philosophers Jeffrie G. Murphy and Jean Hampton call ‘moral hatred.’ … After college, I played for a few years with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA, but I never played with the same intensity of enjoyment that I had before the Minnesota game.
– Luke Witte’s post-brawl account is excerpted from an essay on forgiveness in Basketball and Philosophy. Sports Illustrated called the fight “the most vicious attack in college basketball lore.” This was Witte’s face. He is now a pastor.
Filed under: Art, Bread City, Video, Video Games | Tags: Cory Arcangel, Digital Art, Super Mario Bros.
Made from a hacked Mario NES cartridge and up in installation at the Whitney Museum for one more month!
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Video, Washington Bullets | Tags: 1990s Culture, 1990s NBA, Basketball Archeology, Basketball History, ESPN, Ghorge Muresan
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Detroit Pistons, Phoenix Suns, Shaq, Video | Tags: Flagrant Fouls, Rodney Stuckey
I always love the television-filmed-by-camcorder-in-the-dark aesthetic, but especially when flagrant fouls are involved.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Chicago Bulls, Madison Square Garden, Michael Jordan, New York Knicks, Video | Tags: 1990s NBA, Basketball History, Playoffs
With Chicago leading, 48-39, with 4 minutes 30 seconds left in the first half, Jordan missed an uncontested breakaway dunk slamming the ball hard off the back rim. The crowd roard for more than a minute, and the energy in the building seemed to transfer to the Knicks. New York ended the first half with an 11-3 run, closing to 51-50 after Chicago had built a 13-point first-quarter lead.
– From The New York Times, 5/10/92
I miss the old center court logo.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Michael Jordan, Video | Tags: 1980s NBA, Basketball History, European Basketball, Italy
Summertime ball in Trieste, Italy, land of weak backboards. Before Jordan could beat the Celtics, he still came correct. Notice that he is the only dude on the court without socks up to his knees.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Politics, Video | Tags: Barack Obama, Basketball Archeology, Basketball Politics, Kuwait
I LOVE THIS GAME MY COUNTRY
via Free Darko
