You are so right. Mad Max was great for us, and all these haters have to get all holier than thou. All the haters need to shut the fudge up. Mad Max > All the haters
First Championship - Maxwell = NAILS !! 2nd Championshipo - Maxwell = Punk !! He was a dow jones player....up and down...up and down...... And he bailed on his teamates.......but he was crucial in our first championship and the team got a lot of energy from his play. DD
To me, Max established his image as clutch with the falling out of bounds 3 pointer. Later, he established his image as a loser for going AWOL and attacking a fan.
Hey I liked the way Maxwell played and was a big fan of him, I also was a teenager and did not know any better. The guy is a punk who poped Carl Herrera in the head with a free weight for no reason at all (I think he needed something like 30 stiches). He did not pay his child support in Florida (great father). He used to carry weapons and drugs on him. Was arrested several times (eight times in ten years), committed NCAA violations in which his records were striped from Florida Gator Books. Maxwell, had to pay some women over a half of million dollars for "knowingly" giving her herpes (class act) The list goes on and on and I even have a story that my cousin told me first hand about the classy mad max. And let's not forget when we traded for Clyde and Maxwell just left the team and after basiclly stated that "he just wanted an in-season vacation" All of this without even mentioning the Portland fight. Tinman, I agree that Maxwell was a fun player to watch and was key to winnig the first title but he is a jerk a loser and a punk and does not deserve his own thread. I also think you need to rethink who you look up to bro. I admit when I was young and naive about things I had a Maxwell jersey but as time goes on I realize what a loser the guy was/is and I know if we did not have class leaders like dream we would of never won with that punk.
I don't know if either of those would qualify as a "best" Mad Max moment. However, bailing out on your teammates during the playoffs definitely qualifies as a "character defining moment."
Totally agreed. His "best" moment IMO was the "nail in the coffin" shot against the Knicks (with the Phoenix game earlier in the playoffs a VERY close second). However, he proved the (lack of) content of his character when he sat home like a punk in '95.
I went with the golden state game buzzer beater. That was the most incredible shot I've ever seen to win a game. I have this game on video, and actually, Calvin Murphy was not calling the game. It was Bill Worrell and Robert Reid and they went absolutely crazy. Gives you goosebumps.
And remember the spark he provided?? That was the year that Hakeem went down with injury and Larry Smith filled his role. Everyone thought we wouldn't make the playoffs. But they played great ball down the stretch...I think they beat the Nuggets (maybe the Jazz) on the last game of the season to earn a playoff spot. We met the Lakers in the first round and got drubbed. But I was so proud of that team for playing so well when others might have cashed in.
I find you GUILTY among your peers for your crimes against ROCKET HERO VERNON MAXWELL. The jury has found you guilty of all counts of this HATE CRIME.
Ah, another person who judges people cause of their personal life. Maxwell always gets props from his old teammates. Mario, Kenny, Sam. I guess all of us Maxwell fans should take a random beat up hecklers trip sometime. that would be fun. Thanks for the moral advice Joel.
hey hate crimers, hate this guy too. he had problems just like Max, left his 1st wife and kids, didn't pay his mom's mortgage cause of the crack. but HATE HIM please cause you guys are SO GOOD AT HATING. I wont turn you into the HATE CRIME authorities. http://www.nba.com/nuggets/chat/michealray030731.html Whatever Happened to Micheal Ray? ... He's Finally Come Back Home By Jonathan Goldstein Nuggets.com Micheal Ray Richardson’s life has come full circle. From growing up in a single-parent home in Denver to being the toast of New York to banishment, exile and shame and back again. The four-time All-Star, two-time All-Defensive team member and the first player ever banned for life by the NBA has returned to Denver and joined the Nuggets. A shining star drafted two spots in front of Larry Bird in 1978, Micheal Ray was billed as “the next Walt Frazier” in New York and looked every bit the part his first couple years in the league. During the 1979-80 season he became the first player in NBA history to lead the league in both assists (10.1 apg) and steals (3.23 spg), setting New York Knicks franchise records in both categories. Before long the shy kid from Colorado got caught up in all of the trappings of stardom. Recreational drug use that began as a way of overcoming introversion and a severe stuttering problem would develop into full-blown addiction. The Knicks would ship him cross-country to Golden State who that same season sent him right back to New Jersey. By 1986 things had gotten so bad that NBA commissioner David Stern, in what he has referred to as "the hardest thing I've ever had to do as commissioner," made Micheal Ray the first player in NBA history to be banned for life. Following short stints in both the CBA and USBL, Richardson fled for Europe and hasn’t been back since, until now that is. While playing 14 seasons in Italy, France and Croatia, Micheal Ray got clean, got married and had two kids, all the while living in France. In the year 2000 TNT broadcast a documentary entitled What Ever Happened to Micheal Ray? that chronicled the rise, fall, and disappearance of the forgotten star. Now clean and sober for 17 years, Micheal Ray is back in the NBA and back where he started. He has joined the Nuggets as an ambassador to the community, determined to help current Nuggets and Denver-area children from following the same errant path that robbed him of his stardom. The prodigal son is returning to the neighborhoods and community centers of his youth to tell the tale of the trappings and travails that sidetracked such promise. Nuggets.com’s Jonathan Goldstein sat down with Micheal Ray to talk about his days in the NBA, the journey back home and his plans for the future
Maxwell's legacy for me will always be my thoughts when Drexler came, wouldn't play the 3, and led to Max's meltdown. My first reaction was that Drexler was obviously an overall upgrade at the 2 but I was worried about not having that guy to take last second game winners. I actually worried (obviously it wasn't super serious) about replacing him with a "Top 50" player because he was nothing but nails. I also have another memory of us needing a stop late in one of the Knicks games. Maxwell bodies up at half court and pesters, without fouling (although now it would be multiple fouls) and forces a turnover. Rockets win. When he played defense, he PLAYED defense.
I have never said you need to be a perfect citizen to get proops on this board but tinman Maxwell is a deadbeat father, drug addict, was arrested 8 times in ten yaers and to top that off if you just want to talk basketball/rockets he went into the stands after fans and he walked out on his teammates in 95 in addition to all the distractions from his legal trouble. You can't defend the guy period. I liked him as a player but come on man when does it start becoming you (maxwell) and not everyone else? Show me a story on how Maxwell has got it together and started repaying the people he has stolen from/infected with sexully transmitted disesses and I will say great he deserves this thread but until then don't give us this crap about how he is a hero. No hero/legend does what he does and I seriously hope you don't have kids because if you teach them to look up to that guy they will end up in jail or dead.
This thread is about the GREATEST MOMENTS in VERNON MAXWELL HISTORY. What if you had a BAR B Q at your house and some HATER VEGETARIANS came and started dissing your guests during their celebration?? This is what you guys do, Joel. If you want to convert Al Queda into Christians go ahead and try. It would be easier than trying to make us hate VERNON MAXWELL. Max would give you this song to listen to. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ybJzARPvFUs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ybJzARPvFUs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Dude this is different, if we were gonna relive that 94 season we should talk about how important Maxwell was and without him we don't win a title (although without any of these guys, Dream, Horry, Cassell, OT, Smith, Mario etc. etc. we don't win so yes he was a key piece) Why don't you get it? The guy is a loser and we should not celebrate him. I am all for second chances but this guy has used up a liftime of them and then some. Vernon Maxwell is a loser! Now you are free to do what you want as far as starting this thread but I think it is in bad taste and if you want to disagree than fine but don't call me a hater because I call a spade a spade. One more time, I liked Max as a player but as a person he is a joke and he does not deserve some "Max is great thread" almost 12 years after the fact IMO. Let's talk about a "real hero" go to www.dmf.org
Deke is great, but this is a VERNON MAXWELL THREAD. you are a HATING. Haters hate. I'm sorry I dont have an option under the poll called " I HATE VERNON MAXWELL CAUSE HE PUNCHED A FAN AND DIDNT HAVE A LEAVE IT BEAVER LIFE" is it in the CLUTCHFANS MANUAL that you can't CELEBRATE VERNON MAXWELL?? What exactly is your point? you want people to hate Maxwell? Hows ANYTHING you say change what he did for the Rockets? If any haters hate on Max, this thread will be 100 times longer than ANY VINCE YOUNG thread. you thought the Vince Young defense was good? That was NIGHT COURT. Hating on Vernon, i'll drop some LAW & ORDER. cause the Maxwell Nation is strong and we know what he did. and CLUTCH CITY was born because of Max.
