Most Famous Person You've Played Basketball With...

could have played with Shawn Kemp in the summer of 2001.


he was fat then.

 

REECE GAINES.

in gym class. he was real good in high school. i can't believe we graduated the same year. i didn't really play against him. just shooting in gym class.

oh, and a few NFL players that graduated university here. i get scared when these big guys charge at you. so i just run away. but i couldn't get away.

 

Danny Fortson. mid 90's

My boys and I were playing pickup in a local park (Pittsburgh) and had stayed on for like 3 games in a row.

Then Fortson and 4 of his boys show up. We had a guy who was 6'6'', but only weighed about 210. We were all like 15 or 16. Third or fourth trip down, Fortson posts me up, spins away and dunks. I couldn't even see around him he was so big. I tried to front him on the other times down, so I didn't get dunked on.

We lost 11-3, and our three came on 25ft jumpers.

 

Moochie Norris guarded me once when I was backing it in.

Steve Francis practiced behind-the-back passes with me for about 30 seconds.

I was 13, it was Steve's bball camp after his rookie season, and I absolutely had stars in my eyes.

Doesn't really count as "played against," but oh well, it was fantastic...

 

Kenny Smith
Otis Thorpe
Derrick McKey

 

I am the most famous person I've played bball with.

 

Corey Williams (DT Cleveland Browns) was on my intramural team in college.

 

Ike Holt - ex-Cowboys player......wore his frikkin' Superbowl ring on the basketball court. No joke. He was a TERRIBLE basketball player, but a good athlete, so he did ok. But his jump shot was horrid. He talked smack the entire time, and when he lost a game, he started yelling, "I don't have nothing to prove to nobody. I AM SOMEBODY! SUPERBOWL CHAMPION BABY!" Something along these lines anyway....

Brooks Thompson - Used to play for Orlando and the Knicks, I think he did a short stint in Denver too.

Sean Rooks - He was pretty good, and unlike in the NBA, he was hitting 20-25 footers with ease.

Greg Dreiling - Stiff center that used to play with the Mavs. I was shocked at how average he was.

Jimmy King - Former Fab-5 from Michigan.

 

My daughter, when she was 6, shot some jumpshots on the Toyota center floor with Dikembe Mutombo.

No, she doesn't want to sex Mutombo (and neither do I).

 

Martin Zeno.

That's right.... THE Martin Zeno

 

Hakeem Olajuwon- I didn't play a game with Hakeem but he was at Lifetime Fitness at Sugar Land and I was shooting on the same hoop as he was. It was just us two on that goal. Then he started playing full court and was pullin off the dream shake on everyone.

 

Emeka Okafor at Memorial Wellness Center and TJ Ford in High School.

 

Dave Feitl & Richard Anderson (both former Rockets) at Tallowood Baptist when I was in HS (not that anyone other than tinman probably even know who I'm talking about).

 

Oddibe Mcdowell's brother, Woody. This was back in the early 90's at the Y in The Woodlands. I think he played at Klein Oak. I had to guard him a few times. I was 5'8" at the time and he was roughly 6'3". He jumped over me once.

 

Calvin Murphy - at his basketball camp
Rashard Lewis - we went to middle school together

 

Willie Sublett (ex Baylor)....and Amber Heath's Brother and Father (the girl who's mom had a hit put on her by Wanda Holloway)

I got nothin'.....

 

Kevin Garnett at his basketball camp.

 

Hakeem Olajuwon (1-1 for a drill at clyde drexler's basketball camp when I was 8)
Chris Young (the pitcher)
John Lucas Jr
Alton Ford
Loul Deng
bunch of other college players