I might have been there. I saw Reignman at 24 on San Felipe a while back. Pretty open guy. I saw KT at the same gym. Kinda scares me.
Sheeesh! One of my good friends in College (Gig'Em Ags) bought Vernon Maxwell a beer at The Banana Boat (or something like that - off Richmond) in '95. I told him to do it - I was out of dough. Max was like "cool" although didn't pay too much attention to us. Francis signed a ball for me about 5 years ago outside Compac Center (he was with Mobley in his SUV). Seemed like a good guy. I still have the ball in my office to this date, although it seems to be devaluing by the minute -SF... "Come Back to Texas"
Umm well that's kind of how it went down. I was there as well. Except it went like he went up 2-0. Hakeem came back and hit two jumpers. Then he missed a shot, my friend got the ball and made a crazy, and somewhat lucky bank shot. But hakeem was all smiles after that. He comes up to my friend and says, good game and you won but too bad no one is gonna believe you when you tell them with a smirk on his face. Then later on after prayer he comes and says that was only 1 game. That's not fair, this isn't college basketball, if you wanna be fair we gotta have a 7 game series in good humor. So afterwards while everyone was playing ball and hakeem looking on alone, I decided to take advantage. I went up to him and asked him how yao was coming along. He said that yao has all the tools to be the most dominant force in the league. He just needed some better moves and needed to be more aggressive. It would also help to have hakeem's amazing footwork but that's besides the fact. I then ran by what his thoughts were on greg oden, but surprisingly he didn't know who he was. I told him he was the 7 footer expected to be the #1 pick in this year's draft, but I guess he didn't watch college ball in jordan.
Wow what do you think?? Hakeem is gonna bring out his dream shake and all of his post moves in a pick up game. Obviously he's lost his agility, but still it's the dream. I mean obviously he was just having some fun, but he was actually trying to defend and he wasn't just like pullin up from 3, he took his shots from mid-range. It was funny though like since my friend is much younger than hakeem, he could easily get by hakeem but even when he did and seemed to have a couple of steps on him for an easy lay-up, hakeem's long arms would still seem to block it.
somebody was telling me about this story yesterday at the basketball tournament at south zone yesterday! lol
I've never been anywhere as good in Judo as Dream has been in basketball but I know when I spar with begginers, especially those who are younger, more athletic and stronger, I take it very easy and if they throw me they throw me. There's nothing to be gained for me from going all out against a beginer and at the sametime at my age I risk injury from someone with less skilled doing something they're not good at. My guess is Dream probably feels the sameway. He's got nothing to prove so why bother going out and schooling some kids and at the sametime why risk getting an injury from some strong over excited kid with sharp elbows.
I am Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, Ib Al Abbas, Ibn Rasid, Ibn Hammad. And things were not always thus. At one time, I was a poet in the greatest city in the world. Life was easy and I lived without care. Until one fateful day, I met a beautiful woman who belonged to another man. Her jealous husband complained to the Caliph who made me the ambassador to the land of the Tossuk Vlad - a country far to the north. I was banished from my home and from all that I knew. So, I journeyed by camelback many months into the lands of barbarian peoples - accompanied by Melchisidek, and old friend of my father - through the lands of the Ogus, the Khazars and the Bulgars, into the lands of murderous bandits, called "Tartars", who attack caravans, slaughtering everyone.
like i said, his purpose wasnt to go out and "School" anyone. just to have some with the young generation after prayers.
cool....he plays on Mason every so often, KT He was really cool, doing a few tricks with the ball and a dunk here and there. I just could not believe that this was the ferocious dunker I watched in the 90s. I wished he had kept in shape and off drugs and was still playing like Mutombo. But then again, it that were the case.....I would not have been playing a p/up game with him.
^As a person it would be great if Kemp had laid off the drugs and kept in shape but considering how much of a thorn in the Rockets side he was I would rather not see him back on the court...
