Archive for the 'YouTube Finds' Category

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few days; Sports-Reference is having its annual company meeting, so I've been a little indisposed. That said, I thought I'd share these gems with you from the 1977-78 season:

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Thanks to loyal commenter Jason J, here's the game I was actually looking for yesterday... This one's for you, John Starks!

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Man, this was a physical series...

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Perhaps you've seen Tyler Hansbrough's Acura commercial:

Um... The acting needs some work, no? But perhaps it's not Tyler's fault -- maybe it's a breakdown in communication between he and his coach. No, not Jim O'Brien... This coach:

WOW!

And, of course, no Walton post would be complete without this gem:

Reading The Book of Basketball made me remember my dad telling me about how awesome Dave Cowens was, which in turn prompted me to find some highlights:

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I'm not a huge fan of the reality genre, but I make exceptions for shows based on current athletes, which is why this new Ty Lawson series could be interesting:

The general consensus from us stat folks is that Lawson -- at #18 overall -- could go down as the steal of the draft (thanks, Dean Oliver!), so I'm pretty interested in how well he makes that transition from college stardom to the NBA, since the metrics say he should probably have been taken ahead of Flynn & Holiday.

In case you didn't already see this when Skeets linked it over at Ball Don't Lie, here's a sweet vid by Hoops4Life about KG, Kobe, LeBron, and the preps-to-pros revolution:

Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, EA Sports composer Traz Damji put together a series of ridiculously funky (and catchy) background songs for the best years of the NBA Live franchise. They became synonymous with video hoops action for a generation of young, impressionable gamers, and now they're available in all their old-school glory courtesy of YouTube:

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Michael Jordan's name is on everybody's lips today, 9/11/09, because the GOAT is being inducted into the HoF in a scant 50 minutes. But oddly enough, 8 years ago to the day MJ was also the lead story of the day... until tragedy stuck, that is: