Sports Illustrated has a list of some all-time great dunks. Most of the ones from college or pro ball, I’ve already seen, and I don’t know if anything quite bad enough to supplant my number-one WPOAT (Worst Posterization of All Time), but there are some that are quite impressive.
I knew Clyde had hops, but this right here? This right here, homey? Son.
I know Dream was gettin up there, but Kobe kinda killed him.
But that was after KJ had done it first.
When AI was still at Georgetown, this was one of the plays that got my attention.
But with all that, and even with Vince dunkin’ over the French dude, and Baron destroying Kirilenko, there is no dunk — not one in the world — worse than Pippen on Ewing. Call it the factor of the figurative meeting the literal.
In certain discussions of sports all-time greats, the top positions are already taken, and it’s just a matter of arranging everybody else. So when you talk about centers, you have:
Wilt
Russell
Kareem
People may order them differently, but that’s pretty much gonna be the overwhelming majority of people’s top 3.
Similarly, with running backs, we have:
Brown
Payton
Sanders/Smith
The first two are pretty much locks. The third is debatable, but only between those two.
The question is this: is there anything somebody could do to crack into those top 3 levels, or is everybody now pretty much playing for 4th in the top 5, with the exception of somebody who pretty much revolutionizes the position?
Life’s been kinda lifey — but in a good way. At any rate, I’me perusing youtube, and I see a set of commercials that would absolutely make me by the product if I was in that market.
It’s hard for me to properly place Michael Jackson in my personal pantheon. On the one hand, I fully believe that Mike is the biggest star I will ever see in my lifetime, and may very well be bigger than any star that will ever be, given the manner in which media is fragmented these days. At the same time, when it comes to me personally, I liked Mike and all, but he was never on that Stevie-James stratum. Like I told somebody the other day, if I didn’t cry when James died, it ain’t gonna happen for nobody. I liked Mike a lot, and I’ve sho nuff had my days where I played Mike all day — and this is before tragedy struck. At the same time, I can’t really pretend that I was all crushed like some people are. Mike has been in continuous rotation around here, so in that respect, nothing has changed. Nor will it.
Mike was due for a Favorite 15, and his will probably be the next one I do, but the contrarian in me just doesn’t wanna do it now. Mike’s popular right now, and honestly Mike got so many hits, it’s really hard for me to find songs I really, really like that aren’t already major, which is part of the point of me even doing a Favorite 15.
Ultimately, it breaks down to this: I think Michael Jackson, while not necessarily my favorite at any of the things that he did (singer, songwriter, dancer, etc., etc), put all of those things together in such a fantastic package that I can only call him the greatest entertainer in my lifetime. Possibly ever.
Hot Pants – Hank Carbo Searchin for Soul – Jack Wade & The Soul Searchers Packed Up – Bill Conti Ode to Billy Joe – Lou Donaldson Shake A Tail Feather – Ike & Tina Turner Contact The Three Degrees Willow Weep For Me – Johnny Lewis Quartet Do You Really Want To Hurt Me – Culture Club Soul Vaccination – Tower of Power Sweet Thing – Rufus and Chaka Khan Fat Boys – Fat Boys Love Having You Around – Stevie Wonder Some Soul – Bud Powell
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