Tuesday, April 04, 2006

100 reasons to love Rasheed Wallace

The picture of a young Rasheed with Wilt Chamberlain is a classic. The rest of this post from Detroit Bad Boys is also a lot of fun. I especially liked this story of Rasheed's first practice at UNC going up against former lottery bust Eric Montross
First team scrimmage Ra's freshman year. Montross and Salvadori had been pushing Ra up and down the court, double teaming him down low, and talkin' shit the whole time. Evidently Ra went up for a turn around "J" in the lane only to have Montross and Salvadori club him and block his shot… each telling him to never bring that shit inside again. Next time down the court Ra caught a ball coming off of the rim at which time he did one of his backboard shaking monster dunks (a 9.5 on Pat Sullivan's grading scale) on Montross and Salvadori. Upon landing on his feet Ra pushed Montross into Salvadori and yelled, "You better recognize.. Motherf***er! Your job is mine!"

Another nice quote:
"We had some phantom technical fouls called when we had Rasheed. I know that. He'd just scream, he was so happy with a dunk and the next thing you know it's a technical foul. If I ever dunked, I would have screamed. If I'd go up and sky and dunk one, I'd scream too." –college basketball's all-time winningest coach Dean E. Smith

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