your favorite nba players for watching

d will
ronnie brewer
AK-47 (jazz homer alert)
howard
arenas
nash
lebron
earl boykins

some dudes who haven't been mentioned (i think) (my #1 answer would be the warriors and there's no point in repeating lbj and b. mamba and shit)

flip murray
igoudala
leinas kleiza (for real!)
josh howard
udonis haslem (kinda lulls you to sleep in a good way with jumpers from the elbow for days)
trevor ariza
von wafer (is this dude still in the league? if so someone give him some minutes)

ctrl+f "jordan" not found

I called him Michael.

Because we are close like that.

Anyway anyone who sez Jordan isn't one of their favorite players for watching is either a liar or secretly hates basketball.

LeBron is much more fun to watch than Kobe. Kobe is just a bit more graceful than Norman Bates during the shower scene in Psycho. LeBron is more a work of art, somewhat reminiscent of M. Jordan in his prime.

As a Portlander, I loved watching Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter and Jerome Kersey running the break. Bill Walton at his peak was a thing of beauty. Outlet passes!!!

As I said in another thread, I will always have a soft spot for 'Downtown' Freddie Brown. That man had no conscience. His stroke didn't look all that lovely, like for example Jerry West or Rick Barry. All he could do was nail it from 40 feet out and run back down the court grinning while the arena went apeshit.

lebron and baron are probably my 1-2

von wafer (is this dude still in the league? if so someone give him some minutes)

He's riding the pine for the blazers right now. At the trading deadline taurean green was inexplicably shipped off for this guy. With Roy likely shut down for the rest of the season maybe he'll actually get some burn.

I called him Michael.

-- Alex in SF

Because we are close like that.

-- Alex in SF

I'ma rep for a couple white boys, "Thunder" Dan Majerle, and all-time favorite Christopher "Chris" Mullin!!

Larry Johnson when he was young. Oh man.

old-schoolers

stockton stockton stockton
malone
magic
kareem
bird
jordan
rodman
tim hardaway
manute bol in his 3 pt shooting phase

manute bol was mesmerizing

early tim hardaway kind of broke the mold for an AI

chris mullen was great to watch

now i would love to say that i love to watch lebron because he always does something amazing but but im not sure if its his shitty ill-matched teams fault or his shitty ill-matched teams fault and his fault but wtf all that standing around surveying the defense walking the ball up the court drives me bonkers - someone get this man the ball on the move in the open court off a screen rolling to the hoop something plz fuck

im really starting to warm to the charms of rondo - he still makes me cringe way too much - but kid gets major points for originality

i agree with you on lebron, that offense is so ugly and tentative no wonder their best option is to have bron blow through the lane like a bull, which is ugly itself most of the time. also re: kobe v. lebron aimless is smoking crack.

im really starting to warm to the charms of rondo - he still makes me cringe way too much - but kid gets major points for originality

-- jhøshea, Friday, March 28, 2008 6:29 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

crossover of nash the other night was one of my fav plays of the season

I called him Michael.

ok, missed that. def. feel u on the ginobli hatred/watchability thing but i prefer stoudemire over marion

chris mullen was great to watch

shiiit forgot about that dude!

p.s.
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2700/rambis5ki.png

im psyched to have this guy back in the league

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060127/060127_Andersen_vmed_10p.widec.jpg

but will he be as amusing w/o the meth?

http://www.realgm.com/images/nba/4.2/profiles/photos/2006/Anderson_Chris_noh.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/k36sno.jpg
http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/nba/2006/0129/photo/g_andersen_412.jpg

ugh

what's buckcherry gonna do without their lead singer?

u guys dont like the birdman?

birdman is hilarious!

http://www.realgm.com/images/nba/4.2/profiles/photos/2006/Anderson_Chris_noh.jpghttp://www.realgm.com/images/nba/4.2/profiles/photos/2006/Anderson_Chris_noh.jpghttp://www.realgm.com/images/nba/4.2/profiles/photos/2006/Anderson_Chris_noh.jpg

wtf @ von wafer mention?! lol!
dude was like a.i.'s little brother on the nuggs--first off the bench for a chest bump @ tv timeout--but he'd always get the yips in garbage time and clang jumpers.
consistently kills the d-league, though

birdman was all around denver the last two years til he just got signed by n.o. great dude, loves to talk about himself to anyone. if you yell 'birdman!' at him, he will turn and do the hand symbol any place any time guaranteed

i think it was coke not meth but then again look at him...

yah i guessed meth because i read that he grew up in a family of hardcore bikers

kobe
lebron
wade
AI
Nash
PAUL
Deron
Monta
Artest

also pointing toward meth: happened in oklahoma city

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2008/04/07/2008-04-07_patrick_ewing_gets_into_hall_of_fame_in_.html

my friend dan's woman is probably gonna shoot out his baby tonight, and we're all excited cause if she does so within three hours the kid can share a birthday with SPUD WEBB

appropriate revive

Spud would make for a great middle name

wade
cp3
lebron
james harden
danilo gallinari
kenneth faried
tony allen
dirk
nash
rondo

that's a good list

feel like it's a little heavy on stars but if i'm being honest those are my guys

ha the lists from 4 years ago are outdated

ty lawson

dragic

my list from high school would be pretty lol - baron, peja, melo, iverson

etc

there's probably a good "what ballets from history do u wish u could have watched on the reg" thread to be made someday. like I'd kill to have been a Walt Frazier stan. would love to have seen George Gervin dominate for weeks at a time.

Ballets = ballers.

Gallinari
Pekovic
Biyombo
Josh Smith
Zach Randolph
Marc Gasol

z-bo's rainbow jumpers where his ass is like 16 inches off the ground are my lifeblood

Scalabrine

non warriors edition:

Covington
Jokic
Giannis (kinda feels like this one goes w/out saying at this point)
Embiid
Simmons
Booker
TJ Warren
Taytum/Jaylen

this is the weirdest thread to reread from the top down

things have changed

why did i put kobe and barron davis in my list i dont think thats ever been true i was drunk

flip murray
igoudala
leinas kleiza (for real!)
josh howard
udonis haslem (kinda lulls you to sleep in a good way with jumpers from the elbow for days)
trevor ariza
von wafer (is this dude still in the league? if so someone give him some minutes)

― J0rdan S., Friday, March 28, 2008 2:22 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is truly bizarre tho

lol thats great.

i, for one, am glad to have goon back on board with the warriors being the funnest team in the league. i could probably find like 80 posts about him hating on Kyrie to counter his current addition to this thread as well.

― Spottie, Friday, November 10, 2017 4:53 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kyrie

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:43 AM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahaha

lol looks like you actually posted it twice itt

the original and consistent kyrie supporter

#selfpwned

jokic
simmons
giannis
boogie
fox
kyrie
uncle drew
mask kyrie
kyrie irving

jokic
giannis
luka
pascal siakam
kyrie
embiid
curry

good list

mine from last season was:

non warriors edition:

Covington
Jokic
Giannis (kinda feels like this one goes w/out saying at this point)
Embiid
Simmons
Booker
TJ Warren
Taytum/Jaylen

― Spottie, Monday, November 13, 2017 11:53 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for this seasons holdovers I'd go:

Covington
Jokic
Giannis
Embiid

and then add:

Montrezl (classic hustle guy)
Sabonis (love a big that can dish)
De'aron Fox (push push push)
Shai GA (love how calmly and in control he plays)
Luka (fun to see all the ways he can create_

montrezl is playing like crazy this year not sure what go into him, he does really skilled powerful moves as the roll man on the reg now

curry
kyrie
boban
giannis
embiid
montrezl
javale

brow is amazing to just watch move even if hes not doing a cool basketball thing

kyrie curry dame/cj

giannis and kawhi have this horrifying force of nature thing going where you want to look away but cant

Haven't watched Brow yet this year. It felt like coming into this season he was the frontrunner for MVP but the Pels aren't looking too hot yet. Has Jokic fully taken over in that race?

I think jokic is a little further down in the power rankings now. feel like the consensus contenders at this point are giannis/embiid/brow/kawhi/bron/curry

brow is putting up super mvp numbers but yeah maybe not quite super enough to get it on a 500 team, tho i think that —needs to be a winner— conventional wisdom has shifted somewhat, dont see them giving it to jokic as generally a player has to be an established superstar for a least a year to be admitted as a finalist, giannis prob the front runner now

i think the pels record hurts brow for sure. everyone says that roster is a dumpster fire but i think they have some good players, the top 5 at least. the elfrid payton injury hurt them quite a bit which is weird.

jokic has too many weird games still.

funnny harden isnt even mentioned but he's putting up m/l identical numbers as last year.

curry
kyrie
boban
giannis
embiid
montrezl
javale

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:16 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boban is must watch when he's on the court, for sure. its just not very often.

harden's turnovers are up a again this year and the team's record is hurting him, but I bet he'll be in the conversation in a couple of months

boban is legit fascinating such amazing touch around the basket plus he can dunk w/o jumping

This is a GORGEOUS move by Domantas Sabonis 😍 pic.twitter.com/3nm8IqINfZ

— Justin Jett (@JustinJett_) December 9, 2018

stuntin like his daddy

pretty much doing stuff like this every game at this point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyIMucuKryA

cool player

2:11 where he simple crosses Dunn then finishes with an offhand floater...

I stopped watching at a certain point but he was torching the Bulls. Dunn is a good defender but 1st game back so doesn't have his legs. Fox still v impressive tho.

Yeah Dunn very clearly testing his limits in those clips

if fox shooting so far is real well gdamn

In his most fun shot of the night, Nikola Jokic worked his magic making a one-handed, back-handed layup looking up over the back of his head at the basket.#Nuggets #MileHighBasketball pic.twitter.com/Dfr04CxAUb

— Joel Rush (@JoelRushNBA) December 17, 2018

Joker's wild.

lets see some updates for 2021:

russ
ja
curry
jokic
both balls
john collins
lavine