The intros from the 1989 All-Star Game. I think these are the best All-Star intros ever by far. ...

The intros from the 1989 All-Star Game. I think these are the best All-Star intros ever by far. Eaton, Karl, and John were all All-Stars this year (and Karl won MVP)

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*What is up with Ewing’s look?
*Marc Jackson & Tom Chambers, future Jazz members.
*Eaton sporting the beard before the beard was in. 20 years ago.
*Best line on Stockton, “Dishin out the pill like it’s a mineral.”
*Hakeem – “Blocking shots like a machete.” What?

Why? Because they’re All-Stars.

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by Basketball John on Sep 2, 2008 10:40 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

machete

That rhyme caught me off guard too. Why not “raining dunks like confetti” or “arms as long as spaghetti” or “came to the NBA from the Serengeti” ? Didn’t this rapper have a rhyming dictionary in the studio?

Cletus must have owed you somethin; fierce.

by MTN on Sep 2, 2008 11:49 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Did you see Stock throw up the Devil Horns? Who knew he was so bad ass?

by kris247 on Sep 3, 2008 11:30 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I can only imagine what this rapper extrordinaire would do with today's players.

Hello, Fellow? His name is Carmelo. He’s eating you up like fresh snow, unless it’s yellow. His b-slaps are sissy, his punch feels like a pillow….cuz he’s an all star.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.

by clarkpojo on Sep 3, 2008 2:44 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs

Alright

Someone needs to be commissioned to re-write this for last year’s All-Stars. Or maybe we should do it for the one coming up. It would be a 20th anniversary commemoration.

SLCDunk.com, The Utah Jazz on SBNation

by Basketball John on Sep 3, 2008 4:49 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

questions

1. Are they going to play the game in their suits?
2. Is it me or does Sir Charles still dress the same? plain shirt with a suit.

And the machete line was classic… That’s the first thing I think of when I think of Hakeem’s shot blocking… a machete.

Still, I agree with moni.. the best intro ever for the NBA all-star game.

Whitewater In The Morning

by neff on Sep 2, 2008 6:59 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

WHERE IS BIRD??????

1989 – was he injured? Or did I miss his intro?

The whole thing was a great reminiscence…except for Dale Ellis. I just don’t remember him being that good. The Blazers had great teams back then – fun to remember them. Mark Price had a sweet shot.

Magic highlights: damn. I was raised to dislike the Lakers from an early age, and I still hate Riley. But at some point you have to admit that Magic was insanely, incomparably good. Can you believe that people thought Jalen Rose would be the second coming of Magic? Or that LeBron – being as tall and able to dribble and pass a little – has drawn comparisons to Magic. No way. Incomparable.

Physically, Vince Carter could do what Jordan could, and more. In terms of all-around, Kobe forces comparisons to Jordan more than anybody has or probably will. And every tall white shooter from Dirk to Dunleavy to Mike Miller gets mentioned as a may-be Bird. But comparisons to Magic? I think you’d have to go outside of basketball, outside of sports, in fact. I want to say he’s like Jimi Hendrix…but there are all kinds of people who can cover Voodoo Chile nowadays. Who can ‘cover’ Magic? Incomparable.

Finally, can we all agree that every Malone highlight is really a Stockton highlight?

Cletus must have owed you somethin; fierce.

by MTN on Sep 2, 2008 11:46 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Finally, can we all agree that every Malone highlight is really a Stockton highlight?

and vice versa :)

by moni on Sep 3, 2008 1:34 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

WOW

That was simply amazing…. why? ‘cause he’s an all-star.

Ewing was hanging out with the rapper before the intros so lay off the look. You know if you saw that rapper he would have the face of Dominique but the clothing style of Ewing.

Does anyone know who the rapper is? If you can name the rapper then you are the all-star!

Yeah where is Larry “Legend”? And we all know that Magic wasn’t injured. He was filling the stat sheet that night but it wasn’t on the basketball court ;)

And Kareem gets no intro!? What’s up with that? The skyhook gets no intro, really!!??

by P_Dizzle on Sep 3, 2008 9:09 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

He doesn't get an intro...

Because the rapper couldn’t come up with anything that rhymed with goggles.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.

by clarkpojo on Sep 4, 2008 12:23 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

doesn't have to make sense

obviously the rapper threw the whole making sense idea out the window with “the dream”. so some options for rhyming with goggles are:
boondoggles
boggles – like after he sky hooks you your head boggles
hoggles – he is a ball-hoggle

lame choices but still way cooler than the rapper

and moni knowing that it is ultramagnetic mc is scary. i hope you read that and didn’t buy the dudes cd after that all-star game.

by P_Dizzle on Sep 4, 2008 8:37 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs