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In putting together the Top 35 Blocks post earlier this week, I rediscovered how awesome the old NBA Superstar videos were, and continue to be. If you don’t know what the NBA Superstar videos are, then I request that you leave this site immediately. No, no, don’t leave, I really need you as a regular reader, but I do ask that you familiarize yourself with these fantastic videos through this post. These videos set fantastic highlights of NBA stars to even more fantastic 80’s and early 90’s music. They allowed a generation of NBA fans, namely me, an opportunity to take a look at what we missed when we were three or four years old. We have compiled every video that can possibly be found on this internet in the post below. Watch and enjoy:
Michael Jordan – Take My Breath Away – Berlin
Jordan also appeared in the second NBA Superstars video – Feels Like Another One – Patti Labelle
Charles Barkley – The Warrior – Scandal
Charles Barkley in the second installment – Born to be Wild – Steppenwolf
Hakeem Olajuwon - How You Like Me Now?
Julius Erving – This is second favorite, because of the music – Greatest Love of All
Larry Bird – Small Town – John Mellencamp
Larry’s 2nd – Winning it all – The Outfield
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Dominique Wilkins – This is by far my favorite, because of the music – Looking Glass – Yanni
Dominique also appeared in the second Superstars video:
Isaiah Thomas – The Right Stuff
Magic Johnson – Control – Janet Jackson
Magic’s 2nd – I Will Remember You – Patti Austin
Olajuwon, Ewing and Robinson – The Centers – Meet Me in the Middle – Gladys Knight
Larry Johnson – Ain’t No Stopping This – LL Cool J
Chris Mullin and Tim Hardaway – Ready or Not – Wrecks N’ Effects
Karl Malone – I’ve Been Working Too Hard – Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Isaiah Thomas and Joe Dumars – No Pain, no Gain – Buckshot Lafonque
Mark Price – Black Gold – Soul Asylum
NBA Up and Comers – Are You Ready to Fly? – Rozalla – Good to see they consider Shawn Bradley an up and comer
Clyde Drexler – Teddy’s Jam 2- Guy
And finally, this is the last superstars video I could find and it details the games’ humble beginnings with "These are the Times to Rememeber," by Billy Joel.
I hope that is all of the available videos, because I did promise you. Please let me know if I missed any.
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I am getting pretty sick of all of the Erin Andrews coverage. “Erin Andrews wore a skirt!!!” “Erin Andrews took a bite out of a hot dog!!!” “Erin Andrews might have said ‘ground balls’ in a dirty way!!!” Frankly I just don’t get it. And that is why I was so happy to hear that the other sideline reporters all over the TV dial had gotten together to pose for this upcoming year’s 2008-2009 Sideline Reporter Swimsuit Calendar without little Miss. Prissy-Britches Erin Andrews, who was not invited to partake in the photo shoot. Finally, the Doris Burke’s and Michele Tafoya’s of the world had their day in the sun. And wouldn’t you know it; a lot of these more “traditional” sideline reporters were hiding gorgeous bodies behind their pantsuits and blazers. Take a look for yourself:
Miss January: Lisa Salters
Miss February: Doris Burke – You are a dirty girl Doris.
Miss March: Suzy Kolber
Miss April: Holly Rowe
Miss May: Shelly Smith – It turns out she does have a cute face
Miss June: Michelle Tafoya
Miss July: Lesley Visser
Miss August: Pam Ward
Miss September: Sam Ryan
Miss October: Pam Oliver
Mister November: Craig Sager – I’ll take a short stack of those Pamcakes.
Mister December: Peter Gammons
Unfortunately, Cheryl Miller just missed the calendar with this shot:
Calendars will go on sale in December, with all profits being donated to the Erin Andrews nose job foundation.
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It isn’t the .264 team batting average. It isn’t the Gary Sheffield hitting .213 or Curtis Granderson hitting .241 or Brandon Inge hitting .223. It isn’t Justin Verlander’s, Kenny Rogers’ or Nate Robinson’s plus 5 ERA. No friends the Tigers’ lack of success boils down, no pun intended, to the very sensitive posterior of Carlos Guillen. Jim Leyland explains:
“He can hardly move — he’s got hemorrhoids so bad,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Tuesday. “He’s been playing with hemorrhoids that probably need to be lanced. He probably shouldn’t have been out there (third base on Monday).”
Hemorrhoids notwithstanding, I refuse to push the panic button on this team until after the All-Star break. That being said, can you imagine what people would be saying if Alan Trammell was still the manager. Alan may have been fired already.  But the great Jim Leylan, with a career sub .500 record, doesn’t hear that type of ridicule. I will give Jime credit that he places blame for the teams’ struggles on himself, but owning up to a poor record means nothing if you can’t turn it around. I love Jim, but what do you think the press would be saying about Trammell was managing this team and had a 21-31 record through 52 games?
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Jason Maxiell is not an All-Star caliber player as of yet, but produces at least one "Oh my God," moment every game. In game 4, he produced two. Here they are:
He also hit three or four jumpers in the game, which brought me more joy than either of these two plays because it means he may become at 15 and 10 type of guy when he gets the minutes.
In honor of Jason’s ridiculousness, we have put together a list of the Top 35 blocks of all-time. We started with a top 25 list, but we found so many good ones, that we kept adding and adding until we got to 35. When we got there, there were three more that just had to be added, so we ended up with 38. Take a look
38. Samuel Dalembert on Lebron James – This one is more surprising than anything else. Lebron does not get blocked very often:
37. Tyrus Thomas on Jamison
36. Sasha Pavlovic on Jason Kidd
35. Shawn Kemp on Michael Jordan
34. Dikembe Mutombo on Tyson Chandler – It is hard to find many good Dikembe block videos on youtube and the like. This one on Chandler is pretty impressive, especially when you consider their 20 year age difference:
33. Amare Stoudamire on Andray Blatche – Poor Andre
32. Marcus Camby on Austin Croshere – I don’t think I have ever seen a ball travel farther after it was blocked
31. Kenyon Martin – Correction, this is the farthest I have ever seen a ball travel after it was blocked
30. Dennis Rodman on Michael Jordan
29. Patrick Ewing Jr. block saves the game against WVU…but it was probably a goaltend
28. Alonzo Mourning on Hakim Warrick
27. Tyrus Thomas on Rip Hamilton – Tyrus swats a Hamilton shot into the seats and then puts his nuts on the back of Rip’s head.
26. Brandon Wright against Maryland
25. Bill Walton tries to block a shot with his shoe
24. Greg Oden against Tennessee – Big block to seal the game
23. Alonzo Mourning block Josh Smith
22. Josh Smith block Dwayne Wade – He hangs in the air for a good three seconds
21. Tayshaun Prince on Hedo Turkoglu
20. Lebron James on Rajon Rondo:
19. Michael Jordan against the Bulls:
18. Bogan Pogovic
17. Shaq on Michael Jordan
16. Kevin Garnett and Dwyane Wade – I like how KG puts this into the upper bowl
15. Tayshaun Prince on Reggie Miller
14. Josh Smith blocks Chris Bosh
13. More Jason Maxiell
12. Dwight Howard against Atlanta
11. Manue Bol four blocks on one play
10. David Robinson on MJ
And look at him run the floor like a deer. He has some handles:
9. Laphonso Ellisbeing Laphonso Ellis
8. Hakeem Ojajuwon against Portland. Is there a big man in the game today that could run the floor and make this block?
7. Cliff Hammonds block on James Gist:
6. Steve Francis against the Raptors
5. Nate Robinson on Yao Ming
4. Earl Watson on Shawn Bradley
3. Earl Boykins against the Clippers
2. Every Shawn Bradley block attempt
1. Lebron James against the Sacramento Kings –(First Clip) Take a look at the angry face he makes before he drills the ball out of bounds. That’s what makes this block my favorite.
Disclaimer: I came across this video, which has at least three blocks that would end up in the top 10, unfortunately, I can’t find separate videos of them anywhere. Take a look at the block by Jordan on Ewing, or Barkley’s block, or even Wilt blocking Kareem’s skyhook, they are unreal:
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One of our staples here over at the Angry T is compiling pictures of hot girls at big events. We refuse to disappoint fans of hot chicks and the Indianapolis 500 by not doing the same for this event. Take a look at the tail that was running around on race day:
I think the story of this year’s Indy 500 is Venezuelan Driver Milka Duno. She definitely gives Danica a run for her money:
My very own Dancing with the Stars hero…oh, she was in the Olympics as well, who knew?
Dancing with the Stars’ Julianne Hough:
I like this one better, but unfortunately she wasn’t wearing this top at the 500:
Top Model Whitney Thompson:
Allison Sweet from Days of Our Lives:
Scott Dixon and his hot wife:
You are very cute when you’re angry Danica
I still like you when you are angry:
Darma and Greg’s own Jenna Elfman:
Julianne Hough sings the national anthem, she is at least a double threat:
Sabrina Bryan, a "Cheetah Girl," whatever the hell that is:
This is my ideal chick:
Here are some real life pictures of Milka Kuno:
I think I still like the pictures of Milka in the racing suit the most. There is just something about a woman driving a car 220 miles per hour that gets me going.
