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How good the Jazz have it.

craig2112 said:
Reminds me of a story from Jayson Williams, the former Nets center, who hated Rick Barry for some reason, so when he was playing against one of the Barry brothers, probably Brent, he was really hitting him hard. Brent finally said "Why are you punishing me so bad, Jay?"
Jayson answered "Cause your father is a dick!"
Brent said "Jay, I don't like him either"
Jayson said "Oh man. I'm sorry" and stopping playing Brent so physical.
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Hahaham, I hope that is a true story.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Hahaham, I hope that is a true story.
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It's in Jayson's book called "Loose Balls" It's a funny read, although the more I read it, the more I thought Jayson is a complete moron and a thug. I really don't know why people say he's such a great guy.

But it is interesting.

But the best story is about Jayson first seeing Larry Bird. (I may have posted this already, but it's great). I'll even quote Jayson on this:

I remember the first time playing against Larry Bird. It was one of his last years, and Charles Barkely was already a star, but Larry was just killing Charlie. Then Armen took him, and he was killing Armen. I looked up from the Sixers' bench and I said, "How the hell is he doing this, that skinny-assed white boy?" I said to Jim Lynam. "Put me in the game, Coach!"

He said, "You think you can handle him?"
I said, "Yeah, I can handle him"

He put me in the game and the first thing Larry does is get the ball, look at me, and say "Hey rookie," while he shoots a three-pointer in my face.
"Damn," I say. "He ain't gonna shoot the next one."
The next time he gets the ball, he fakes and I jump about three feet off the ground and he dribbles around me and hits a layup. The next time I play it straight up, and he raises up and hits another three. He scores like 14 points in six minutes. He messed my mind up so much, I didn't want to play basketball anymore. I just wanted to beat him up. I'd never been killed in a spurt that quickly.

So I'm back on the bench again and Charles is getting his *** ate up again. Jim Lynam looks down the bench at me and I just start staring into the crowd. I have no eye contact with him. I do no want to go back out there and play Larry Bird again.
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If you want a really entertaining NBA book, get "Chocolate Thunder" by Darrel Dawkins. It's mostly about all the chicks he banged, but it's dang funny.

The best is when he wasn't playing much and he gave the coach crap about that, and finally pissed off the coach. So the next game, the coach puts him in and leaves him in for a whole quarter. Darrel gets totally gassed and asks to come out, but the coach leaves him in. When the quarter ends, Darrel collapses on the bench and sucks wind and the coach just laughs at him and says "I thought you wanted to play more! Don't piss me off again"
 
I like reading books by pro athletes. They aren't good writing, but they have great stories and interesting insights in the world of pro sports.

Larry Bird wrote a couple of great books. Charles Barkely wrote a good one.
Best one from Charles is he is talking about how Jordan always yelled at his teammates and finally Bill Cartright gets fed up and threatens to beat the snot out of of MJ if he doesn't shut up. MJ shut up. For some reason I feel out of my chair and laughed for a good 5 minutes.
 
I liked Terry Pluto's Loose Balls much better.

Rick Barry is the the most hated NBA player of all time. Mostly based on his gigantic ego. Brent's dislike for him is pretty well known.
 
Boy did this thread take a nose dive.

Back to the original topic. This gives me new hope and confidence that the Warriors will end up giving us the #8 pick. It's just how the Warriors roll.
 
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