Good afternoon, basketball fans, and welcome to another edition of The Best Plays You’ve Never Seen Before! In this post you will find spectacular highlights with only a few Youtube views, including a reckless take by Gerald Wallace, a meandering attack by Tracy McGrady, and a dangerously-spectacular alley-oop from Shareef Abdur-Rahim to Michael Dickerson. The digging has been done for you… all you’ve got to do is scroll down and press play!
We’ll begin this nostalgic journey with a monster dunk by none other than Gerald Wallace. As he so often does, Crash pretty much hurls himself towards the basket. Jannero Pargo bails on a half-assed defensive effort and narrowly avoids being completely mowed over.
Drawing charges in the open court: not a strength of Jannero Pargo.
Next up, Tyson Chandler. Long before he became Defensive Player of the Year, Chandler was supposed to help the Bulls return to the top of the Eastern Conference after the retirement of Michael Jordan. Taken second overall in the 2001 draft (and traded to Chicago for Elton Brand), I’d still argue that Chandler has failed to live up to expectations. He looked pretty good on this play, though, as he swatted the sh!t out of first-overall pick Kwame Brown.
Decent block from Antonio Davis as well. Kinda scary that the Wizards were feeding the ball to Kwame Brown and Brendan Haywood late in a close playoff game.
For the featured play, I present to you an incredible lob from Shareef Abdur-Rahim to Michael Dickerson. It’s #4 in this NBA Action countdown, but I would’ve had it #1.
Dickerson must’ve realized he was in danger of wrecking himself, but he was still able to concentrate long enough to put the ball in the hoop. Gutsy play, man.
Moving right along, here’s Tracy McGrady doing his thing (Tracy McGrady’s thing: schooling five Utah defenders). On this particular play, T-Mac discards Gordan Giricek with a spinning crossover, then slices through the lane and finishes with a lefty scoop shot…
Unfortunately for T-Mac and his Rockets, Houston would go on to lose this first-round showdown in seven games. A year later, Utah kept Houston out of the semifinals once again. Despite Mac’s scoring prowess, it just never panned out in H-Town.
To wrap things up, here’s Ray Allen posterizing Jay Williams in an exhibition game between Team USA’s Senior and Select teams…
I have a friend who once played against a youthful Ray Allen. He often tells a story about a dunk Ray did that seems very similar to this one. He also says Ray’s calf muscles look even bigger in person. I believe it.
