The Best Layup Line Ever

After doing the All-Time Dream Team a few days ago, buddy Dan Ek (who says his streetball nickname is Serge Zwikker) requested we do a list of the best white players ever. Why wouldn't we? The past few years while we were at CMU, most emails exchanged between us included a ridiculous pic of a player with skin tone similar to us. Just a stupid tradition.

So he emailed me his starting 5, and I put together my 15-man roster, and we'll have one of my former students, Drew Fairlss, weighing in with his thoughts as well. I'll post that maybe tomorrow night.

But for today's post, I looked at some guys who didn't make the cut, then decided to do a different list. 15 current or former white NBA players, who would make the most absurd looking layup line in the history of basketball. (I like going with the college 15-man roster over the NBA 12 so I can include more guys). But just imagine walking into a gym and seeing this group of guys taking turn with layups, then spending a little bit of time doing some pre-game dunk contest stuff, and throwing each other alley-oops, doing trick shots, and just hanging around together. I know I'd show up two hours early to watch that and try and get some autographs. Here's the list, complete with pictures linked just so you can get a picture in your head. The only rule for this list (SPOILER ALERT!!!!) is that nobody who made my real 15-man roster could be included. Because I know you care about my fake rules for my fake team.

Here we go. The Best Layup Line you have ever seen (or imagined).

Chris 'Birdman' Andersen
Kurt Rambis
Jack Sikma
Bill Laimbeer
Shawn Bradley
Greg Ostertag
Matt Geiger
Brian Scalabrine
Brian Cardinal
Brad Miller
Bryant Reeves
Adam Morrison
Robert Swift
Luke Harangody
Todd MacCulloch

Random thoughts to go with the random list... I love the MacCulloch Nets picture. Greatest team in the world? Nice work SLAM magazine.... Andersen wins that dunk contest in warmups... Scalabrine wins trick shot contest, I just feel like he practices those the most... Cardinal hustles the most... Ostertag, Big Country and MacCulloch battle to the death in a wing eating contest.... Rambis acts as player/coach, leading Laimbeer to resent him... Geiger and Miller get each other's backs in bar fights on road trips... and everyone picks on Swift for being weird.

Here's a video I've probably posted before... Did McHale even get ejected? People say the NFL has gotten softer... remember when stuff like this happened more often in the NBA? When the Bad Boys and Riley's Knicks just beat the crap out of people? Was a technical even called here? Today, he might be banned 10 games. This game? Personal foul?



Slainte,
Gary