Bill Russell jumps over a guy

[clayton]

Look at that shitty dribble.

[ThaRegul8r]

It's on yahoo too

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-...34--ncaab.html

Interesting how quickly it's getting around.

It's a good thing too, as perhaps people will start giving some respect to the greats of yesteryear. It's annoying to me how people feel the necessity to constantly disparage past greats (which smacks of insecurity), and then these same people will turn around and whine about how their favorite players are being "hated" on. I wish people would just appreciate greatness when and wherever it is instead of just whomever their favorite player(s) happens to be.

[La Frescobaldi]

literally, I've been going across the internet reading responses about the video and while most of them are positive/amazed - there are people out there still so stuck on the stigma of "60s player = no good" that they are trying to convince everyone that big men today do stuff like that all the time...

McGee, one of the most athletic centers in the league today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIzDVFM50ok

It isn't easy for big men with huge wingspans to rebound and run their own fast breaks - let alone leaping across the key like that over a player that steps in front of them - all in the flow of a game

There are still a few of us that remember.
People been laughing at my stories of Chamberlain, Russell, Thurmond, Jerry West all these years.
Shoot just the other day was a whole bunch of people right here on this board trying to say Patrick Ewing would eat up these guys.
He never went to the top, CAVs, he just wasn't THOSE guys.
Ewing never skied like Wilt after a blocked shot, never came remotely close to #13. He couldn't rebound like Wilt, couldn't intimidate like Nate, just couldn't.

Straight up who thinks Patrick Ewing ever saw a single day when he could run with Bill Russell? He never did.

And Ewing is one of the greats.

[bmd]

Why are people making out over this?

It's not like he threw it down... he layed the ball up... and he is like 7 feet tall.

It's not surprising he could lay the ball up from the dotted line...

[LikeABosh]

5' 9" white guy

[CavaliersFTW]

Interesting how quickly it's getting around.

It's a good thing too, as perhaps people will start giving some respect to the greats of yesteryear. It's annoying to me how people feel the necessity to constantly disparage past greats (which smacks of insecurity), and then these same people will turn around and whine about how their favorite players are being "hated" on. I wish people would just appreciate greatness when and wherever it is instead of just whomever their favorite player(s) happens to be.

Type "Bill Russell" in google search under the filter of "past 24 hours"

It's all over the internet now

[ThaRegul8r]

Why are people making out over this?

It's not like he threw it down... he layed the ball up... and he is like 7 feet tall.

He isn't (and was never) 7 feet tall.

This should be common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about basketball. Even a simple Google search would have told you he wasn't 7 feet tall.

[CavaliersFTW]

Why are people making out over this?

It's not like he threw it down... he layed the ball up... and he is like 7 feet tall.

It's not surprising he could lay the ball up from the dotted line...

so mad

[bmd]

He isn't (and was never) 7 feet tall.

This should be common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about basketball. Even a simple Google search would have told you he wasn't 7 feet tall.

It's hyperbole.

I didn't mean he is literally 7 feet, 0 inches tall.

I know he's not literally that tall. He's like 6'9", 6'10".

[fpliii]

Look at that shitty dribble.

[bmd]

so mad

I'm not mad. Why would I be? I keep it real.

He layed the ball up from the dotted line. He looked graceful doing it, but that is literally what he did.

[DonDadda59]

Wow

Just the speed that he got up the court with was impressive, but then the leap... it was like watching a Panther in the wild. Morgan Freeman was a bad mamajamma in his youth

[CavaliersFTW]

I'm not mad. Why would I be? I keep it real.

He layed the ball up from the dotted line. He looked graceful doing it, but that is literally what he did.

He looked graceful doing it, but it was still a layup from the dotted line.

If it's nothing but a graceful layup why is the sports world creaming their pants over it right now?

[La Frescobaldi]

so mad

You know another clip you've got that really rocks and should be a gif?
Chamberlain volleyball bump in that college game, where he goes to top of backboard on that blocked shot

[jaydacris]

I thought Bill Gates jumping over a chair was more impressive