What Athlete Would You Like To See A Movie About??

[Rockadelic]

didnt he get adopted into a white family?

He went to Jr. College in Oklahoma and during one of the first practices they had an open house where the locals could come watch the team.......some young white kid like 14-15yrs old kinda hit it off with Dennis, invited him home for dinner and he lived there for 2 years.......quite a change from Oak Cliff/Dallas.

I've done some work with a company he owns here called Rodman Excavation that he started for/with one of his childhood friends......that guy swears that Rodman is as normal as it gets and that the "Hollywood" Rodman is an act.....never met him but I wouldn't bet against it.

Hearing other stories from locals, especially about how good he was offensively even though he had virtually no shot, no one could stop him if he decided to go to the hoop.

 

[pcmr]

Manute Bol.

Thats a great pic

I would also like a russia/canada or russia/usa hockey movie not as blantantly horrible as

 

[Rockadelic]

[
. There are a lt of those never made it , street court legends that would make great movies. The articles on them are a great read if anything

Pee Wee Kirkland.....supposedly once turned down a contract offer from the Lakers cause "I make more money than that on the street in one month" Pimp. Playa, Baller.....showed up to Rucker games in a Limo!!!

 

[motown67]

What Rodman does today is definitely an "act" meant to get media attention and make money off of it. I never bought any of those stories that said he was a head case. It all seemed very planned to me from the get go.

 

[CortezTheKiller]

Rodman should have been given the MVP of the Bulls Championship against the Seattle Supes. He was dominating on D and the glass on both ends. Jordan was held to under 28 points per game for the series...

 

[motown67]

Manute Bol.

Not enough people know about him, but it would be a great story. Guy came from Sudan of all places. He ended up losing all of his money and was basically going around begging for money from his friends to take care of bills and a large extended family plus the problems in his homeland. Then he got in a bad car accident last year I think, and was in the hospital for a very long time. His old Warriors' teammates like Mullin, Richmond, Higgins did some fund raising for him.

 

[motown67]

And he did that celebrity boxing thing!

He's been very active trying to educate people in the U.S. about what's happening in Sudan however.

 

[pcmr]

And he did that celebrity boxing thing!

He's been very active trying to educate people in the U.S. about what's happening in Sudan however.

Thats great..Darfur needs to be known to all. (ill skip a passionate rant about the UN handling of the situation)

How did Manute lose his $$$???
he also played hockey in a celebrity game


Rock:I read an article about that guy and his limo/rucker
jesus man cats had crazy ideas back in the day......coke....cough!!!

 

One night I was out at the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas, maybe 6 years ago. Me and maybe 3 friends were all at one bar, on the far right end of the bar just taking it all in because I couldn't believe how much unattainable eye candy was in there. Anyway, all of a sudden security comes over and moves us away a few feet while they put out this velvet rope to cordon off a little area.

So we move back and all of a sudden it was like a big fake-titty magnet got placed inside those ropes, because all of the silicon in Vegas surrounded us waiting for whoever was coming there to show up. Me, three knuckleheads, and 50 or so porn-star looking women in this one little area. I thought I was tripping. Then we see this tall dude in a black cowboy hat and leather vest making his way through the crowd and realized it was Rodman making his way over to that spot.

It was the most surreal thing I've ever seen. Dude is just standing there leaning against the wall maybe 6 feet behind the rope, and all these women (and four lucky males) are just standing there smiling at him, waving, shaking their tits, and jockeying for position. Dude is surveying the throng in thongs, and then I realize he's looking over at us. He gives us an "I got it like that" look and looks away.

I look at the one woman next to me, lean over and say something incredibly stupid like "Hi". She looked right at me and made some sort of undiscernable noise and looked back at Rodman. My friends and I eventually got crowded out and went gambling.

 

[Rockadelic]

And he did that celebrity boxing thing!

He's been very active trying to educate people in the U.S. about what's happening in Sudan however.

Thats great..Darfur needs to be known to all. (ill skip a passionate rant about the UN handling of the situation)

How did Manute lose his $$$???
he also played hockey in a celebrity game


Rock:I read an article about that guy and his limo/rucker
jesus man cats had crazy ideas back in the day......coke....cough!!!
One of the best Pee Wee stories is about the time he was going to play against Dr. J at Rucker......streets were abuzz with talk about how Kirkland was gonna school the suburban Julius......come game time Pee Wee's a no show.....Doc's team runs away with the game from the tip off......at halftime Pee Wee arrives in his limo with a woman on each arm and the place goes beserk.....he throws down something like 37 points in the second half and hits the winning shot....the stuff legends are made of....even though I'm sure they get blown a little bit out of proportion as time goes on.....best resource for coverage and history of playground players is Slam Magazine!!

 

the suburban Julius

Roosevelt, Long Island STAND UP!!!!!

 

[pcmr]

Best for coverage and history of playground players is Slam Magazine!!

co-sign

I read that article. I love them..long informative..passionate with pictures to boot. I was once a basketball collectro and those editors are true fans and real heads.

 

[Rockadelic]

the suburban Julius

Roosevelt, Long Island STAND UP!!!!!
Eddie Murphy too!!

One of my Mother-In-Laws most exciting moments was waiting on Doc at Penny's/Roosevelt Field!!

And of course quite possibly the greatest athlete of all-time is from Long Island!!

 

the suburban Julius

Roosevelt, Long Island STAND UP!!!!! Eddie Murphy too!!

One of my Mother-In-Laws most exciting moments was waiting on Doc at Penny's/Roosevelt Field!!
Eddie was once on Phil Donahue's show and mentioned how as a kid they used to cross the bridge over the parkway and steal bicycles from the white boys in Merrick. I live on the block that the bridge leads into and had mine stolen in '87, but I don't think it was Eddie as he was fairly famous at that time.

My best friend growing up, his mom went to high school with Dr. J said he was nice.

And of course quite possibly the greatest athlete of all-time is from Long Island!!

Manhasset STAND THE FUCK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!!

Good call Rich.

 

[PrimeCutsLtd]

I'd like to see a movie about the 2002 usa olympic hurling....I mean curling team.

 

[BigRube]

ima say andre "bad moon" rison

you know left eye was a trip.

 

[PrimeCutsLtd]

ima say andre "bad moon" rison

you know left eye was a trip.

Yea I'd like to see that too.

 

[HarveyCanal]

This guy:

And this guy:

This guy too:

And this guy deserves a remake:

 

[batmon]

The mix of sports heroism and personal dramas =

He's not much of a personality to sell his story. Plus the drug drama thing is so RAY2005...

Co-sign on Jim Brown.............Lacrosse

Artest's story is being written as we speak.

Rodman' story is still too fresh.........its needs to marinate for a decade. He's still in the media.

This cat has a hellafied story that would be Big movie shit...........

All his fighting against aparthied/racism/aids.........

 

[Campag_Record]

Lance Armstrong?

Seven Tour wins after beating cancer