calorie cap (kal'-uh-re kap) noun. A theoretical limit on how much weight a basketball player can gain before he loses the ability to compete and/or fails to reach his potential.
Usage example: Michael Sweetney was waaaaay over the calorie cap last year. And the year before that. And the year before that...
Word History: The term was coined by the 1990-91 Chicago Bulls to describe Stacy King's colossal ass. According to Steve Smith's The Jordan Rules: "[The Bulls coaching staff] felt [King's] upside remained substantial, even if his backside did, too. The players would taunt King about staying under the 'calorie cap.' 'Calorie cap problems,' someone would invariably say to him during practice." King was indeed a rampaging pork beast -- by 1991 standards. However, Oliver Miller came along a few years later and created a new Gold Standard for NBA obesity. And then he ate it.
Other notable calorie cap offenders include post-Seattle Shawn Kemp, post-Milwaukee Vin Baker, Robert "Tractor" Traylor, Jerome James, and Shaq.
Update: How could I forget William Bedford (thanks Josh), Eddy Curry, and Zach Randolph (thanks anonymous)?
Oliver Miller remains the Gold Standard for fat basketball players.
Usage example: Michael Sweetney was waaaaay over the calorie cap last year. And the year before that. And the year before that...
Word History: The term was coined by the 1990-91 Chicago Bulls to describe Stacy King's colossal ass. According to Steve Smith's The Jordan Rules: "[The Bulls coaching staff] felt [King's] upside remained substantial, even if his backside did, too. The players would taunt King about staying under the 'calorie cap.' 'Calorie cap problems,' someone would invariably say to him during practice." King was indeed a rampaging pork beast -- by 1991 standards. However, Oliver Miller came along a few years later and created a new Gold Standard for NBA obesity. And then he ate it.
Other notable calorie cap offenders include post-Seattle Shawn Kemp, post-Milwaukee Vin Baker, Robert "Tractor" Traylor, Jerome James, and Shaq.
Update: How could I forget William Bedford (thanks Josh), Eddy Curry, and Zach Randolph (thanks anonymous)?
Labels: Chicago Bulls, fat guys, Stacy King, Word of the Day
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Has-Beens & Meaningless Games
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What creeps me out is that Oliver Miller averaged like 13 points for the Craptors that year.
heh they are pretty fat.
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http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/5668/raptors114cb.jpg
Let's look at the evidence:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/news/2000/03/06/barkley/lg_barkley_all_01.jpg
Charles was as big as he was great. But you just know he couldn't say no to a bowl of grits:
http://www.nba.com/media/suns/barkley_220_feature.jpg
Unlike most of the players in the fat list, though, Barkley was actually very athletic despite his huge ass, and was also very canny at using his humongous ass to make space for himself in the paint.
The name says it all.
I always thought you were a bit too hard on Greg Ostertag (even though he, indeed, was a...you-know-what, lump). But then, I watched some retro tape of a Jazz game in 2000, and found you were totally correct: the big Tag takes up a LOT of space and not much else. Hell, I bet it pumped up the Utah team every time he grabbed a rebound, even if nobody was near him.
I shall never doubt you on thing slike this again, Basketbawful.
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