A couple days ago, ESPN's Marc Stein revealed the Eastern Conference rosters for the new NBA Jam game. Most teams have three current players and at least one legend, although some teams (such as the Charlotte Bobcats and Milwaukee Bucks) are legendless.
(Sorry, Big Dog. You didn't make the legends cut.)
Some of the legends made me laugh (Glen Rice and Rony Seikaly for the Heat), some made me want to cry (Detlef Schrempf for the Pacers instead of Reggie Miller or Rik Smits), and still others left me scratching my shaved head (Larry Johnson is a Knicks legend...really?!).
Other notables: No Jordan. Penny Hardaway isn't one of Orlando's legends (that honor goes to Nick "The Brick" Anderson and Scott Skiles). Manute Bol is Washington's sole legend. The Pistons somehow got four current players (Richard Hamilton, Rodney Stuckey, Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordon). Oh, and Bill Laimbeer is a Detroit legend...so we all get one more chance to thug him.
I gotta admit, I'm stoked. Can't wait to find out the Western Conference lineups. Any legends predictions? Any Eastern Conference legends you would have liked to see (I was thinking Wilt Chamberlain for Philly myself).
Btw, the Raptors don't have a legend presumably because (giggle) Vince Carter is still, like, an active player and stuff (he's on the Magic's Jam roster). But they do have their mascot! (H/T Sorbo, Mladen and chris)
(Sorry, Big Dog. You didn't make the legends cut.)
Some of the legends made me laugh (Glen Rice and Rony Seikaly for the Heat), some made me want to cry (Detlef Schrempf for the Pacers instead of Reggie Miller or Rik Smits), and still others left me scratching my shaved head (Larry Johnson is a Knicks legend...really?!).
Other notables: No Jordan. Penny Hardaway isn't one of Orlando's legends (that honor goes to Nick "The Brick" Anderson and Scott Skiles). Manute Bol is Washington's sole legend. The Pistons somehow got four current players (Richard Hamilton, Rodney Stuckey, Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordon). Oh, and Bill Laimbeer is a Detroit legend...so we all get one more chance to thug him.
I gotta admit, I'm stoked. Can't wait to find out the Western Conference lineups. Any legends predictions? Any Eastern Conference legends you would have liked to see (I was thinking Wilt Chamberlain for Philly myself).
Btw, the Raptors don't have a legend presumably because (giggle) Vince Carter is still, like, an active player and stuff (he's on the Magic's Jam roster). But they do have their mascot! (H/T Sorbo, Mladen and chris)
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...no. No, you're right.
Nyets fail. Again.
[nods vigorously]
Magic + Kareem
KJ + Dan Majerle + Tom Chambers
D. Robinson + Sean Elliot
Gary Payton + Shawn Kemp (+ Xavier McDaniel and Benoit Benjamin)
Hakeem + Kenny Smith
...
Drexel + kevin Duckworth + Cliff Robinson
...
Shawn Bradley
...
Cherokee Parks
...
Bryant Reeves
...
Jim Jackson + Popeye Jones...
For shame.
But hey, in all fairness, he MAY have a comeback...
I love playing the arcade version through the MAME emulator on my PC, and seeing Iuzzolino throw down ridiculous jams while the classic NBA Jam announcer goes crazy always makes me laugh. Even better, I was talking with a friend of mine one day and he said "I actually went to high school with a guy who played in the NBA. You've probably never heard of him though -- Mike Iuzzolino." Yeah, that is one of the most randomly awesome things I have ever heard in my life.
Ah, the original arcade version of Jam...good times. Of course, browsing the Wiki page only reminded me that Reggie Miller was on the Pacers on every version of NBA Jam...
...until now.
Looking at the NBA Jam wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Jam), most of the "legends" are coming from the original game (minor tweaks aside, like Iverson), meaning Mashburn or Dikembe are coming to the West Coast teams.
Also, are the Supersonics in the game, or will the Thunder steal their legends like they stole the franchise?
non-obvious Western legends/mascots -
Uta: Mark Eaton.
LaL: The Logo
LaC: Manning, Donald Sterling
Sac: Vlade, Webber
Long shot: Kelly Tripucka. I just like his name.
You BITE YOUR TONGUE, Sir! Rony Seikaly is a mother-fucking musical genius!
Ron Artest auctioning his championship ring? I'll just leave this here...
Bos: Russell
Ind: Smits
Mia: Zo
NJN: Coleman (I'm stretching "legend" here)
And the Pistons having extra players is due to the developers coming from Detroit (famously, the Bulls couldn't beat the Pistons in the original unless the Bulls lead by a certain number of points in the third, or something like that).
(To bad he didn't make the Heat Legends...)
http://www.lostlettermen.com/2010/09/feature-uscs-harold-mineer-speaks-after-years-of-silence/
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=5550421
Wonder how Noah would play as a nugget.
Also, would Seattle riot if they put Kemp and Payton in the game as OKC Thunder legends? And does any team have a hope of beating a Lakers lineup that could possibly be choosing from Kobe, Pau, Magic, and Kareem?
I like Noah, and Deng is a decent third option, but the Nuggets would need a superstar-type player from the draft next year in order to for that trade to pay off.
Chicago: Boozer, Melo, and Rose; with Korver shooting threes would round out that offense nicely. It's interesting, and could be a better combination of players than the Heat (a good mix of inside-outside scoring with some three-point shooting), but they would be giving up defense and shot blocking (and maybe rebounding, too).
The Bulls would match up with Miami, but anyone with size (Celtics, Magic) can beat them. Taj Gibson or Kurt Thomas at center, anyone?
-other Legends: Tommy Heinsohn. Gugliota for Minnesota. Barkley for Phoenix. Sabonis in Portland. Does he count as a "legend"?
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AvZSKSw0wmfttl7orS.RkDy8vLYF?slug=aw-blattcoachk090910
Or at least basketball-media-awful?
The '72 game is tough to watch, just because it was a giant clusterf**k by score keepers and the officials. The game should have been replayed or thrown out altogether. Here's the link on the background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics#Gold_Medal_Match_controversy
can you please at least come up with plausible Melo trades? I'm sick of seeing rumors about how the Nuggets are going to trade Melo for a mediocre player with 5 years left on his cap-destroying deal, a couple of mediocre draft picks, and a "young guy with potential" who I've only ever heard of from reading lacktion reports.
You'd think, with as many NBA fans as there are out there, that somebody could at least come up with a rumored package that the Nuggets would actually rather have than "nothing".
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Exciting-news-for-Greg-Ostertag-enthusiasts;_ylt=Aq1.D_VaYu5XmUBNrt3.wRC8vLYF?urn=nba-268768
Mike -- I doubt Michael Jordan will make it into NBA Jam even as an unlockable character. 2K Sports has already paid a ton for the licensing fees to use him in NBA 2K11, and even if they don't have some kind of exclusivity contract, EA Sports still doesn't have the rights to his likeness, and it'd cost them a pretty penny, and you wouldn't want to spend that much on a character who isn't even available in the game unless you unlock him.
wv: combis. The legend combis are weird.
You seen to know a lot about NBA video games. What do you think a run-of-the-mill NBA player charges to use his likeness in a game? (Say, for example, a mediocre rotation-guy like Flip Murray)
And by comparison, what do you think MJ wants as compensation?
Just curious. (About the money! The money...)
In which current games can you create your own player and play a season?
I had one circa 2001 for my computer that allowed that - it was fun to make a 5'6" center who lead the league in blocks, for example.
I'd like to find something similar and current, preferably for the Wii or for a windows comp.
Any suggestions for games?