The biggest underdog story in NBA history isn’t well known but a star from the ‘90’s used to work at a grocery store. He barely made the NBA but once he got there he became a legend.
@@olivergreenway2307 There’s a hell of a difference in “bad” when in respect to those things. Plus, it’s not as if he just had sex with her and had the kid, and then was an actual father. He intentionally missed out on that kid’s life. So it’s a lot more than a couple bad moments
Amazingly, Starks gets hate for that Game 7 performance when Patrick was MIA for the entire series. I don't care that he was playing against Hakeem, he's an all-time great too, and should've played better. Expecting an undrafted, inefficient, fringe All-Star to carry a team to a championship was insane.
Wtf are you talking about? No one asked him to carry us. We wanted him to STOP TRYING TO CARRY US. If you ain’t hitting your threes and your name isn’t Reggie Miller, STOP TAKING THEM. Get this bullshit out of here.
One of the greatest Knicks player of all time. Because no one knew that he played with the Golden State Warriors and the Utah Jazz. The team that he retired from, but he will always be remembered. As a New York Knicks for life.
The Bulls were my team in the 90’s but I was fan of Starks too. I loved his intensity and crazyness. That rivalry with the Bulls was great during the playoffs. And that dunk was epic. That Knicks team deserved championship trophy too.
I love this type of content. It's interesting, and it gives me a break from all that manufactured contraversy on ESPN and outragous takes. You are a great storyteller, too.
Such a huge John Starks fan. I met him for the first time in June 2023 at a grand opening event in NYC. He also signed my memorabilia book, which I made in 1993❤❤
“I got a shot like Pedrag and a mouth like John Starks” ….that bar probably needs to be paused in 2023 but it always comes to mind whenever I hear or see him lol
@@Isthatoumar I think you’re missing the point. It’s about Don Nelson discovering him. Not about 20-30 years later. Back then we drafted Mullin, Hardaway, Richmond, Marciulonis.
John Starks was one of my favorite players back in the 1990's with the NY Knicks for the simple fact that he made it to the NBA on a NY Knicks roster as a blue-collar guy. Sometimes in life, it's not the superstars that are inspiring. To a degree, I used a player like John Starks as an inspiration to obtain my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Many critics stated that John Starks wouldn't make in the NBA. And somehow he did regardless of how, he made it. I enjoyed listening to Michael Jordan's Hall-of-Fame speech. I remembered MJ said something like "John, I love you," I had assumed he was complimenting John Paxson, his teammate. I always revered that guy too. I'm a bit different from other fans, I appreciate the players not often discussed. Those are the reasons why I love the game of basketball. Team game.
Knicks fan for 30yrs. Thank you. Our fans go wild over that dunk and as a hooper I get confused. Certain angles make the dunk look wild but he did not dunk on MJ. I wish he did though
New York on this era was stacked and somehow whe people do the listing staring at Ewing somehow always put Starks way down the list but I saw that era and Starks es key to glue and handle the Ball right left up down Center... There has and is a reason why Bulls Pacers aim at him to go over the team in post season.
The NFL should have a similar rule about not cutting players who were put on IR during the season, but as long as the NFL don't give their players guaranteed contracts, that will never happen.
Hey A.M love ur content i just want to give an idea i just though of, ive seen you do it before and it is to do your nba seed predictions for each conference
Ayyye Tulsa on the map! Starks was a classmate with my mom. She was taller than him, at 5'11". He would try to talk trash and call taller ppl "Too Tall Jones" Always had good camps for the kids. One of our 4 NBA legends along with Dumas, Mayberry and Tisdale.
what pro athletes did in college or before college literally doesnt matter. who cares what job people had in college. doesnt make them more impressive or impressive at all. what people do in college is literally irrelevant after they graduate. what you do in college doesnt really matter afterwards
Man, as a Knicks fan of 30yrs, I was never a Starks fan. I respected his toughness and gritty play. But he was a bonehead. I don’t care what anyone says. Sure, he overcame some shit. You get my respect for that. But if you can’t hit shots, don’t take them and sure as shit don’t take 10 of them in the 4th quarter of a Game 7 Finals. I respect the man but I am not a fan of the player. Starks was very frustrating to watch back then. But I also have to be mad at the FO. Ewing dragged the carcass of a squad that had no business being in the Finals to one win from a ring. Anthony Mason is my favorite Knick and Oakley was a dog. Harper was a good pickup but I’m sorry, it should never have been enough to get as far as we did. That makes me love those teams but I’m realistic.
