SOMETHING ABOUT PENNY (Mini Documentary) 

He seems real humble. Comes off as a really nice down to earth guy

I can see him winning a championship 🏆 as a head coach with the tigers

If I could play like anyone it would be Anfernee

True

eggzackly -- even mike himself said tha league belong'd to penny after he retired ✌ ...shid, niggaz knew what time it waz

Exactly

Jason Robertson Penny’s shoe is the only signature Mike ever wore in a game. That says enough in itself.

Rom 8 for sure

Dont put lebron in a post move discussion dude is overrated cant make shake and bake perfectly he cant even play a game 90% post plays

Prime Penny Hardaway was a better passer then Lebron James and TMac, however tmac was a hell of a passer for a 2time scoring champion that never made it out of the 1st round of the playoffs in his prime

@@carlwallace1129 @Carl Wallace There never was a prime Penny. He got injured long before reaching his prime. if you compare kobe to penny at the same age, then kobe was not half as good. Penny played awesome from day 1 in the NBA. Also in 95 when jordan came back he beat the chicago bulls in the conference finals... If it wasnt for nick anderson they might have even won the finals...He was 23 at that time(Hardaway) in 96 he got injured in the playoffs and he never fully recovered although he had still some success in 97 playoffs before the next injury. penny in his prime would have been unstoppable!

@@silviatrophin9955 actually Penny hardaway was sidelined his freshman year in college because he had got shot in his foot so he sat out .then he played his sophomore and junior year in college then he came into the nba after 3yrs of college. So yes Hardaway was still a all around better player than kobe for a couple years going age for age but technically he still would have had a small prime from .94 til 2000 were his most healthiest years of production before them injuries slowed him down ,yr 2002and afterwards he got stripped from his twilight yrs which were a asterisks because of injuries. Which means would've could've should've is always a 50% chance in hine sight however Penny was special his shoe alone solidified his legacy as one of the best What Ifs . Just like saying Lauren Hill was better than Beyonce as a singing artist. LAUREN was one of the greatest Artest ever but she had a melt down stopped her music career but Beyonce wasn't as talented but she was fortunate lucky,in the right system and more determined to condition herself to stay in the game longer and always kept her performance on point in her concerts

When? Who from the league "EVER" called him the G.O A.T.? Which stands for the greatest of all time, in case you didn't know, because he was only hot for 4 seasons nobody's going to call you that from that.

He wasn't just "hot" he was the most complete player ever seen so early on, he played like a veteran and was probably the most entertaining player as well. Penny was equally as good a team player as he was individually. For a player that only played his first 2 and a half seasons without injuries that eventually ended his career, and still be remembered as one of top, and maybe the best player in the mid-90s speak volumes. It's too bad he wasn't healthy 5., 10 years down the line, by then he would've been a GOAT hands down

I wouldn't say he would've been the greatest NBA player of all time.

Rogelio Liera so Tracey McGrady is in the hall of fame

ohdaUtube If Bryant never played with Shaq we'd be looking at the NBA's all time leading scorer, and it wouldn't be close. Penny was great, but he was NEVER a first option on a title contender. Kobe was.

@@dy120481 Penny&Shaq would have been the Magic&Kareem of the '90s

Right! I think his shoe was the 1st to touch $139.99 The Jordans were $129.99.

I heard his college coach, Larry Finch say "We don't want him emulating anybody else we want him to play like Anfernee Hardaway. He got good enough game that some day some youngster is going to be emulating him"

that's a fact

Shaq left because he wanted to be the highest paid center. He got mad when Alonzo Mourning got a huge contract and Orlando refused to offer more.

You got it wrong Shaq was the leader of the Lakers 3 peat big facts he led them to them rings

magnumcornetto exactly, ball right now is no where close to penny hardaway! He goes a long way to go, he not in same sentence as hardaway

Couldn’t agree more! Like the name drop, but Lonzo not even close to Penny.

Lonzo is nowhere near as athletic as Penny.

I'm sorry but lonzo ball should not be mentioned in the same sentance as penny

TOP 10

Top 5

Top 10 easily. Top 5 likely. Top 3 maybe. Could've been the GOAT!

The Lonzo hype was at an all time high back then. At the time of the interview Lavar had refused to compare Lonzo to and NBA player (past and present) as if it was an insult to say his son was like Magic, Kidd or even Lebron. Penny Hardaway is the only player Lavar would admit he wanted Lonzo to be like (potentially) in the NBA. NOT SAYING LONZO IS AS GOOD AS PENNY. And you gotta understand this is last year, 2017. Penny has been retired a long time (and forgotten by most) yet he is still as mentioned today as a player the best of the new generation should model their game after. That's a compliment to Penny.

@@doubleclutch4369 some people just struggle with context

Bryan Belcher if penny stayed healthy top 3 players in nba history!!!! Stamp that

In his prime, he was actually more talented and better...

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mq5fY7aDLDk.html Penny wasnt overhyped like Kobe and was a better team player than Kobe ever became...Hardaway was a much better fit with Shaq on and off the court...Swingman or not Kobe wasnt a good passer and was a selfish player who spent his entire career on a futile quest to see for himself if he was as good as MJ-which he wasnt...If Shaq stays in Orlando Penny maybe doesnt blow out his knee trying to do too much and if theyre both healthy and stay that way by 1998 they would have been able to dethrone Chicago who almost lost in 7 of the ECF to the Pacers...They definitely could have won a few championships in a row after dethroning Chicago...MJ wasnt getting any better and the rest of the competition the league had to offer for the next few yrs would have been hard pressed to defeat them unless Kemp also stays in Seattle..

Kobe was actually a very talented passer..He is not known for his passes, but watch his highlights and he has made amazing passes. That being said, penny is more imaginative/creative than any player i have ever seen except for Jordan...

I watched Kobes entire career having occasionally thrown a fancy or a great pass doesnt begin to make up for all the times he flat out hogged the ball didnt get it to the wide open man and or threw fundamentally flawed slightly inaccurate and even errant passes...Furthermore, the further away you get from the 1970s the easier interior passing becomes due to the consistently increasing use of the 3 point shot increasingly spreading defenses out away from the paint...I watched Penny, he was absolutely great, much more fundamentally sound, but IMHO when it comes to creativity Magic and Bird were on a higher level than anyone who has joined the NBA since the 90s began...Thing is we didnt get a full careers dose out of Penny...He was derailed by injury just as if not before he even reached his prime...Bird got better 4yrs into his career...Magic meanwhile didnt really reach his prime until 87...Each player was able to sustain their primes 3-4 seasons or more once ascending...Penny didnt get to.I was a defacto fan of Orlando during the early-mid90s. Have never really forgiven Shaq for leaving...Shaq ended up being a star without an interested team at the end, and he deserved it...The franchise has and never will fully recover...He is the best player in Orlandos history...He isnt even the best or 2nd best center in Lakers history...Kareem, Wilt were both arguably better...