Sonics Forever Live - Dale Ellis and Xavier McDaniel (Full Video) 

X is 100% correct about the media's perspective on his and Ellis' fight. If you search the internet about it, all that can be found is info about the altercation, but NOTHING about them resolving the issue.

Xavier McDaniel is one of my top 3 favorite players of all-time. Also, I just looked up Dale Ellis' stats for every season that he played, and I was amazed and shocked. I started watching basketball during the 1990 playoffs, and growing up I remember Dale Ellis as more of a specialist, a spot up three point shooter. I was shocked to see the numbers he put up as a Sonic. He had a stretch of about 4 seasons averaging from 23 to 27 points per game on like 55% shooting from the field. I never realized he could score the ball like that.

Hakeem was sensational in game 6 of the 87 playoffs, against the sonics, scoring 49 points and grabbing 25 rebounds against these two and the sonics.

Dale might be one of the most underrated players of all time and it was great to hear Xavier giving props to Chambers. Please line up some more Sonic interviews. This is good stuff.

This was a great sit down. I was a NY Knicks fan during the early 90's and Xavier was one of my favorite players back then...especially on those old EA Sports games🤣

As a lifetime NY Knicks fan, I always enjoyed tuning into the Knicks facing the Sonics during the 1990's simply because the Knicks often did not match up well against Payton and Kemp. The Sonics and Knicks played similar intense defense against each other, but the Sonics often appeared to have that one more advantage during games they played each other. The Knicks would win some games against the Sonics in Seattle, but the Sonics consistently beat the Knicks. It was sort of the way the Houston Rockets would dominate the Chicago Bulls in head-to-head matchups during the Bulls 1st 3-peat. It was a joy to watch Kemp and Payton led Sonics. It was a shame to many of us fans once Kemp was traded to Cleveland. I often felt that a piece of Shawn Kemp never left Seattle once he became a Cleveland Cavalier.

That Sonics team was pretty dam good, even played the Lakers tough in the West finals, they might have gotten swept, but every game was competitive ..

The fact that neither X, nor Dale, or not even Tom effin - Chambers are HOF'ers is an absolute travesty to say the least! Those late 80's Sonics teams are one of the most underrated teams in league history. And this is coming from a hardcore Blazers fan - rooting for Kiki, Clyde, and Duckworth, then later on Jerome to kill them whenever we'd play. Regardless of how much i at the time hated the Sonics, I always loved the individual players on those teams: from Dale, to Chambers, and especially to McKey and the X-Man. Xavier is one of my top ten or so favorite players of all time, and is without a doubt easily one of the top 10 most underrated players in NBA history! He was so versatile, unstoppable scorer who could drive, shoot, and dominate in the post - while being an excellent defender at anything from a shooting guard to power forward, while being one of the greatest SF rebounders of all time to boot! The only other SF from that time period who was similarly as versatile of a two-way player as he was, was the formentioned Jerome Kersey, who's somehow even more underrated than Xavier is! That 88-89 year I couldn't believe that they decided to move X-Man to the bench as a sixth man, seeing as how he was still in his prime and came off of his first All-Star season the yr prior. What's more stunning is that X was still second on the team in scoring with over 20 a game, and yet for some incomprehensible reason he didn't win Sixth man of the year, hell he wound up only coming in 5th place for fuck's sake - that's just insanity! That said, McKey was absolutely phenomenal too, not quite the scorer the X was, nor the rebounder either, but was every bit the shut-down defender X was, (maybe a bit better even), and as a whole was easily one of the top 10 Small-Forwards in the league in the late 80's. Both he and X were ridiculously underrated, but Derrick was even more so. Many ball fans have at least heard of Xavier McDaniel, whereas i can guarantee you 95% of fans under the age of forty, (outside of Pacers and Sonics fans), wouldn't have ever heard of McKey's name let alone how damn good he was! He was somehow even a bit more versatile than X was, and as great as Detlef certainly was, he simply didn't have the athleticism nor the defense that Derrick brought to the table. I could kind of see trading Ellis for Pierce, (who happens to be another ridiculously underrated wing from the 80's and 90's, seeing as how i think he was a bit more versatile than Dale, but trading X for Eddie Johnson and McKey for Detlef is unforgivable. Both EJ and Detlef were great players too, but with Detlef you have a little bit less athletic and a slightly worse defending version of Derrick, and then there's EJ - who wasn't anywhere close to being the versatile defender that X was, while also being infinitely less versatile in terms of scoring to boot!

An interview with Tom Chambers would be really interesting. Eric Snow as well.

Xavier was one of my favs .

Ellis, X, Chambers. 20-20-20.

Legends :) thank U

I love this 😀😀😀

Dale Ellis was a good shooter for the sonics. He can shoot and make them. Xavier McDaniel best playing days was with the sonics.

Lot of the youngsters fawning over Klay Thompson - and rightly so - really don’t know about The Silent Assassin.

Real when he started, they were both like what the fuck is happening why am I here?

Dale Ellis looks like Carl Lewis twin

the 12 thunder along with the 03 06 and 11 mavs as well as the 99 and 00 blazers weren't equal to the 88 mavs 78 79 80 87 93 and 96 sonics along with the 77 90 91 and 92 blazers

Ain’t this the season they went up 2-0 against a tough blazers team in the first round of the playoffs,Then lost 4 straight?

black socks is only socks for me lol

It was really bad they lost to the Lakers in the 87 WCF. They might have gone farther if they won the series.

Xavier beat up young Garry payton. Got into blows with Charles Oakley

Shawn Kemp is funny 😂😂😂

No way I could be cool with my abuser 😭😭😭😭

Sorry guys, I only came here to learn more about the fight. Born and raised in Portland, and we HATED Seattle. Not because of these great players, but becuz of George Karl. Could NOT stand that guy!