The Greatest Stories in NBA History: Explained 

TIMESTAMPS BELOW: A compilation of my NBA Stories Explained series, featuring BRAND NEW content. Would you like me to continue this series? If so, who is a player you’d like to hear a story about? 00:16 - Intro/Explanation 00:42 - Larry Bird Hot Dog Story 07:40 - Shaq’s Vengeful Birthday Story 19:56 - Iman Shumpert’s “You had a great game” Kobe Story 29:53 - When KG Stopped Trash Talking to Michael Jordan 38:52 - Michael Jordan’s 1st Quarter Story about Luc Longley 48:08 - The Story of Bird Never Quitting (BRAND NEW) 55:10 - The Disturbing LeBron Story 01:02:37 - Michael Jordan’s “Long Night” Story 01:11:10 - The “Kobe Island” Story 01:19:25 - Michael Jordan’s “Fifty” Story 01:29:17 - The Larry Bird “Left Hand” Story 01:37:12 - A Celebrity’s Story about Jordan and the Greats 01:44:20 - A Disastrous Night Between 2 Legendary Rivals… (UPDATED) 01:52:36 - The Story about Kobe’s LAST Elite Season (UPDATED)

I could be mistaken, but I don't believe McHale said that Bird put a hurting to them that game. He said Bird was the one who got them all riled up and told them to take that anger out on the opponent during the game when the couch came in. And then McHale proceeded to say "they" put a hurting to them. Which winning by 20 in a game during that time was pretty much a blowout. And it seems the whole team was motivated with how much they all participated in scoring, so his story makes sense. I just never took it as Bird was the one who did it, but more that it was a team effort out of mutual annoyance, exhaustion and anger. lol I could be mistaken though.

That Jordan/ Longley story.. I was born that exact day 😂🎉 2-4-1998

Michale never indicated in anyway that Bird went off in that particular game. He only said we proceeded to kick their butt.

Love this series. Also love that Bird is the new content. He’s an endless fountain of stories

This Bird love from this Chanel is why I’ll always be loyal and support it… He always reminds the masses about Birds greatness..

01:58:25 I love that in every picture you used of MD his face looks like: "I don't know, derp" lol

Your vids are great to fall asleep to, thanks.

This channel is great love its content very well put together

Maaaan youre a smart 🤓 💡 guy Jonny, way to go on these explanations and awesome 👍🏾😎 work on these deep dives. I knew there was a reason I was specifically signed up to your channel. Chicago Illinois rocks with this content 😎

KG is a fantastic story teller

Only 40 mins in but really love this video. Appreciate the effort it took to make it! 👊🏽

Hell yeah great content brother

22 FT attempts for shaq vs clippers game is fkin crazy

But, if Keith Closs was still there it's theoretically possible Kareem could've been talking to him. They were both on the sideline so it makes sense. Closs didn't have to be in uniform to get pointers.

Do more of these I could watch these all day

Just found this channel good stuff

i LISTEN TO THIS channel more then anyone else in the world. I guarantee it!

In all fairness Kevin McHale never said Bird went off, he just said they were gonna kick their ass, which they did.

Still hoping to see a Steph Curry story at some point

I'm not even close to being a Lakers fan, but when I see D'antoni coaching that team the way that he was frustrated the hell out of me

Just wanna help the video

Ok Shaqs birthday game. I remember it well. Shaq was specifically going out to see how many points he could get on his birthday. This was from the absolute jump and leading up to the game it was the plan. Shaq just wasnt hitting at first but once the "candy man" was in foul trouble and the Lakers got it going and Shaq started feeling it he went off. The Lakers were playing different that night as they were intentionally dumping it into Shaq. I remember wanting to see him approach a hundred and thinking it may me be possible. Kobe Bryant is the only player I've ever seen who could have scored a hundred in a game...i remember saying this when he was like 5 years into his career and then we all know the rest is history. But Shaqs birthday game I realized how difficult it would be for Shaq to ever get close. The big fella would have to get up and down the court fast and have the ball dumped into him and score it like everytime and I realized because of this game that he could never do it. And this was against the smallest and weakest Clippers team. Still a dope team with Odom and Miles and Keith The Boss Closs and Q and Magette and Elton Brand from what I remember. But yeah Shaq was intentionally going out to score as many as he could on his birthday and the Laker teammates as well as Phil Jackson were in on that. Whatever scoring record Shaq was going to achieve would be on this birthday game. I remember being frustrated and worried early on thinking...ok...forget this plan...please dont lose to the Clippers and I could see Shaq forcing it and I was like damn imagine Shaq ending up with like 12 points on a Clippers loss on his birthday lol Nooooo!!!! But they turned it around and he dominated but still I always felt like he should have had even more especially because he was intentionally going out for it. If i remember correctly there was even buzz and talk about it in L.A. and on the news prior to the game even starting.

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Mchale could’ve been talking about their physicality and aggressiveness. It makes more sense when he’s saying they went out there and kicked their butts.

Almost All these games in February is crazy. I’m definitely betting over on every feb game from now on

How long do these vids take to do??

Kg saying how he felt Mj energy had to be the most uncomfortable feeling 😂😅

So good

Who is this guy???? Sherlock Holmes. Man should be a detective.

when is the full team series coming?

ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE THOUSAND!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thanks!

Epo James

I have a fantasy football memory that I remember so clearly. I looked up on the data website and according to what I looked at, what I remember is not possible. Memory is a funny thing and maybe it's part similar to the Mandela syndrome. Mine involves being with my opponent and my stepbrother at a sports bar. My opponent had Dan Marino starting and I had Mark Clayton(his WR) and Bobby Humphrey(his RB, by his I mean Dan Marino) Bobby Humphrey scores making my lead grow into something huge and I am saying "it's over." He says, it's not over yet. I distinctly remember the Dolphins getting an interception really quick setting Miami up for another score. Next play, handoff to Bobby Humphrey who did a half-back option pass and hit Mark Clayton in the endzone. It makes a great and I really believe true story, but it appears on the data site that Bobby Humphrey never threw a TD pass in his short career. I guess it's just a strange mystery. I should ask both of my colleagues what they remember.

2:10:21 if Dwight doesn’t ever get a top 75 nod we should look at how he played in 2013 with Kobe as the reason

Watching this on Shaq birthday made it hit harder lol

I love this analysis. Would be a lot better with a human doing the commentary.

3:53 its very much likely Mchale name dropped the wrong player and it was never Albert king who Larry bird trash talked to. Larry bird could probably correct mchale on the player it was and that would mean all the dots you were trying to connect was to the wrong player the whole time.

need the story of wilt vs magic 5v5 at ucla in a pick up game. Kiki vander-something told another one but it may be lost to time

26:02 is that spit hanging from Lins chin? Wtf is that ?

I always felt the only chance Melo(Carmelo)had of ever getting to the Finals was the year Linsanity @(29:09)was going on, the Knicks were a much better team with him at the helm, unfortunately for Lin Melo didn't like sharing the spotlight and didn't like all the attention Jeremy was getting! It's just too bad, because when you watch the clips of that era you see the Knicks possibly taking Miami to 7 games if not further!!!

Detective Jonny

Bro what you on? That's that black mamba mentality

Damn Shaq called rodman out for same shit/party/chicken

I’m glad you are doing this series. I’m tired of all these freaking NBA liars. It’s like they became like women.

Shaq is hilarious lol I guarantee he just made that story up bro he’s known for that just like he did vs David Robinson when he said he didn’t sign his autograph as a kid lmao

Shaq also benefited from All the other centers in the league being kind of weak and most of the ones that were good were actually power forwards.. no one really mentions this but yeah his early career he played against some of the good centers but they were older and then at his mid and late to career. All the other good bigs were really PF

@1:31:50 That kind of defense is what people say :"The 80s-90s were so much better". Everyone is a cone.

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Pistol Pete, man, Pistol Pete

Thank u for telling me shit I already know

Damn, you already made so many of them?

1:27:25 see this just shows people lying like pippen wasn’t like that. He was the reason they got to OT

Lebron, powering his way through game 7 vs the Celtics. A 35 year old plays the whole game and 19 year old Tatum & 20 year old Brown don't have the energy to keep up with his "next gear". Sounds like that "Next Gear" is thanks to Testosterone Ethanate, Somatotropin, & Erythropoietin. Longevity!

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Who was the ref Tim Donaghy

He didn’t say bird killed them he said the Celtics killed them

1:32:48 I’m convinced Larry bird is really the goat and people lucky he had to build his mom house 😂 or you’d see how goated he is

Bro how does the clipper player not playing have anything to do with shaq not telling the truth?? Just bc he was injured doesn’t mean shaq wasn’t pissed Kareem trained him???? Instantly stopped the video after that reach

I don't think mcchale said bird fried them I think he said the team throttled them

IBM Award was determined by a computer formula. and it measured a player's statistical contribution to his team. it favored big men because they got a lot of rebounds. what if the IBM Award was given to the real most statistically impactful player to their team? remember MJ never won the IBM Award during the 90s.

If Shaq hit his freethrows he couldve avergaged 40 easily.

Yo, are you the same guy from Zeltroid???

Would you remember the score of a specific game from 20+ years ago detail by detail? Come on now...

You gotta understand that MJ was probably the only one of these player's who hasn't went back and watched this game before telling his story. Lol MJ will tell it by how he remembers it, not to sound cool. 😂 you should be accurate if telling a story, but at least the point was made. Similar enough to see his point was still valid. Without going back to look at the game.

What’s your favourite NBA team btw?

This is a pretty dumb story compared to these but i was watching a few months ago JR Smith talk about his rookie year gusrding kobe on JJs podcast and i couldn't find anything on RU-vid about the game, just want to see how true it is... He said rookie year hes gotta guard kobe, going into the game his coach is telling him, "this is how you guard him, he gonna pump fake, pump fake again.. you stay down, don't leave your feet" jr like barely listening, i get it... Later at shoot around hey remember don't jump at his pump fake.. JR like OK MAN I GOT IT.. coach goes ok you got it, fine, if you jump im taking you out the game... So game starts.. JR checks in, says like "JJ when i tell you i havent been in the game not 30 seconds... kobe drives, pump fakes, JR jumps, kobe gets the bump, whistle blows, and-1, Horn sounds, gets subbed out.... It was a while ago so its loosely translated from me from JR and its not the greatest nba story but if you could find the footage i think itd be hilarious to see JR get subbed in then get subbed out like 30 seconds later lol

Why would the anticipated match you between the knicks and the lakers be Kobe and Shumpert?? Iman was never a star player or hyped up prospect he was just a defensive guy. I hate that Shumpert got behind a mic and wants to forget he averaged 6 ppg in his “championship run”

Kobe hit em up

Bro people talk up Kobe for walking the length of the court with a torn Achilles like it’s superhuman. I tore mine completely walked 3 miles home partially up a huge hill and I’m just a guy lol

how does this hve 9 dislikes🤦‍♂

The Shaq story he literally said in one of the videos that you showed that it was in the year 2000 against the clippers lmao

Pippen sounds as if he'd like the last dance to only be about his highlights.......Jordan, divulged things that didn't put him in a good light......it was from his perspective......... get over it

Mitch kupchick is a fool

A NBA fan, and/or their family, would likely see Jordan in action than LeBron. That is the value of your hard earned money.

I have never seen the true warriors of the bible go down and not return to form. Do you know why, because Adonai Elohim Yeshua HaMessiah instructed them to rest? Adonai the creator of all things instructs us to rest so as to replenish the bodies strength because we are in the flesh and not the spirit. Yet man wants to to believe that they are some type of Deity or hero because they fight through pain. Question, if Kobe had chilled how many more seasons would he have given us? Yeshua (Jesus to most) rested being weary in Samaria but we who are lesser than Adonai Elohim Yeshua HaMessiah need not rest. What utter foolishness!!! Shalom, L'hllel, Amen.

It’s Pete Chilcutt. I would expect someone who learned everything they know about basketball from a book to call him Peter.

Iman’s story about Kobe was about KOBE…why is he trying to make SOMEONE ELSE’S personal experience about Jeremy Lin?! Shumpert was reminiscing on a MOMENT, not trying to analyze the actual game play by play…these are great stories, but every one doesn’t need correction, the details aren’t even the point of the stories

too much background music can’t watch the videi

That s what he said! I liked you until the lying! Why ???? What’s the Point?

Who the Eff is Albert King? U mean BERNARD King? When u research know what u are talking about

Steroids that’s why he had more energy than everybody else

Never let the truth get in way of a good story. Just drop off killjoy.

This is a weird topic like who cares if they told the truth or not my friend told me the real Spider-Man was at his 7th birthday can you fact check him please

Bro you drag

Man, i love your videos. I stopped watching them because of your trend following hate on draymond. I would love to watch your videos again, but you need to do a public apology video for dray. This one looked interesting, but i refuse to support sheep that follow trends.

Their stories are way better than yours. You should leave them be.

Lol bro is a story time fed 😆. Dude found the game but I’m pretty sure there’s film & all cuz it is deff true they show him shove it back at the ref. Bro do you know how much Dust & acid bill Walton did. They all did acid when Walton brought the team to Grateful Dead concerts & they brought bill & some guys in the back the only player who wouldn’t touch anything was Danny ainge. He a Mormon. Mchale was a Christian I think so he was kinda a goodie 2 shows. OFF the court. On the court. Clotheslined that ass if he wants. No ejections. Just a foul. Dr j chokes Larry. Larry got suckered punched I think my Dr J. Bro took a beating on his back to the pain he played in was immense. He broke his face smacking his face of the parquet floor with not brace of impact. He didn’t even know where he was then 2nd half he come jogging out. No mask. 3 then another. Then like 3 assist to ainge. Rebounding. All with a broken left side of his cheek bones. Lebron would be out a week then wear a mask.