The Untold Story Behind The Most Iconic Basketball Photo 

Kobe: that meant a lot to me... and I took that personally

@MAN UTD WRONG, VOTE FOR TRUMP!

@MAN UTD its also a sport that promotes violence, alcohol, and probably has the most unfit supporters of any sport or non-sport. honestly i think the fans of chess are way more in shape and smart to boot.

@MAN UTD dude its been months (possibly years) and you're still commenting this crap on these basketball posts. Find something better to do.... also Man Utd currently SUCK so you should also find a better name and a better team. Liverpool are the true bosses right now.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 this comment should have thousands of votes. It's comedy perfection.

The reason Kobe was so gr8, was because he had BALLS and passion. The only way you approach Jordan in a non active basketball way during a game = BALLS and Passion

HardDie I also think if Jordan had acted like a narcissist asshole towards Kobe(like saying don't talk to me until you get a 🏆 )because Kobe was a young kid then Kobe wouldn't have looked up to Jordan in the same light. Jordan already knew at that point how much immense respect Kobe had for him over everybody in the NBA. Kobe believed he was better than everyone in the NBA 1v1 coming into the league except for his idol. I think that mentality is what made Jordan accept Kobe as a competitor on his level.

It was in between plays.

@@BlackRoyalty_ you do realize he was joking around? They were like brothers to each other and michael taught kobe everything he knew

SirJeff they weren't really close during Kobe's first few years into the league. They established a bond when MJ was close to retiring for good.

thanks

Thanks I’m going to contact them right now, this was very beneficial. I’m happy that I now know every photographer that has taken these photos

@@WyWid it's a nice fact and also gives them a little credit here even if few people are going to see it. Stop being so edgy.

@@Blue-it5bm it’s great that these photographers get the recognition. They play a huge part in the nba. With out them, the nba wouldn’t be so broad as it I today

Tom Cruze?

He told him on a turn around jumper to feel the defense with your legs. So he'll know how much space he has.

@@UndergroundResidu that's why i love m.j never was a hater same as kobe willing to teach his craft to young girls

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dd7z1gRrB-g.html in this video at 0:50 MJ tells what he and Kobe were discussing. Shame this post didn't clarify. Enjoy

Most of this guys videos, he's clueless on the subject. He adds a bunch of filler into the video for two reasons. To make it sound like he's educated on the topic, and to stretch the video length to make money. 1.2 million naive subscribers lul.

@@A7xFo his videos are fun and well put together. he doesn't need to be a basketball historian with a bob ryan level of knowledge.

DACOOKIEGUY whole time i thought it was an alley💀

SyncShots-_- same bro

I could’ve swore wade threw the ball from behind

Mandela effect

So true

👍

He protecc He attacc But sadly he ain't using trapsax track

Give this man a Heart Jimmy.

I just wish the y-axis always started at 0, because I want to know how insane the charts actually are, not how insane an exaggerated chart is...

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What elements do you feel make it so difficult? As a non photographer I would guess the fact that it's a very fast game well at least most of the iconic photo opportunities that are action happening and a small court so you have to have really good timing to have the right composition for the shot you want

@@bryanchandler3486 There you go, that’s it.

I couldn’t help think the same. It makes me want to go out w a camera to try and capture a legendary moment. You never know how a single image can change the world. Such a cool concept.

@@bryanchandler3486 As a photographer myself, I can confirm you are correct in your guess, but there are even more paramaters and factors that complicate the equation. Light is everything in photography, the word itself, photography, literally means « painting »/ « writing »/« drawing » (« graphos ») with « light » (« photos ») in ancient greek. First, artifical light is often (except for maybe studio work or high quality stage light) not the best/easiest to work with. For basketball games, although the light is sufficient enough for the game to be filmed, the amount of light is not optimal (although very usable nowadays, even more so at this level). The equipment required to take good shots is rather relatively heavy and expensive (the « fastest » lenses have a larger aperture, which gathers more light, which in exchange, and by physic laws alone, and the technology available at a given time, makes the lenses larger, more expensive, and heavier). The longest focal lenghts lenses (the heavy giant bazookas that zoom super far away) are never the fastest lenses. And the relatively fast ones are even more expensive, heavy, and combursome. If you want a very fast lense that garhers the most light, usually, that lens cannot zoom (we call that a « fixed (focal length) lens »). The image quality tends to be better though, because there are less glass elements on the lens that could alter the sharpness of the omage. But that’s not the main issue, as most professional photographers would have the means and motives to get that type of equipment. The main issue to me is that, in such controlled events, you are not free to move around as you please, and the best position to take the shots could consistently be occupied by other photographers. Other factors make it harder: Despite the game moving fast, and a lot is happening on the court (as you rightfully mentionned), like any live event, you have no control over the subjects. You can’t redo the iconic moment. Make the players pause and play with the camera as you’d like. You have to be in the moment, focused, all the damn time. And anticipate a lot, because you can’t see everything throught the viewfinder of your camera. It’s very mentally challenging and exhausting. You have to know your equipment like an extension of your body for it not to get in the way of the process and slow you down. Technology available also makes it harder for some of the photos you see in the video. Photos that were taken during the film era are clearly the most impressive. Fewer shots per second could be taken at the time, except for some more recent Film Reflex Cameras from the very late 90’s and early 2000´s like the Nikon F5 for instance (which could take up to 8 film photographs per second). Fewer shots in total could be taken (assuming you didn’t bring 200 rolls of film for the game), cost was also greater, obsivously. And film sensitivity to light was way lesser than what we are currently able to produce with any average, consumer level, digital camera/sensor, which means photographers were even more technically limited to take their shots: In order to compensate for the lack of light captured by the film you were using, one would have to use the very large aperture (from the « fast » lenses I mentioned above), which means the depth of field (part of the image that is in focus) would be slimmer. The « in focus area » of the image would be slimmer, so the focus (often manual, during the film era) would be slower and harder to get. Even auto-focus lenses are more accurate and consistent at smaller apertures, but you’d need to set that lens at the largest apertures it allowed to gather that precipus light. To gather even more light, you can also let the shutter (that covers your film/sensor) open for a longer time frame. The longer your shutter is open, the more light the digital sensor or film gathers. In exchange, if the photographer moves, or the subject moves during the time the shutter is open, you would see movement blurr on the photographs, which can be an artistic choice, or ruin the photo, depending on the situation. Long exposures (shutter open for quite a long time, a second or longer), is the way we make light trails from the car lights at night, for instance). If you want a clean shot of a very fast moving object, say, a formula 1 car, and don’t want any blurr from the object moving while that shutter is open and the light touches your sensor/film, you’d have to use the fastest shutter speed available (usually 1/8000 second on most professional cameras). Problem is, if the shutter stays open for 1/8000 of a second, very few light is gathered, which means, in darker environments, your photo could be too dark, and you would not see every detail, or any. We call such phenomena « underexposition ». So you’d have to pick a large aperture (expensive and large lenses), which are harder to focus (slim depth of field) on your subject, and use a decently fast shutter speed (say 1/250 second maybe) to gather enough light to take a decently well lit shot of a basketball game, but not get blurred images from the players movements. All that to compensate for the lack of light available/gathered by your film/sensor. Plus, they didn’t have softwares to compensate for user mistakes at the time. So the room for error was even smaller... Today, the struggle would be different, but not less significant. With everyone having access to a decent camera (smartphones) and the easy access to very user friendly and super efficient technology in modern cameras, the number of photographs taken, of people who can take at least one good photograph, and the number of photographs and images we see and have access to everyday, would make your photo really harder to become iconic, or have any type of significant impact and visibility. The competition is greater, the technology makes it easier for most people, and your incredible photo could get lost in the immense depth of the internet. Still a noble quest to capture fragments of a time that’s lost forever though. That’s why I do it 😉

@@GuillaumeRx Wow, thank you for the incredible answer. I'm saving this in the notes I take while studying systems. It sounds like Photography is all about trade offs. Thank you for taking the time to educate me and others with such a thorough well explained answer, and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Was actually watching it last night and woke up today to this terrible news. Rip mamba, gigi and prayers for vanessa and family

Vckz Fortnite rip Kobe

The more i hear ahout it the sadder it is. Bill bur said it the best. Its easy to have a young child at you but to have a 13 yearold daughter smile at you the way his daughter did. Means you're a good dad.

kobee 😭😭

I miss him so much. He is the reason I want to play in the NBA when I grow up.

da Vinci coulda painted that

the way they caught those two makes it look like they're the only people in the arena, battling one on one in an epic struggle. So cool

@@xordus like Wilt and Bill going up for a jump ball then Larry and Magic post up best rivalry in the history of sports

I know it looks so rad mann

where is the photo?

True

Muhammed Ali knockout vs Sonny Liston (on the ground).. Just kidding! MJ last shot vs Utah Jazz finals game 6, 1998

or kobe sad with the trophy after the chip

hittman has

The dream team

Don't steal joke formats for attention online. Be your own person. Shit is shameful and cringey.

GnomeDazzle nigga shut up

@@davemccombs Shut up.

GnomeDazzle ur dumb af

Holy shit people are still using this unfunny dead format???

Why tf is this so accurate

Lmao

Lmao hell nah, I always thought he looked like Spike

How can you look like you study calculus

10000 subs with videos Challenge shut up

Lmaoooo

Love the charts

2 K someone doesn’t get the joke

jxmy: i got a chart why these photos were taken

Wilt definetly hasn't lead the NBA in assist 100 times and also never got 27 blocks the record is 17 he isn't the strongest quickest or biggest athlete, the strongest NBA players not even athletes are Giannis, Ben Wallace, Karl Malone, Shaq and so on the fastest athlete is Usain bolt and the biggest is manute bol and georghe muresan

Nah he didn't need pippen.

@@SkylineR33mt how many championships did Jordan win without Pippen?

💀right

Ray GT There’s always a story behind every pic.

Did you combine "seemingly" and "meaningless"?

@@logankandel846 Yes.

Same

MaskMediaEmpire™ yo I was like dafuq how this mans knew Kobe died 5 days before until I saw it was edited

@goodmorning people it wasn’t Kobe’s prime either

@funny valentine MJ was MVP in that pic. So he was considered to be in his prime at the time.

Pathetic you are blind

Or they just clicked it on accident

@@hartdestroyrnba1150 lol not 50 times

@@hartdestroyrnba1150 I do that all the time

Some men^

*Let it Burn!*

Can't lie it's a pic of Larry and Magic holding a trophy that's my favorite

Hell ya it is not to mention this half court jumpers that are always nothing but net. #Goatstatus

I agree, easily the greatest picture ever, literally the jordan logo and it’s probably one of the most iconic symbol... ever.. just think about it

You damn right

Julius Erving did it first

minicaring 111 yeah but 1997 Jordan would be more wiser as he was at the end of his career and more experienced

Kobe Bryant fax

I wanna like the photo but it’s at 24 and I don’t wanna change that

Spicey Bosh😂😂😂

Kobe Bryant fax, they don’t win that series against the spurs if he never gets that rebound

😪

ALEXIS CABRERA they copyrighted the trap sax🤧

Jimmy please bring it back

Sahil Misbah Bullshit I see NBA2k players in their videos use it all the time now

😂

NOOOOO!

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Word

True... I could see it being a sculpture in some renaissance museum

It is great. I would never had guessed it was just during a random free throw with only ~20% chance of Parrish missing. Those 2 played all out every second of every game it seemed.

Thats what I thought

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Agreed

Carlos Canchola_Hernandez not really iconic lol. Great but not iconic

Kobe looking sad with the finals trophy?

kelpshakeandy.v7 he was sad because he wanted his parents to come watch him play but they didn't show up. That was during the time they didn't approve of his wife Vanessa. That was really a heartbreaking moment for Kobe that he had to learn to overcome.

Oh it will come. Just not yet

He’s white unacceptavle

Jxmy hasn’t got a chart for him. Yet ...

hell nah lol

Angel Ruiz tf lmao cus he’s white?

Nah, Bird and Magic most iconic.

@@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer yes buh most iconic of all time? Jordan and Kobe.

Nah wilt is the most iconic

@@shiro9112 exactly..

Dwayne Louis yea

You didn’t miss much.

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 facts

@Ulysses432 can you score 100 points pussy

The circumstances to that game were actually pretty interesting, from what I read, the Center for the Knicks was "Sick" or "Hungover" that day and then their backup center fouled out early so there was nobody who could guard Wilt or even attempt to guard him. This was in a season where he was averaging 50 and had multiple 60+ Point Games, it was sort of like a "Perfect Storm" scenario that made that moment happen. It's still a very iconic moment in sports history.

Easily #1

Ulysses432 shut the fuck up I don’t see you on the court

Let's get this 100 likes

LeBeautiful 🐐 x 🐍

LeBeautiful Na they don’t

@@jamarjones3816 actually, they do....

Or lebron

The only reason I liked was the profile picture

Came to post the same thing

I heard the beep and came to the comments to see who else heard it 😂

oWeezy bro that shit drives me crazy 😂

I thought that was in my house

I almost woke my wife up from her nap to ask her what the hell was beeping...

He just lost the rights to be able to use it

@@_lumpia it still hurts

🤧 Rip Trap Sax...we’ll always miss you.

You sus asf

gubb yiu nah its facts my g

Yeh change the logo to air jordan..for changes

Where's the link of it being voted photo of the century?

Greatest photo is the one of muhammed ali standing over his opponent

Hell yeah

Samuel Acosta facts😂

We have a song to the opening background music. Check it out 💯💯

And Kobe for being professional on that Woman he assaulted

@ZackT112 that's the joke. MJ is Bold & KB is Bold therefore he stole his hairstyles

@@lethalp8610 *bald

@@jp3813 oh yh I forgot 🤣🤣

Lol Kobe always rocked the baldie as a kid, teen, and young adult. His HS years he was bald. I don't think him growing his hair out then shaving it was him copying Jordan. Kobe actually never was balding unlike Jordan. His hairline was never receding either. It's still in the same position. Jordan went bald because genetics or another reason.

i just quoted one of clive parody's.. well.. parody

@shiobana and neither was kobe

@Jesse Diaz 9:40 in the vid

I felt sorry for Spike Lee, and I am and was a Bull's fan in the 90s. The dagger was so deep that last three, it made Miller's legacy as a three point assassin/bully.

i really miss stuff like that in the NBA. you'd get a tech and maybe even tossed from the game for doing that now and it's sad. there have been times lebron (for example) got a tech for LOOKING AT A GUY after he dunked on him. the refs would explode if someone did what reggie did today.

LMAO

11:37 you hear it again

Aye yo, safety first tho.

I jumped to attention thinking it was mine.

I thought that was mine bruh

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Also the free throw line dunk from the all star break.

Most iconic photo, and a legendary missed call.

Indeed with ball flying and jazz fans in awe, waiting and hoping the last shot will miss...

Jordan should be the new NBA logo. And either his last shot pause or free throw dunk be the logo

Lol no, only for mj nuthuggers

L3-6clown L3-6loser toss

He copied that from Jordan.

which*

a I’m -11 nigga idk how I understand what I even mean by this

@@jamisonalberts1797 Witch 🤣🤣🤣

yes

And Nike liked it so much they made it their MJ logo

The glazing is crazy

Yarnball G The whole nba was

The East ain't a joke now

kyle parton Look at the West compared to the East. No comparison, look at the East in the past few years compared to the West. LeBron would not have made 8 straight finals if he would’ve played in the West. Also the Magic are 6-9 and 8th in the West, and to make the playoffs in the East you can have a whole losing record, or even be barely 41-41. If you were 41-41 in the West, you would not make the playoffs. The last time a Western Conference team made the playoffs with a losing record was 1997, the last time an Eastern Conference team made the playoffs with a losing record was 2015, and two playoffs teams in the East had a losing record.

Yarnball G where the mvp from, where the champs from, where the mip from, west is good but 76ers, bucks and Celtics are showing potential along with the raptors sort of

Steven Nakhla Let’s be honest, will a team from the East really win Chip this year? Over the Lakers or Clippers? East is good, but you can’t compare it to the West. Also this decade the West won 6 rings, and East won 4. Yes the MIP AND MVP are both in the East, but that doesn’t mean the East is as good as the West. Celtics, Raptors, and Bucks are definitely good, but do you really think Giannis can carry that team that lost Brogdon? Even if he makes it, we all saw what the Raptors did to him in the ECF. They held him to 22.7 p/pg and guess what? Kawhi is in the West now. Also the Celtics definitely would not be able to beat the Lakers or Clippers in the finals, and I honestly don’t think the Raptors will even make it. The Celtics would be dominated defensively by the Clippers, and would not be able to stop the Lakers offensively. So forget any Eastern conference team winning the ring

PlasmaaSZN And Astrothunder slowed

A.A.Ron Davis 💯

Well the nba is now duo's Luka and Kp Kd and Kryrie Khawai and Pg Steph and Klay (draymond will remember that) ETC

Cursed Waifu the Mavs just need KP to show up

@@mrstud_1114 harden and kd

the latest one this is

The squat with everyone surrounding him is legendary

@@yeahhh936 IKR. the squat of the century

Not after - while bouncing

@@yeahhh936 🤣🤣 facts

Thank you I was thinking that it wasnt a finals game cause I was sure the knicks did not win that year.

*PF Brian Scalabrine

Nah I fixed it Pg:Alex Caruso SG:Lamelo Ball SF:Lonzo Ball PF:LianJAILO Ball C:Lavar Ball

Get outta here lavar

Lil dicky ball????

Bartolome Enrique Rios Rossello fuck my bad I didn’t read yours, my bad man

DeVince DeLowry *Indiana

Came here to say this... Pretty sure the Knicks never faced the Pacers in the NBA finals. 😬

Right but the knicks have a good rep of choking

INDIANS are in India

Not more as a player and not more than Phil Jackson.

What is the reason for this dumb comment

Y'all do realize that this is a joke right...

@@Lovehoopss Do you?

@Elizabeth Mommas Do you