Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:45 am
Yeh Jeffrey Jordan goes to my school and i've never seen someone walk on and be that bad at a pretty basketball oriented school. He tried to show off during our winter kick off and missed every dunk he tried (tried like 8 of em) while wearing his dad's bulls jersey. He's on the team for publicity alone
Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:39 am
Maybe he should have just taken those lower Division 1 school offers.
Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:58 pm
Maybe it is possible that basketball talent is in the genes, and it misses a generation. 
I have yet to recall a father-son tandem in the NBA that are both Superstars. Arguably the closest tandem I can think of is Rick Barry and Brent Barry. Barry did win the Slam Dunk contest, and did somewhat appear in the all-star (albeit rookie) game. And then there is Karl Malone and daughter Cheryl Ford, an all-star, but still by no means a superstar.
Read up on this article:
http://www.theloveofsports.com/index.ph ... ts_combos/
#2 cracked me up a bit there though. And here I thought this article was about father & SON.
I have yet to recall a father-son tandem in the NBA that are both Superstars. Arguably the closest tandem I can think of is Rick Barry and Brent Barry. Barry did win the Slam Dunk contest, and did somewhat appear in the all-star (albeit rookie) game. And then there is Karl Malone and daughter Cheryl Ford, an all-star, but still by no means a superstar.
Read up on this article:
http://www.theloveofsports.com/index.ph ... ts_combos/
#2 cracked me up a bit there though. And here I thought this article was about father & SON.
Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:42 pm
It's interesting to note that, though in most cases the fathers have set the bar pretty high. Let's say either Jeffrey or Marcus made the NBA and had a fine, respectable career that saw an All-Star appearance or two. That would be more than a lot of players ever achieve but it would pale in comparison to their father's career because he reached such a high level of excellence in the sport, establishing himself as a very elite group of players in the game's history.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:26 am
Wally Szczerbiak's father was a good basketball player.
Walter Szczerbiak was chosen as one of the 50 most influential personalities to European Club Basketball over the last half-century by the Euroleague Basketball Experts Committee
...Szczerbiak... God it's so hard to spell it
Walter Szczerbiak was chosen as one of the 50 most influential personalities to European Club Basketball over the last half-century by the Euroleague Basketball Experts Committee
...Szczerbiak... God it's so hard to spell it
Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:45 pm
True, but he didn't play in the NBA (though he did see action in the ABA) and Wally isn't what I'd deem a superstar either, so they don't count as a dominant father/son NBA tandem.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:41 pm
What about Bill and Luke Walton? Bill is one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and Luke has had a sup-par career
Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:45 pm
Well, that's the point. As with the other fathers and sons that have played in the NBA, only one of them is/was an elite player.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:15 pm
did u mean Kobe?
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:33 pm
No, I mean that of all the fathers and sons that have both played in the NBA, there hasn't been a tandem who were both elite players. Joe Bryant was nowhere near Kobe's level, though I once read that he claimed to have been as good as Magic Johnson but never got to show it because he was held back.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:48 pm
i think LeBron's and Wade's sons gonna play in NBA and rich sucess!
Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:23 am
Perhaps, that's a while off yet though.