Michael Jordan's son(s)

by **Oznogrd** on 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

by **Jing** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:39 am

Maybe he should have just taken those lower Division 1 school offers.

by **Bruce** on Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:58 pm

Maybe it is possible that basketball talent is in the genes, and it misses a generation. :lol:

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. :lol:

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on 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.

by **GoHornets** on 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 :wall:

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on 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.

by **Fcuk Orlando** on 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

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on 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.

by **diddy** on Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:15 pm

did u mean Kobe?

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on 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.

by **diddy** on Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:48 pm

i think LeBron's and Wade's sons gonna play in NBA and rich sucess!

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:23 am

Perhaps, that's a while off yet though.

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