I don’t care how out of shape he’ll be, but please make this happen. Since Gil’s departure, there has been a shortage of crazy in the league and Sheed is the perfect person to bring that back.
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I don’t care how out of shape he’ll be, but please make this happen. Since Gil’s departure, there has been a shortage of crazy in the league and Sheed is the perfect person to bring that back.
A holiday tradition unlike any other: Rasheed Wallace sings “Jingle Bells” with the 2006-7 Detroit Pistons bench (Amir Johnson, Jason Maxiell, and Will Blalock). Cut the check, Santa!
Odd Future, Guns and a Rasheed Wallace Jailblazers jersey. That’s is all.
That might be the greatest sentence I’ve ever written for this blog.
via @YourManDevine
To celebrate the birth of these two great enigmas, here is Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers in its entirety (Blazers fans, we feel you):
The outcome of this series would later define the subsequent years of both Phil Jackson and Rasheed Wallace’s NBA careers. Phil would go on to win another three-peat this time with the Lakers. While Sheed has a three-peat of his own only for drug charges and other forms of misconduct during the great Portland “Jail Blazers” years. Wallace would however find a new home in Detroit and would get his revenge four years later by defeating Phil’s Lakers in the 2004 NBA Finals.
NBA Flashback feat. Rasheed Wallace
(Source: slamonline.com)
After a night free of playoff basketball, let us reflect on our first Sheed-free NBA postseason since 1996. No one’s wearing Air Force Ones. There’s not a single player with a beer gut seeing significant minutes. With Manu Ginobili and the Spurs out, every balding player simply shaves his head. Power forwards are posting up; even Dirk Nowitzki is taking only two or three three-point shots a game. And when players yell at the officials, you can actually make out what they’re saying.
Watching Dwight Howard try to avoid a technical foul suspension simply wasn’t the same as watching Sheed getting ejected from a conference finals game, just for looking at a ref. Oklahoma City’s lip dub can’t compare to Rasheed’s freestyling, or his Christmas carols. As unprepared and out-of-shape as he was last season, I bet the Celtics wish they had him. As well as the Lakers, and the Heat, and the Spurs last round.
I hope that somebody, somewhere, is cutting the check for Rasheed. You are missed.
36 days left until the 2010-11 NBA season tips off.
Brought to you by Rasheed Wallace probably adding to his Technical Foul collection.
Happy Retirement Day Sheed.
I’ll always remember: the championship belts, the technical fouls, Ishmiel Shaeed Wallace, the birthmark, “ball don’t lie,” your fourth quarter scowl, the sloppy rows, post up fade-away jumpers, and the Portland Jailblazers.
SHEED Retirement Tribute
Unfortunately Rasheed Wallace, my favorite player, is retiring. The NBA is losing one of the last characters left in the league. Love him or hate him, you have to admit he kept things interesting. The league won’t be the same without him.
Frozen moment:
6:18 left in the fourth quarter. Rasheed Wallace sets up three feet behind the three-point line and lets fly a perfect jump shot, nothing but net. It’s his only field goal of the game, but thanks to his defense and the excellence of Boston’s bench squad, he ends the game +9. The Celtics went up nine, and the Lakers never got closer than six the rest of the way.
Rasheed’s influence extended to psychological warfare on technical fouls. Both he and Nate Robinson were whistled for questionable technicals, but ball don’t lie held true: the Lakers missed both bonus shots.
Sheed is so hood he drinks his Gatorade in CANS. “That’s G”
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Obligatory Rasheed Wallace celebration pic
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Rasheed Wallace tonight: Two points, one rebound, zero effort.
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13 points (50% shooting), 4 rebounds, 19 assists, 2 steals. When Rajon Rondo blows up, it’s tough to stop the Celtics.
(An inexplicable 7-8 shooting effort from Rasheed Wallace doesn’t hurt either. A shame you can’t ever bank on that).
