Classic Video: Michael Jordan Ballin’ With Kenny Rogers
You Been Blinded - Now in Dazzling HD —
The year was 1988. Short-shorts were still in and Kenny Rogers could get NBA stars to show up at his “Classic Weekend.” There’s no way he’d get today’s equivalent of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Dominique Wilkins to show up at an event like this, even if it was being carried by the league’s broadcast partner.
(You’ll have to turn up the sound to hear Chick Hearn) ...
Video of the Day: Michael Jordan vs. Kenny Rogers - Vintage ‘88
The Hoop Doctors —
Video of the Day: Michael Jordan vs. Kenny Rogers - Vintage ‘88 When you think of basketball legend Michael Jordan and country music legend Kenny Rogers , you wouldn’t really think the two would have anything in common right? Wrong. In this classic vintage footage found by You Been Blinded ...
Kenny Rogers Takes the Court with Michael Jordan
TheScore.com Blog —
The Gambler! Playing basketball! With Michael Jordan! I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t write it myself—and, y’know, if I hadn’t already watched the video below, which is from You Been Blinded (via the Hoop Doctors)—but here we have highlights from the 1988 Kenny Rogers Classic Weekend basketball game, and we can see that the Gambler actually has some skills. No, seriously. I mean, he’s not good, but he’s good for a 50-year-old country superstar on the same court as Jordan, Wilkins and Bird. The Gambler! ...
Jimmy Finally Hitting Links
The House That Glanville Built —
On Saturday, I was just about ready to personally annihilate Jimmy Rollins after his first at-bat. During a season in which the former MVP was barely batting above the mendoza line and getting on base just a little more than that, Rollins decided to completely and utterly disrespect the game, the fans and his teammates by not evening attempting to run out the ground ball he hit to Mets first baseman Fernando Tatis. ...
Vintage video: Michael Jordan vs. Kenny Rogers
Ball Don't Lie —
You know, there was once a time on Ball Don't Lie when it was basically impossible to slip a vintage Michael Jordan video past us our radars. We've previously posted YouTube clips of MJ stealing kids' bikes; MJ dunking a head of lettuce; MJ losing a game of one-on-one to some mutual fund CEO; and many more. But a funny thing happened last month — we missed one. A really, really good one. Via "rairjordan" comes this epic footage of a young Michael playing ball against Larry Bird, Dominique Wilkins and Kenny Rogers — yes, that Kenny Rogers! — during the country-singer-cum-chicken-magnate's ...
Kenny Rogers Knows When To Pump Fake ‘Em
Tirico Suave —
Testament to the greatness of the internet #318,910: I had no idea today would be the day that I got to see the Gambler, Kenny Rogers in a Space Jam uniform , pump fake the greatest basketball player of all time and noted degenerate gambler, Michael Jordan, out of the gym before hitting a fifteen footer from the elbow.Don’t worry rabid MJ fans, on the next play, your uber-competitive deity stepped his game up to 11 and blocked Rogers’s next shot halfway back to Texas with complete surgical focus. Via today’s BS Report and Ball Don’t Lie .
Perhaps Team LeBron Wants To Confiscate This Michael Jordan Video [Nba]
Deadspin —
In the wise words of Mr. Skeets: "Excuse the hyperbole, but "Kenny Rogers puts Jordan in the popcorn machine and hits a 21-footer" is the greatest quote of all time." Onions! [Balls Don't Lie]
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Michael Jordan’s And Kenny Rogers’ Head-To-Head Battle
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
This is old as far as blog fodder is concerned — it made the rounds last last month before Skeets gave it a second wind Friday — but hot damn, it’s also pretty awesome.
And if there is anything on this earth I was meant to do — besides eating copious amounts of Flat Earth Baked Veggie Crips – it’s to blog high-quality memes.
As such, here’s the description of the video in question: it’s 1988. It’s Kenny Rogers’ Classic Weekend. It’s Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins and Larry Bird mixing it up with a bunch of unathletic white dudes … and they ...
Classic Material: Vintage MJ
The Same Intensity —
If there was ever any doubt as to who was and will forever be the greatest competitor in NBA history, let the above video be all the evidence you will ever need. It’s from a celebrity game back in ‘88 and despite the fact that Kenny Rogers, John McEnroe and Lorenzo Lamas are his “competition,” there’s Michael Jordan in full asshole mode, swatting shots left and right, playing defense and generally trying harder than the greatest player that ever lived should be trying in a 3-on-3 halfcourt game where he -- even at 6′6″ -- towers ...
