Animated Stick Figures Recreate Some Of Basketball’s Most Iconic Moments

July 12, 2012  ·  12:04PM

by Micah Hart

Reason #1,723,486 to love the Internet: some one started a thread on InsideHoops.com’s message boards with animated gifs featuring some of the NBA’s greatest moments, recreated by stick figures.

I don’t know who did this, or why, but that’s the beauty of the web. I don’t have to know, all I have to do is sit back and enjoy, and contemplate how awesome/terrifying it is that I can immediately pick out most of the plays being referenced here. By all means help yourself to that thread to peruse the full assortment, but here are a few of my favorites to whet your whistle:

Have we really considered what a post-Kobe Bryant NBA is going to look like? I knew I recognized this play from somewhere, but was having a difficult time nailing down the specific game and opponent. So I did what any good investigative journalist would do, I hit up YouTube. Well guess what, Kobe’s scored on layups like this roughly a billion times. I mean, I know Kobe is an all-timer, but sometimes it takes watching an 11-minute highlight reel of JUST HIS LAYUPS to make you remember how special he truly is. I finally found the play, by the way, it was against the Spurs and it’s at about the 6:45 mark.

Pretty obvious which this is. All I have to say is, whoever created this, you get the shot but not the resulting jump and fist pump?

For my money, still the greatest dunk of all time.

Ohhh, don’t do it to him AI!

Hakeem says he wants to work with Serge Ibaka this summer. Serge, you got a long ways to go before you can pull this off.

And finally:

If anyone has the know how to pull these off, by all means send them over and we’ll do more galleries. It’s the offseason, we have plenty of time to kill.

[Classic Moments in NBA recreated in stickman gif, Inside Hoops]

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7 Comments

  1. Oneil says:
    July 12, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    love it!

    Reply
  2. Don sosaay says:
    July 13, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    this is awesome

    Reply
  3. Gwoei says:
    July 15, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    the last one is Rondo

    Reply
  4. Glen says:
    July 17, 2012 at 4:16 am

    Rondo is good too

    Reply
  5. Steven says:
    July 17, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    do tayshaun prince’s block on reggie miller and ben wallace’s putback dunk from the year the piston’s won it all

    Reply
  6. salcicio says:
    July 19, 2012 at 2:17 am

    This is too cool. Smiled with enjoyment the entire time.

    Reply

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