Posts Tagged ‘Scottie Pippen’

Local Ads: Scottie Pippen For Mr. Submarine

May 9, 2013  ·  4:00PM

ALL BALL NERVE CENTER – Moving forward here on the All Ball Blog, we need some running items. What I mean by that is, I want topics that are evergreen, where you, our amazing readers, will see a photo or video or tweet or something that fits into that category, and send me the link right away.

To begin with, we definitely need to celebrate local ads. It’s hard these days with the internet connecting us all for ads to be truly local, but these are still plenty of spots created to serve a local audience, that when viewed out of context can appear awkward and usually hilarious.

So let’s kick this series off with former Bulls star Scottie Pippen, who back in 1991 starred in a local advertisement for Mr. Submarine, a Chicago-area sandwich shop chain. There’s so much going on in this ad that I really don’t even need to break it all down, but make sure you notice:

• The catchy theme song

• Pippen doing dribbling drills through a row of huge vertical submarines

• The party segment where they sit cross-legged at halfcourt and eat subs

• Pippen dunking a basketball that mysteriously morphs into a sandwich

All in all, it’s a real tour de force. By the way: Have a favorite local ad? Let us know about it by emailing me via the link above, dropping a comment down below, or hitting me up on Twitter. Take it away, Scottie…
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(via r/NBA)

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Pistons Play Game With Kyle Singler

October 20, 2012  ·  10:35PM

by Zettler Clay IV

If there’s one thing preseason basketball is good for (well, outside return of NBA action), it is the rookie initiation rituals. From getting assigned nicknames to singing the birthday song to a vet to toting a Justin Bieber backpack, it is the Association way.

On Saturday night, it was Kyle Singler’s turn to get singled out:



Pretty PG as far as rookie pranks go. Does it beat Charles Oakley hemming up a just-drafted Scottie Pippen on camera? Methinks not.



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If It Were Up To Charles Barkley, Dirk Nowitzki Would Have Played At Auburn

July 1, 2012  ·  1:33PM

by Micah Hart

Dirk Nowitzki hosted a celebrity baseball game for charity over the weekend, and aside from any funds raised for the Heroes Foundation, the best part of it was definitely Charles Barkley holding court in the locker room.

Apparently Chuck, along with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, was in Germany back in the late 90′s, and wound up playing against a teenage Dirk in a game where Nowitzki showed his future promise by dropped (according to Barkley) 50 points or so on Pippen. That was all Barkley needed to know, and he set about trying to “entice” Nowitzki to come play college ball at Auburn. Defenders of the purity of college athletics might want to bury their heads in the sand on this one:

My favorite quote: “That dude is seven feet tall, he’s not going in the damn army, what’s he going to hide behind in the field?”

I tell you what – Chuck may have been right about hanging some banners had Dirk gone to play at Auburn. Nowitzki would have been a freshman on the 1998-99 Tigers squad, a team that featured SEC Player of the Year and All-American Chris Porter (a future Warriors draft pick). Auburn was a #1 seed in the South region of the 1999 NCAA Tournament, but was upset in the Sweet 16 by Ohio State.  With a sweet-shooting Nowitzki firing away from the outside to complement Porter’s inside game? Who knows what might have happened.

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Conventional wisdom: June 3rd

June 3, 2011  ·  12:27PM

by Micah Hart

After each game day until the end of the NBA Finals, we’ll be taking a look at the conventional wisdom of the moment — which team is the current favorite to win it all, and which team should be ashamed to still be putting on its jerseys.

Here’s how it looks on the morning of Friday, June 3.

Start planning the parade:

Dallas Mavericks

I don’t know how many times it has to happen before teams begin to understand — STOP GETTING 15-POINT LEADS ON THE MAVERICKS! What are you, idiots? Don’t you know what that means? A 15-point deficit to Dallas is like popping open a can of spinach for Popeye. It’s over.

This Mavericks team is the toughest band of SOBs the playoffs have ever seen. They are the the bad guy in a horror movie; every time you think they’re dead they rise anew to torment and torture their opponents.

Payback for 2006 is upon us, and now that the Mavs have yanked home-court advantage away from the Heat, look for them to finish the job in front of their hometown fans with three straight in Big D.

Give it up already:

Miami Heat

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooft.

The Heat love nothing more than an early celebration, whether in July or with a 15-point lead, and as we all know, vanity is the devil’s favorite sin.

You knew the Heat’s penchant for late-game meltdowns would surface at some point, and I don’t know if there are enough games left for Miami to overcome the devastation of last night’s loss.

And by the way: Scottie Pippen! You-know-who wouldn’t settle for long jumpers down the stretch of every important game? Exactly.

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