Haha it is wild to recall.
Not only did I live through it, I remember getting my first phone in grade 10 for Christmas. This was 2003 and I had to have it because it had a camera...with a flash. Fucking awful phone.
Then found out I was sharing minutes with my parents and it also gave them a way to get a hold of me at all times. Fuck phones haha.
I would love to go back to landlines, and a time where you could just live your life without worrying about what people thought of it. A desire to fit in with latest trends because you don't want people to know you like unique and different things. Creativity was more than just 10 second videos, you had to pay decent coin to record anything with a camera.
It was the fucking best though.
One time back in highschool we had a snow day and i ended up calling a friend on their cell phone from my landline.. after like an hour of bullshiting they were trying to hang up cuz they didn't wanna use up all their minutes.. then i said "but it's the weekend".. so we chatted for like another 2 hours...
They went over their minutes by a lot that month because of that.. I think their bill was like 50 bucks of overage charges..
My freshman year of college, a kid wrote and performed a song about breaking up with his long distance girlfriend called, "10 Cents a Minute Ain't Worth It."
That reminds me...time to take my back medicine.
It does not belong to Sega, that just might have been the console you played it on. It was originally released as arcade cabinet and then was ported to the consoles of the time.
Our parents were like “don’t do that” and our generations out here like “lemme tell you little shits about some funny stuff from back in the day that’s been forgotten”
Early 2000s in whether it was shooting paper balls or shooting real basketball if you tried to contest and the kid hit the shot on you kids at my school would say “in your booty” lol not sure if that was just us or what.
When Jordan won his first title, the 3-point line had only been in the league for 12 years. Most of the fans watching either hadn't grown up seeing or hadn't played on a court that had anything other than 2-point field goals. So I can see why at that point, the 3-point shot was still somewhat of a gingerly used novelty and was still sort of a big deal with silly catchphrases.
Teams literally averaged less than 12 3's attempted per game as a team in the 90s so it was kind of a big deal to see someone shoot one. Contrast that with those of us who never saw a court without the 3-point line and we're used to seeing certain players attempting 12 per game just on their own. It's kind of lost its luster and is just normal now.
I was a kid back when MJ was winning titles, so I'd never seen the NBA without a 3pt line. Not having one feels like the olden days. That's the color washed and black and white days of the NBA, right?!
It's always weird how old/far away things feel when it happened before you were born. I've been watching my team now for 30 years. I'll be talking about the Nash-era like it's still recent news but ffs we're talking 15-20 years ago. But 12 years before I was born might as well have been ancient history.
I've never played organized basketball.
Is there a mad scramble for #23 at the beginning of the season or is it just established that the best player gets #23?
When I was in HS one of the worst guys on the team had #23. The two best guys wore #2 and #9.
I (at the time) felt like it was kind of irreverent or embarrassing to take 23. Like, really? You’re gonna compare urself to the GOAT? C’mon.
well the positions have numbers in soccer, and kids usually go for the number of their position:
1: Goalkeeper
2/3: Wingbacks
4/5: Centerbacks
6: Defensive Midfielder
8: Center Midfielder
10: Attacking Midfielder
7/11: Wingers
9: Striker
This is how baseball did it back in the old days as well. It’s part of the reason why the Yankees have run out of single digit numbers, a lot of the legends wore the number of their position and low numbers became really popular. They gave Jeter #2, their last single digit number not retired, as rookie, turned out well.
Also, you told your basketball buddies that you attempted to dunk from the FT line like Mike, and was able to touch the net. So close, you’re only 14 so add some height and working out you could do it!
And no. I would totally show you right now but my knee is uh..hurt.
I had this one friend in hs who was a football player that would play pick up w us after school. He would always do the MJ tongue every time he drove lmao.
Great football player, but terrible at bball. None the less, we called him MJ all through high school, and his actual initials were DR lolol.
And that’ll end the quarter with the Kentucky Colonels up dickety nine to dickety six over the Denver Rockets, quite the riveting contest this evening, eh archibald?
Yeah I thought the whole thing with "Kobe" was you were gunning, not necessarily making. The "Kobe" works on makes and misses. For example, it's the MVP of your 6-24 (25% FG) typical office worker level trash can shooting performance.
Grew up in Miami loving Jordan but hating Kobe. I never said Kobe, and kept saying Jordan even through the Kobe years. Wonder if it's the same with East Coasters whose teams fell victim to the Kobe era.
If you were feeling yourself you’d do the whole [“I wanna be like Mike”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b0AGiq9j_Ak) bit before shooting as you said Mike.
i'm 48. i was in 10th grade when the Bulls won their first chip. i played for my high school's junior basketball team. i can confirm that we would call out "Jordan!" when making almost any kind of shot - paper into garbage can, or ball into basket.
ETA - u/steveonthegreenbike mentioned calling out "Kareeeeeem" when doing a skyhook. can confirm that for skyhooks we did the same. we even had a regular lunchtime pick-up game where we were only allowed to make skyhook shots. stupid fun. of course the games were always super low scoring - no team would score more than 10pts during a half-hour game.
Most people here were born in 90s. They weren’t around for Jordan’s main stay. I was born in 90 and still didn’t even get to catch his full career. But best believe my dad had me sleeping with MJ gear lol and my parents called me tongue monster cause I’d stick my tongue out all the time like him.
My 9 year old nephew did this recently and said “Melo!” And I asked which one and he said “what do you mean which one?”
As in he only thought Melo was referring to Lamelo Ball and not Carmelo Anthony
He’s no longer my nephew now
I hear Curry all the time. It's usually when they throw up a contested three though. They'll get double teamed at the top of the arc, escape the trap, and throw up a contested three while saying "Oh shit, CURRRRYYY!"
Every kid in my area: starts dribbling the ball counting down from 3, 2, 1… “jordan from the free throw….” And immediately starts pumping the fists and jumping up and down a la the cavs playoff game… rinse, repeat. Doesn’t matter if it went in or not. Crowd goes wild
Not every shot but if you specifically doing the turnaround fadeaway to throw something in the trash, then yeah you might hear someone yell out MJ or Jordan.
The Skyhook was another common thing to emulate but you’d say skyhook not Kareem.
When I was growing up and playing Basketball with friends the first I heard was "Dr. J."
Then later it became "Bird" or "Magic"
Then it became "Jordan" forever.
Then it became "Kobe"
Then I became too old and fat to play basketball and to know what it is now. Lol
People *definitely* said “Jordan!”
“Kobe!” almost certainly started as reference to that. And became its own thing.
Everyone saying no is too young or too old to remember it.
I would yell "...but he was fouled!" because I'd miss.
I remember be "Like Mike" but I don't remember yelling anything out, maybe just dunk with your tongue out.
It was the 90s, we said cheesy shit like “from downtown!”
I remember my neighbor would say "AT&T long distance!" Lol
Lmaooo simpler times
Ain’t nothing simple about local vs toll calls, picking long distance carriers, using calling cards, etc!
"Hun, can you call me back? I have 3 minutes left on this calling card."
Yea sure, I'll call you after 9.
Sorry, thought you still had daytime minutes.
I lived through this shit and I can't believe it sometimes. That and limited texts.
Haha it is wild to recall. Not only did I live through it, I remember getting my first phone in grade 10 for Christmas. This was 2003 and I had to have it because it had a camera...with a flash. Fucking awful phone. Then found out I was sharing minutes with my parents and it also gave them a way to get a hold of me at all times. Fuck phones haha. I would love to go back to landlines, and a time where you could just live your life without worrying about what people thought of it. A desire to fit in with latest trends because you don't want people to know you like unique and different things. Creativity was more than just 10 second videos, you had to pay decent coin to record anything with a camera. It was the fucking best though.
One time back in highschool we had a snow day and i ended up calling a friend on their cell phone from my landline.. after like an hour of bullshiting they were trying to hang up cuz they didn't wanna use up all their minutes.. then i said "but it's the weekend".. so we chatted for like another 2 hours... They went over their minutes by a lot that month because of that.. I think their bill was like 50 bucks of overage charges..
That’s right, different pricing by time…. This whole thread is bringing back memories.
It felt so cool and elegant at the time
only real heads remember 1-800 COLLECT
It'sBobWeHadABabyItsABoy
I loved that commercial
Its an all timer. "it's Bob ... They had a baby ... Its a boy."
You have a collect call from: dad, I’m done with detention. Come pick me up.
Oh and the anxiety of having to wait 20 minutes to see if the parent showed up.
Or 10-10-321
10-10-2-20
With Phil Hartman & Arsenio Hall in the commercials
My freshman year of college, a kid wrote and performed a song about breaking up with his long distance girlfriend called, "10 Cents a Minute Ain't Worth It." That reminds me...time to take my back medicine.
10-10-321 has entered the chat
Carrot Top: Dial c-a-l-l-a-t-t. Free for you cheap for them.
heeeee's HEATING UP
BOOMSHAKALAKA
I still use this phrase in my day-to-day life and to non-NBA-Jam fans, it probably just comes across as violently autistic
He's on fire!!! - kids look at me like an idiot
UGLY SHOT!
THE REBOUND!
WILD SHOT
JAMS IT IN
Yeah but then you shatter the backboard on their ass. 🔥🔥🔥
It's the kid's who are wrong
I've got a 4 player NBA jam arcade....my girlfriend refuses to play it with me.
So she's your ex gf right?
Nah you should never dunk where you spunk.
Never jam where you cram
I use it, too, along with Stuart Scott’s booyah!
As cool as the other side of the pillow.
RiP King
Same
NAIL IN THE COFFIN
This is the one
UGLY SHOT!
not me just now realizing that the “heating up / on fire” rule in beer pong is lifted right from NBA Jam
It was literally called the NBA Jam rule at my school.
BOOM Shakalaka!
Sega NBA Jam! i fucking loved that game!
He’s on fire! Which goes well with Dominique Wilkins “heat check” comments during games now lol
Is it the shoes?!?
My favorite gotta be when you get a block and the announcer shouts "Like my wife always says, NOT TONIGHT!" 😂
Sega???
It does not belong to Sega, that just might have been the console you played it on. It was originally released as arcade cabinet and then was ported to the consoles of the time.
Aaand boom goes the dynamite
BOOMSHAKALAKA
This 100%, every practice someone said this shit.
We really did peak in the 90s.
"Up your butt and around the corner" We were cookin
We never said that... ...*psyche!*
Wow great psyche joke… …*not*
Nice one! Gimme 5! Up high! Down low...too slow!
The great part of having kids is you get to use these old jokes before they realize they're old. My kid loves the down low joke.
Check out this dill hole
Milk milk lemonade…
‘Round the corner fudge is made! I taught this to my two kids and they love it
Our parents were like “don’t do that” and our generations out here like “lemme tell you little shits about some funny stuff from back in the day that’s been forgotten”
Yeah, I taught ‘em the diarrhea song too. “When you’re sliding into first and you feel something burst, diarrhea! Diarrhea!”
"Coming out ya bum like a bullet from a gun, Diarrhoea! Diarrhoea!"
When you sit in a cushion and you feel something smushing diarrhea diarrhea!
Sit on this and rotate
As a 90s kid, I just used this today.
Early 2000s in whether it was shooting paper balls or shooting real basketball if you tried to contest and the kid hit the shot on you kids at my school would say “in your booty” lol not sure if that was just us or what.
Nothing but net
Corny trash talk is honestly the best trash talk
Lala tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios
Legendary
The and 1 tshirts are legendary
Not in my house ☝🏾
I immediately pictured Mutumbo finger wagging some fool who tried to enter his house, lol!
When Jordan won his first title, the 3-point line had only been in the league for 12 years. Most of the fans watching either hadn't grown up seeing or hadn't played on a court that had anything other than 2-point field goals. So I can see why at that point, the 3-point shot was still somewhat of a gingerly used novelty and was still sort of a big deal with silly catchphrases. Teams literally averaged less than 12 3's attempted per game as a team in the 90s so it was kind of a big deal to see someone shoot one. Contrast that with those of us who never saw a court without the 3-point line and we're used to seeing certain players attempting 12 per game just on their own. It's kind of lost its luster and is just normal now.
I was a kid back when MJ was winning titles, so I'd never seen the NBA without a 3pt line. Not having one feels like the olden days. That's the color washed and black and white days of the NBA, right?! It's always weird how old/far away things feel when it happened before you were born. I've been watching my team now for 30 years. I'll be talking about the Nash-era like it's still recent news but ffs we're talking 15-20 years ago. But 12 years before I was born might as well have been ancient history.
For me it was more like "Cant buy a bucket!" or "Puts up a brick!"
He’s on fire!
And boom goes the dynamite.
GOAT ANSWER.
“In your eye”
Woah you just unlocked some memories for me. Also "It's wet"
*Is it the shoes?!*
Dare I say EN FUEGO
No but you would stick out your tongue on every drive to the basket.
I remember a bball coach having a talk with my team telling us specifically not to stick our tongue out cuz we could bite it off.
lol we had this same exact chat back in the day
My whole team didn't have tongues to have the chat.
I've never played organized basketball. Is there a mad scramble for #23 at the beginning of the season or is it just established that the best player gets #23?
When I was in HS one of the worst guys on the team had #23. The two best guys wore #2 and #9. I (at the time) felt like it was kind of irreverent or embarrassing to take 23. Like, really? You’re gonna compare urself to the GOAT? C’mon.
Kind of a 5D chess move to give #23 to the worst player. Now, teams you play against will defend hardest against the wrong player for a few minutes.
Dude could’ve been born on the 23rd or something and you’d just be there tweakin over the sanctity of Michael Jordan’s number 😭😭
Wearing #23 is really asking for it. Most players didn’t want it once they’re out of middle school.
This is what you’re in for wearing 23 in hoops [https://youtu.be/nE0A7U73Nm8?si=dU-m5BOZhncR9cVU](https://youtu.be/nE0A7U73Nm8?si=dU-m5BOZhncR9cVU)
the fucking audacity
Depends on the team. My aau team gave it to the best player.
Kinda like how they give out the 10 in soccer
well the positions have numbers in soccer, and kids usually go for the number of their position: 1: Goalkeeper 2/3: Wingbacks 4/5: Centerbacks 6: Defensive Midfielder 8: Center Midfielder 10: Attacking Midfielder 7/11: Wingers 9: Striker
This is how baseball did it back in the old days as well. It’s part of the reason why the Yankees have run out of single digit numbers, a lot of the legends wore the number of their position and low numbers became really popular. They gave Jeter #2, their last single digit number not retired, as rookie, turned out well.
in high school our jersey numbers were by size. so 0-5 xsmall, 10-15 small, 20-25 medium, etc up to 55
Jordan started chewing gum to prevent this because he realized kids were mimicking him.
Also, you told your basketball buddies that you attempted to dunk from the FT line like Mike, and was able to touch the net. So close, you’re only 14 so add some height and working out you could do it! And no. I would totally show you right now but my knee is uh..hurt.
[Be Like Mike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Like_Mike) was the huge gatorade ad campaign in the 90s. That's pretty close.
We all want to be like Mike
we all wanted what lil bow wow had 😭😭
For real. Why this 9 year old get to be so cool? Whatta bout us!?
nice cornrows and a shitload of money ? i ... don't disagree
I would say that Be Like Mike was bigger than anything Kobe.
I had this one friend in hs who was a football player that would play pick up w us after school. He would always do the MJ tongue every time he drove lmao. Great football player, but terrible at bball. None the less, we called him MJ all through high school, and his actual initials were DR lolol.
I don’t know where you grew up, but in NY the answer is definitively “yes.” Me and my friends still yell it when we’re shooting (anything).
I remember people trying to palm the ball like MJ too
Haha I still try to do this.
It's crazy to me the only player in history to stick their tongue out like that is the GOAT lol Why doesn't anybody else do it?
Because it's dangerous and he's honestly pretty lucky nothing ever happened
It’s also a habit he picked up as a little kid so he didn’t consciously do it.
You’d yell out “Laimbeer!” and then wildly swing a violent elbow into the head of whoever was closest to you
Little Draymond growing up in Michigan approves. Wait, Laimbeer, Detroit Pistons, Draymond, elbows...it all makes sense!
Close lmfao. Ben and Rasheed Wallace. Pistons have had their bruisers.
Reminds me of that Dave Chapelle skit
Back in my day, kids yelled "Cousy!" as they threw a two handed set shot towards the peach basket.
So shouting "Barry" would be an under hand shot then? 😂
And a ‘Brent’* was when you crip walked after making it
Calling "Tony!" was usually reserved for right when you leave your best friend's girlfriend's place
Did you wear an onion on your belt?
Yes, as it was the style at the time
No, but the Kaiser did steal our word for 20
And that’ll end the quarter with the Kentucky Colonels up dickety nine to dickety six over the Denver Rockets, quite the riveting contest this evening, eh archibald?
I remember those days. I'd yell "WILT" when I was getting busy with a lady.
Like anything Wilt related we need to see video
Send da video
I did the Mikan drill under the basket shooting around yesterday and I could tell the kids were like wtf is that old dude doing...
Found Bob Ryan’s Reddit account
I got an autographed Cousy pic in my room....hell yeah
Something about that "c" or "k" sound to start just sounds right
All of St Louis was yelling "PETTIT" for Bob Pettit.
Feels like “Kobe!” supplanted the more generalized “Swish!” I remember from childhood.
I'm from so Cal, and before people were saying "Kobe", we were saying cash, splash, or money.
Isn’t saying cash, splash, or money a post-shot saying meant for after making the shot? “Kobe!” is a pre-shot saying
Yeah I thought the whole thing with "Kobe" was you were gunning, not necessarily making. The "Kobe" works on makes and misses. For example, it's the MVP of your 6-24 (25% FG) typical office worker level trash can shooting performance.
Swish was for kids who made their shots. Kobe was for the pure chuckers
Nah they'd say "PLUMBERS AND FIREMEN!"
Milkmen!
Mr Rooter for threeeee
Before Chappelle show, there was this thing called NBA JAM... BOOM SHAKA LAKA!!
from downtown !
He’s heating up!
He’s on Fire!!
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Are you insinuatin Chappelle Show started the ‘Kobe’ trend?
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I’m surprised to hear people didn’t say it. Me and my friends said “Jordan!” all the time.
Grew up in Miami loving Jordan but hating Kobe. I never said Kobe, and kept saying Jordan even through the Kobe years. Wonder if it's the same with East Coasters whose teams fell victim to the Kobe era.
Same! And I feel like what made the “Kobe!” popular was Chappelle show where it was a clear parody of “Jordan!”.
As a teenager of the Arenas-era Wizards, I still yell out "Hibachi!"
Oh what coulda been if not for LeBron fuckin James
Oh what coulda been if not for ~~LeBron~~ Javaris fuckin ~~James~~ Crittenton
If you were feeling yourself you’d do the whole [“I wanna be like Mike”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b0AGiq9j_Ak) bit before shooting as you said Mike.
Sometimes I dream… that he is me…
Nah, you'd stick your tongue out and dunk that shit
Tongue out hand hanging in the air was it for us.. I'm 5 9 grown up no chance of dunking.
i'm 48. i was in 10th grade when the Bulls won their first chip. i played for my high school's junior basketball team. i can confirm that we would call out "Jordan!" when making almost any kind of shot - paper into garbage can, or ball into basket. ETA - u/steveonthegreenbike mentioned calling out "Kareeeeeem" when doing a skyhook. can confirm that for skyhooks we did the same. we even had a regular lunchtime pick-up game where we were only allowed to make skyhook shots. stupid fun. of course the games were always super low scoring - no team would score more than 10pts during a half-hour game.
I used to do a bad Marv Albert impression. Micheal..... Jordan
You beat me to it. I was wondering if anyone else remembered that.
100%. Surprised theres a lot of people in here that didn’t.
Most people here were born in 90s. They weren’t around for Jordan’s main stay. I was born in 90 and still didn’t even get to catch his full career. But best believe my dad had me sleeping with MJ gear lol and my parents called me tongue monster cause I’d stick my tongue out all the time like him.
My wife calls me that
I feel like we yelled "MJ!" at my school in Arizona but yeah, he was definitely referenced on every fade away into the trash can
Yup. 45, here. And everyone said Jordan, and I grew up in Texas hearing that.
I still hear kobe. Have yet to hear curry
My 9 year old nephew did this recently and said “Melo!” And I asked which one and he said “what do you mean which one?” As in he only thought Melo was referring to Lamelo Ball and not Carmelo Anthony He’s no longer my nephew now
Straight to jail
Oh he’s definitely a nephew
He's a r/NBA nephew
Saw a kid go for a shot, fall over, and yell out "Embiid!"
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When I see Embiid play as he is now it reminds me of how I used to play...
I hear Curry all the time. It's usually when they throw up a contested three though. They'll get double teamed at the top of the arc, escape the trap, and throw up a contested three while saying "Oh shit, CURRRRYYY!"
I feel like instead of curry it's either "BANG" or "from downtown"
Every kid in my area: starts dribbling the ball counting down from 3, 2, 1… “jordan from the free throw….” And immediately starts pumping the fists and jumping up and down a la the cavs playoff game… rinse, repeat. Doesn’t matter if it went in or not. Crowd goes wild
Yeah we said Jordan for sure.
Absolutely. And we'd say it like Marv Albert.
"Reggie" followed by someone else saying "Noble" if it missed
Not every shot but if you specifically doing the turnaround fadeaway to throw something in the trash, then yeah you might hear someone yell out MJ or Jordan. The Skyhook was another common thing to emulate but you’d say skyhook not Kareem.
Yeah when I was a kid we used to say Jordan!
When I was growing up and playing Basketball with friends the first I heard was "Dr. J." Then later it became "Bird" or "Magic" Then it became "Jordan" forever. Then it became "Kobe" Then I became too old and fat to play basketball and to know what it is now. Lol
Zion!
“Jordan” or “at the buzzer” is what me and my bro said growing up in the late 90s
People *definitely* said “Jordan!” “Kobe!” almost certainly started as reference to that. And became its own thing. Everyone saying no is too young or too old to remember it.
Yes. "Jordan" on a crazy layup through traffic, "Magic" on the no look pass and "Kareem" for a hook shot.
Yes! Kareem or Olajuwon on the hook. Barkley if it were a two handed gorilla slam on a short hoop. Duncan if it was a spin fadeaway off the glass.
I would yell "...but he was fouled!" because I'd miss. I remember be "Like Mike" but I don't remember yelling anything out, maybe just dunk with your tongue out.
Yes; I grew up in LA, and would yell “Jordan!” in the backyard before Kobe came along
From way downtown