nice read that...bogut could probably pull that off, yep

It doesn't look like that guy is jumping high but he is abou 6 ft 9 i think. Worth a look!

Milt Newton.

I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that Wilt was able to do this. ELG?

Another funny jumping story I read somewhere sometime related to a New York playground legend and jumping fiend who was playing defense on a guy who drove into the lane, and pump-faked.

The NYPLAJF bit on the fake - but by the time he landed the guy who faked him had been whistled for three seconds!

Wilt was the one who was a very decent high-jumper before taking up basketball, right?

I like James White's attitude in the story. Bit better than Dwight Howard's awkward representatives.

There's a video on YouTube of Kobe Bryant touching the top of the square during a game which is impressive considering where he jumps from.

I remember reading that Wilt was in a dunk comp, and had a dunk called "hammer and nails", where he'd tuck it under his armpit, and when he got to rim height, he would actually punch the ball out from under his pit and thru the rim ...

Speaking of Wilt, I came across the newspaper for one of the best-named towns in America yesterday and immediately thought of him: Loveland, Colorado.

Wilt (nursing beer and trying to pick up in Denver bar post road game against the Nuggets): So, where are you from?

Pretty Young Thing: Loveland.

Wilt: So am I, baby. So am I.

Loveland needs a permanent homeless shelter
Tuesday marks a turning point for Loveland's homeless population. The Loveland City Council will decide whether to continue offering the Pulliam Building in downtown Loveland to volunteers who operate an emergency nighttime shelter there.

Here is Michael Wilson (care of TrueHoop) dunking 12 foot.

Shit......i'd be happy to go back 10 years when i could touch the bottom of the backboard..lol

Downtown Schmowntown - the real action is happening just out of town at Daisy Duke's:

"It is a bar and tavern, and an interactive club," Gallimore said. "That does not mean strippers. They will have attractive girls who work at the bar and dance on the bar. They just show the customer a good time."

Theres a picture in one of his biography (wilt's) where he's waist high with a high jump bar set at 6'6. That was early on when he was skinny, pre-NBA i think. So including arm length i'm not even sure if wilt could do it

And wilt was dunking 12 foot rims without the use of an alley oop long before that vid was made

best part of the article...




"Okay, maybe I was being pessimistic when I said there was no reason to go further. There had been rumors of a "busted nut" (is that part of the knee or something?) that took place an hour before the jump, slowing James down"



I sprayed coke out my nose reading that.. funniest thing I've read all day...

and before anyone like Kent or Sturty pipe up with a comment, it was liquid variety, toilet cleaning, blood stain removing from road normal coke from a glass bottle, not the white powdery stuff.....

can someone explain why coke from a glass bottle tastes better than coke from a plastic bottle or can???? it's been a week long debate at work...

I think plastic is more soluble than glass and thus a little less air-tight and more likely to mix ever so slightly? I can't remember the specifics, but this topic came up once when I was doing an olive oil tasting - they stick to glass or lined casks. (Helpful fact - keep your olive oil away from light, e.g., in a cupboard.)

olive oil tasting or olive oil wrestling.... memories for an incident at a particular house in a particular suburb here in Canberra...

I'm going to slap myself for asking, but why keep olive oil away from sunlight???

I think it's time for a permanent thread to be created and stickied title "useless and random facts and questions".

Isaacs' restaurant rules.......

and no, I wasn't going to mention the white powdery stuff.......

Photodegradation is one issue. Found this:

When choosing your storage location, remember that heat, air, and light are the enemies of oil. These elements help create free radicals, which eventually lead to excessive oxidation and rancidity in the oil that will leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Avoid most plastic, too; oil can absorb noxious substances such as polyvinyl chlorides (PVCs) out of the plastic.

Elden Campbell was a GREAT asset to the Lakers

Tom Chambers is probably the closest based on this dunk (you have to wonder how high he could go if he was just trying to go high). Yup, he's white.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDyBSTQDwH8