Yeah sounds like a high school kid on holidays with too much time on their hands.

Mmmmm. One for the delete file?

I say Mark Gaze dunked over Cecil Exum, as did Nigel Purchase and Warwick Giddey - all on the same play.

Does it really matter?

Excuse me Cecil Exum, but can u please watch ur language because i dont think many people on here would like that.

I know u might be pissed off but come on, u dont need to swear.

It's come from Cecil Exum indeed.

I have amended the original post. The video of Gaze's dunk shows Cecil Exum (#32) a little behind the play on transition - not the guy suffering the facial.

Not sure if this thread was started in Exum's capacity as an employee of Fiddes at And1.

cecil exum who's he.....

Was an import who played in the NBL in the 90s. Currently works for And1 under Peter Fiddes and has some involvement at ABA level (coaches, plays, not sure).

Someone else might be able to find some stats if you're interested.

He also played for North Carolina, i think along side Jordan.

Wonder if he ever told M to 'Drive safe?' Kent hahaha...

Who cares who he is?
There are other ways of getting a point across. Merry Xmas Cec, and I hope a Xmas reindeer brings you some manners and shits in your bed

How did he find the post? Obviously sits at his computer and googles his name all day.....

Cecil the important question here is do you stil run the flat top?

"Another little known story regarding a player who did not get in the game was forward Cecil Exum, one of the most popular members on the team. Following his graduation, he moved to Australia to play professional basketball. Despite being from a small North Carolina town and considered shy and quiet while on the team, Exum went on to be labeled the "Michael Jordan of Australian Basketball" while he played, at times not even able to walk down the street without seeing himself on a billboard or being mobbed for autographs. Even in the land Down Under, the Tar Heels and their Championship carried a lot of weight. "People know, because I make sure that they know," Exum explains. "Being popular in the States is very different than here - Australians love everything about being American. I guess overseas players are really ambassadors of their sport and the university that they attended.""
blue heaven museum.


Cecil i think you need to read your words again about being an ambassador the Tar Heels would surely be proud of an alum putting their name to such tripe.

Also what billboard were you on exactly and for the record one autograph does not equal a mob.

Very ordinary NBL player from my recollections.

Wow! That's quite the over reaction from a post that was made 17 months ago. thedoctor should be ashamed of himself.

Cecil. Your poorly mannered response is more a reflection on your manhood than a mistaken asertion that a slow shooting guard dunked on you.

(Andrew, If you read this please do not take offence to the statement that you are "slow". I use the term more for effect than in belief that you are slow per se)

Drewie would have this site bookmarked for sure! lol

Didn't know they had a degree in Potty Mouthed Forum Posting at North Carolina! Gee Whizz!

I love it. Ive had my eye on this topic since Isaac informed me it was actually him. You really didn't think this threw did you Cecil. Like my mum said...how sensitive of a guy named 'Cecil' hahaha!

Its Solicitor....Not Solictor you damn old HACK

LMAO.......Cecil Exum

Hypothetical, what do you think does more to harm someone's repuation?

a) A once off innocuous comment about being dunked on (with no responses further in the thread) hidden in a 17 month old thread with dozens of other posts that is likely to be read by no more that 5 people a year...

or

b) Titling a brand new post with "Get your f**king facts correct" and having hundreds of people think you're a complete mung bean by going so far over the top in your response to a 17 month old comment that no one even remembers or cares about.


"Being popular in the States is very different than here - Australians love everything about being American"

Might I be so bold as to suggest that the reason the world's opinion of America and her people has changed so much since this quote was taken is precisely because of the attitude of Americans like Cecil? Our infatuation with America is over Cecil, get over it.

And to think, he's upset about being dunked on by this guy. I'd consider it a privilege, especially if he was wearing this at the time!

Cecil. How is Desiree ?

Wait... is this guy.. Cecil Exum annoyed because people are saying he got dunked on? Even though he may not have been dunked on, why is he so annoyed that he is threatening to sue?

This whole thread is hilarious! (although possibly not for you Isaac) the scary thing is that this guy seeems to be serious!


Maybe he is worried that there is footage of Lindsay Gaze dunking on him somewhere!

AS FUNNY AS THIS IS, WE ALL WANT TO SEE THE DUNK NOW.

ISAAC, YOU SAID YOU CAN SEE HIM IN THE BACKGROUND, DOES THAT MEAN YOU HAVE THE CLIP? CAN YOU POST IT PLEEAAASSSEE? THEN WE CAN SEE WHAT ALL THE HYPE IS ABOUT.

How rude!!!

It's been on You tube since September 3rd 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPu-Bf_TOTo

So its true...Cecil you werent the guy dunked on.

But come on:

"Mistaken identity - is it because we are both black"...Why do you have to pull the race card on this one??

Do you reckon if there was a clip of Andrew GAze dunking on David Spear, but we all thought it was Mike McKay because they both played in the same team and had the same 80s porn mostaches, that Mike would get upset and pull the "facial hair" card?

Grow up mate - how about you take a stroll in the hall of mirrors and have a good hard long look at yourself....

Oh, and if you read this Cecil, I've got an 1994 Futera card I'd like you to sign, it's currently worth 2c, but with your auto ... oh wait, it would be worth even less.

Wow, Calvin Talford really had hops. Oh hang on, did he dunk on Cecil Exum? Does anyone really care?

Funniest thread ever. How mature of a man (I use the term loosely here) to threaten legal action over a misguided quote. Responding to Cecil here has a multitude of paths available to us all.

Do we simply say "Cecil? Cecil Who?".

Do we invite Cecil Exum onto the forum to beguile us with his heroic deeds on the hardwood so that we may forget his involvement in the "Gaze saga"?

My god the man is a total twat. So many ways to dehumanise and belittle him here that I cant focus on only one.

Never heard of you mate :)

What's weird here is that, IF he was the man who got posterised and he tries to say it wasn't him to get away from the small humiliation then wouldn't it be worse by making it public?

If it wasn't you, then why did you humiliate your self with a foolish post that could have been something like this...

"Unfortunately, i wasn't the man who was dunked on. I would have liked to be on a poster"

or

"I wish i was there. I would have had the best view in the stadium!"

A little bit of light humour would have surficed.

We know that it wasn't Cecil because he is #32 - which you can see in the video, however you are right in that his post has probably caused more humiliation than a more tactfull approach, or a simple email to the moderator's to adjust the incorrect post.

Look,

Maybe the guy was more pissed off with what he interpreted to be racial connotation of the post. The fact an African American player gets dunked so the assumption is that it is Cecil is actually quite a valid point to get extremely annoyed over. If ever you guys have played with these guys they love the game more than what we can imagine, they have a lot of pride about it and this kind of thing would annoy the shit out of them.

As the poster above pointed out the guy is coaching and is a family man. I reckon we should just leave it there.

What family man puts up offensive language on a forum read by children and emails similar material to someone he's never met? One poster (thedoctor) made a mistake and the racial card gets brought up in defense? Come on...

'What family man puts up offensive language on a forum read by children and emails similar material to someone he's never met?'

I agree Isaac!

I thought it was pretty soft for C.E. to come on here talking about closing the site down. If he didnt get dunked on.....fine good for him, but this was NOT a case of black and white. If you look at the video you cannot tell if it was C.E. until the end of the clip when he then came into the shot. So Cecil, Pipe down because you aint shuttin' shit down!!!

How could the doctor seriously think it was Cecil, he was always 2 steps behind the offensive player!
"The fact an African American player gets dunked so the assumption is that it is Cecil is actually quite a valid point to get extremely annoyed over." I think that year they had about 5 african american players so it could have been any of them!

"The fact an African American player gets dunked so the assumption is that it is Cecil is actually quite a valid point to get extremely annoyed over"

Strange......If I was thinking of African American basketball players, my first 100 "assumptions" would not be Cecil Exum.

In fairness though, Cecil was a great player in his day.

Ummm - just came across this thread. I've been under a huge pile of rocks, obviously.

Seems Cecil is slightly annoyed. My apologies. But Cecil, come on! The race card! I can't believe you had the nerve to pull that one! Check the clip - it's fairly poor quality and the guy that Gaze dunked on had a bad flat top too. Obviously a case of mistaken identity.

Not sure what your solicitors would be doing if you contacted them. I believe a defamation suit requires loss or damage to be suffered as a result of incorrect information being published that damages reputation. Cecil, you played for the Supercats - your rep was shot the day you walked on court.

What you should really be doing is instructing your solicitor to sue the pants off whoever printed that garbage that you were "the Michael Jordan of Australian Basketball"

Once again, my bad. But to play the race card is ridiculous.

dont mean to bump this thread... but isaac did u ever get a reply or apoligy of some sort from cecil?

No.

to avoid getting this bad reputation he should've used his alias- Ali G

"Is it coz i is black?"

WHY DONT ALL U MOTHER FUKIN ASS HOLES GIVE CECIL DA RESPECT HE DESERVES AT LEAST HIS DONE SOMETHING AND GONE SOMEWERE WITH HIS LIFE WHICH IS TO HARD TO SAY FOR U GUYS WHO PROBALY DREAMT ABOUT PLAYIN BALL IN THE NBA BUT WHEN U DECIDED TO JOIN THE VARCITY TEAM EVERYONE LAUGHED BECAUSE U FUCKIN EMBARRESSED URSELF WEN GOT REJECTED BY FUKIN MIDGET.

I was looking for info about a former NBL player I respected when I was playing, Mario Donaldson, but some how ended up here. Cecil Exum, do you remember that game against the Cannons in Geelong when I dunked on you and you had the audacity to say that it was beginners luck? How come it happened another 4 times? Get out of my way next time. We could try it now to as you were always 5 years older than me.

So who was the player Gaze dunked on in the youtube clip?

Was it Vince Hinchen? I think he sported a flat top and played at Geelong with C.E (and was in the league long enough to expect Gaze to lay it up).

Other than that I can only guess it being either Adrian Branch or Darren Rowe (but the defender looks to short to be either of those players).

lol, I love this thread...

Nearly had a fit reading this again, and I wouldn't know Cecil from a bar of green naphtha.

Andrew Gaze dunking on Cecil Exum is my all time favourite NBL moment.

I work With Cecil currently and have been for the past few years, I can honestly say I hold High Respect for this man and value his drive and determination pertaining to what he actually does for up and coming young Basketballers. The dedication and knowledge this man provides to the Sport is invaluable. Lets get Basketball back on track within Australia rather than focussing on trying to down the people that are giving back to the sport where others are not...

That's right CP- "get Basketball back on track" and raise this hilarious topic again.
If Cecil deserved 'high regard', a simple retraction or apology for an over-reaction would have given him more cred.

CP, have you ever dunked on Cecil?

The funniest thing is that Cecil never wrote the first post.SOME DUMB ARSE that got dunked on by cecil did....I could mention names but i will respect the guys family...
Hang this up fella's.

..... and 5 years on, this post still lives. Must be some kind of record.

Does anyone know where Harold Miner is?

He's doing a beep test. What's a good beep test score for a 13 year old?

Should I tape or brace? What's the best brand of ankle brace?

OK - this thread can finally be put to rest.

Please visit: facebook.com/inallairness and click on 'episode 4: Australia's Greatest Player - Andrew Gaze'.

I interviewed Andrew for 90 minutes on my podcast (In all Airness). He was a great guy to speak with and even more down-to-earth than you already would think.

Around the 7m mark of our chat, I ask him about this very dunk. He recalls it fondly and goes into detail about the play.

Enjoy! Adam

facebook.com/inallairness

Every year I come back and read this thread ... just too funny.

This is gold!

bump.

This thread has taught me that the "must be school holidays" line has been used around here for years.

This is magical...

So this is the infamous "Gaze dunks on Exum" thread mostly full of shit but still fun to read.
Don't worry Cecil your boy is about to become a millionaire.

Cecil can borrow dantes money to sue hoops forum

How do we know that was really Cecil in the first post and not someone doing a piss-take?

For a forum, it seems to be par for the course to be threatened with legal action every so often.

I think there has been at least three high profile gentlemen who have rattled sabres on here talking about action. I am sure there are others, probably those who think they are high profile in their own mind.

My yearly read of this thread. Best thing about this - is when you google Cecil Exum - this is the 4th search that comes up.

Go Dante!

I wonder how he hasn't ask Isaac to take it down. A simply, I am sorry for blowing up! instead his poor son has to see this sh*t for the rest of his career.

Who is still reading this in 2017??

If it took you that long I recommend literacy classes.

Dante has been playing well so thought I would revisit a classic Hoops moment.

A bit like the old "Booga" emails with both topics surely in the “Hoops Classics” File

Booga vs Spadge

Never got tired of seeing Spadge make booga look like a fool!

This post gets dusted off every so often..... GOLD

It is now 2018 and i have only now found it and read it !!!!, I am so slow, Soooo slow in fact I'm almost slower than Cecil Exum getting back on defence, which may well be why Andrew could not dunk on him. :)

Come to think of it, Cec is probably right, few people would have been managed to find Cec back playing defence when they were dunking.

Does anyone have footage (inchage ?) of Cec playing defence in the NBL ?

Just asking :)

Aaaaaahhh, memories of the old days of NBL at the Supercats, bring it back please!

Merry Christmas 2019.
From all of us in Perth
Bump.

https://www.facebook.com/TheNBL/videos/635136280385263/

This thread is the Dame Nellie Melba (or John Farnham if you prefer) of threads. Keeps making comebacks.

I just noticed that the OP used the phrase If you don't remove an incorrect fact".

That’s a tautology. Facts cannot be incorrect. Perhaps a "false and misleading claim” perhaps.

Still gold.

I was coached by cecil for a few years in the 2000s and he was a testament to the game and a wealth of knowlege.

He must have been having a pretty bad day to react like that!

It would have been Cecil's birthday yesterday, a fitting time to return to return to this gem