Post some classic bball trash talk stories

Scottie Pippen's "Mailman don't deliver on Sunday" line to Karl Malone when Malone was shooting free throws to take the lead late in a Finals game was a classic. Malone missed them both and the Bulls beat Utah at the buzzer.

KG unable to break Tim Duncan.

The Larry Bird Chuck Person Merry Christmas story

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It was never wise to talk trash to Larry Bird, especially for players who couldn’t back it up. The Boston Celtics legend was unstoppable in a war of words as he was on the court. But that didn’t stop Chuck Person from trying to intimidate Bird during the matchup between the Celtics and Indiana Pacers the day after Christmas in 1990.

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Person, who was nicknamed “The Rifleman,” sent a message to Larry before tip-off, saying he was going on a hunting trip that evening. The former Pacers star probably should have kept his thoughts to himself, as Bird had the perfect gift for him, which coach Bob Hill once talked about.

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“To start the second half, Boston was shooting on our end of the court,” Hill said. “I was standing right around halfcourt, and they ran a simple pin down for Larry. He caught the ball, turned, and shot it. Chuck was on the bench. When Larry went up to shoot, he said, ‘Merry fu*king Christmas, Chuck!'” “As he shot it, he said that, turned and ran down the court, and he swished it. I laughed, our whole bench laughed, and I think Chuck even laughed,” Bob added.

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Larry Bird bursting into the allstar locker room for the 3 point contest, pointing out why each dude wasn’t going to win, asking “so who’s coming in second” then winning while still in the warm up jacket

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I think my favorite is that time Lebron had a couple game winners against Washington in the 1st round of the playoffs and Gilbert sent a game later in the series to OT.

While on the FT line to win the game, Gilbert feels a tap and turns to see Lebron in his face saying “you know who’s going to ice this shite when you miss these free throws.”

He then set up Damon Jones for the game winning 3.

ETA: Ah yes, bring on the downvotes for mentioning a neat Lebron story you shameless ****.

There is almost no way to distinguish between a Lebron hater and far left sky screaming purple haired elementary school teacher. And they both got brainwashed in the same fashion

The Bird "look like 84 huh?" and Tim Duncan "ooooo...almost" will probably always be my 2 favorites especially for how they are told by Mashburn and KG.

This one is good too although it's really just a commercial

Shaq: "Hey Kobe, tell me how my arse tastes"

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While on the FT line to win the game, Gilbert feels a tap and turns to see Lebron in his face saying “you know who’s going to ice this shite when you miss these free throws.”

He then set up Damon Jones for the game winning 3.

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Wait. So LeBron was talking shite and saying that Damon Jones was gonna ice the game?

I think the downvotes you’re getting may be because your example isn’t even of someone who called his own shot or won the game.

But after reading your Bird comment I think you may be getting DVs because of your shitty takes.


That Max clip was hilarious. He said the N word 12 times in 54 seconds. Impressive.

I still laugh about that Jimmy Butler practice story in Minnesota, where he came in the gym in front of Tom Thibodeau and GM Scott Layden, picked the four end-of-bench dudes, and beat the rest of Minnesota's starters in a pickup game while screaming at Layden, "You fricking need me, Scott! You can't win without me!"