You know you're old in basketball if...

[Duncanoypi]

you're much older than NBA superstars...(e.g Lebron, Amare)
You're favorite NBA players are still Michael Jordan, Magic and Bird...(worst, Kareem)
When players being scouted in NBA were born when the time you were in high school...

[Duncanoypi]

you mistook Manu Ginobili for Vinny Del Negro not just once, but twice.

[Juanobili]

yup

[Solid D]

When you watched Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain play in person...

[Man In Black]

When the NBA Finals was shown on Tape Delay!

[8FOR!3]

Hell I feel old cause I'm a few months older than Ryan Richards...

[Em-City]

if you refuse to accept that hand-checking is illegal

[ezau]

if you refuse to accept that hand-checking is illegal

and if you think that the defensive three-second rule is a load of bull crap

[timtonymanu]

I'll feel old in a couple of years.

The only old thing I can say is that I'm the same age as John Wall and it's my generation's turn to play pro.

[SA210]

When you're trying to watch NBA on TNT on the tv drawn on the wall in your cave.

[Em-City]

...If your favourite pair of basketball shoes are Converse all-stars

[Chieflion]

I will be waiting for that in 20 years when I can say I watched Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Vince Carter, Kevin Garnett, Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, Dirk Nowitzki play.

[easy7]

When you can't get used to watching a ball that is not multicolored and long shorts. :hat

[alamo50]

...you remember that players were proud and thankful to play basketball and get paid for it.

[Obstructed_View]

When you think of the three point line as an ABA gimmick.

[Waps1980]

When all the players you have rookie cards of no longer play in the NBA

[sefant77]

You wish Rodman had Twitter during his active career

[ohmwrecker]

You wore short shorts when you played.

[ohmwrecker]

You bought a first generation pair of Air Jordans.

[ohmwrecker]

You remember when, every once in a while, someone would shatter a backboard.

[nkdlunch]

when your name is Greg Oden

[Em-City]

when your name is Greg Oden

Ahahaha

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[Spur_Fanatic]

You are old enough, when...

... you laught at the Kobe fanbois when they compare him to MJ.
... you see DRob, and you are stranged on how old he looks.

And many, many more, but a bit hungry now, later will think of more.

[PDXSpursFan]

when you played with one of these:

http://www.sportsmemorabilia.com/files/CMS/image/antique-basketball-7.jpg

[Obstructed_View]

It was actually an ABL gimmick.
Nicely done. Here's a new one:

...when you actually remembered the 8 minutes that the ABL played.

[Manufan909]

Hell I feel old cause I'm a few months older than Ryan Richards...

Hell, I feel old knowing Blair just barely became old enough to drink.:toast

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

...you once thought the idea of a 3-point line would destroy the integrity of the game.

[ffadicted]

I'll feel old in a couple of years.

The only old thing I can say is that I'm the same age as John Wall and it's my generation's turn to play pro.

This, I'm a couple months younger then Wall, it's nuts I used to look up to guys times my age, not someone I could go to school with lol

[fyatuk]

Don't know about fans, but you're an old NBA player when other NBA players talk about how they looked up to you when they were a kid...

[cantthinkofanything]

when you thought Dennis Rodman would be the queerest Spur ever

[temujin]

...if you have witnessed Mark Cuban's team win an NBA title.

[ohmwrecker]

...if you have witnessed Mark Cuban's team win an NBA title.

You are looking for the "alternate reality" thread. What you are going to want to do is follow that rabbit down the hole . . .

[Solid D]

I was benched by my coach for dribbling behind my back in a game.

[Em-City]

I was benched by my coach for dribbling behind my back in a game.

ahahahha!

[Solid D]

ahahahha!

You know, actually, I wasn't really trying to be funny. At that time, players that did stuff like dribbling behind their backs were considered "hot-doggers". My coach didn't care if it was done to get past a trap.

[TheSullyMonster]

You wish Rodman had Twitter during his active career

That would have been amazing.

[EricB]

When the players numbers in the rafters you've seen play in person outnumber the number of jerseys of players you haven't seen....

[Dex]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v3cDTrLRIjE/S9gJGGjMFkI/AAAAAAAABXo/nI2EEWI5FEA/s400/basktpeach.jpg
You shot your ball into these.

[gospursgojas]

You shoot with 2 hands from behind your head

[EricB]

You shoot with 2 hands from behind your head

Vinnie Johnson says F you I aint old!

[G-Dawgg]

You know you're old when you aren't overly impressed by Splitter because you still remember a time when there were a million awsome centers in the NBA. I remember a time growing up when David Robinson, Olajuwan, Ewing, Daugherty,Rony Seikaly,Kevin Duckworth, Elden Campbell, Kevin Willis, Divac, Laimbeer, Parish, Shaq, Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo duked it out... I'm sure there's more...... what a drop-off in talent at the C position

[timtonymanu]

This, I'm a couple months younger then Wall, it's nuts I used to look up to guys times my age, not someone I could go to school with lol

Yeah. I cant believe it was only 3 seasons ago when the Spurs had guys in their rotation that were old enough to be my uncles. Now they're signing guys who can go to college with me.

[Darrin]

I'm not quite that old. Lebron is 10 months younger than me. Greg Monroe, the Pistons first draft pick born in the 1990s, was born when I was in the 1st grade. But I remember when I was watching players born in the early 1960s. This is just crazy.

[JWest596]

You went to the ABA Spurs game in the HemisFair Arena because the ticket was $5.00 or a "gimme ticket", parking was free (you knew where), you walked past "Bongo Joe", and if it was the holidays you went to Joske's 'By the Alamo' "Winter Wonderland" like you did as a little kid. and it was "Pearl Beer Nite" (Pearl Brewery had a small percentage ownership I think back then) and the beers were paid with a coin, Sven Nater was the talk, Gervin was yet to be "Iceman" and the shizz and the die was being set.

But it was the really cheap beer that motivated you to go downtown then and driving home "semi-hammered" was not automatically evil and 'open container' was legal.

[Tito_Trinidad]

1- if you remember each and every game of the Dream Team '92 in Barcelona
2- if you watched Jordans games with your high school friends when he had hair.
3- if you think that powerhouses teams are still Pistons, Celtics, Sixers, Lakers, and Knicks.

[Obstructed_View]

Fun fact! Dunking in the NBA was considered hot dogging it. While being flashy is super encouraged today to the point where if Manu "almost!!!" gets a crazy pass off it is amazing. Yet simple passes are boring. Some people would rather see an amazing play "almost" happen rather than a simple lay up for two points.

They used to be allowed to undercut guys who left their feet, right? Dunking would get you killed. I seem to recall reading something that the first guy to dunk got called for a foul because they didn't know what to do.

Another fun fact: Wilt Chamberlain is the reason free-throw shooters have to stay behind the stripe until the ball hits the rim.

[Obstructed_View]

You know you're old if you watched the fo fo fo Sixers win a title on tape-delay.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

If you remember when "like Mike" was a marketing slogan instead what Kobe/Lebron fanboy arguments hinged on.

[rogcl1]

You are old in basketball if the girls played half court when you were in high school and your basketball shoes were canvas Converse , and you were happy to have them.
You are old in basketball if the 66-67 76ers were and are one your favorite teams of all time and you can remember starters and reserves from that team.
You are old in basketball if you went and watched the Spurs when they moved here from Dallas and wondered who were these guys with the names you never heard of.
You are old in basketball if you bought standing room only and stood in the aisles as the established teams and stars came to town the first year the Spurs were in the NBA.
Just a few.

[gospursgojas]

There were no blacks

[rogcl1]

Starters:

Wilt
Greer
Jackson
Walker
Wali Wonda!

Bench
Billy Cunningham
Costello

Fun fact! Wilt averaged an unofficial triple double in the playoffs in 67 of points, rebounds and blocks (were not officially kept until the first season after Wilt retired in 73-74) and Wilt also averaged something close to 10 assists, so there were a couple games in the 67 playoffs where Wilt had quadruple doubles.


Other reserves
Goukas, Melchionni, A young Bob Weiss who played very litle, and one or two more I'd have to look up. I remember being excited if they were actually on the weekly tv game. I also could listen to them when they payed the Hawks as I could get those games on the radio.

[G-Dawgg]

If you remember when "like Mike" was a marketing slogan instead what Kobe/Lebron fanboy arguments hinged on.

You know you're old when you still remember the lyrics to that particular Gatorade commercial... lol

Sometimes I dream
that he is me
you gotta see thats how I dream to be

I dream I move
I dream I groove

Like Mike,
If I could be like Mike...

OMG priceless nostalgic momemt lol!

[dallaskd]

Remember every Air Jordan commercial with Spike Lee as "Mars Blackmon" :lol

[bresilhac]

When you can recall the great play of Billy Paultz, (The Whopper), and how he could fit in with today's lineup.

[san antonio spurs]

When you witnessed the Magic rule

[Obstructed_View]

Remember the David Robinson commercial where he had a rookie shine his Lamborghini? "It's Gary Payton. He's good, but he's a rookie, and rookies aren't very smart."

[ezau]

in high school Wilt used to be able to jump from the free throw line and dunk for a free throw, .

Jesus H. Christ. I know Wilt was an athletic freak, but that's just crazy

[101A]

When your 12 year old son crosses you over in the driveway and the result is a 'scope.