Most memorable players you played a pickup game with.

[Goran Dragic]

Wtf Goran Tragic viewing thread? Whoever made that troll, your done.

[Xylus]

I've played quite a few pickup games with Brendon Lavender, a guard for the Arizona Wildcats. He plays at the university rec center pretty often. I've also played a few games with some of the Women's Basketball players, but I don't know their names.

[badfish22]

Wtf Goran Tragic viewing thread? Whoever made that troll, your done.

[pauls931]

Wtf Goran Tragic viewing thread? Whoever made that troll, your done.

PM me Tragic, someone is my new best friend.

edit: He just called me a got. Never mind.

[Allanon]

I played against Ariza's team a few times in High School. They pretty much blew us out so it wasn't a good experience. Gabe Pruitt too but he's a no-name. And you can include Bobby Brown now but I didn't know who the he was.

I only guarded Ariza a couple times on switches; he was alot bigger and lightning fast.

Ariza was the "star" of his high school team and everybody was oohing and ahing over him back then. Pretty laid-back dude even though he was "the star".

[Allanon]

James killed Ariza in high school.

Hahah, yeah, I remember that game. We were talking about Ariza after LeBron blew him out. Just typical HS bull when your team gets trashed by another team even though we weren't in it and had losing problems of our own

It's been a long time but if I remember right, there was some Ariza/James trash talk before the game or maybe one of the guys made it up...something like that.

[HarlemHeat37]

I was on the St.John's Div 1 practice team this Summer, I got a tryout as I posted here in July..I could have been a walk-on for the team, but it's kind of pointless..I wouldn't have gotten much playing time due to the system, seniority and the scholarships of the other players, and I wouldn't be getting paid, which is a waste of time when you consider the time that I would need to spend focusing on the team..playing college ball is pointless unless you have a real chance at playing in the pros and/or you don't need to make $, at least IMO..

Telfair a lot through HS, he was the 2nd toughest player I've ever guarded..

Omar Cook was by far the toughest player I've ever guarded, even though they were just pickup games..

Julius Hodge and Allan Ray in 1 game each in HS, but I never guarded either of them..

Edgar Sosa in freshman and sop re years, he really wasn't that good at the time..I got kicked out of school in junior year, and he blew up in those last years and plays for Louisville now, so I didn't play with him when he was apparently really good..

those are the NBA/potential NBA players I've played against..I've played against a bunch of "known" streetballers too, but they aren't important..

[mavs>spurs2]

Damn I didn't know half of spurstalk played with nba stars at some point before their careers got derailed

[HarlemHeat37]

I didn't play against any big or even notable NBA players(Telfair is just an average player), but if you played HS ball in a big city, there's a pretty decent chance that you played against some notables..

The era of bigger NBA stars in NY was before my time..

NY is still by far the best place for streetball and pickup ball though, no contest..

[Allanon]

If you've played ball, at some point you will meet up against some future NBA'er.

if you played HS ball in a big city, there's a pretty good chance that you played against some notables..

Yup.

I'll bet there's a good number of Clevelanders who have played LeBron.

[mavs>spurs2]

If you've played ball, at some point you will meet up against some future NBA'er.

Chris Bosh was a little older than me so of course I never got to play against him, but I watched Willie Warren play in the state championship game for Crowley though