Blake Griffin is the new basketball idol for kids growing up wanting to play basketball. To the basketball players out there, who was your idol growing up?
Griffin is changing the game as we speak. Ticket sales for every Clippers game is up, as well as jersey sales, attendance and website traffic. With all do respect to LeBron and Kobe, Blake is the new “it” guy.
I myself always tried to emulate Tracy McGrady. Who did you try to be like?
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I loved Johnny Bench. I had a pair of #5 Johnny Bench tennis shoes and I nearly slept with them on my feet. Back when I was young, girls didn’t play Little League baseball. I wanted to play so bad I couldn’t stand it.
A local team held their practice at our little rural neighborhood playground. My mom bought me a new glove and told me to go and see if they’d let me practice with them. I couldn’t play when they played games, but the coach let me practice and play with the boys. He and all of the little boys were great. (Plus, I was the only one brave enough to cross a fence into a horse pasture where a German shepherd lived to retrieve foul balls. lol I loved that old Little League team.)
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When I was growing up, I always wanted to be like tennis great Bjorn Borg. I thought he played the game so well yet always remained so cool under pressure. I loved playing tennis when I was a kid, but got into swimming as I grew older.
I’m going to show my age here. I admired Bill Russell as an athelete and as a man. And I was delighted to see him honored today with a Medal of Freedom.
Walter Payton, then Michael Jordan, then Brett Favre (but I was nearly grown up when he showed up)
In basketball, it was Cliff Hagen of the St. Louis Hawks (yes, before they moved to Atlanta, the Hawks were in St. Louis for many years).
However, baseball was really my game and I wanted to be like my hero, Stan Musial. Sadly, I wasn’t, but I at least tried.
I hated to play basketball and therefore paid no attention to it when I was a kid. But you couldn’t ignore the media hype that surrounded Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain.
Baseball and Football were my games.
In basesball, it was Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Willie McCovey, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford and lefty Sandy Kofax—Pretty much the whole NY Yankees and San Francico Giants line up. Of course Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Joe Dimaggio, Yogi Berra and Lou Gehrig were the legends, the immortals of the game. I remember nothing about him and I understand he was a real clown, but I loved the name Bo Bo Balinsky.
In football it was first Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown (possibly the greatest running back of all time), Bart Starr, Broadway Joe Namath and Rosy Greer.
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