PurpleHaze
All-Star
How insulting and utterly mind-boggling the choice of Darryl Dawkins as MSE special guest for Heritage Night at Arco – he who single handedly created the most notorious posterization of an entire franchise in NBA history, the Kansas City Kings of 1979.
Not only did the NOT very great NBA big man in both talent and class Darryl Dawkins largely make a name for himself by simply shattering a couple of backboards, but his mocking of the incident was traumatizing to Bill Robinzine of the Kansas City Kings who three years later killed himself.
The infamous Dawkins recap and quote from Wikipedia: In a game against the Kansas City Kings in 1979 Dawkins threw down such a massive dunk that the backboard shattered into a thousand tiny shards, sending the Kings’ Bill Robinzine ducking for cover and amazing a nation of fans. Three weeks later he did it again. A few days after that the NBA ruled that breaking a backboard was an offense that would result in a fine and suspension. Dawkins named the backboard-breaking dunk "Chocolate Thunder Flying, Robinzine Crying, Teeth Shaking, Glass Breaking, Rump Roasting, Bun Toasting, Wham, Bam, Glass Breaker I Am Jam." He named other dunks as well: the Rim Wrecker, the Go-Rilla, the Look Out Below, the In-Your-Face Disgrace, the Cover Your Head, the Yo-Mama, and the Spine-Chiller Supreme. The 76ers also kept a separate column on the stat sheet for Dawkins’s self-created nicknames: "Sir Slam," "Double D," and "Chocolate Thunder."
I remember a conversation I had with Robert “Bobby Joe” Reid of the Houston Rockets a few years after he attended his good friend Bill Robinzine’s funeral helping to lay him to rest at age 29. BJ told be that Bill was extremely upset at the way he was continually mocked by not only Dawkins in public but that members of the media could not get enough of the Chocolate Thunder freak show – so much of it at Bill’s humiliating expense.
At least tonight was not a total loss (considering the Dawkins disgrace and losing to the lowly Clippers) as a group of WWII vets were honored who were on duty at Pearl Harbor 66 years ago today, Dec. 7, 1941.
Not only did the NOT very great NBA big man in both talent and class Darryl Dawkins largely make a name for himself by simply shattering a couple of backboards, but his mocking of the incident was traumatizing to Bill Robinzine of the Kansas City Kings who three years later killed himself.
The infamous Dawkins recap and quote from Wikipedia: In a game against the Kansas City Kings in 1979 Dawkins threw down such a massive dunk that the backboard shattered into a thousand tiny shards, sending the Kings’ Bill Robinzine ducking for cover and amazing a nation of fans. Three weeks later he did it again. A few days after that the NBA ruled that breaking a backboard was an offense that would result in a fine and suspension. Dawkins named the backboard-breaking dunk "Chocolate Thunder Flying, Robinzine Crying, Teeth Shaking, Glass Breaking, Rump Roasting, Bun Toasting, Wham, Bam, Glass Breaker I Am Jam." He named other dunks as well: the Rim Wrecker, the Go-Rilla, the Look Out Below, the In-Your-Face Disgrace, the Cover Your Head, the Yo-Mama, and the Spine-Chiller Supreme. The 76ers also kept a separate column on the stat sheet for Dawkins’s self-created nicknames: "Sir Slam," "Double D," and "Chocolate Thunder."
I remember a conversation I had with Robert “Bobby Joe” Reid of the Houston Rockets a few years after he attended his good friend Bill Robinzine’s funeral helping to lay him to rest at age 29. BJ told be that Bill was extremely upset at the way he was continually mocked by not only Dawkins in public but that members of the media could not get enough of the Chocolate Thunder freak show – so much of it at Bill’s humiliating expense.
At least tonight was not a total loss (considering the Dawkins disgrace and losing to the lowly Clippers) as a group of WWII vets were honored who were on duty at Pearl Harbor 66 years ago today, Dec. 7, 1941.
