1. Charles Barkley used to play with a [belly button full of Vaseline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QApxuhrZ274), so whenever his lips were dry he could reach into his navel and put it on his lips.
2. Dennis Rodman once tried to marry himself.
3. Anthony Edwards [likes lions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr44F02SJBI) but said he couldn’t get one because he ‘didn’t have the house for it’. (This is likely a joke, sometimes I wonder if he just likes to mess with reporters)
4. Anthony Edwards’s favorite [movie is Matilda](https://youtu.be/2FapcqtqRk0?t=893), and for a wholesome reason: he likes watching women be powerful.
5. After the malice at the palace, [Ron Artest asked Stephen Jackson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&t=231&v=1xtQ5ENFdzE&feature=youtu.be) “do you think we’ll get in trouble for this?”
6. Paul George’s parents are Paul and Paulette George.
7. Allen Iverson’s younger brother is named Mister Allen Iverson.
8. Manute Bol eloped with a woman from Sudan and paid 80 cows to marry her.
9. In 2013, Marc Gasol won the Defensive Player of the Year Award but made the All NBA Defense Second Team.
10. Pau Gasol went to medical school for a year and still sat in on procedures after joining the NBA.
11. Steven Adams is the [youngest of 18 siblings](https://www.nba.com/player/203500/steven-adams/rotowire).
12. Steven Adams has his own comic called ‘Kiwi Legend’. He loves Japanese anime.
13. The Lakers and Celtics have won 43% of NBA championships.
14. The Miami Heat started in the Western conference.
15. The full name of the Knicks is the Knickerbockers.
16. Celtics and Knicks are the only teams to have never moved. *Edit:* among the *original* teams to have never moved or changed names. Thanks for pointing this out
17. About 60-65% of NBA players go broke within the first five years of retirement.
18. Air Jordans were once banned in the NBA and Stern fined Michael Jordan $5000 for every game that he played with them on. *Edit:* technically the shoes themselves weren’t banned, but the color scheme was (league policy required players to wear predominantly white shoes at the time).
19. Phil Jackson was close to getting Scottie Pippen to join the Kobe & Shaq Lakers in 1999 but Jerry Buss prevented the deal because of salary cap concerns.
20. Shaq has played 1207 games and has only made one three-pointer.
21. Scott Skiles has the most assists in a game with thirty.
22. Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues is the shortest player in the NBA history (5’3″) but blocked 39 shots.
23. [Paul Pierce was stabbed 11 times](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_OC_fALh5E) at a nightclub and underwent lung surgery one month before the 2000-01 season started. But he got back on his feet within 3 days and still played all 82 games that season.
24. [Naz Reid went undrafted](https://www.twitter.com/DaneMooreNBA/status/1444047743945740290?s=20), weighed 256 pounds at the NBA combine and was the only player at the combine with a body fat% over 10% (his was 14%). Four years later, he shed 30+ pounds, transformed his game and became a cult favorite. He just signed a 3-year $42M extension and now there are [billboards](https://np.twitter.com/DaneMooreNBA/status/1444047743945740290?s=20) simply saying “Naz Reid.” throughout MN.
25. No player has ever worn the number 69 while playing in the NBA. *Edit:* Apparently Dennis Rodman wanted to wear 69 at one point, but the league wouldn’t let him. Boo
Yup that’s all I got for now
FYI r/nba won’t let me post this when I include all the source links (maybe because some websites aren’t approved by the sub?) but you can Google the facts 🙂
by Minute-Decent
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Caron Butler got banned from chewing straws during games.
Here’s another random fact:
In order to fully recover from his ankle sprain in the 2000 NBA Finals, Kobe Bryant took up tap dancing over the summer.
Kobe talks about this in his book, The Mamba Mentality. Here’s an excerpt from pg.46 of the book:
“After that injury, I missed Game 3 [of the 2000 NBA Finals] but managed, thanks to stimulation therapy, to play the rest of the series. This treatment involves wires that deliver low-level electrical current directly through your skin. It actually helps bring the pain down. But the ankle was so bad that, to be honest, I couldn’t hoop much that summer. What I did do, though, was take up tap dancing. That’s right: tap dancing. That was my worst sprain, but it certainly wasn’t my first. I realized at that point I needed to be proactive about strengthening my ankles.
After researching the matter, it became apparent that tap dancing was going to be the best way to build up my ankle strength while simultaneously improving my foot speed and rhythm. So I hired an instructor and started going to the studio. I worked on it all that summer and benefited for the rest of my career.”
Source:
Bryant, K., Jackson, P., Gasol, P., & Bernstein, A. D. (2018). The Mamba Mentality. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Addendum:
Kobe sprained his ankle when Jalen Rose intentionally slid his foot under Kobe after he took a jumpshot. Here’s a video to that:
https://youtu.be/DM7lwQJiJlc
Naz Reid.
number 4 ?
26. Luka Doncic is Devin Booker father
I enjoy this actually good post. 👍
Steven Adams refuses to play for his national team because they didnt bought him shoes when he was 16
source on 17?
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>Celtics and Knicks are the only teams to have never moved.
The Nuggets have never moved. It’s possible I’m blanking on something, but they’ve always been in Denver. They were called the Rockets for a bit tho.
I don’t think the Magic, Heat, Blazers, T-Wolves or Mavericks have either.
Andre Kirilenko was the best World of Warcraft player in the NBA according to Tim Duncan
Tyson Chandler also made the 2nd team all defensive team the year he won DPOY
My fantasy league updates always end with a random nba fact. I always appreciate these posts.
25 is incorrect. Technically dennis rodman did while playing on the mavs.
The Paul Pierce one is mental.
Sidney Wicks had a ten year nba career. His PPG decreased every single season.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wickssi01.html
Dwight Howard was addicted to candy(starburst?) and ate copious amounts to the point the Magic had to intervene.
Do you have a similar list of just Anthony Edwards facts? Becaus I would love to read that
Mark Eaton leads the Utah Jazz in Triple Doubles, registering more than Karl Malone, John Stockton, Deron Williams combined.
He would have had more, but didn’t score enough points to get double digits along with rebounds and blocks.
That Pao Gasol fact is wild. Maybe it’s different in Spain, but medical school and residency in the USA are absolutely brutal. Takes a very special person to do that if they have millions already.
26. Nerlens Noel once went to the media area to get a hot dog during halftime of a game.
Idk why the Ron Artest one is so funny to me
NBA bodyfat % is so jank, you need to add like 10% to any figure they quote minimum.
No way dude was 14% bf and considered fat, and then had the ability to lose 12% of his bodyweight
Manute Bol’s dad was taller than he was
I find it hard to believe the 60-65% of players going broke within the first 5 years of retirement. The NBA has. Pretty good retirement plan, I know of 1 player(long story) who makes ~$40k a month in retirement
Walt Bellamy played 88 games in the 68-69 season.
Gary Payton has two sons named Gary Payton Jr. and Gary Payton II
I had to re-read no.8 before realizing that Manute did not, in fact, pay money *to* 80 individual cows for the right to marry his wife. Time for bed, I guess
That’s *Mister* Allen Iverson to you
Do 25 Naz Reid facts next.
Air Jordans weren’t banned, shoes that were not a certain percentage white were banned.
The first one has me wishing I was illiterate
Some of these are mildly interesting, and others are absolutely insane
Lance Stephenson’s younger brother is named Lantz
“Hey Paul, what should we name our son?”
“I don’t know, Paulette, what should we name our son?”
Pearl Jam used to be called Mookie Blaylock. But they changed it before their debut album “Ten” came out. If you don’t know, 10 was Mookie Blaylock’s number.
Speaking of Steven Adams, his big sister is a 4 time Olympic Gold medalist.
Michael Kidd Gilchrist watches The Lion King once a week because it reminds him of his late father who passed away when he was 3 and whom he used to watch it everyday with
Kyrie Irving almost lost his dad in 9/11. His dad had a job at the World Trade Center and was on his way to work that day when he had a bad feeling about it and decided to go back home instead.
After his childhood best friend died when they were 16 Russell Westbrook would go to his best friend’s grandmother’s house everyday to do the chores his friend used to do.
Rapper Nelly used to walk Bradley Beal to school when he was growing up.
Dwyane Wade’s big sister helped him escape their drug addict mother by taking him one day and telling him they were going to the movies and then instead taking him to their dad’s house where he started to live from then on.
Kevin Durant’s favorite team growing up was the Toronto Raptors because he was a fan of Vince Carter. I know it’s not that special but it’s not everyday you hear about a celebrity fan of the Raptors that isn’t Drake.
Apart from being cousins, Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter have the same middle name: Lamar.
Bubba Wells holds the record for quickest time to foul out at 2 minutes 43 seconds.
Reggie Miller once scored forty points in a high school game.
Only to be one-upped by his sister Cheryl the same night. She scored 105.
The Celtics one is partially incorrect. They became the Buffalo Braves which became the Clippers. There was just another team that immediately took their place, so I guess it depends on how you want to count it. The Bill Russell lineage is actually with the Clippers today.
https://celticswire.usatoday.com/lists/nba-boston-celtics-cebraves-swap/
Where the fuck did Manute Bol get 80 cows?
“Naz Reid went undrafted, weighed 256 pounds at the NBA combine and was the only player at the combine with a body fat% over 10% (his was 14%).”
They may claim that but there’s no way every guy at the combine but one was under 10% bf.
So am I the only one that thinks the Charles Barkley one is absolutely disgusting?