Where Are They Now: Derrick Murray
The look back at the compelling protagonists of the 1996 draft will be coming up soon, as soon as I can find 13 available hours in which to write it. Until them, I bring you a quasi-update from the 1994 edition.
In that post, I wrote this paragraph:
Well, I have an update on that.
Sampson left the team after only 4 games, but the team replaced him pretty quickly, signing ex-Kings training campee (a new word), Adam Parada. Bailey has also finally turned up, as he was still playing in the German playoffs at the time of the last update. (He's currently averaging a triple double through his first two games, too.) The team also boasts California State senator Tony Strickland on the team, who hadn't played competitive basketball since averaging a double double at Whittler College in NCAA's division 3 almost two decades ago. That's a PR move and a half, that.
But the big news is that the Lightning have sinced added more ex-NBA pedigree, adding Raptors legend Darrick Martin to the team.
You needed to know that. You just did.
This post also serves as an excuse to fire out the two timeless Derrick Murray videos, which I think I will never, ever get bored of.
Great times.
In that post, I wrote this paragraph:
Last month, [Lamond] Murray signed back in the IBL for the third time, signing with the seminal Los Angeles Lightning, where he is currently averaging 25/6.
You weren't expecting that, I'm guessing. But here's the best part - the Lightning's lineup is freaking stacked. In an otherwise piss-poor league, the Lightning have managed to boast a lineup full of ex-NBA players, featuring Murray, current Clippers assistant and minor league veteran Fred Vinson, journeyman big man Jamal Sampson, the artist formerly known as Bryon Russell, ex-Suns guard Toby Bailey and former Rockets guard Juaquin Hawkins, who is with his first team since suffering a stroke last year. Did you see all that coming? No, me neither. In fact, apart from Murray, I didn't know about all those players being there when I started writing this. Good times, maybe.
Well, I have an update on that.
Sampson left the team after only 4 games, but the team replaced him pretty quickly, signing ex-Kings training campee (a new word), Adam Parada. Bailey has also finally turned up, as he was still playing in the German playoffs at the time of the last update. (He's currently averaging a triple double through his first two games, too.) The team also boasts California State senator Tony Strickland on the team, who hadn't played competitive basketball since averaging a double double at Whittler College in NCAA's division 3 almost two decades ago. That's a PR move and a half, that.
But the big news is that the Lightning have sinced added more ex-NBA pedigree, adding Raptors legend Darrick Martin to the team.
You needed to know that. You just did.
This post also serves as an excuse to fire out the two timeless Derrick Murray videos, which I think I will never, ever get bored of.
Great times.
Labels: Adam Parada, Bryon Russell, Darrick Martin, Fred Vinson, Great Times, Jamal Sampson, Juaquin Hawkins, Lamond Murray, Toby Bailey, Where Are They Now, Youtubeage
posted by Sham at
5:35 AM
3 Comments:
The Keady snub is the single greatest youtube video ever. The immediate transition from incredibly happy and gleeful to devastatingly hurt and sad is amazing.
One of the cutest girls in my high school had an ENORMOUS crush on Toby Bailey back when he was a freshman with UCLA. Frankly, I've never forgiven him for that.
And the best part of the first video is that you're hearing the voice of a good friend of mine.
End zone seats
+ loud voice
+ impeccable timing
= priceless.
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