Anybody on here attend the 1980 NBA ALL STAR GAME?

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdJPxYyHsq0[/youtube]

Did anybody on here attend the 1980 NBA ALL STAR GAME?

Looks like it was a lot of fun, especially because of the uniforms both teams were wearing.

Too bad I missed it.

[Wizards2Lottery]

Video doesn't load on my iPad.

[Nivek]

Loaded fine for me. I didn't get to that one. If it was on TV, I watched it. This was so long ago, the Cap Center was still cutting edge.

[JWizmentality]

Wasn't born yet.

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

Kareem, Magic, The Doctor, Bird, Ice Man & Moses all under the same roof.

The Verizon Center will never be able to say that.

[pancakes3]

like anyone would be caught dead in landover in the 80s anyway. the metro area didn't even become liveable until barrack came into town.

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

like anyone would be caught dead in landover in the 80s anyway. the metro area didn't even become liveable until barrack came into town.

Speak for yourself.

[Ed Wood]

like anyone would be caught dead in landover in the 80s anyway. the metro area didn't even become liveable until barrack came into town.

Speak for yourself.

Speaking for myself I did not attend the 1980 all star game, but I have probably attended 1980 concerts by international sensation Smash Mouth, creators of the hit single All Star. And I did it all in skinny jeans, IRONICALLY.

[montestewart]

like anyone would be caught dead in landover in the 80s anyway. the metro area didn't even become liveable until barrack came into town.

You of course mean barracks. I wonder what they did for kicks before 1801?

Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. is located at 8th and I Streets, Southeast in Washington, D.C. Established in 1801, it is a National Historic Landmark, the oldest post in the United States Marine Corps, the official residence of the Commandant of the Marine Corps since 1806, and main ceremonial grounds of the Corps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Bar ... ngton,_D.C.

I probably saw that 1980 game on TV too, but I have yet to see an NBA all star game in person. I did get top bring my team to a youth event as part of the All Star Slamboree in DC in 2001, and the kids got to scrimmage (sort of) with Ray Allen and Michael Finley, both of whom wore headsets and narrated the goings on. Allen was a little standoffish and aloof but not really an outright jerk. In contrast, Finley seemed to go out of his way to be nice to all the kids. Just thought I'd throw in some gossip.

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

like anyone would be caught dead in landover in the 80s anyway. the metro area didn't even become liveable until barrack came into town.

Speak for yourself.

Speaking for myself I did not attend the 1980 all star game, but I have probably attended 1980 concerts by international sensation Smash Mouth, creators of the hit single All Star. And I did it all in skinny jeans, IRONICALLY.

Smash Mouth were not around in 1980 and by wearing skinny jeans you are simply recycling fashion trends from the past instead of creating something new.

By being IRONIC not only are you trying to bring attention to yourself but you are also making it easier for natives such as myself to spot you in a crowd.

You desperately want to be like me. So you spend thousands of dollars each month paying inflated rental prices so you can stick the URBAN label on yourself but me and the other natives all know that you are merely nothing but a POSER.

Go back to where you came from.

[montestewart]

even homeless people and squatters in DC say "The rent is too damn high"

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRpvoWCeh3w[/youtube]

Attention seeking transplant in NYC gets humiliated by an NYC Native.

[Wizards2Lottery]

The only person getting humiliated in that video is the dumbass yelling in the metro.

[charlie32]

I was at that game. Dad took me for my birthday. Just thinking back, Gervin is the player that first comes to mind. Even among all these great players the game just seemed effortless to him.

[Tiny Too]

I was not at that game because I was an MBA grad student at U. of Chicago that year. But I was at the 1969 NBA All Star game at the Baltimore Civic Center. I believe the Bullets were represented by Pearl, Honeycomb (Gus), and Wes. Adrian Smith of Cincinnati (of all people) was MVP.

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

I was not at that game because I was an MBA grad student at U. of Chicago that year. But I was at the 1969 NBA All Star game at the Baltimore Civic Center. I believe the Bullets were represented by Pearl, Honeycomb (Gus), and Wes. Adrian Smith of Cincinnati (of all people) was MVP.

Was Alex The Bullet or Tiny BB at either of those 2 All Star games?

[Tiny Too]

I believe that by the end of 1969, Tiny BB had replaced Alex. By the mid-70s, Chief Gentry used Tiny Too in place of his father, Tiny BB. Hence, my moniker, Tiny Too. FWIW, because of the Bullets' mascot, my father got us a red, smooth miniature dachshund in early 1969 for my sister's 10th birthday. We named him Gus!!!!

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

I believe that by the end of 1969, Tiny BB had replaced Alex. By the mid-70s, Chief Gentry used Tiny Too in place of his father, Tiny BB. Hence, my moniker, Tiny Too. FWIW, because of the Bullets' mascot, my father got us a red, smooth miniature dachshund in early 1969 for my sister's 10th birthday. We named him Gus!!!!

I have a dachsie but he lives out of state right now.
He is an outdoor dachsie.
He does not like being indoors.
So we sent him to live out of state down south.
He lives outdoors, in 80 degree temperatures, under sunny skies and palm trees 365 days a year.
Sometimes I envy him.

[GilArenas88]

Was just reading the thread and saw this...

Wes_Tiny_Abe wrote:Smash Mouth were not around in 1980 and by wearing skinny jeans you are simply recycling fashion trends from the past instead of creating something new.

By being IRONIC not only are you trying to bring attention to yourself but you are also making it easier for natives such as myself to spot you in a crowd.

You desperately want to be like me. So you spend thousands of dollars each month paying inflated rental prices so you can stick the URBAN label on yourself but me and the other natives all know that you are merely nothing but a POSER.

Go back to where you came from.

Who do you think you are? That whole statement made you look simply ridiculous and frankly bitter. I don't live in the city, but your audacity to think that you have special privilege or you’re realer than someone else that chooses to live in a city because you’re a "native" is nothing more than a bunch of bull. You may have some points, and I understand what you’re getting at, but what business is it of yours what another person chooses to do and the reason for why they do it. I find it hard that anyone "desperately wants to be like" you, it seems your own attitude is exactly the same thing you complain about.

By the way, it doesn't take much to see how ridiculous the concept of being a native or nativism is. It’s a bit antiquated, look up the definition.

[montestewart]

^
I've never been able to tell if Wes_Tiny_Abe was actually cranky about any of these DC native, yuppie, trendy, consumerist, etc. issues or whether he was just one of the board's insult comics. I take his view with a grain of salt, and generally find it pretty entertaining; however, I haven't been on the receiving end of his wrath (yet).

Somehow, missed in all this discussion of "wanna-bes" coming to Washington is the obvious issue that DC is always a big job market, and especially now in the current depressed economy. Sure, it's overpriced, but if you're young and trying to get a career started, you might be willing to overpay to live here and pursue opportunities rather than be unemployed elsewhere. My father was not a DC native, nor were my mother's parents. They came here for work, and they didn't seem severely lacking in DC mojo. Why knock someone for trying to get ahead?

DC's not a bad place to live, and many of the changes are pretty positive to me. The Market Inn's gone, Speedy's Soul Food is long gone, and the list goes on, but there are many more restaurant choices than there were in 1980. The DMV is light years ahead of 1980's Soviet Union-style bureaucracy. My neighborhood is much safer than it was in 1980. And the Wizards...well, they'll be lucky to equal the Bullets' 23-29 record at 1980 All-Star break.

My non-DC native grandfathers instilled in me an early love of basketball, leaving me to my own devices to find a favorite team (theirs were the Knicks and the Sixers). I know and work with and socialize with countless non-DC natives, some of the nicest people in the world. They have much to offer. In fact, some of my best friends are non-DC natives. My wife, of course, was born in Washington, DC. She's one of us. You gotta draw the line somewhere, eh?

Deep down inside, there's a little Wes_Tiny_Abe in all of us.