![]() ![]() Even if things moved a little slower before the Internet age, they didn’t move that slow. It managed to come in at least three years late on a fad that had a one-month run. Chris Webber’s first season with the Washington Bullets was 1994. MC Hammer’s 2 Legit 2 Quit (and the beloved accompanying hand gestures) came out in 1991. The first four or five years of the ’90s have a way of blending together in our collective nostalgia, so it’s important to clear something up. Like today, winning the dunk contest was not correlated to whether you were a decent pro basketball player unlike today, it was at least enough to get you (seemingly) Photoshopped into posters. With the crumbling state of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest today, it’s hard to remember there was once a time when winning the dunk contest was a career maker. It reminds me of the kids’ Halloween costumes where you dress up as Spider-Man but your store-bought Spider-Man costume has a picture of Spider-Man on the chest and says “Spider-Man.” 7 | Dee Brown: Boston Dee Party When they (apparently) couldn’t get the license to use the actual Atlanta Hawks jersey, this was the result. I chose this for one and only one reason - that jersey. 6 | Dominique Wilkins: The Highlight Zone Having to call the moving trucks to move you to 15 (yes, 15) teams in 16 seasons probably did end up giving him a hell of a carbon footprint. Although that ozone busting theme ended up playing out truer to life than anyone realized at the time. I can’t believe they put Joe Smith on a poster. ![]() ![]() I’m sure the Bostons were none too pleased, regardless of how quickly Karl ripped off those high-waisted giant pants. ![]() I’d be pretty upset if a male stripper destroyed my mailbox like this. Well… two uncomfortable Denver Nuggets and Alex English (on the far right) channeling the seductive creepiness of a black John Waters. This poster featuring three uncomfortable Denver Nuggets (and possibly one major international copyright violation) was made in 1982. 3 | TR Dunn, Dan Issel, Alex English: Supermen III I hope the Costacos Brothers took this one to all their trade shows. Athlete with a visible look of “Now how the hell did my agent talk me into this?” Check. Plain white uniform that replaces any identifiable logos or colors with stilted gimmick integration? Check. This is really your prototypical Costacos Brothers poster. It would’ve tied the whole thing together. They should’ve committed to the X-Men theme and given him the Cyclops goggles. With Xavier McDaniel’s signature crossed eyes, that evil glowing dog appears to be more of a seeing-eye dog than a hellhound waiting to be unleashed. Is this a reference to The Iceman Cometh or X-Men? I’m not sure they even knew (or decided). Or at least on the wall of a nicer Dave & Busters. Here are 11 surreal, mind-boggling NBA posters that belong in the Basketball Hall of Fame. And since the NBA playoffs seem to be headed toward their inevitable conclusion (one I choose not to abide by watching), it’s time to roll this out. I wanted to follow up by doing a similar list of NBA posters. The result was an unintentional corny brilliance, kind of like squeezing a piece of coal until it turned into a diamond shaped like Rita Rudner. Their trademark style (especially in the late ’80s and early ’90s) was to dress players up in awkward costumes and photograph them in low-budget scenarios loosely related to their name or nickname. Most of them were from the early ’90s and most were produced by a company called Costacos Brothers. Here’s what happened when they collided.īack in October, during World Series-ish time, I did a list of 11 ridiculous Major League Baseball posters. Brilliantly bad sports posters peaked in the early ’90s. ![]()
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