You could feel Kemp's frustration not being able to let loose his enormous talent during the entire game, so he packed it all in one play that's still being marveled at to this day. If Kemp had had a bit more discipline, he could have been one of the greatest to ever play the game. Unbelievable talent and physical ability.
Legend has it that Chris Jackson and Litterial Green had some epic, "NBA" style battles against one another while in high school, down in Mississippi...
@Michael Davis I once saw Litterial Green when I was at will call before a Hawks game, while he was still at Georgia. I'm 6'6" so I could see that he wasn't real tall, but I knew that didn't matter. AIlen Iverson was slight in height and weight, but had a heart that couldn't be measured. I know that Literrial Green and Chris Jackson were similar to AlIen Iverson from that standpoint...
By the time the '88 game my parent shad just bought a vhs recorder and this mcdonalds game was the first one I recorded. If anyone has the '84 game, I would love to see it on youtube. I never saw that game and John Willimas was MVP and went to my hometown LSU tigers. Anyway, thanks for uploading this game, brings back great memories.
In a game filled with future NBA players, Shawn Kemp really stood out. Which raises the question, how the hell was he not in the dunk contest? With the exception of the man formerly known as Chris Jackson, the contestants were laughable. Thanks for posting this btw🙂
Exciting game for all from Summit IL (Argo High) due to Raymond Thompson #32 representing our school. Ray being a year older than me, I was able to see him play in Jr High and high school.
Amazing conversation by Keith Jackson…. Lol love how he says Christian Laetner. The insight on Chris Mill’s and Darrick Martin situation. Love looking back and seeing who panned out. I remember everyone of the player’s careers…… except Litteral Green!
Green's HS senior stats were insane. Green was a back up pg for the Magic with Shaq and Penny, but he was there for a couple of season I don't where he went after the Magic.
it's nice to meet you and please tell me who you feel was best between the 1997 and 1998 sonics led by superstar gary payton and the 1993 hornets led by superstar alonzo mourning
you PROBABLY know that in 1988 the lakers won the championship and the 1980 1982 1985 and 1987 finals mvp's should've been awarded to the legendary kareem abdul-jabbar
Nah. Probation. Kentucky almost got the death penalty, AND THEY SHOULD HAVE. Chris Mills was sent that money. He transferred to Arizona. No Eric Manuel, academic fraud. Rex Chapman went to the NBA.
BRUH!!! Imagine he, Zo, and Milton Bell (who since transferred to Richmond after his sophomore year), all on the same roster, along with another player, Henry Hall, who averaged 37 points per game at Parkdale High School his senior year who've enrolled, but left after his first week. Better yet, what if Billy Owens, and Matt Steigenga went to Chapel Hill to play along side J.R. Reid, and Kenny Williams was eligible to play in Carolina?
That's nothing. Chris Jackson got Shaq and Stanley Roberts in his sophomore year. It's too bad that he left so soon after his sophomore year. Imagine a senior Chris Jackson (averaged 30 a game his freshman year) and a junior Shaq (averaged 24 and 14). And then imagine Stanley Roberts as a junior, who was a 1st round pick that had a better freshman year than Shaq.
I was born in the 80s....all these guys were amazing to watch in the NBA...crazy how now big men are irrelevant in today's NBA....I miss seeing big guys dominate ...
@James Byrd In some All Star games like this, they can't always be geographically correct. There may be more players from one region of the country, than the other, like in this game, there are more eastern players than from out west. So to compensate for that, they''ll place a guy on the other roster, that doesn't coincide with the region they're from...
Donald Hodge from my high school (Coolidge) in D.C. Overall the best class ever. 6 lottery picks (Abdul-Rauf, Day, Ellis, Laettner, Mourning, Owens), 14 first round picks (Abdul-Rauf, Day, Ellis, Kemp, Laettner, MacLean, Mayberry, Mills, Mourning, Mustaf, Owens, Peeler, Roberts, Stith), and 22 out of 24 made it to the NBA (Only Thompson and Poole didn't make it to the NBA). Also, 1 NBA H.O.F. (Mourning)
@@missayawk They did measure Phonso at 6'8" and Zo at 6'9 1/2" at the draft camp in 1992. Both could have been better college players, and they did a lot at that level.
@@Belburg Phonso could've been and probably was expected to.Zo's defensive game was so far ahead of his offensive game.Plus Georgetown was known for their defensive bigs, the offense primarily came from the guards and SFs. I think Zo basically did in college what was expected ( except win another title for Big John) .
it's nice to meet you and since pat riley probably decreased the eliteness of alonzo mourning just imagine if the knicks with don nelson and/or jeff van gundy as their head coach had the elite versions of patrick ewing and alonzo mourning
Charlotte at Seattle in 1995. Shawn Kemp dunked on Mourning 4x. My fav was the left hand tomahawk on him. The announcer saw it coming before anyone else did. He said OH OH 2 seconds before it happened
@22:41 This is why Dick Vitale made college basketball so exciting, Keith Jackson is yapping about a team breaking the rules as Stanley Roberts goes in for the put-back dunk, right after the dunk Dick in a nice way tells Keith to STFU and pay attention to the game 🤣. Dick Vitale was a true fan of college basketball.
If only Stanley Roberts would’ve stayed clean & not been injured all those times. I honestly think that we wouldn’t have heard of Shaq! (or at least not like he became) Roberts had the size of Shaq & the moves like Hakeem...
Reportedly, Stanley outplayed Shaq in practices at LSU, Shaq admitted he was hard to stop. He gave Alonzo some problems in the Dapper Dan game as well.
@@creoleDJ You know, if Stanley had not been Prop 48, he probably could have stolen some of Alonzo's thunder and Chris Jackson's as well. LSU makes probably the elite 8, but most likely don't end up with Shaq.
@@Belburg Roberts, O'Neil & Jackson played together in the '89-'90 season. That was Shaq's freshman year and Jackson & Roberts' final year at LSU. (Jackson went to the NBA & Roberts went to play pro in Spain.) Just imagine how that team would've been if they'd stayed together!
I watched this game live when I was a Senior in High School and haven't seen it since, but I knew exactly what Shawn Kemp highlight you were referencing 28 years later.
before the 2001 playoffs the only teams to beat the heat and hornets when they had alonzo mourning were the knicks and bulls when they had patrick ewing and michael jordan and indian river high and even more so the hornets just barely had the best versions of alonzo mourning
@@alicesanders7559 Barkley and Malone weren't selected to the ' 81 game.Their profile weren't that high and even though MJ was on the team HIS profile wasn't that high either.Case in point: The 81 game was played in Wichita.One of the top guards in the class was Aubrey Sherrod from Wichita.Adrian Branch was from the famed DeMatha H.S ( MD).His H.S coach was Morgan Wooten who also had a vote on the game's MVP.Both these players were CO-MVPs.But guess who was the high scorer with 30pts ( a record that stood for about 16 yrs), had about 6 steals and hit the game winning free throws? Michael Jordan!!! And he didn't win MVP out right.Sherrod and Branch were both higher profile players than MJ.But he got robbed.MJ took it in stride, but I heard his mother was livid!! Ewing was selected but didn't play in this game.( Injury I think)
Give Christian his props, He was a top 20 player that went on to do very good for himself. Not everyone tears it up in this game. James Worthy and Rodrick Rhodes are two that come to mind.
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I miss Keith Jackson. Grew up with him on saturdays. One of the great announcers of all time. He is defiantly my favorite.
Shawn Kemp dunk starts at 1:39:00
You could feel Kemp's frustration not being able to let loose his enormous talent during the entire game, so he packed it all in one play that's still being marveled at to this day. If Kemp had had a bit more discipline, he could have been one of the greatest to ever play the game. Unbelievable talent and physical ability.
At his peak he was a top 3 PF in the league along with Barkley and Malone
Man, what a collection of amazing talent.
John wooden interview at the beginning..he was 78 there. Lived to age 99
Thanks to BIG3 Abdul Rauf is still playing professional basketball.
Legend has it that Chris Jackson and Litterial Green had some epic, "NBA" style battles against one another while in high school, down in Mississippi...
@Michael Davis I once saw Litterial Green when I was at will call before a Hawks game, while he was still at Georgia.
I'm 6'6" so I could see that he wasn't real tall, but I knew that didn't matter. AIlen Iverson was slight in height and weight, but had a heart that couldn't be measured.
I know that Literrial Green and Chris Jackson were similar to AlIen Iverson from that standpoint...
They did. Melvin Booker (former Mizzou star & father of NBA player Devin Booker) was also in the mix, but didn’t get the publicity as the other 2..
Harrison Central HS Gulfport, Ms
@@creoleDJ
Melvin Booker jumped so damn high
Damn that game was loaded with NBA legends and college players that made major impacts for their schools. This is so cool. Thanks TCF
To leave Shawn Kemp out of the big man segment is wild!
By the time the '88 game my parent shad just bought a vhs recorder and this mcdonalds game was the first one I recorded. If anyone has the '84 game, I would love to see it on youtube. I never saw that game and John Willimas was MVP and went to my hometown LSU tigers. Anyway, thanks for uploading this game, brings back great memories.
In a game filled with future NBA players, Shawn Kemp really stood out. Which raises the question, how the hell was he not in the dunk contest? With the exception of the man formerly known as Chris Jackson, the contestants were laughable. Thanks for posting this btw🙂
Rip Malik Sealy
Top player from this class: Alonzo Morning. Shawn Kemp a close 2nd, before he started letting himself go in Cleveland...
They were so mature for their ages back then, all of them spoke so well. It was really nice to watch them play. So much talent in this group.
Dick Vitale about every player: “They’re gonna love him down in (school name) land!”
SDSUMIGUEL he was right tho
In this instance he was right about this class……. Epic
Exciting game for all from Summit IL (Argo High) due to Raymond Thompson #32 representing our school. Ray being a year older than me, I was able to see him play in Jr High and high school.
If you think Dickie V went crazy over Kemp's dunk, you should've heard him when Shaq went coast to coast and dunked in his McDonald's game.
Amazing conversation by Keith Jackson…. Lol love how he says Christian Laetner. The insight on Chris Mill’s and Darrick Martin situation. Love looking back and seeing who panned out. I remember everyone of the player’s careers…… except Litteral Green!
Green's HS senior stats were insane. Green was a back up pg for the Magic with Shaq and Penny, but he was there for a couple of season I don't where he went after the Magic.
You spelled Laettner and Mills wrong.
Litteral Green was the truth at Georgia
Chris Jackson, Stanley Roberts, and Shaq. Too bad they all left early. Imagine all of them together as for 3 years.
Could have won a title, though I think on some level Shaq and Stan would have gotten in each other's way.
And Chris was the best of the three
imagine if Chris Jackson would have went to Gtown. Chris, Zo and Motombo
kemp picked up that dribble at the 3 point line and dunked it with 2 hands
1:40:30 Kemp’s first step is just inside the three point line.
1 dribble from half court 2 steps and a 2 hand dunk! That’s crazy
That brother averaged 10 blocks a game 😳
Alonso was an absolute beast and Indian River.
it's nice to meet you and please tell me who you feel was best between the 1997 and 1998 sonics led by superstar gary payton and the 1993 hornets led by superstar alonzo mourning
you PROBABLY know that in 1988 the lakers won the championship and the 1980 1982 1985 and 1987 finals mvp's should've been awarded to the legendary kareem abdul-jabbar
Shout out to my boy, Richmond's own Milton Bell!!! That boy was the TRUTH! People may not know but he was SPECIAL!
And u got 1 like for him
😅There is only one called "The Truth" and this guy wasn't Jim.
Wished he stayed all four years with my Hoyas
John Marshall High - RVA 804
Its funny how mourning tried to do a special dunk but after kemps superman dunk it just looked poor 😂
Nobody, with the exception of Kenny Williams, who did not play in this game for whatever reason, was going to outdunk Shawn Kemp in this game.
Belburg yeah i mean that was one of the best dunks i've ever seen no doubt
@@Belburg Kenny Williams had leaps
@@elbowgang9715 Yeah, he definitely did. Should have played in this game instead of the Capital Classic.
🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, that was kinda like Larry Bird dunking right after Jordan!
Kemp was the man!!
Gosh, had Shawn went to UK who knows how good he would have been.
Hopefully better than Kenny Walker or Rex Chapman turned out
Nah. Probation. Kentucky almost got the death penalty, AND THEY SHOULD HAVE. Chris Mills was sent that money. He transferred to Arizona. No Eric Manuel, academic fraud. Rex Chapman went to the NBA.
Best thing to happen to Shawn Kemp was Not going there
Young Shawn Kemp...nice.
Goodness had Chris Jackson chosen the Hoyas instee
BRUH!!! Imagine he, Zo, and Milton Bell (who since transferred to Richmond after his sophomore year), all on the same roster, along with another player, Henry Hall, who averaged 37 points per game at Parkdale High School his senior year who've enrolled, but left after his first week. Better yet, what if Billy Owens, and Matt Steigenga went to Chapel Hill to play along side J.R. Reid, and Kenny Williams was eligible to play in Carolina?
nsuspartanlegion Kenny Williams had so much bounce
That's nothing. Chris Jackson got Shaq and Stanley Roberts in his sophomore year. It's too bad that he left so soon after his sophomore year. Imagine a senior Chris Jackson (averaged 30 a game his freshman year) and a junior Shaq (averaged 24 and 14). And then imagine Stanley Roberts as a junior, who was a 1st round pick that had a better freshman year than Shaq.
That was a big thing. Everybody thought Chris was going to GTown instead of LSU.
@@alexh8613 they had a garbage HC in Dale Brown
Man, the Hoyas almost had Chris Jackson.
Wow, stanley roberts wasn't fat yet!
I like mournings dunk after kemps. He looks like a great dane on a ice rink
Stanley Roberts was 17-years-old wearing a knee brace. Not good news.
Mourning is wearing 2...is that worst?
Sometimes we used to wear them for style.Didnt always mean something medical.
I was born in the 80s....all these guys were amazing to watch in the NBA...crazy how now big men are irrelevant in today's NBA....I miss seeing big guys dominate ...
All the starters on the West end up being NBA players.
#RIPMSealey#
The Reign man Shawn Kemp!!!
Peeler and Kemp were the best athletes in this game.
Kenny Williams would have been right there with them.......had he played.
You have to remember, you would get Benched if you were a big man trying to run the floor back then. Kemps talent was unheard of
@Just a Dad He was a monster, but Kenny Williams was just as good.
Anybody else notice that Latrelle Green is on the East team from Mississippi and Stanley Roberts from South Carolina is on the West?
@James Byrd In some All Star games like this, they can't always be geographically correct. There may be more players from one region of the country, than the other, like in this game, there are more eastern players than from out west. So to compensate for that, they''ll place a guy on the other roster, that doesn't coincide with the region they're from...
Stanley was a top 5 player, and probably the second best center in the 88 class. The first? A guy named Alonzo Mourning.
Donald Hodge from my high school (Coolidge) in D.C. Overall the best class ever. 6 lottery picks (Abdul-Rauf, Day, Ellis, Laettner, Mourning, Owens), 14 first round picks (Abdul-Rauf, Day, Ellis, Kemp, Laettner, MacLean, Mayberry, Mills, Mourning, Mustaf, Owens, Peeler, Roberts, Stith), and 22 out of 24 made it to the NBA (Only Thompson and Poole didn't make it to the NBA). Also, 1 NBA H.O.F. (Mourning)
nsuspartanlegion 1979 was better
@@Majesticon I've looked at that roster, and I just may have to concede, given 4 future HOF's.
Whoa Nelly!!! Vitale and Keith! Dream team!
Dam near all these guys went pro
Dang Alonzo vs Laphonso, I didn’t realize how big laphonso ellis was! I guess Alonzo our passed him in size at some point!?
Never knew that Laphonso was ever bigger than Alonzo, weight wise maybe, but height, no.
Phonso is 6'9", Zo listed at 6'10"
@@missayawk They did measure Phonso at 6'8" and Zo at 6'9 1/2" at the draft camp in 1992. Both could have been better college players, and they did a lot at that level.
@@Belburg Phonso could've been and probably was expected to.Zo's defensive game was so far ahead of his offensive game.Plus Georgetown was known for their defensive bigs, the offense primarily came from the guards and SFs. I think Zo basically did in college what was expected ( except win another title for Big John) .
it's nice to meet you and since pat riley probably decreased the eliteness of alonzo mourning just imagine if the knicks with don nelson and/or jeff van gundy as their head coach had the elite versions of patrick ewing and alonzo mourning
146:00 Mourning’s first posterizing of Kemp. Though it can’t compare to the one in 1993 Mourning had on him as an NBA rookie 😂
Charlotte at Seattle in 1995. Shawn Kemp dunked on Mourning 4x. My fav was the left hand tomahawk on him. The announcer saw it coming before anyone else did. He said OH OH 2 seconds before it happened
Odd, Shawn Kemp is an afterthought.
I got snubbed from this game.I received a letter stating I was being considered for the game and never heard anything again.
@22:41 This is why Dick Vitale made college basketball so exciting, Keith Jackson is yapping about a team breaking the rules as Stanley Roberts goes in for the put-back dunk, right after the dunk Dick in a nice way tells Keith to STFU and pay attention to the game 🤣. Dick Vitale was a true fan of college basketball.
How do they dribble without putting their hand under/on the side of the ball? What kind of sorcery is this?
Before the hair lineup existed.
Not that Todd Day. His Barber was ahead of everyone.
Malik Sealy rip
Keith Jackson calling a HS basketball game. priceless
My center Donald Hodge
If only Stanley Roberts would’ve stayed clean & not been injured all those times. I honestly think that we wouldn’t have heard of Shaq! (or at least not like he became) Roberts had the size of Shaq & the moves like Hakeem...
Reportedly, Stanley outplayed Shaq in practices at LSU, Shaq admitted he was hard to stop. He gave Alonzo some problems in the Dapper Dan game as well.
@@Belburg Yep! I gotta go online & see if I can pull up the Sports Illustrated article on Roberts. Shaq made similar comments about Roberts in there.
@@creoleDJ You know, if Stanley had not been Prop 48, he probably could have stolen some of Alonzo's thunder and Chris Jackson's as well. LSU makes probably the elite 8, but most likely don't end up with Shaq.
@@Belburg Roberts, O'Neil & Jackson played together in the '89-'90 season. That was Shaq's freshman year and Jackson & Roberts' final year at LSU. (Jackson went to the NBA & Roberts went to play pro in Spain.) Just imagine how that team would've been if they'd stayed together!
@@creoleDJ Yeah, they would have pulled a championship if they had stayed together. They came real close that season I think, losing to Georgia Tech.
The human highlight Shawn Kemp
Was a man among boys
Glad Dick Vitale stood up against Keith for his condescending statement towards Kemp.
Kemp was the man, but he had criticism of his ability to coast in games at times.
Kieth also used words like " the boy" and "these people" earlier.
Awesome!
Kemp at 1:38:57
YEAH!! Thank you!
I watched this game live when I was a Senior in High School and haven't seen it since, but I knew exactly what Shawn Kemp highlight you were referencing 28 years later.
only reason I'm here. thnx!
Yeah, ... "Superstar potential", ... and that's exactly what happened.
Indian river!zo jersey prolly still in hall
My niece graduated from Indian River.
before the 2001 playoffs the only teams to beat the heat and hornets when they had alonzo mourning were the knicks and bulls when they had patrick ewing and michael jordan and indian river high and even more so the hornets just barely had the best versions of alonzo mourning
You can see shorts starting get looser and longer.
Who is this Latner?
@Alex H Lol, oh how they would soon learn how to pronounce his name wouldn't they...
I want to see the 1981 all American game Michael Jordan patrick Ewing hell even Charles Barclay and Carl malone
BARCLAY AND MALONE WERE IN THE CLASS OF 81
You’re a fuck wit
@@alicesanders7559 Barkley and Malone weren't selected to the ' 81 game.Their profile weren't that high and even though MJ was on the team HIS profile wasn't that high either.Case in point: The 81 game was played in Wichita.One of the top guards in the class was Aubrey Sherrod from Wichita.Adrian Branch was from the famed DeMatha H.S ( MD).His H.S coach was Morgan Wooten who also had a vote on the game's MVP.Both these players were CO-MVPs.But guess who was the high scorer with 30pts ( a record that stood for about 16 yrs), had about 6 steals and hit the game winning free throws? Michael Jordan!!! And he didn't win MVP out right.Sherrod and Branch were both higher profile players than MJ.But he got robbed.MJ took it in stride, but I heard his mother was livid!! Ewing was selected but didn't play in this game.( Injury I think)
@15:00 is why I hate refs and how they can ruin a game.
Classmate @ 42:00
1:39:32
I cant stand Christian Laettner.
He's Not That Good Hell LeBron In 2013 Was Better
Give Christian his props, He was a top 20 player that went on to do very good for himself. Not everyone tears it up in this game. James Worthy and Rodrick Rhodes are two that come to mind.
Laettner one of the best NCAA players ever