Every day, SBNation.com will celebrate a random photo series from the past or present, making your morning a little more colorful.
Photo Of The Day: BIG COUNTRY
This photo of the day series can go in a lot of directions each morning, and honestly, it’s impossible to cover all the bases with just one post each day. Which is why it helps to have suggestions. Like Andrew Bucholtz, who nominated Bryant “Big Country” Reeves for a closeup.
And it’s a good reminder, because clearly, we haven’t focused on enough awkward white basketball players so far. But that changes today. You’re next, Ostertag! Until then...
LONG LIVE BIG COUNTRY
“Country is a cornerstone of our franchise and certainly one of the best young centers in the league today,” said Stu Jackson in 1997. And a cornerstone that can run the floor, too!
The Grizzlies later signed Big Country to a 6-year, $65 million deal...
...and it was a move credited by some with killing the Vancouver Grizzlies franchise.
FRANCHISE CORNERSTONE. (And look at how perfect that flat top is... That’s a 90 degree angle!)
In some of the photos, Big Country looks like a character from Deliverance.
And because we can only get more inappropriate after the Deliverance joke, we’ll go ahead and stop there. We miss Big Country. But we’ll never forget Big Country. Thanks to Getty Images for the photos.
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