Yeah, now that Hall of Fame festivities are over, it’s a little late for tributes, but this is one of my favorite NBA stories ever, and there’s never a bad time to remember how awesome mid-80s NBA basketball was. From Chris Ballard’s The Art of a Beautiful Game (via):
A Belated Chris Mullin Anecdote
↵↵…Mullin is said to have sunk 194 consecutive jumpers during a workout. So pure is the stroke of such shooters that it is oblivious to all attempts at sabotage, both external, or internal. A journalist buddy of mine has a friend who used to work at a beach club on Long Island. He recalls once coming up on Mullin at the club, a few years after Mullin left St. John’s and before he quit drinking. It was late one summer night, almost dark, and the friend heard sounds coming from a nearby basketball court. Checking it out, he discovered Mullin, standing there by himself, taking swigs of beer with his right hand and launching one-handed three-pointers with his left, a partially completed six-pack at his side. Shot after shot sank through the net. Swig. Swish. Swig. Swish. Swig. Swish.”
↵↵Swig. Swish. Swig. Swish. Swig. Swish...
↵Practice makes perfect, kids.
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