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There’s not much that Lakers Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Mark Landsberger could have done to avoid being posterized on this day 29 years ago when the Sixers Julius Erving began going baseline just prior to one of the greatest shots in NBA history. In Game Four of the 1980 NBA Championship Series (what it was called back then), Dr. J shocked the Lakers with a baseline, reverse scoop layup that still seems to defy gravity. Of course, it’s not likely that this move was seen by many people when it happened as this series was shown late at-night on tape delay. While Dr. J and the Sixers would ride the momentum of this play to win Game Four and tie the series at two, the Lakers would win the next two games, thanks to a memorable Game Six performance by rookie Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

When the Chicago Bulls selected rookie point guard Derrick Rose with the first pick in the 2009 NBA Draft and then basically handed over the reigns to the 20-year-old phenom, it would have been easy for veteran Kirk Hinrich to have pouted. To Hinrich’s credit as a professional, he did not make an issue of losing his starting position to Rose and rather served as a mentor for the kid. After suffering a thumb injury that forced him out of 31 games, Hinrich seemed to have found his perfect place on the team and in the organization towards the end of the season and the playoffs. Now the question remains whether the Bulls will make the decision to trade Hinrich with the goal for resigning Ben Gordon.

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