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Hoops Nostalgia

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Hoops Nostalgia

@HoopsNostalgia

Honouring the legends of the NBA with daily random drops of vintage hoops brilliance, rare basketball gems and retweets of the players you know and love.

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@HoopsNostalgia
Jul 2, 2021
Please note: If you come round here with any displays of gross disrespect or slander towards any of the NBA legends we tweet out, you're getting hit wit the block wit the quickness. Zero tolerance policy for that mess. - management
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@HoopsNostalgia
Feb 2, 2021
LeBron's eighteen seasons worth of poignant fan moments >>>>> one loud mouth "25 year old" courtside Karen
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Dec 10, 2021
Jimmy Butler watching a game with his collection of his friend Demaryius Thomas' jerseys. (2016)
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Nov 2, 2022
In 1991, Charles Barkley decided to change jersey numbers as a tribute to Magic who had recently retired. A firestorm ensued when 76ers fans hit the radio call-in lines to criticize him for having Billy Cunningham's retired number "pulled down". This was Chuck's response:
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Dec 29, 2020
LeBron, Moses, Melo, Cynthia, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. This still the coldest photo to surface in 2020.
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Aug 8, 2022
In his third season in the NBA, Michael Jordan is the brightest young star in the league. He is challenged by 16-year-old Eric Barber to a game of wheelchair basketball. First to 20 wins (1987) Watch...
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Sep 8, 2020
Youngest MVP ever in NBA history. 2010-11 Derrick Rose was fearless.
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May 14, 2021
Stare down. This one of the coldest photos of Kobe and LeBron of all time.
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Jan 22, 2022
Kobe Bryant jams one home at the Adidas Streetball Challenge (1997) The event was held in the grounds of a 15th century old castle in Milan.
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Jan 13, 2023
Patrick Ewing arriving to the All-Star Game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City (1993) Blade didn't hit cinemas until 1998.
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Nov 23, 2022
“Kobe is Michael Jordan, just on steroids” Roll tape...
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Dec 26, 2021
Michael Jordan posters are a gift and there are some absolute classics in this montage.
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Dec 29, 2022
This photo is literally GOATED. Pele, Ali, Jordan, Montana, Brown, Kareem, Evert, King, Nicklaus, Russell, Elway and Holyfield all in the same room at MSG (1999) 📸: Walter Iooss
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Apr 21, 2021
This out-take of Kobe and Derrick Rose playing NBA 2K is so wholesome. "He made me pay my dues.” - Rose on Bryant who arrived 3 hours late for the commercial shoot.