Remember when Shaq could jump?

January 9th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

Last night, very late, my roommate and I had the good fortune of finding Blue Chips on one of our many unnecessary movie channels. This was a blast from the past; not only was Penny Hardaway rocking a bonafide flat top, but our man Shaq, who basically plays a dumber version of himself in the movie, was absolutely tooling on movie set extras.

He wasn’t just bowling them over, though. He was young, athletic, lithe, and he could move around a good bit. Anyway, I was reminded of his old school Orlando Magic days, the days when he used to take down an entire backboard apparatus with something resembling apathy.

This is one such occasion. Here’s to nostalgia.

(Quick awesomeness caveat: Bill Raftery used to announce NBA games, which I did not remember. He turns a class Raftery one-liner in this clip.)