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Remember how, when you were in Little League, right after you did the "serious" team photo, you got to do a "wacky" one? We used to put our hat backwards and pull up one pantleg. We were pretty freaking hilarious when we were 10. Anyway, the 2002 Kings apparently pulled a similar stunt.
This photo is fun to look at for several reasons — we particularly enjoy Scot Pollard — but seeing it reminded us that, man, the Kings used to be really good and awfully fun to watch. Those guys were awfully close. Alas.
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(Worth noting that Sactown Royalty posted this first.)
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Stojakovexxxxxxx
that's the best team picture ever
The funny thing is the photographer is holding up a sign that says "Rate your chances of ever winning a ring with this squad"
I'm surprised Doug Christie isn't doing the "I Love You" sign to his wife in that picture.
Vlade's just pissed this is cutting into his smoke break.
and who's #25 ?...he appears to have the wrong finger up.
Vlade Dadi, he looks to party. He don't cause trouble. He don't bother nobody.
Et tu, Mike Bibby?
Chris Webber still can't count.
likes, FUCK.
I can actually see Chris Webber's ankle breaking
@His Shorty: METAL HORNS DUDE!
That's no NBA team photo. The majority of the team is white. This is from Sacramento area Rec League.
Is it just me, or is that team really white?
@UkraineNotWeak:
Damn
Do drugs kids!
That's the same pose Bobby Jackson made on the Breaststroking with Bobby Jackson VHS I used to have.
Not pictured: Scott Pollard flashing the middle toe on his left foot.
is that mark price?
Mmmm, Pasty.
see what happens when suburban kids listen to rap music?
No...Fuck YOU.
The Rockets are the new Kings.
The Internets tell me that #25 is Brent Price. I thought maybe he went to Texas and was in the middle of throwing up the hook'em hand thingie, but he didn't go there. Then maybe the gun hand thingie that Texas Tech and/or Okie State do, but no he went to Oklahoma. Which I guess means the hand signal of the good natured mid-westerners is to just look lost when everyone is flipping the bird.
@UkraineNotWeak: I think the team was actually blacker with Jason Williams on it.
Well, that picture of Scot Pollard (sigh) does do a lot for his "Hey Kids, do drugs" image.
Bibby/Christie/Peja/C-Webb/Vlade with Hedo and Gerald Wallace on the bench...yeah what happened.
This once again proves my theory that all photographers are dicks.
Our soccer team usually did wacky team photos at the coach's house during sleepovers. I wonder what happened to them.
@LesMilesIsAMouthyDouche: My Price it seems was wrong.
@Old No.7: Or the Eastern Bloc.
No shockers?
@John Starks: And Bobby Jax
Isn't every picture of Pollard a "wacky" picture by nature?
This just in: Shaq is still laughing.
@ArkansasFred:
Have you checked under his mattress?
@The Legend of Vincent Tremblay: Exactly. He's making the same face/pose in the "serious" photo.
This isn't as wacky as those clips previewing the half-time show with Marino, Sharpe, Boomer, and Gumbel 2 Gumbel as they horse around with a football. I mean, those guys are wacky!
That's some type of organization happening in the first row. We always used to do it by height though.
amazing how the Gawker advertising has the two "very young" women showing their snnnneeee-otch on a "wacky pose" post.
here we go again.
@Rob Iracane: And everybody knows dicks fuck pussies. But they also fuck assholes.
After the flashbulb went off, Vlade collapsed out of his chair and asked for an offensive foul on the photographer.
Pictured: The last time all the seats were filled at Arco.
@Decided Schematic Advantage: I was wondering the same thing. I don't think it was invented yet.
I wish I could do that.
-Indonesian tree dude
@Decided Schematic Advantage:
The Shocker wasn't invented until 2005.
I'm sure this is exactly what Kige's outtakes look like.
Adelman was in the back right corner doing his best Hitler salute but they airbrushed him out.
Peja and Hedo aren't white b/c they're not from the U.S.
Shouldn't Webber be wrapping his hands around his neck?
@TBoRF: I think I've cracked the code - Black, Eastern European, Black, Eastern European, Black, Eastern European, Black, Freak
@Decided Schematic Advantage: And the back row is sorted by acceptance in the black community. Or, "realness."
I wish one of them was tugging on his ear as a sign to his grandma.
@TomahawkFlop: That's absurd. I had a friend who dressed up as the UnaShocker for halloween in 1997 (Think glasses, hoodie, and the Shocker).
i'm confused... is #25 mark price? and is he deaf?
FAKE! Black guys dont smile in pictures.
@Tuffy: word.
as a kings fan, this picture just makes me want to cry.
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