OT: NBA Sixers Center Darryl Dawkins Has Died, a.k.a. "Chocolate Thunder"
This is a great loss.
One of my favorite NBA players growing up, and a key playmaker and team mate of the great "Dr." Julius Irving.
57% FG Pct over career.
RIP "Dr. Dunkenstein", and "Sir Slam"
And many a backboard were destroyed that way I can tell you.
August 27th, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^
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August 27th, 2015 at 7:45 PM ^
was going to post a relevant gif but OT season is over. bye bye to him and this thread
August 27th, 2015 at 8:04 PM ^
Have some class ... oh right you don't have any.
My first inclination after seeing a sports legend die isn't IBD regardless if it's too OT. Something's wrong with you people.
RIP.
August 27th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
why don't you take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of mine
August 27th, 2015 at 8:33 PM ^
He was (for a brief time) a member of the Pistons. I vote the thread should be allowed.
August 28th, 2015 at 7:35 AM ^
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August 27th, 2015 at 7:45 PM ^
August 27th, 2015 at 8:36 PM ^
I like your moves!
August 27th, 2015 at 9:28 PM ^
May he RIP on planet Lovetron!
August 27th, 2015 at 7:51 PM ^
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August 27th, 2015 at 7:57 PM ^
Dawkins was the first high schooler taken in the first round of the draft and was an alien from
the planet Lovetron.
August 27th, 2015 at 8:00 PM ^
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August 27th, 2015 at 8:06 PM ^
The mod that deletes a memorial post is the mod that takes their job too seriously. Seriously, you ibd guys are some classless pricks.
August 27th, 2015 at 8:57 PM ^
August 27th, 2015 at 8:06 PM ^
Loved watching him and Dr J
August 27th, 2015 at 8:08 PM ^
So let's make this related to Michigan; Darryl Dawkins played in the NBA for who? the Philly 76ers -> The 76ers recently signed G Nik Stauskas -> Nik Stauskas played his college ball at The University of Michigan.
BOOM!! Not OT (here is where I would insert Stauskas going Super Saiyan against Florida if I knew how to do that)
August 27th, 2015 at 8:08 PM ^
August 27th, 2015 at 8:14 PM ^
Sorry he's gone, and think the post is a good effort. But one OT post left up in defiance of the rules is then justification for countless others. Suspect this one's coming down.
August 27th, 2015 at 8:18 PM ^
First, a mod note:
Yeah, the scope of OT narrows considerably in the non-OT season - it is not an absolute prohibition, and certainly consideration will be given to an NBA legend like Darryl Dawkins. I apologize if anyone took the transition too literally, but yeah, this stays.
To that end, RIP Darryl Dawkins. I will watch those named dunks, such as the "In Your Face Disgrace" in his honor tonight.
August 27th, 2015 at 8:39 PM ^
and of course, the Chocolate Thunder Flying Robizine Crying Teeth Shaking Glass Breaking Rump Roastin Bun Toastin Wham-Bam I-am-Jam
Other Named Dunks: • the Yo Mama • the In-Your-Face Disgrace • the Go- Rilla • the Rim Wrecker • the Look Out Below • the Cover Your Head • the Spine Chiller Supreme • the Sexophonic Turbo Delight
August 27th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^
Mod, is the Friday Posbang too OT or o.k.?
August 27th, 2015 at 8:40 PM ^
August 27th, 2015 at 9:01 PM ^
August 27th, 2015 at 9:54 PM ^
is saying it ought to be taken down, per se. What I'm saying (and interpreting a few others as saying) is that according to the rules we've read the last few days (repeatedly, and a bit ad nauseam), it's a marginal OT at best. In this respect I speak for no one other than myself.
Furthermore, no one I've read here is saying anything other than RIP Darryl. I remember him and liked him. And am sorry to see him gone.
August 27th, 2015 at 9:02 PM ^
August 27th, 2015 at 9:22 PM ^
...during the Phi Slama Jama period. Drexler, Olajuwon, etc...
August 27th, 2015 at 9:22 PM ^
I'm too young to really know who we his, but I can always appreciate a big man who dominates the paint.
RIP good sir
August 27th, 2015 at 9:37 PM ^
but just to be clear to OP "Dr. Dunkenstein" was Darryl Griffith not Darryl Dawkins. much love to both
August 27th, 2015 at 9:38 PM ^
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August 28th, 2015 at 12:03 AM ^
August 28th, 2015 at 12:22 AM ^
Also, people who bitch ad nauseam about what is or isn't OT are hands down the worst parts of the MGoForum. FFS, let the mods determine this - it's why they're mods and you're not.
August 28th, 2015 at 12:31 AM ^
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August 28th, 2015 at 5:44 PM ^
Cats crying...babies crying...Chocolate Thunder's taking em' under.