Random YouTube Magic: Ghosts of the Ultimate Pick-Up Game

I think I see a fuzzy Juwan Howard in there . . .

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Think I see Eddie Jones, Juwan Howard and agent 0.
the other guy has all the mechanisms of MJ except his need for the ball and trash talking.

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From the looks of it, I see Juwuan Howard, Eddie Jones, a Grant (Horace most likely), and I think I just saw a Cedric Ceballos sighting.

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yeah, that's Jordan, and the Worm and Howard and Miller. Looks like Ho Grant is in there too at one point.

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haha, agent 0? haha..this had to be around Jordan's bull days and agent 0 was nowhere near the NBA at the time. that was funny

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Is that Horace Grant in the RecSpecs in the very end?

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This looks like footage from the basketball bubble they built for Jordan on the set of "Space Jam" in the summer of 1995.

"n the Warner Brothers lot in California, where Jordan spent much of the summer on the set of Space Jam, his first feature-length motion picture, the studio built an enclosed gymnasium it dubbed the "Jordan Dome." The "bubble" as it was affectionately known, included a full-length basketball court that Jordan and a few of his NBA friends nearly wore out.

For weeks, he stuck to a grueling schedule that started early in the morning and ended late at night. Around work on the film, there were highly charged evening pick-up basketball games featuring NBA stars such as Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Dennis Rodman, Reggie Miller, Juwan Howard and Glen Rice to name only a few.

"A typical day for Michael would start with about 30 or 40 minutes of conditioning in the bubble," said Grover. "This would include stretching, running, and various basketball stuff, nothing long distance, to get his wind up. Then he'd go to the movie set for some shooting. At lunch time, he'd work out with weights for about an hour and a half. Then he'd go back to the set from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. From 7:30 p.m. to about 10 p.m., he'd play basketball in the bubble. One night there were 22 top NBA players on different teams playing games."

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The white dude is Jack Haley.

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The huge dude in black shorts on Reggie's team is Shaq, or not? I am still struggling with the white guy on Jordan's team. Oh, and there is Cassell, too, you can see him around 1:25

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Now this is just a wild guess, but this clip may originate from the all-star weekend 1996. The guy dribbling at 1:25 might as well be Payton, hm.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/allstar/NBA_1996.html

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Judging by the shoes, the Bubble theory should be correct. There's a pair of Jordan XIs, a pair of Air Flight Ones, and a pair of Air Way Ups which came out in 1995. Definitely saw Howard. Eddie Jones. Horace Grant. Jack Haley and Rodman were best friends.

I'm wondering if Jordan's (and someone else's) shirt is from a casino, it says Paid Out on the back.

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Rodman's capri-length jean shorts are awesome.

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Looks like the white dude is Cherokee Parks. Think I saw Pippen on Jordans and Rodmans team too.

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Wow, seeing that really reminds me how dominant Shaq was physically back in the glory days. I mean holy hell, the guy is huge -- he was all muscled up back then without the pudge on top of it.

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I'd say it's pretty recent. Jordan looks way too muscular in this footage for it to be '95.

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