We talked about this a couple of times on the RoundCast, and even though the Nuggets lost in their Game 5 meeting with the Lakers, this is one highlight that surely won't be forgotten. Chris Andersen meets Lamar Odom at the rim, and rejects a slam dunk attempt with nothing more than his fingertips standing in the way of Odom putting down a monster dunk which would have undoubtedly featured the Birdman as the victim in an upcoming poster. The first couple of views of the play really don't do it justice; make sure you hang in for the slow motion, HD-like replay where you can see Andersen's fingers bend back to thwart the dunk attempt. I'm no Nuggets fan, but this one was spectacular.
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5-28-2009 @ 8:56AM
John Butler said...
The greatness of this block was overshadowed by the subsequent dunks on Anderson which will most certainly be higher on the top 10 plays as well. Those dunk being by Shannon Brown and Lamar Odom himself sooooooo.... :-/ lol
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5-28-2009 @ 9:15AM
captainclimax said...
Posting this vid doesn't make a lot of sense in light of Lamar later posterizing the Birdman, and backup PG Shannon Brown doing the same.
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5-28-2009 @ 11:26AM
caddman1 said...
This play stands on it's own merit! Just one h*ll of a block!
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5-28-2009 @ 11:45AM
mcjesus666 said...
you could just have easily shown the lakers block party along with the birdbrain's posterization.......
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5-28-2009 @ 1:02PM
pemfred said...
It's a good thing that wasn't a Magic player trying to block one of the Cavs like that. Can you imagine the BS call the refs would have had to make up if that was someone blocking Lebron James' shot. It would have at least been a flagrant 2. The Defensive player would probably suspended for 10 games.
Has anyone been watching that series. The Refs have been trying so hard to fix the whole thing and push the Cavs through to the finals.
It's just sad.
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5-28-2009 @ 6:14PM
youss said...
yea really u should show shannan brown and lamar kill the birdman or as i like to cal lhim birdhomo and pemfred that is the funniest thing i have read all day bahahhahah flagrent 2 10 days suspension
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5-28-2009 @ 8:08PM
CANDIMIKE said...
You don't have to be a Denver Nuggets fan (even though I am one) to be a Chris "Birdman" Anderson fan. With his great personal story and comeback year he has shined on and off the court.
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