Comments on: “The Reign Man” Shawn Kemp is slim, clean, and playing for Italy

By: Richie

Richie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:24:53 +0000

When the blazers played the lakers in the western conference finals back in 2000, that was when i became a die-hard blazers fan. When kemp got traded to the blazers our local news showed highlights of Shawn doing windmill slams and throwing down nasty ally-oops when he was a sonic and I got so excited because i knew this was the final piece of the puzzle that the blazers needed and this was before i knew he had a weight problem. So here i was, a ten year old boy waiting to see the blazers first pre-season game with kemp. When the game started i said to my dad, “who was that fat guy with the number 40″, he didn’t answer. I then soon read that guys name on the back of his jersey and it said kemp. I was thinking, no freakin’ way the blazers would pay a 330lb guy $96 mil. for a contract. I was expecting a lean 245lb highflying shawn kemp but what i saw was a BIG guy and all he could do was shoot 18-20ft jumpshots. He later averaged like 6.1 points a game that year and the blazers weren’t the same again. When i saw kemp on the slam interview i couldn’t believe how much weight he lost. I was happy to see kemp has sacrificed everything so he could play ball again. Last i heard he lost 75lbs! Good luck in italy Kemp and i can’t wait to see you on youtube! Sorry my writing is worse than greg oden’s. lol

By: Vik

Vik — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:22:26 +0000

My congratulation with gold's second place on Olympic Games. Michael Phelps was the best!

By: Shawn Kemp is Playing in Italy | micklanders

Shawn Kemp is Playing in Italy | micklanders — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:32:52 +0000

[...] it was rumored last week that Shawn Kemp aka ‘The Reign Man’ was coming out of retirement to play professionally in Italy I almost wet my [...]

By: Kemptastic

Kemptastic — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:28:59 +0000

@Brandon

Rodman used to really get in peoples heads. But you’re right I don’t think that series Rodman had much effect on Kemp as his series numbers were higher than his regular season numbers.

Just so happened that Payton and Kemp walked into a really complete team, probably the best team ever with 72 win season. Payton and Kemp was pretty much all they had. Myabe schrempf

By: Brandon Hoffman

Brandon Hoffman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:58:22 +0000

@ Dan: How was Kemp psyched out by Rodman? He averaged 23 points, 10 rebounds, and shot 55% from the field.

By: ka

ka — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:41:15 +0000

thx for the vid link dude. I never noticed he had those kinds handles in the open court.

By: Dan Marjele

Dan Marjele — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:38:05 +0000

When Seattle made it to the finals in 1996 Kemp played great, but got psyched out by Rodman.

unfortunately they never had a chance after that, giving way too much money to jim mcilvane, and too little to the guys who could actually played.

it’s good to see Shawn on the mend. He’s articulate when he speaks in the Slam video and seems to be going well on the business side too.

I hope his time in Italy is a success.

By: Feel the Flow

Feel the Flow — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:50:01 +0000

OMG I totally loved Kemp growing up too! Check these youtube top 10 dunks ever by Kemp. These are some of the greatest dunks of all time for sure. the guy was pure nastiness.

The NBA needs to bring back the time when you could point at a guy after dunking on him or hanging on the rim after a sick and1. The nba rules against taunting are stupid~

kemp is pure nasty