Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am  |  57 responses

And1 Tai Chi Giveaway

The Tai Chi mini-series comes to a philanthropic end.

by CAND 1 Tai Chihris O’Leary

I’ve got good news and bad news for you guys.

On Tuesday, there was talk of a contest in the comments of my AND 1 interview. The good news is that we do have a pair of Tai Chis for a lucky reader.

The bad news—I wouldn’t call it bad news, so much as a clarification—is that we’re not giving away the SLAM-themed Tai Chi that was pictured in yesterday’s post. I mean really, if you’ve got a shoe like that would you want to give it away?

What’s up for grabs is a pair of the soon-to-be-released And1 Tai Chi in its red/white/silver makeup. Still a pretty nice pickup, if you ask me.

Hopefully you remember the story I told on Monday about why I retired my pair of Tai Chis. I’m curious as to what your greatest on-court conquests are. So share them with us. Tell me in no more than 200 words about the defining moment of your basketball-playing days. The best true story (note the emphasis on true) will get a pair of Tai Chis shipped out to them the week that the shoe releases on November 12.

I’ll close the comments section on this post at 2am ET Saturday morning. Good luck, everybody.

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  • Suga Ray.

    In 8th grade I averaged 22ppg and 6apg. I was always getting into fights at school and a lot of people unfairly hated on me. Didn’t have many friends. The school was going nowhere basketball wise so when I cheated off that final exam and got caught I didn’t really care I wanted to leave. I was expelled. Next season my new school would play my old school first. There was so much hype to this game. I was going to light them up. I even rocked my Vince Carter jersey that day. When I got there I heard all the people who hated me, just booing and yelling nasty things. It was a hostile environment. I wanted to silence the crowd and everytime I would score that would happened. I even had a vicious dunk in this game. We played bad defence though and the game was actually tied. Than it happened. 3 seconds I take the ball splash a 22 footer. I dropped 33 points and won the game at the buzzer. I stared at the crowd and the principal with my finger on my lips like Kobe in 08 olympics. It was my greatest basketball moment. I felt like VC.

  • Stevey

    @Jay-Singh: Preety sad what happened to you man, when is that book your writing coming out and where?.

  • Stevey

    In highschool coach never gave me a chance I always warmed the bench. Coach didnt know I was a shooter. I used to go out and put up 500 shots a day atleast, you know just incase the coach calls me in so I can contribute. So one day when we were going to our game in taxis 3 of the 4 taxis went the long way and got caught up in traffic. The taxi I was in took the short route and had 5 people in it. As we got there coach told us 9 guys were going to miss the first quarter and that meant I was starting. The whole season I had 0 points. I played a calm Billups type game. First play of the game shot clock running down I had to shoot and I nailed a 3. On defence stole the pass and layed it in. We exchanged baskets and by the end of the quarter I had 12 points!. The rest of the team arrived and coach kept me in the whole game. I had 24 points by the fourth and sent the game to overtime with a game tying freethrow. We won and I became a starter. My greatest conquest.

  • Jason

    I’m a skinny white kid from Canada, 14 years old and about 6’2″ with mild hops and a silky jump shot. This past summer i went to a camp at the University of Michigan were the coaches there would teach us a few things but we mostly played games, and at the end there was a mini tournament with all the teams. Right off the bat during the games i was established as the shooter on my team and my coach let me shoot all the threes i wanted. During the semi-final game in this mini tournement i went off for 23 points, which is pretty good cause it equal playing time and the quaters were 8 mins. long, but there was one sequence that really stands out in my mind as a defining moment in my basketball career so far. And during this 30 seconds or so i got 9 points and this is what happened. the other team scored on us with about 30 seconds left and my team pushed the ball up and passed me the ball and i hit a three in my mans eye, then my team steals the inbounds pass and get it to me i finish strong by the basket and one, make the free throw and the other team comes down the floor with 10 seconds left but they think there is less time so they shoot with 2 seconds left and i get the rebound and shoot the ball from 3/4 of the court and .. swoosh. My team goes carzy , other team not so much. In the end my team lost but i did get some university coaches looking at my game. After that i knew that i wanted to go places in basketball and i play at least 3 hours a day, usually more, and make 800 shots at least.

  • Jamal Banks

    My greatest basketball conquest is my final game of basketball. It was an amazing game the kind you have in video games. I dunked it for the first time in my life in this game. It was the game where all those squats I did and all those shots I put up till it got dark payed off. I scored 34 points and grabbed 10 boards. I even dropped a guy with my crossover. There were 6 seconds and coach told the team to get me the ball and I stepped back for three and tied the game. In overtime we were tied at 74 and I stole it hit a 3, stole the inbound hit a three, stole the inbound and hit another 3. I scored 9 points in 14 SECONDS! The crowd went nuts and my team dog piled on me. It was the last basketball game I ever played. I still remember my final shot from the corner right in the defenders face. I didn’t want this game to end and I didn’t want basketball to end for me but I think I had one hell of an ending to a highschool career.

  • HangTime Hec

    My greatest memory in B-ball was a couple of years a ago. In the blazing hot city of santo domingo. Basketball is a lot different over there. There is a certain Team aspect that I rarely see around jersey. Well it was a timed 20 minute game and me and a group of friends and the “basketball coach” of the town decided to go play on a foreign court. It was hot. It was near noon, so no shade whatsoever. Two kids from the place to referee for us. So already I knew we weren’t going to get calls. This is the closest that I got to a “official game”. Our coach talks to us, tells us were warriors, tells us that were the best new blood our town has to over. I start center since am the tallest. Coach tells me, he believes in me, and he knows I will deliver. Everything else I remember is that I played the meanest D in my life. I ate rebounds as if i didnt eat any breakfast. We won with the help of two other cats making important buckets. We lift victorious from a 12 point deficit. I wasn’t jelous that I wasn’t hitting the big shots. I was happy that I got to play and earn the respect of the coach. For the rest of the summer they called me “that tall kids that eats rebounds” roughly translated from spanish.

  • Heatboy311

    My greatest moment in my basketball career was in NJB. It was the semifinals, and we were trailing by 1 with 9 seconds left to the top ranked Bruins(we were the longhorns). On the Bruins’ inbound a kid on our team stole the ball and shot a 3. He missed it, but got fouled. 1.0 left on the clock. Our guy missed all 3 free throws. I rebounded the shot and put it back up. I got hammered on my way down and missed the shot. 2 free throws.1 on the clock. I knockeds down both free throws and the last thing I saw was the scoreboard before gettin mobbed by teammates. We went on to win the championship. I had 6 points in that game and Ill never forget that day.

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