Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at 12:21 pm  |  40 responses

Video: TNT’s ‘NBA Forever’ Intro

The past meets the present.

It’s back! As you surely know by now, the NBA season officially tipped off today, and before the Knicks-Celtics telecast began, the NBA unveiled this crazy intro video, in which current players are matched up alongside the League’s legends. Check it out above.

(H/T: @Jose3030)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/joe.l.brewer3 BlackPhantom

    Freakin’ Beautiful

  • Lloyd

    When Jordan fist bumped Rose, a single tear fell from my eye.

  • DROSE_PLAYING_PINGPONG_AT_OLYMPICS

    NBA League Pass Blackout 4ever!

  • http://H2hoops.wordpress.com Habeeba

    SO FRICKIN AMAZING

  • Bravo

    I had goose bumps

  • Bravo

    Goose bumps

  • http://WWW.SLAMONLINE.COM Benn0

    just a video – get a life

  • http://www.slamonline.com spit hot fiyah

    ^lol

  • deezndhaus aka giogolo

    wow.

  • Heals

    (nostalgic sigh)…

  • http://theghostofroyhobbs.blogspot.com Mo Charlo

    Bird and Nowitzki? Nice pandering to racists, NBA.

  • http://bit.ly/UniteNBA Christian Waterman

    Lmao at Mo, and hella lolz at the Titanic reactions to this video. Put down the kool-aid brothers.

  • andrew

    It ran the same idea as the ad for Match of the Day in UK.

  • http://slamonline.com Brad Long

    It is pretty cool, but I did think the Pistol and Nash, Dirk and Bird combos were a bit much.

  • KeviNfromSD

    This is one of the best

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/officerbarbrady what

    I love how “DrakesUnibrow” uploaded that video.

  • http://slam.online house

    Bird to Allen was cool, some of it was pretty horrid thou, i.e., Wilt looking like an example of a bad photoshop

  • jayrose

    AMAZING!!!! love the jordan and drose ending

  • Homie

    Boo. Thumbs down in our house. Cheap sentimentalist pandering.

  • shutup

    and durant /gervin and Paul/Thomas I guess you feel were racist as well? or maybe they matched former players with players that play like them today. who would you match Dirk with?

  • nathan

    loved the bean-magic handshake close to the end and the drose-jordan fistbump.

  • http://www.slamonline.com J

    speechless.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Slick Ric

    I love it.

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    Lots of sensitive cats on here. The Dirk/Bird and Nash/Pete shot were done because that is the comparisons everyone makes and those players have similar styles. Who else in history would you compare to Dirk and Nash?

  • Rnz

    Daaamn, this stuff brings tears to my eyes..!!

  • Sonicproof

    I absolutely loved it. This is why I love basketball. Cos it will be forever the greatest sport in time.

  • http://Slamonline.com Ben Osborne

    Beautiful ad. As someone who has complained about the NBA not honoring it’s history enough, this is a great counter to that. It also reiterates what a good idea our BATTLES issue is…

  • http://slamonline.com datkid

    NIIIIIIICEEEEE

  • http://www.twitter.com/JoshElam JE

    that is f.u.c.k.i.n.g. awesome.

  • underdog

    It just made me remember, how a decent 90′s team would murder any decent team today.

  • http://Www.fiba.com Darksaber

    Yes, spine tingled a bit while watching this one, the Amare/Ewing chestbump was really smooth.
    Fantastic promo ad.
    More please.

  • http://Www.fiba.com Darksaber

    Man, second viewing is even cooler, enjoyed seeing Petrovic in a 2011 NBA ad.
    And Melo/Chuck was seemless too.

  • http://www.laumol.nl/weblog Laumol

    Drazen!

  • http://slamonline.com Ugh

    Am I the only one who noticed the ‘special effects’ looked f4657ing terrible?

  • http://hoopistani.blogspot.com hoopistani

    best NBA ad ever

  • PG10

    People who have anything negative to say about this video, or the people expressing their admiration for it, are the reasons I do everything I can to stay as far away from message boards as possible

  • http://www.twitter.com/JoshElam JE

    @Ugh-I think the rest of us were too busy loving basketball.

  • K.a.

    No offense to gamers, but youtube comments with kids saying they wanted to play LIVE just makes me shake my head. When i get inspired/hyped from watching bball moves, i feel compelled to go out on the court and hit some baskets, not continuing to do something else in front of a screen.

  • Serigala

    It looks suspiciously like TNT is inspired by NBA 2k12′s intro. But that doesn’t make it any less awesome though. Magic’s no-look pass to Mamba…any team playing THAT uber-boss duo might as well pack up and go home before the opening whistle…unless it’s the MJ-Pippen-Rose team.
    Simply awesome.

  • marc

    Surprised i didnt see a KG and Russell collab.

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