Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 10:53 am  |  26 responses

Never Meant To Be

Well, SLAM can’t be right all the time…

Never Meant To Be
Photo by Atiba Jefferson
Originally published in SLAM 57

Reversing their jersey’s for SLAM’s group cover shoot was supposed to be just the beginning for Elton Brand, Lamar Odom and Darius Miles, who were poised to create a similar turnaround for the lowly Clippers. Although we never got to watch the trio grow together, Brand was able to lead the Clips back to the playoffs before being the last of the bunch to leave town in the summer of ’08. — Adam Fleischer

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  • http://www.lkz.ch/basket Darksaber

    Hey guys? Put the cover with the Nets and your infamous headline “champs by 20***” up, THAT’S even better. Still love ya though (so much so, i just extended my subscribtion)

  • http://slamonline.com/ Ryne Nelson

    Thanks, D. When you’re talking about the Nets, you almost always have to write in superlative. :cool:

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  • http://www.lkz.ch/basket Darksaber

    Oh heck, i done got Ryne mad at me.

  • http://www.ballislife.com Justin Walsh

    D, haha if that’s Ryne mad, I think his version of hate mail might be laced with compliments.

  • http://www.lkz.ch/basket Darksaber

    Btw. Ryne, hope you had a good Christmas, nice to see you changed one aspect that was bugging most commenters after the layout change (the commenter names being above the post). You guys at slamonline sure listen to your customers, great stuff.

  • http://slamonline.com/ Ryne Nelson

    Justin, and lots of “cool” smilies…

  • http://www.lkz.ch/basket Darksaber

    @Justin. Yeah, you are right. I think i totally misunderstood him there :-) . Gotta fix my sarcastometer.

  • http://slamonline.com/ Ryne Nelson

    Believe it or not, Darksaber, I’m glad that aspect is fixed as well. Changes are still being made, but I’m glad that was among the first alterations on the the (considerably long) list.

  • http://www.lkz.ch/basket Darksaber

    To be honest, i initially disliked the new look, font etc. But i’ve gotten used to it even faster than the last change on slamonline. And the page switches are slightly faster, and the whole mainpage loads quicker too.

  • http://www.lkz.ch/basket Darksaber

    Ryne, do you use Google Analytics for studying the traffic to slamonline or something your guys came up with and embedded. Just curious because i use it on my old team’s site, and the data you can gain from it is sooo cool. visiting countries etc etc etc.

  • http://www.shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com Eboy

    Is it me, or does Elton, LO and Miles look like a group of “bad guys” Fat Albert and the Gang would have walked up on passing by the basketball courts?

  • http://www.alllooksame.com Tarzan Cooper

    darius looks like he smoked too much. hes paranoid

  • http://twentythreenine.blogspot.com Russ Bengtson

    If I remember correctly, it was their idea to rock the jerseys backwards. Not sure whose idea it was to have them wear each other’s—that might have come from them as well.

  • From out of Nowhere

    That reminds me of a similar photo I once saw of KG, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen, a trio that was obviously far more successful.

  • http://slamonline.com/ Ryne Nelson

    D, we’re not fancy…Analytics FTW.

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  • MeloMan13

    i remember ppl sayin how D miles looks like a hood Santa in this pic

  • http://www.mykal1.blogspot.com MyKal

    What does FTW mean? Whenever I see it I automatically think “F^ck the World” and I really wish I didn’t.

  • http://www.ballislife.com Justin Walsh

    for the win haha. FTW= for the win

  • http://slamonline.com/ Ryne Nelson

    MyKal just made the comment of the month. :-)

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  • Blinguo

    Odom’s head looking displaced like the GP cover(or a ghost horror movie). Boy have megapixels improved since this pic was taken. I would also wager these guys back then were known in SLAM as having “Krazy Mad Moves.”

  • http://nbacheapseats.blogspot.com Chendaddy

    wait, so is darius miles taller than both odom and brand?

  • Peach Basket Dreams

    Quietly, this was one of my favorite covers. There are a couple other trios that I think should be featured on covers like this one. Memphis: Gay, Mayo and Gasol. Oklahoma: Durant, Green, and now Chandler.

    And if you want to do a geriatric version…McGrady, Yao and Artest.

    That’d be hot.

  • RJ

    Of course it was never meant to be. They landed with the Clips. If they had all landed with a respectable franchise, it could’ve been something beautiful.

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