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“I’m closer to Lebron than you are to me”~ White Mamba

The dude went to multiple finals and won a championship, made $10s of millions of dollars, got a cool nickname and got a cult following. I'd say he did good for himself.

I think his legacy will always be that he owned being the face of a "bad NBA player" and educated all of us on how high of a level the NBA is, that even garbage-time players in the NBA are still so incomprehensibly good at basketball that they would destroy any of us. And hey, he'll be remembered. "I don't suck at basketball. I suck compared to Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook. Those guys are pretty fuckin good. But no. . .YOU SUCK COMPARED TO ME." --Brian Scalabrine.

He played more minutes in the NBA Finales, than Carmelo Anthony.

Watching him cook young college players after he was already old and retired demonstrates the levels.

He could’ve been the greatest of all time but didn’t want the spotlight. Humble GOAT

Scal proved that a willingness to embrace his role 110% is all it takes to build a lasting career in the NBA (as well as become a fan-favorite). He knew he wasn't a superstar, so he worked to become the best benchwarming teammate on any team he played for.

If you play 10 years in the nba, you're a hell of a good player: fact. Scal was a reliable sub, smart guy, and extremely good teammate. You can't hate the white mamba

i met him at a bulls celtics game last year. legendary guy, went to the fans section and got a ton of pictures with fans, i even got one. probably the most famous dude i’ll ever meet LMAO

Played 10+ years in the NBA. Enough said. Respect.

Scal so good the NBA wouldn't let him play

He wasn’t anywhere as bad as people like to say he was. He was a decent role player & a great teammate, there’s a reason everyone he played with loved him.

"I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me"-the White Mamba

I’m a die hard Celtics fan and I remember in 2010 doc put Scal in the game only for 1 possession, in the finals against the Lakers, on an extremely important defensive possession and he did good. He did the assignment… And then Doc immediately took him out😂 But nah I got love for my boy Scal💪🏻

He played 11 seasons. That is a success imo.

I love that this guy knew his weaknesses and embraced his role - but that he still has enough pride and skill to ball up the various trash talking scrubs he comes across.

The scallenge is one of the greatest things I've seen basketball related

Scalabrine was the first player to score scillion points in a single season just insane🤯

I saw a video with him, where he said that he loves when people talk smack to him in pick up games. He looks at them, and says, "I'm closer to Lebron in skill than you are to me." And ya know what? He's right.

Bro how do you not have that many subscribers?!?! Your content is seriously amazing!

He played on an NBA team, even it was for a few minutes a game. He was chosen to play for really good teams at the time which also says a lot about well he fit in with people around him. He did what 99% of people will never get to do, and can only dream of doing. He is no scrub.

Man lived his dream!💪👏

Guy has a great sense of humor.

Say whatever you want about this fella, but at the end of the day, dude put in the work and got rewarded. Hats off to that.

My lecturer went to Highline with Brian and said that he is a very hardworking with positive attitude

Bro is more iconic than most other players 100% more talented than him. Scal is a legend lmao

Great story. It's incredibly difficult to get paid playing ball anywhere, in any sport. Anyone just picked up by an NBA team deserves real respect. Someone who played long years, for millions of dollars... Yeah, who among us common folk can legitimately sneer at that? Common folk = anyone who never got paid by a pro club.

By virtue of making the NBA and playing in at least one game I think it's pretty clear that he's in the top 4700 players to have ever played the game. That he had a ten year career I think puts him even higher than that.

He'd wipe the floor with the dude that wipes your local floor. There are levels.

The Boston legend, he really was our mascot on the Celtics

Love his quote where he told some of those guys he was facing in the 1on1s: “I’m closer to Lebron than you are to me.” And it’s sooo true. The worst pro in a sport such an unbelievably elite player and I don’t know why that’s a difficult concept for some people

He has made the point that he might not be better than a lot of NBA players but he is better than the haters are!

I remember watching Scalabrine back when he was playing for USC. He was definitely a standout. Anyway, the fans LOVED the guy and he had a long career for a guy that didn't play a lot. To me, thats validation.

It's funny I'd never even heard of this guy while growing up in the south Puget Sound region myself back the in the mid-late 90's when he played at Enumclaw and Highline. It's probably because he kind of crept up slowly out of nowhere and was not exactly McDonalds All-American material as a high schooler or even D1 scholarship material at first. To go from barely getting any respect as a 10 or 11th grader on his high school's basketball team to a legit NBA role player is actually pretty amazing.

Scal is right, he is closer to LeBron than any of us to him. Say what you will, but he played 11 seasons in the league. I highly doubt many people can say that.

The white mamba!

He was a poor man's Larry Bird

He had multiple finals “trillion” stat lines. Legendary. Ginger Mamba!

Even though Brian Scalabrine wasn't that talented of an NBA player, he definitely had the harder job of staying in the NBA long term as a 11-15th roster spot player compared to a 7th or 8th man that plays 10-15 minutes a game for 70+ games a year. I would also love to play against him to see how much better he is than me in person.

The guy went to practice with Kenyon Martin, Jason Kidd, Paul Pierce and KG among others ... Of course he would absolutely destroy any average and even above average Joes on a 1v1. Remember, only a few thousand players have played in the NBA and he was one of them and nobody gave him anything for free ... Mad respect to the White Mamba. This also puts into perspective how high the ceiling for the league is, like for all the guys who claim they could "shutdown" players like the Joker ... I mean, LMAO.

I played a pickup game against James Johnson and he is the best player I've ever been on a court with. From ball handling to shooting and athleticism it was unreal. I'm sure it would be the same with White Mamba

I remember the first half when f his career. He was solid and reliable and legitimately closer to LeBron than his haters will ever be to him.

He was a good player. You have to be if you want to even make it into the NBA and he was there for many years. Was he close to the elites? No he wasn't but he was still better than 99.99 percent of this world

He was a bench specialist who played for over a decade. He was doing something right😂.

yall gotta remember, hes closer to lebron than you are to him

love your stuff, keep cranking these out.

The only man to do a 3pt fadeaway dunk

Such a frustrating player to use in NBA Live/2K. So slow no handles no rebounding and not enough in shooting. Still fun in a meme sort of way. But hell of a career making it 10 in the league.

Had the honor to meet the white mamba at Logan AirPort, dude was mad chill let me take a picture shook hands, would never forget that day

Scal came to my elementry school in "10 i still have no idea why he came😂😂 but he was really nice and i thought he was the biggest human in the world in the third grade

He would done very well in this modern era. Even back then I did not consider him to be a bad player.

If he played today, he'd be one of the best floor spacing Centers right now.

You can’t hate Scal. Dudes a certified baller

White Mamba was pretty good actually. At his peak, borderline rotation player for a bad team; but he was playing on top teams as a deep bench player instead.

“I’m closer to Lebron than you are to me” I’ll never forget this quote. He said “I suck compare to D rose D Wade.. you suck compared to me” and that’s 100

He's actually a really great one on one player. Even KG said he's the one guy he least wanted to play one on one against during practices.

He's *FAR* from the worst NBA player of his era, let alone of all time. The average NBA career is 4.5 years. Scal did more than double that. Yeah, most bench players do not get playoff minutes, this isn't Little League. There aren't that many 6'9" guys who with a career eFG of .450.

At our local basketball tournaments the tallest players are usually around 6'4" to 6'6". One time there was a dude who was 6'9" that mostly relied on his size to score around the basket. I couldn't imagine trying to guard him if he had a jumper lol

Good for Scal tho. He put the work in because he wanted to make pro and he accomplished that. That’s amazing. Most can’t say that. He also has been teammates with some absolute legendary ballers and he’s played for some big teams. He also played for a long time, and look at it how you may, he’s a fucking champ. He literally accomplished his goals. I also had the Scallenge lol

Scal knew his role and he played it well

Scal is one of the greatest free agent signings in Celtics history

He never had the eye popping counting stats because he didn't avg. enough mpg to have that kinda impact ....but he was very versatile at his size , and helped the teams he played for in limited time as a good glue guy who never hurt his teams on the court either. Some guys like that who aren't super productive, but are willing to do whatever it takes to win , and be a positive locker room presence are often called " Trash" by casuals , but they are in fact very underrated, and are excellent for team chemistry never complaining about their minutes , but also being ready whenever their number is called , great attitude.

The White Manba "Compared to Lebron I'm shit . U compared to me im Lebron" 💯💯💯

Yeah i have tons of respect for any nba player because it takes alot to get into the nba. Even a backup that never sees the court is 1000x better than the average man. I'd say they have been definitely successful in their life. 💯💯

Didn’t he play in the NBA for like 10 years? To me, that pretty much makes him better than 100% of us in the comments. If you get to play professionally, you’re less than 1% of athletes. It’s all relative. When you play professionally, you’re also playing against professionals and some of them the best to ever do it. It can skew our perspectives on someone being good or bad. Still, The worst NBA player is far better than all of us.

scal, many listen to you on the radio and we love your take on the NBA.

i went to highline cc with brian and played on the women's team; he is a Cool guy for real

He was a bad NBA player. But he WAS an NBA player.

He was a very good college player who got drafted in the second round in the NBA draft and lasted in the league for a dozen years About as good as the Collins twins now that I think about it

Lmaoo this is when trolling became a thing , mainly when he was on the Celtics

Honestly, I bet he was a great practice squad player. Probably brought intensity against the starters, which helps them stay sharp

I remember Skal checking into a game and the announcers making fun of him. Like "oh here comes Skal's lockdown defense". First play he steals the ball from Kobe and takes it in for a layup! Announcers are silent.

dude played 11 seasons in the NBA, he has to be good that 11 years worth of people couldn't replace him

Number one reason NBA teams wanted him: He was among the 300-400 best players in the world.

White Mamba was so good he made people think he was awful. That was the genius of the White Mamba. Low Key GOAT. 😂

I remember Brian Scal from way back in 1996. He was part of an All-Star team made of players from WA state that played an All-Star team from Oregon. If you can make top 12 in WA state or any state, you have to be pretty good.

He wasn't a bad player. His game against the Pistons in 2004 Eastern Conference semifinals Game 5 proves it wrong. He was great in his own right, just willing to be the 10th-12th man on the bench, wherever he went - and become a fan favorite.

Scal had some sick games as a Net, and then on the Celtics and as a spot-starter for KG whenever KG got hurt

Baddest man to ever lace it up 😂

I think the thing people respect the most about the White Mamba is that he doesn't pretend to be something he's not. He has a very realistic idea of his skills, which was that he was bottom of the pyramid in the NBA, but still had a long respectable career, and is probably better than 99% of players. He took the jokes about him not being very good as an NBA player pretty well. Gilbert Arenas is a better player, but he's always acting like he's hot shit and would kick Wilt Chamberlain's ass if he played in our era.

And if your not willing to fight, you can't play!

Absolute legend

"The passion was there, the talent was not"

Dude could still play in most professional leagues now at 46 with some conditioning and smoke guys half his age. Dude, he's fucking NBA level.

Brother, put some RESPECT on the White Mamba's name!

White Mamba , legendary

He maxed it out. I respect it.

even scrubs can destroy any of us, and he wasnt a scrub.......ive seen him wreck ballers that talked crap, eve after he was retired for a decade

if you can make high school team you're good, if you can make juco team you're good, if you can make a D1 team you're good, if you can make an NBA team you're very good. he was one of very few to play in NBA. I'd say he's closer to Kobe than every park, 24 hr fitness, after work hooper. he even destroyed these average hoopers when he retired. there was NO competition.

So true he would whoop all of us and everyone we know personally 😂

Blood all over the court!:The farther you go back the more dangerous the game was!

White Mamba and Black Mamba are somewhat different but both Deadly.😅

Man! the White Mamba was the most charismatic Celtics.

He made more playing a kid's game than most of us will ever make working a 9-5, brother. People like to clown on him and say he was an end of the bench scrub...joke's on you, suckers.

Not exactly the second coming of Jesus, but he for sure was the first coming of Jesus

I wish he had gotten more opportunity during his career. He’d probably be a serviceable rotation 3-and-D big in today.

I liked him. Met him personally, a good dude

He made the NBA so he’s better than most 🤷

I listen to the guy on NBA radio every morning, the dude is a really smart basketball mind.