Before YouTube, NBA Fans Lived for 'Slamadamonth' — And **w It's Online

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Before YouTube, NBA Fans Lived for 'Slamadamonth' — And **w It's Online
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Let's travel back in time, sports (http://mashable.com/sports/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) fans, to an era when we weren't quite as #blessed as we are today: The '90s.

Definition was **t high, the Internet was **t in our pockets and social media meant watching a game at a sports bar while surrounded by actual people (gross). We also didn't have YouTube (http://mashable.com/category/youtube/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to endlessly replay and guffaw at the NBA' (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)s most viciously emasculating dunks — this DeAndre Jordan number (http://mashable.com/2013/03/11/brandon-knight-yolo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) from last May, for example.

See also: 9 Years Later, YouTube's First Video Is Too Real for This Internet (http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/youtube-first-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Indeed, in the uncivilized era preceding YouTube, the highlight-starved among us had to settle for the next-best thing: Slam magazine's "Slamadamonth" feature, which broke down one posterizing play in exhaustive detail each issue. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/slam-magazine-slamadamonth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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