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 to endlessly replay and guffaw at the NBA's most viciously emasculating dunks — this DeAndre Jordan number from last May, for example.
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...