I've never understood how you can be drafted in 1992, never play for the bulls, and retire with 7 rings. This dude is mathematical anomaly.

@hectorlopez1069

9 ай бұрын

He was at the right teams, at the right times.

@withalittlehelpfrom3

9 ай бұрын

Tbf He still played for Phil Jackson

@madmartian2

8 ай бұрын

Still clutch 🤷‍♂️

@Matt-cr4vv

7 ай бұрын

He played for all the right teams and played a key role on those teams. He played on pretty much the only team besides the Bulls who won rings in the 90s that weren’t rhe Bulls. But then makes a nice move by going to the next two dynasties that followed the Bulls. And playing for as long as he did never hurts either. Possibly the best role player in terms of accepting his role, seeking the right teams, and when he was called upon he was always clutch. Big shor Bob for a reason

@michaelthreepeat

6 ай бұрын

@@Matt-cr4vv Yes, and also an example of how to adapt, because I remember in the beginning he was a dunker, a high flyer, I remember a game in his rookie year or maybe second year with the Rockets in which he dunked on 7 straight possessions, it was amazing, then as the years went on he adapted himself to become mostly a shooter. He always played within the system, with patience. Many systems players give a similar vibe, but he ended up being at the right plage at the right time.

I love the way Hakeem chose to trash talk, like a father lecturing his son: “You are a hypocrite with your inexcusable behavior. You should be God-fearing.”

@GalacticCoast

Жыл бұрын

Truth! The personal grace (likely the result of becoming a devout Muslim) Hakeem developed over time is truly beautiful as he was a hot head who got into a lot of fights as a young player only to find some kind of internal peace that completely changed him and saved his relationship with the Rockets ownership just when it looked like he was going to leave Houston before the two championships. I spent a few hours with him during a personal appearance he did back in 2012 or so that I was working and he is such a kind and sweet gentleman. They say "don't meet your heroes" but in the Dream's case it only increased my appreciation of him as a lifelong Rockets fan. Of course, I also know he is a shrewd negotiator that has amassed an amazing real estate portfolio here in Houston and Galveston with some very aggressive and eye-catching moves. So dude is not soft, but just projects such an inner peace, grace and control. Similar to his game as grace and control are two appropriate adjectives for his play.

@redskullz1249

Жыл бұрын

More like the guy from that Key & Peele skit. "God is the teacher, Derek is the student, and I am God's instrument." xD

@flynt1977

Жыл бұрын

I think everything about Hakeem is honorable. Much like Manute. Such a respected person. Manute may not have been an all-star on the court but he was in life off the court.

@synapse913

Жыл бұрын

That is such an Hakeem story. Love that guy.

@insertnamehere7322

Жыл бұрын

“You should be god fearing” might have to get added to my vocabulary 😭

And Horry's punishment was to win 5 more rings 😂

@Sukuun

Жыл бұрын

Many of them at the expense of the Suns

@AT-rs9jz

Жыл бұрын

Horry Hip check Steve Nash.

@hexmark21

Жыл бұрын

@@AT-rs9jz this incident now feels a bit more meaningful given the context provided

@kenrickeason

Жыл бұрын

@@AT-rs9jz The Refs acted blind in those Suns vs Spurs games... NBA Refs are an odd bunch..

@cyrillesu

Жыл бұрын

​@@kenrickeason NBA refs bet on games.

That infamous towel throw changed the course of NBA history forever! As a Laker fan, how can I ever stop thanking Big Shot Rob

@777RL

Жыл бұрын

And Vlade 😎

@saiconjr

Жыл бұрын

yeah as a Spurs fan I can say Bob definitely knew when to hit shots that counted the most towards the success of his career

@angelusgnz5784

Жыл бұрын

@@ripralph09 don’t forget to keep crying about it! It’ll definitely help you feel better about your sorry franchise!

@jmac6743

Жыл бұрын

​@Angelus GNZ 😂 They'll cry about it for as long as they live.

@eksit101

Жыл бұрын

DA just helped us again. Thanks Danny!!!!!

Hakeem saying someone “needs to be God-fearing” sounds like an explicit threat, ngl😅😂

@BigPurp9

Жыл бұрын

That’s just how we Nigerians talk 😂😭

@kvltizt

Жыл бұрын

the “…because I will send you to meet him!” is implied lol

@d3adyoutubeaccount

Жыл бұрын

Hes Muslim

@jaredthehawk3870

Жыл бұрын

For a soft spoken guy like Hakeem that is an absolutely savage remark.

@thebestcentaur

9 ай бұрын

​@@d3adyoutubeaccountthanks, I can use Wikipedia too👍🏾

Irony: Ainge sent Rob to LA expecting him to be buried behind Shaq and Kobe, but Rob was always open because of Shaq and Kobe.

@diypictures

Жыл бұрын

And sounds like he was right about the culture in PHX. He had success everywhere else and those teams had a lot better to great cultures.

@TheUnseen0n3

8 күн бұрын

And still averaged like 9 points good for him 😂

This rivalry is a whole “Well, this is awkward…” situation.

@shauns.6231

Жыл бұрын

😂 agreed.

It honestly sounds like a Robert horry prism episode expounding on his success after the "big miss bob" suns saga would be fun

Players like Danny Ainge and Robert Horry are so hard to find. Role players who can go into a fight with superstars and not get scared.

@Ill.righteous31

3 ай бұрын

The only difference is that horry won and won alot (the most by any player who didn't play with Bill's celtics)

@TheUnseen0n3

8 күн бұрын

​@@Ill.righteous31 Good for him he got lucky and carried on great teams he didn't win them anything

It's a great day for secret base

@ijoy5480

Жыл бұрын

One of the best sports channels in the game :)

@johnmaring7056

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Keep ‘Em Comin’, Guys!

Actually Robert Horry had a bigger battle to fight during those times. When he was with Phoenix, he found out that his daughter had a rare disease. That's when he started to see basketball under a different light. After his 2002 shot against the Kings, they asked him how he did it, he answered: "I have a sick daughter, I've been through worse in my life. Nothing like this can really question me". We told the full story on our video about him if you want to check it out.

@elliemyers6435

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. In Jeff Pearlman's book on the Shaq/Kobe Lakers, he talks about this. How Bob really was more angry at the situation he was put in than he was at Phoenix/Ainge. When he got traded, it took him away from his daughter, and being able to be near her for her care, and that's the biggest reason he was so disgruntled in Phoenix. Yes, stuff with Ainge bubbled up afterwards, but being away from his kid was really the biggest source of his anger.

@tim.noonan

Жыл бұрын

Tacky little self-promo at the end there 🤢

@JacksonMack3742

Жыл бұрын

​@@tim.noonan if you don't want to check it out ya, but there could be some sports history nerd sharks swimmin these waters ya never know

@AETERNVS

Жыл бұрын

@@elliemyers6435 Nice insight Ellie. Horry was more like in a situation where nothing was bigger than his daughter's health, and just couldn't care that much about basketball discussions. He only wanted to be with her. Everything turned out great for him, weirdly that heartbreaking situation with his daughter is what gave life to the 'Big Shot Rob' era. He was no more a basketball player, but her daugher's hero, all that truly mattered to him.

@AETERNVS

Жыл бұрын

@@tim.noonan Nah, we don't do that, it's just because we made the video about it. Maybe someone is interested, who knows. We ain't out here putting out cringy links and stuff, we just loved this story and wanted to talk about this deeper side of the plot

Seven rings is absolutely crazy. That’s beyond impressive.

@user-nx9ec8mr9p

Жыл бұрын

He really just got lucky with the teams he was on.

@diypictures

Жыл бұрын

@@user-nx9ec8mr9p I'd agree if he wasn't a contributor to those rings.

@nastypiglosi1788

9 ай бұрын

@user-nx9ec8mr9p he hit a lot of clutch shots and had some good games too. There's a reason why those teams wanted him and had him on the court in tight games down the wire.

@chess_on_toilet

3 ай бұрын

We make our own luck in life

@TheUnseen0n3

8 күн бұрын

It's pretty easy when your carried by great teams. While being a role player at best.

"Tree bites Man" is still one of the funniest headlines in sports history

It’s utterly unfathomable to me that Ainge is the only athlete in history to be voted first-team HS all-American in baseball, basketball AND football. Dude always looked like he should have been bagging groceries, but he was an absolute freak of a player.

@TheBuddha337

Жыл бұрын

Really? That is pretty interesting. Would've thought there would be at least a few more.

@Jeff-jb6qf

11 ай бұрын

Very impressive

@meekmeads

5 ай бұрын

Level of Highschool athletics is vastly overrated.

As a Suns fan this hurt, I remember those losses to the Rockets all too well. We blew several opportunities to take control of both series, had the Rockets on the rope in game 5 of the 95 series when we were up by 2 and Barkley shooting two free throws to seal the game and he missed both, Wesley Person's shot going in and out at the buzzer. At the same time that was such a cheap shot by Ainge and I remember it well. You cheer for a guy like Ainge when he's on your team but at the same time he made it hard to like him, especially if you grew up hating the Celtics in the 80s as a kid like I did. Hated Robert Horry as well but he was just a bad fit in Phoenix, once he was able to go back to playing his role he was great at it, as clutch a player that has ever existed. As for Ainge, still unlikable sports person.

@Damnitjim7

Жыл бұрын

Bit of a suns fan myself, tho mj ruled the day or Era. Interesting tho as a kid there was always this air around these 2 like every hated them, even when Bob won chips with lakers and spurs I still couldn't shake this feeling like I wasn't sposed to like Horry. Not that it was an issue for me just nice to see where those sentiments actually came from and why

@iaminhuman9357

Жыл бұрын

​@@Damnitjim7 Spurs fan here I believe some Suns fans dislike Horry cause of him hip checking Nash into the announcers table when we beat yall in the playoffs in 07

@southstar9931

Жыл бұрын

Rockets fan here. That series is embedded in my brain. Sun's were TOUGH. Ainge, Marley, KJ, Barkley... We were grateful to get out of both of those series. Will never forget the kiss of death.

The irony is that they had similar careers. Both were high contribution, sharp shooting, role players that played with hall of famers on perennial contending championship teams.

@sittinonthegodamcornerdoindope

Жыл бұрын

It’s not that ironic , a lot of guys had careers like that

@chuckplaysgames7925

Жыл бұрын

Ainge averaged 27 and 11 , since when is that a role player?

@sittinonthegodamcornerdoindope

Жыл бұрын

@@chuckplaysgames7925 that never happened , did you look up “ainge stats” and assume his 11 points on 27 min a game was 27 and 11?

@chuckplaysgames7925

Жыл бұрын

@@sittinonthegodamcornerdoindope my bad was half ass watching the video and seen the part about what he averaged when he joined the suns. Too young to have watched Danny ainge lol at around the 2:13 mark 🤣

@piscator2813

Жыл бұрын

Horry played most minutes and led his team in all stats except scoring (close 3rd) in the 1995 finals series. Dude looked like an all star then.

"I would advise him to be god fearing" is hilarious

A lot of people don’t know this but Danny Ainge was the only person named a High school All American in THREE SPORTS. 🏀 🏈 ⚾️

Ainge didn’t have a half bad career after that either. He’s the one who brought KG and Allen to Boston, won a ring with them, then a few years later, robbed the Nets blind on that KG/Pierce trade.

@DeadSezSo

Жыл бұрын

Did the same to the twolves with that gobert trade lol

@withalittlehelpfrom3

7 күн бұрын

And that trade could not have aged better in the last week. Boston should send him this ring

@invisibilius1978

2 күн бұрын

@@withalittlehelpfrom3 someone watched the jxmy video

If it's a Clara secret base episode, I'm watching it instantly.

@ThatOneDude219

Жыл бұрын

100%

@thejmc4074

Жыл бұрын

I’m the opposite. Logging off.

@muggsyaxton8085

Жыл бұрын

@@thejmc4074 that's cool; there are no knives involved.

@jsaranas41

Жыл бұрын

@@thejmc4074 yeah... id rather have Seth Narrating the SB vids

Kareem has six rings, 5 with the lakers and one with Milwaukee Just a clarification, not trying to hate on the video. Excellent video! Also it’s really really easy for stuff like this to slip through.

@papanonstoppa9686

Жыл бұрын

I was scrolling the comments waiting to see if someone else noticed the same thing lol

@kenrickeason

Жыл бұрын

I know I'm not the one to nitpick things but widely known things should not be a mistake in the things that you are apart of..

@hashiman1

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I noticed it too, tbh this video was an overrated beef…their running out of ideas

@17thNO

Жыл бұрын

​@@hashiman1 Yeah they did. Both Singe and Horry are annoying and successful basketball players.

@professorxaviour3649

Жыл бұрын

@@17thNO don’t put horry in the same annoying category as Danny ainge. That’s not even a debatable comparison! There is no one as pathetically annoying as Danny ainge. Robert horry has had a flawless career!

this timing is incredible as i was literally discussing how horry always had his matchups fuming by doing nothing for 3 quarters and just sinking the dagger in the 4th 😂😂

I still remember Horry hip checking Nash into the scorers table during the WCF, still pissed about that one.

@douglastovey2685

Жыл бұрын

Yes. That was one of the worst cheap shits ever. If Nash was my teammate I would have paid that one back.

No mention of Ainge becoming the boss in Boston and winning a title in 2008?

Never forget what Horry did to Nash during that Spurs-Suns playoff game tilted the chances in favor of the Spurs

@selfishstockton6123

Жыл бұрын

@Big dic1 ok cuck

Ainge knew not to throw the ball at The Dream😂😂😂

First Point: I did not know about this beef. Second Point: I am so not surprised this beef exists😂 Great work as always Secret Base Team!🎉

AINGE " I DID MEAN TO HIT HIM IN THE HEAD"😂😂😂

You missed the part Ainge became the best executive, head of a church and the list goes on and on and on. Don't sell Danny boy short

The moment you realized Danny Ainge inavertedly helped the Lakers twice, one when Horry was traded to give Kobe and Shaq some help and now as a GM of the Jazz, he gave Vanderbilt and Beasley also to the Lakers as part of a 3 team deal with the Wolves to give LeBron and AD some help also😅

This was so good!~ i died laughing at that towel in Danny's face 😂😂😂

This is one of those rare beef's where both guys pretty much faired well in the aftermath. Horry went on to win 5 more championships and Ainge went on to become a successful GM that produced a title in 08. But that towel throw produced the greatest turn around for a player in NBA history.

Nobody does the narration better than Clara. Give her an SB spinoff channel

I love these random beefs from back in the day, especially the older ones. It’s easy to judge players now in the social media era but if these players had access to this tech, they’d be just as crazy, if not more 😂

My first Secret base video, made me smile! Super well written, bravo 👏 👏

Never knew the Celtics and Pistons were in the 1987 WESTERN Conference Finals. Cool stuff.

@JkComedy444

Жыл бұрын

Lol I was thinking that I noticed western conference lol

I just truly love the episodes with your voice. You're amazing at narration, and your speech cadence is really different then other people.

As a HUGE Rockets fan, I love Robert Horry

Now these are the types of beef history we need, its all fun and games doing modern ones and they should be done sometimes but for the most part we all know and remember them. Let's dig up the ones some people might've forgotten or didn't know, ik I didn't know this

The youngsters wonder why we can't stop talking about the 90's The drama was REAL 😂 The beef nowadays is medium rare the beef back in the days was well done

I’ll never forget Danny Ainge throwing the basketball at Mario Ellie’s face

I saw the title and heard Clara's voice... then I clicked it and was made happy. :)

Makes you think did any of this come into play when Horry hip checked Nash(PHX) on the sideline.

Kareem has 6 1 in Milwaukee and 5 with the Lakers.

Damn, didn’t think Big Shot had THAT many rings.

Love these videos, my low-key favorite thing on youtube

At 1:19, Tree bites man. What a headline.

Nice piece. Well-written and produced, and the voice talent was excellent!

Great vid and great work Clara.

Only out for 12 minutes love finding new videos

I grew up in this era of basketball and had never heard of this. Cant wait to watch this.

Robert Horry threw a towel at Danny Ainge on live TV.. Will Smith threw an open-hand slap at Chris Rock on live TV. Can't make this up 😂

@sbrooks904

5 ай бұрын

what’s the relevance?

As a lifelong Rockets fan that was in college aspiring to be a sports writer (four years later I would actually be a Rocket's beat writer for two seasons) during this beef and the two title runs, I remember every second of this beef like is was yesterday. Gotta love the quote from Hakeem. The inner peace, grace and wisdom Hakeem developed over time was so beautiful and impressive.

@Wgz945

Жыл бұрын

🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

i like the addendum with the 350 degrees at 20 minutes, always love your videos clara

1995 game 7 kiss of death!

I still feel there needs to be a Dorktown saga on the Suns. Also, Clara is the treat we don’t deserve.

@lenninreyes9552

Жыл бұрын

That Dorktown would be so hot.

@selfishstockton6123

Жыл бұрын

She has an insufferable annoying voice

Robert Horry vs Danny Ainge - One on One: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6mks6NmeJyXj7A.html

She said 1987 western finals,it was eastern finals.

Another great video. I was still a young kid in the 90s but I know Horry from his days with the Lakers. Ainge is a competitor, dirty maybe\sure, I was too young back then, but a great competitor nonetheless. I really appreciate your work Clara! ❤❤❤

@mongoslade277

Жыл бұрын

Ainge was a smaller version of Bill Laimbeer

1. The shirts in 1987 to Ainge were printed during the EASTERN conference finals, not Western. 2. Misspelled Dan ‘Majerle.’

@jamalwalker

Жыл бұрын

They also got Kareem's ring count wrong definitely not their finest video but still good

My favourite voice over narrator 🥹🥹🥹

0:06 This photo of Ainge is hilarious - that was a choice (and I'm here for it!)

This was well done. Great story telling

That is a lot of rings. Great episode as always. Good night and good game.

Horry vs Ainge Beef history Clara Morris on commentary Life is good

Ahhhh working saturdays are much less annoying knowing a juicy secret base video is gonna drop

THANK YOU!! Been waiting for ANYTHING Robert Horry! The man is a Legend, an NBA finals hero with 7 Rings that doesn't get talked about enough. Thank you 🤜🤛

@piscator2813

Жыл бұрын

Dude needs to be in the HOF

@mongoslade277

Жыл бұрын

​@@piscator2813🦬💩

OH HELL YES! I WANTED THIS BEEF! THANKS!

Will always remember these 2 players. Both legends, both very competitive especially Ainge. You can see it in how he played and how he worked as Celtics GM. Most recently, in the interview between Steph Curry and MJ, they talked about Ainge talking alot of trash in the golf course LOL

"Marjle" was never an NBA player, but... great video. I love all your "beef" videos, specially the ones about "smaller" beefs. 10/10 despite "Marjle" ;)

@chi-town6305

Жыл бұрын

What you got against marjle

Crazy that Danny Ainge is one of the best athletes this earth has seen.... nobody wants to talk about that tho bc he looks like.. well he looks like Danny Ainge. Hahaha. Pro baseball... pro basketball and honestly he probably would've went to the NFL as well. One of the top recruits out of Oregon and I'm pretty sure he's the only person to ever be a High school First Team All American in Football, Basketball and Baseball

@JitinMisra

Жыл бұрын

Lmao “bc looks like Danny ange”

@Boss3Nate

Жыл бұрын

@@JitinMisra hahahaha

1:46 Ainge also played on some fantastic Portland teams in the very early 90s. Clyde, Terry Porter, prime Jerome Kersey 👀, young Drazen Petrovic... Magic, Big Game James, and B got to bounce that troll on national TV one final time in the 91 Western Conf. Finals.

He didn’t just throw. Towel in someone’s face as you say. He PUBLICLY threw a towel in Ainge’s face

I absolutely enjoy Clara and the Beef history series.

Barely see suns related videos, made me happy to see something along those lines

I forgot he was even in Phoenix. Thanks for reminding me of that incident.

The Rockets-Suns playoff faceoffs in 1994 and 1995 is one I binge-watched during the height of the pandemic. It was such a treat and refresher. Prior that, I used to read this rift back in the mid-90s through a weekly local sports mag. Great, enticing presentation as always. If only Danny Ainge pushed further and helped the Suns better, Robert Horry should "only" have six or five rings, and helped to have Charles Barkley a better chance of getting his either or both those years. Conversely, the "choking" of Phoenix turned Houston into clutch and unfazed by big leads, be it score or series (ask New York and Orlando).

I'm sure someone's already mentioned it, Kareem has 6 chips.

I’m usually a basketball head when it comes to a lot of things and players and everything I hear I known about but I had no idea Danny was in the mlb before the nba

Missed opportunity to mention the Horry hip check on Steve Nash, which cost the Suns one of their best title opportunities ever.

I remember that game...Ainge and Tree Rollins, who, after the scuffle, was standing there holding his finger...there was no doubt in anyone's mind what happened. Ainge was alot like Horry, incidentally: a good player who went to even better teams...thing that's funny is that by the time Ainge retired, he was already wearing a suit, like, instantaneously!

Horry always says throwing that towel was the best moment of his career.

Robert Horrys game winner against the Kings in 02 WCF needs a rewind.

Beef history: Danny Ainge vs. current Utah Jazz fans

@cupertinoish

Жыл бұрын

I haven't been following the NBA for a couple of years. What is Ainge doing to the Jazz?

@alexmason5521

Жыл бұрын

@@cupertinoish he dared to do a rebuild. And all the old Mormons in Utah who don’t actually follow basketball are mad.

Awesome mini documentary.

4:14 “You are a hypocrite” LMAO love Hakeem for that.

All this time and I was never aware of Danny Ainge absolutely smoking Mario Ellie in the kisser during that series, despite my knowledge of the series as a whole (or so I thought). You're the absolute best as always, Clara!

I'm in love with your voice, Clara

Danny Ainge was a very good player. He was actually a good head coach too. He is a good executive as well. He is very good at everything he does.

@lzv6990

Жыл бұрын

He’s one of those guys who excels at everything.

@Miller2h41

6 ай бұрын

I didn't realize just how good of a head coach danny ainge was until I saw his record.

I can remember us in Houston were pissed when we traded Horry and Sam Cassell, but kind of excited when we got Charles Barkley. We won a ring for Clyde, and tried to win one for Charles.

That towel throw is one of the funniest moments in NBA history 😆

Can we just appreciate Hakeem. “I would advise him to be God-fearing”. He isn’t trash talking, he is genuinely worried about Ainge’s moral character.

If you really think that Danny Ainge caused the fight against Tree Rollins, you need to watch the whole game again. Ainge just did not accept to be pushed around, including by 7footers. NBA was like that, at the time.

The world needs more beef

Kareem got 6 rings. And Ainge was an allstar in '88 (more than a role player)

Hey there, Secret Base! Is there any way you guys can do a Beef History episode about Michael Jordan’s beef with Jerry Krause? I know you guys already did an episode about Scottie Pippen vs. the Chicago Bulls, but I think you could do a great episode about M.J.’s rivalry with Krause. Please keep me posted. Oh, and great job as always with this Robert Harry vs. Danny Ainge episode!

@ceebee312

Жыл бұрын

Could be why he’s a incompetent GM or selling the hornets team? Couldn’t keep his ego in check … always thought he could do the late Jerry Krause’s job or better .. not always the case

How good is the "Tree bites man!" headline. I swear headlines are a lost art.

2:08 typo on Dan Majerle’s name. Love the content, just noticed this.

@brandonsilva82

Жыл бұрын

Glad at least one other person noticed this. 👍

I'm a simple man, I see beef I click

I be so happpy to hear her voice