Gatorade to bring back digitally remastered "be like Mike" ad spot

[Redrifle]

Its a shame some of these youngins on this board, this is prolly their 1st glimpse of MJ

I knew a kid who thinks that Michael Jordan is a golfer because he keeps seeing him at the Ryder Cup. No lie.

GOAT was privileged enough to see his last game at the Garden with the Wizards

what is it with the stars of today not even being close to his level. is it the skill? is it an inferior marketing machine? has the public simply "seen it all"? is it just cause i'm not a kid anymore?

It's just how those guys were built. See if you think about the father figures that these guys had: fathers, grandfathers, coaches, pastors; these were all men who grew up in the days of Jim Crow and heavy segregation so they raised their kids to be hard workers in a lunch pail mentality. It wasn't about the 100m contract. Then throw in the 80s and what that did to their neighborhoods and you have men who were men. When they talk about "the struggle" that's real struggle. Not this soft Twitter meme world. That breed is almost extinct. Getting killed off: kobe, Garnett, Duncan and novitzki.

 

[Newzz]

It's just how those guys were built. See if you think about the father figures that these guys had: fathers, grandfathers, coaches, pastors; these were all men who grew up in the days of Jim Crow and heavy segregation so they raised their kids to be hard workers in a lunch pail mentality. It wasn't about the 100m contract. Then throw in the 80s and what that did to their neighborhoods and you have men who were men. When they talk about "the struggle" that's real struggle. Not this soft Twitter meme world. That breed is almost extinct. Getting killed off: kobe, Garnett, Duncan and novitzki.

Ima Kobe fan, but Kobe does NOT go with what you posted at all breh


That whole 7 sentences you wrote immediately was threw off by you using Kobe as an example of growing up in the "struggle" and what the 80s did to their neighborhoods


Duncan and Nowitzki neither


There are MUCH realer players in the NBA, born in the 90s at that, than Kobe/Duncan/Nowitzki are on some real life, man to man type shyt and actually WENT through the struggle.


Those 3 were horrible examples

 

[Easy-E]

I watched this earlier this morning and it was kinda cringeworthy

I loved the highlights and was def' a "Like Mike" kid, but, this would not fly in 2015

Imagine 'Bron/Kobe doin' this

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

what is it with the stars of today not even being close to his level. is it the skill? is it an inferior marketing machine? has the public simply "seen it all"? is it just cause i'm not a kid anymore?

 

[yoyoyo1]

never seen that one.. excellent

 

[James Dean]

Might be old and common knowledge but just seen that Gatorade brought back the OG packaging for their original flavors.

 

[Born2BKing]

I knew a kid who thinks that Michael Jordan is a golfer because he keeps seeing him at the Ryder Cup. No lie.

Kid better get youtube

 

[Liquid]

GOAT was privileged enough to see his last game at the Garden with the Wizards

what is it with the stars of today not even being close to his level. is it the skill? is it an inferior marketing machine? has the public simply "seen it all"? is it just cause i'm not a kid anymore?

The league has changed completely.

That late 70s to mid 80s crop of NBA players were extremely competitive and instead of teaming up they just wanted to beat each other. You've heard from that dream team film that Chuck Daly was the mastermind of that 1992 dream team because they all wanted to prove to each other that they were still the best. Magic vs Jordan, Ewing vs Robinson, Barkley vs Malone, etc etc. He also purposely made the squad lose against all the college kids to get them even more focused. This new generation is about being friends on facebook and sharing selfies, then going out afterwards to talk about teaming up once free agency hits.

It is what it is, it was a stretch in time in which the NBA didn't have the best talent it has ever seen, but it probably had the most competitive group fighting each other. There have only been 3 truly great players that come to mind immediately since the Shaq draft that have that same kind of ego/passion to beat the others...Kobe and Shaq who were ironically on the same team and KG (who was ultimately a great sidekick).

 

[AVXL]

The league has changed completely.

That late 70s to mid 80s crop of NBA players were extremely competitive and instead of teaming up they just wanted to beat each other. You've heard from that dream team film that Chuck Daly was the mastermind of that 1992 dream team because they all wanted to prove to each other that they were still the best. Magic vs Jordan, Ewing vs Robinson, Barkley vs Malone, etc etc. He also purposely made the squad lose against all the college kids to get them even more focused. This new generation is about being friends on facebook and sharing selfies, then going out afterwards to talk about teaming up once free agency hits.

It is what it is, it was a stretch in time in which the NBA didn't have the best talent it has ever seen, but it probably had the most competitive group fighting each other. There have only been 3 truly great players that come to mind immediately since the Shaq draft that have that same kind of ego/passion to beat the others...Kobe and Shaq who were ironically on the same team and KG (who was ultimately a great sidekick).

Keep in mind that free agency didn't hit till 88 so those players who played from those previous generations never had the opportunity to "team up". The team they were drafted to is the team they were with for their career so if you weren't fortunate enough to be drafted by the Celtics, Lakers, Sixers or a championship level team, you were fukked. It's a myth to say that today's players are less competitive than those previous generations, today's players are as competitive as ever and more empowered to go and create a winning situation for themselves than ever before...it's not about just teaming up, it's about being in the best position to win multiple championships (which is what great players will always be judged on)

 

[Liquid]

Keep in mind that free agency didn't hit till 88 so those players who played from those previous generations never had the opportunity to "team up". The team they were drafted to is the team they were with for their career so if you weren't fortunate enough to be drafted by the Celtics, Lakers, Sixers or a championship level team, you were fukked. It's a myth to say that today's players are less competitive than those previous generations, today's players are as competitive as ever and more empowered to go and create a winning situation for themselves than ever before...it's not about just teaming up, it's about being in the best position to win multiple championships (which is what great players will always be judged on)

So Ewing, Jordan, Hakeem, Barkley, Stockton and Malone, and several others were still in their primes and still elected to stay on their teams to try to beat each other. Drexler finally left the blazers at the end of his career to win that 1 ring in Houston.

This is a recent phenomenon breh, stop with the excuses.

 

[AVXL]

So Ewing, Jordan, Hakeem, Barkley, Stockton and Malone, and several others were still in their primes and still elected to stay on their teams to try to beat each other. Drexler finally left the blazers at the end of his career to win that 1 ring in Houston.

This is a recent phenomenon breh, stop with the excuses.

Think about when they came in the league. They were all becoming established stars in the NBA before free agency became established and even when free agency began it wasn't a wide open free wheeling situation like it is now. It took years for that mentality to change and when it did change Barkley left Philly to "team up" with KJ to try and win a ring, Malone left Utah to go to the Lakers to try and win a ring too

Comparing the competitiveness of players who had no rights outside of their teams to the competitiveness of players who can choose where they want to play is asinine. Free agency continues to evolve and the players (who have more power and more control over their careers) are evolving with it. There's nothing wrong with that but that doesn't mean today's NBA player is less competitive than the players in the 70's & 80's

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Probably my favorite sports commercial of all time

 

[therewillbeboogienights]

GOAT was privileged enough to see his last game at the Garden with the Wizards

what is it with the stars of today not even being close to his level. is it the skill? is it an inferior marketing machine? has the public simply "seen it all"? is it just cause i'm not a kid anymore?

Yeah i dont think its going to ever happen. no athlete is ever gonnna touch Michael jordans level. Along with michael jackson they are probobly one of the most famous people on the planet. these guys aren't just athletes or musicians they are cultural icons. kids in Burkina Faso to the mountains of Afghanistan dance to michael jackson and pretend their michael jordon when they're playing basketball. You're never gonna see that kind of cultural impact because of media saturation. But the goat will always be remembered.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

I knew a kid who thinks that Michael Jordan is a golfer because he keeps seeing him at the Ryder Cup. No lie.

Thanks to this site, I don't put basketball as the first thing I think of relating to him. All the wild stories of him being an a$$hole such as involving chamillionaire

 

[FlyRy]

Sorry to gravedig but this commercial brainwashed our entire generation.

"Be like mike, drink gatorade."

Still drinking it 23 years later