I’m warning you this is all historical and all from one time period because a) I don’t watch basketball anymore and b) when I was watching it, I definitely loved the players I was watching over anyone before them.

All-Time Favorite Top 10…
1. Michael Jordan, doh.
2. Charles Oakley, smooches to you.
3. Danny Ainge. He was scrappy!
4. Shawn Mullins, but only when he was with the Sonics.
5. Robert Horry, but only with the Rockets.
6. Dennis Rodman, before he got all spastic and crazy.
7. Xavier McDaniel.
8. Doc Rivers.
9. Anthony Mason, yes, I like bruisers.
and tied for 10. Jalen Rose and Chris Webber, how could you be from the Midwest and not love these boys?

Wait a minute, there are two sometimes-Celtics on the list. How the hell did that happen?

And I gotta give a shout-out to Muggsy Bogues, I could never really root for him (come on, he played for the Hornets!) but we are just about the same size so I always list him. I’m down w/ the shorties! And he was much more fun than Spud Webb!

Top-10 Most Detested…
1. Reggie Miller.
2. Isiah Thomas.
3. Shaquille O’Neal.
4. Gary Payton.
5. Detlef Schrempf.
6. Mark Jackson.
7. Charles Barkley, when he was playing ball (I enjoy him as a commentator!).
8. Nick Van Exel.
tied for 9. Alonzo Washington and Larry Johnson, most obnoxious teammates ever. (p.s. But Kendall Gill, I like. So, there you go.)
and tied for 10. Larry Bird and Kevin McHale, don’t even get me started.

• Blow-out fracture of right eye orbit.*
  
• Broke right wrist (ALL wrist bones) and arm (ALL lower arm bones) once (in one fell swoop).
  
• “Deep bone bruise” to right knee/outside shin bone (i.e. fluid inside the bone. looks super cool on the MRI).**
• Broke little toe on right foot four times in the same summer (damn chair).
  
• Torn muscular tissue on bottom of right foot. Ongoing problem.
  
• Boil (staph infection) in lower lip. Hospitalized for a week. Fun, fun.
  
• Boil in forehead (staph again). Fun emergency room visit. Lots of blood.
  
• Sprained left wrist at least four times.
  
• Sprained right wrist at least seven times.
  
• Sprained right foot during kickboxing/jumprope class.***
  
• Sprained right ankle jumping in tractor tire intertubes. Twice. Yeouch.
  

Things we have learned from this: A) The right side of my body is clearly problematic; B) Sprains often hurt much much MUCH worse than breaks; and C) Boils are taken far more seriously by doctors than by me.

*This is how I met Billy Baldwin and still have one of his t-shirts – no joke.

***Bonus = found out I have extra bones known as “accessory navicular” or “auxiliary navicular” bones.