Detlef Schrempf: Thank you @Swedish for taking care of me! The staff, nurses, docs are fantastic! Thousands of games, practices and strains, sprains, breaks and such take a toll. But a price you have to pay – and I would do it all over again! @nba for life!
Detlef Schrempf Rumors
Detlef Schrempf: don’t listen to people who don’t matter!
Avdija was a consensus top-five pick for most of the pre-draft period, so getting him at nine is great value; people I respect make a comp of him to Detlef Schrempf, which would be fine. Bertans was Washington’s offseason priority and the Wizards got him re-signed for under what many thought he’d get on the market. Lopez is on the back nine athletically but his brain will still help some with Washington’s atrocious rim protection.
Detlef Schrempf: Chadwick Boseman and now Cliff Robinson dying way too young. R.I.P. and thank you for all your impact! Folded handsFolded hands
The Blazers, though combustible, were talented and ridiculously deep, with five current or future All-Stars—Scottie Pippen, Rasheed Wallace, Steve Smith, Detlef Schrempf and Jermaine O’Neal—plus potent offensive players like Damon Stoudamire and Bonzi Wells. It was arguably the strongest team the Lakers faced in their three-peat—and one of the best ever to miss the Finals. “It’s probably the best team I’ve ever faced playing basketball, period,” says Robert Horry, who won seven championships in his 16-year career, including three with the Lakers. “They were the toughest team,” Shaq says, “and they were the only team that wasn’t scared of us.”
Detlef Schrempf, the Sonics’ starting small forward at the time, called that series with the Jazz a “bloodbath” while reminiscing with 710 ESPN Seattle’s John Clayton on Thursday morning. And when the dust settled, he and his teammates looked up, all of the sudden in Chicago set to face a record-setting Bulls team led by Michael Jordan.
“I had forgot that the Bulls went 72-10 that year because we had a really good year,” said Schrempf, who like many has been watching ESPN’s “The Last Dance” documentary, including last Sunday’s episode that profiled Seattle’s 1996 NBA Finals trip. “I didn’t realize we were such an underdog.”
