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Congratulations to the Bronx’s own Kareem Reid, who was named to the American Basketball Association’s (ABA) All-Decade Team for his standout play with the Arkansas Rim Rockers. More notably, Reid was dubbed the ABA Player of the Decade.
**Note: Kareem Reid was featured on the June 2007 cover of Bounce Magazine
The rest of the ABA All-Decade team include:
Joe Crispin, 6′3 guard, Kansas City Knights
Antwon Barbour, 6′5 guard, Kentucky Colonels
Sun Yue, 6′9 guard, Beijing Aoshen Olympian (NBA)
DeRon Rutledge, 6′6 forward, SETX Mavericks (MVP 08-09)
Kareem Reid, 5′10 guard, Arkansas Rim Rockers
Benson Callier, 6′7 forward, Vermont Frost Heaves
Dennis Rodman, 6′9 forward, Long Beach Jam (NBA)
Clay Tucker, 6′7 guard, Utah Snowbears
Boris Siakam, 6′9 forward, Kentucky Bisons (MVP 08-09)
Jamario Moon, 6′7 forward, Kentucky Colonels (NBA)
Daryan Selvy, 6′6 forward, Arkansas Aeros
Cedric McGinnis, 6′9 forward, Atlanta Vision
Tim Ellis, 6′5 guard, Bellevue Blackhawks
George Leach, 6′11 center, Carolina Thunder (NBA)
Derrick Dial, 6′4 guard, Long Beach Jam (NBA)
The coaches are Will Voight, who won two ABA Championships with the Vermont Frost Heaves, and Steve Tucker, who won the most games in the decade with the SETX Mavericks, Jacksonville Jam and TX Tycoons. The third is Kevin Pritchard of the Kansas City Knights, who went to Portland in the NBA and moved up to president of the team.
January 16th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Elliot Rosado says:
The best player under 6 ft. In sreetball history.
January 17th, 2010 at 12:55 am
foolio_iglesias says:
5′10?!Must be good….
January 18th, 2010 at 12:21 am
the_real says:
no offense, but who cares, the rest of that list is garbage
January 18th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
bobbito garcia says:
elliot-
nate ‘tiny’ archibald might have cause to argue your statement!
January 18th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Casey Lee says:
I think Dr. J still holds that crown from his time with the NY Nets (no bias).
But I do give much respect to Tiny…he had people talking about him on a national scale at a time when the best lines of communication were the newspaper and word-of-mouth!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
187 says:
that man wins everywhere he plays.
congratulations to you
January 18th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Elliot Rosado says:
@ Bobbito, I agree but Kareem played out in the streets longer than Tiny so I’m basing it on longevity & Kareem played in the era at EBC when the NBA players came to play on the regular same way as Tiny’s era.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Russ M says:
Wasn’t Tiny Archibald 6′1″?
January 18th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Casey Lee says:
@Russ,
Yeah! But smaller than typical comp of big men in the ABA at the time and always rising to the occasion a la AI today.
January 19th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
funkalot says:
I have to agree with Elliot and his point about Kareem’s longevity and 187’s point about him holding down titles everywhere.
He is the baddest dude on the streets under 6ft ever.
Oh Bob, Nate is 6′1″, as was Pee Wee Kirkland.
Who are other guys to get mention 6ft or under? I can think of Erv Opong and Antwan Dobie, who is right at 6ft, right away.
January 19th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
funkalot says:
My fault, Ed “Booger” Smith is in the mix, too, for baddest six feet and under.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Trevor Kapp says:
isn’t sun yue like 22? how’s he possibly on the all-decade team?
January 19th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love says:
you guys are buggin if you think nate archibald was really 6′1″. have you ever stood next to him? 5′11″ tops and that’s being generous. ultimate props to kareem. cats talke about legend this and legend that, but that dude is real deal no one can argue playground legend, and not just at one park but multiple
January 19th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
tp says:
reem reid is the best natural streetball pg ever.like they say alot of ppl call the rucker his park!!!
January 20th, 2010 at 9:23 am
illest says:
kareem is the most underrated superstar in sports history
January 24th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Rich Dollar "Harlem" says:
He’s not talented like that, but he has more heart and swagger than any NBA player or NYC streetball player. I like watchin this dude play when he get his “Ima bust ya a_s” s#^t.