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"ESPN reviewed the submissions and discussions on your state/region's conversation page. The four figures on North Carolina's Sports Rushmore are below: Michael Jordan (Wilmington, North Carolina Tar Heels) - Before his reign in the NBA began, Jordan won the 1982 NCAA Championship at North Carolina. He then went on to a stunning career that saw him win five NBA MVPs, six NBA Championships and six NBA Finals MVPs. Dale Earnhardt (Kannapolis) - His seven NASCAR Cup championships are tied for most all-time. Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Blue Devils) - The all-time winningest coach in Duke history, Coach K has led Duke to three National Championships. Dean Smith (North Carolina Tar Heels) - The Dean of the profession when he coached, Smith won 879 games, two NCAA titles, 13 ACC Tournament victories and was a four-time National Coach of the Year."

I agree that Michael Jordan absolutely has to be on there, but I feel like Jimmy V should beat out Dale Earnhardt and have the coaching trifecta.

2/5/2009 6:45:44 PM

I guess Coach K is on there because New Jersey doesn't have any mountains.

2/5/2009 6:50:40 PM

no way does anyone from nc state deserve to be on there unless its case (dude started the acc)

and you have to have someone from nacsar, it started in nc

2/5/2009 6:52:02 PM

As long as we are in agreement that Julius Peppers and Chris Paul don't belong on there...they were both finalists.

2/5/2009 6:54:28 PM

i hope 'Nique was in the discussion

2/5/2009 6:57:09 PM

Case deserves consideration, as does David Thompson (best player in ACC history and probably best HS player in NC history as well), Bighouse Gaines, Yow...

2/5/2009 6:59:18 PM

Yeah, I don't really know how DT doesn't make the list.

2/5/2009 7:14:58 PM

b/c it's ESPN HYPE. Anything that happened before September 7, 1979 never happened.

2/5/2009 7:24:51 PM

yall remember that picture that was up on the wall in playmakers of Dean, K, Jimmy V and Dickie V? i'd rather have that than the one people voted in

2/5/2009 7:25:01 PM

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"Yeah, I don't really know how DT doesn't make the list."

How does he make it in over the greatest American professional athlete of all time, two of the top three greatest coaches of all time, and one of the most widely known and beloved athletes of all time?

Take off your blinders

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 7:31 PM. Reason : ]

2/5/2009 7:30:22 PM

^thats why i like to talk about Duke here

if this thread was on a duke messageboard they would be like "where's mike gminski??"

2/5/2009 7:33:19 PM

Richard Petty, Everett Case, Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Gaylord Perry

2/5/2009 7:39:32 PM

Atsur. Almost led state to an ACCT Championship. Never been the same since. Put him 4 times.

2/5/2009 7:45:59 PM

if it was a mountain of coke DT would be on there amirite?

2/5/2009 7:51:50 PM

How does Earnhardt get the bid over Petty?

I know equipment, money, blah blah blah Petty had more.....but still 200 wins and he pretty much put NASCAR on the map.

2/5/2009 7:53:41 PM

2/5/2009 8:07:57 PM

LOL i made that photoshop

not many people notice the FUCK UNC i snuck into the crowd..

lol and fucked up those dude's hair with the push tool...

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM. Reason : ]

2/5/2009 8:09:36 PM

Quote :

"TreeTwista10 BILLY MAYS 73996 Posts user info edit post Richard Petty, Everett Case, Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Gaylord Perry 2/5/2009 7:39:32 PM"

I, too, read that somewhere

2/5/2009 8:20:49 PM

i knew exactly what to expect before clicking this thread

and it has delivered so far

gg

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 8:25 PM. Reason : but i still expect more]

2/5/2009 8:25:00 PM

^^where'd you read it? cause i just looked at a wikipedia page and picked 4 people

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM. Reason : at least picked the last 2]

2/5/2009 8:25:55 PM

I thought it was on the 850 blog, but I can't find it now.

I know I read those exact suggestions like a week ago.

2/5/2009 8:28:05 PM

i was just trying to go old school

earnhardt wins, i say petty

2/5/2009 8:30:13 PM

Gaylor Perry?

no

2/5/2009 8:30:19 PM

he might not be well known as being a north carolinian but he was a pretty great fucking baseball player, and he is from NC

2/5/2009 8:31:46 PM

I grew up with Gaylord Perry. Know his family pretty well. My brother was mentioned in a SI article written about Gaylord back in the 80s

2/5/2009 8:34:51 PM

Off the top of my head, he's one of only four North Carolinians in Cooperstown, Rick Ferrell, Slaughter and Catfish being the others.

Mark Grace, Quinton McCracken, and Kevin Millwood, and Ray Durham are still waiting for that call.

2/5/2009 8:36:51 PM

i think hansbrough should have been on there

2/5/2009 8:39:48 PM

^^ ok, if it was the mount rushmore of the best baseball players from NC then sure, but just 4 people from north carolina having to do with sports? he wouldnt be on there

2/5/2009 8:42:08 PM

If it were four people from North Carolina, Smith and K wouldn't be on there. Catfish Hunter probably would.

2/5/2009 8:43:36 PM

god dammit, ok, from NC or having to do with NC

2/5/2009 8:44:35 PM

Quote :

"How does Earnhardt get the bid over Petty?"

Earnhardt means more to NASCAR than Petty ever did. Not to take anything away from the king. He just came to early. Before NASCAR got the television coverage it does today. Earnhardt was so influential his no-talent son is the largest star in the circuit today.

2/5/2009 8:45:28 PM

take off your orange glasses jaybee

2/5/2009 8:45:55 PM

what?

2/5/2009 8:47:09 PM

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"f it were four people from North Carolina, Smith and K wouldn't be on there."

Neither would jordan.. He was born in NY.

2/5/2009 8:47:29 PM

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"god dammit, ok, from NC or having to do with NC"

2/5/2009 8:48:39 PM

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"Neither would jordan.. He was born in NY."

Yeah, but he moved to NC when he was like one. He spent his entire life in NC before going to the Bulls. I think he counts as a North Carolinian.

2/5/2009 8:48:48 PM

the Wright Brothers were from Ohio

2/5/2009 8:49:33 PM

North Carolinians have never claimed the Wright Brothers as their own. We just claim their success on our soil.... errrr in the air.

2/5/2009 8:55:13 PM

then why does the license plate say "we claim the wright brothers as our own" ?

2/5/2009 8:59:12 PM

and ohioans have their license plate and state $quarter motto that says "the birthplace of aviation"

but NC airspace was "first in flight"



[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:01 PM. Reason : killdevil hills is my el segundo]

2/5/2009 8:59:45 PM

T.A. McClendon, John Wall, Kenny George, Kurt Rambis

2/5/2009 9:02:18 PM

muggsy fuckin bogues

2/5/2009 9:03:13 PM

^baltimore

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:05 PM. Reason : nm]

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:06 PM. Reason : i keep thinking this is people from NC]

2/5/2009 9:05:23 PM

oh really

nm

well 13 yrs in NC isn't bad



did you know Muggsy was high school teammates with Reggie Lewis? and their team nickname was the Poets lol

edgar allan poe is all like "what is this basketball of which you speak furthermore"

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:09 PM. Reason : ]

2/5/2009 9:06:28 PM

i like muggsy too

you remember him in those old Hungryman Dinner commercials?

let alone those recent commercials for that bank

"but when they saw what i could dew? they stopped laughin"

RestggInepeace Lewis

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:12 PM. Reason : .]

2/5/2009 9:08:59 PM

TKE

2/5/2009 9:12:56 PM

R.I.P. Hamilton

2/5/2009 9:13:46 PM

Khalid LOL Amin

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:16 PM. Reason : better rendition]

2/5/2009 9:16:02 PM

MichLOL Jordan
DaLOL Earnhardt
Mike STFUski
p33n Smith

2/5/2009 9:18:34 PM

damn hit me with a barage of gold why dont you

2/5/2009 9:19:30 PM