Andre Iguodala: “If Rasheed Wallace played in our league today, he’d be a top-5 player. He’d be better than Giannis & I love Giannis.”
(Via @LeBatardShow) pic.twitter.com/tuKMNLUK5Z
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) July 12, 2022
Before any of the 30 ejections or 300+ regular season technical fouls (including an unbreakable NBA record 41 during the 2000-2001 season), Rasheed Wallace showed in a preseason game during his rookie year vs the 72-10 Bulls that he and the refs weren’t going to be the best of friends.
During a scuffle between Bulls center Luc Longley and Chris Webber, Rasheed thought it was a good idea to bring a ball to a fist fight and sucker punch Luc in the back of the head. He missed Luc and ended up hitting an innocent casualty. The ref. In the head. Luc and Webber were both ejected, and surprisingly, Rasheed, who fellow UNC alum Michael Jordan held back, was not. I guess the Ball Does Lie sometimes.
Sometimes!
As mentioned, in Rasheed’s very entertaining 16 years in the league — which included two retirements — he set records for most techs ever, most ejections, and most techs in a season. He was also breaking his own tech records season after season and found ways to get ejected quicker and quicker. How quickly? How about 85 seconds in this game?
Considering the NBA now suspends a player for one game after they reached 16 techs and every two techs after that, there is no chance a player will even get half of Sheed’s 41 techs in a season. There’s also a $5,000 fine for each tech after 16, but since the average game salary in 2024 is over $100,000, that $5K is chump change for most players.
Although I’m honoring Sheed on his birthday by emphasizing his temper and getting kicked off the court, I could go on and on about all of the good things the NBA champion and 4x NBA All-Star did on the court at North Carolina and as a member of the Bullets, Blazers, Pistons, Celtics, Knicks, and even Hawks for one game.
I could also go on and on about all the good things he’s been doing off the court, such as delivering water to the people of Flint, Michigan.
Young Sheed was also the USA Today High School Player of the Year after averaging 16 points, 15 rebounds, and 7 blocks in just 19 minutes a game during his senior year!
And no, he didn’t only play 19 minutes a game because he was acting like this…
Despite having the most techs in a season, Sheed does not own the record for most career techs. That record belongs to that Mailman that everyone hates.
- Karl Malone: 332
- Charles Barkley: 329
- Rasheed Wallace: 317
- Gary Payton: 250
- Dennis Rodman: 212
RASHEED’S FUNNIEST EJECTION
SHEED REACTS TO SHEED
WHY I GOT SO MANY TECHS WITH SHEED & DRAYMOND
SHEED ON TRASH TALKING
Rasheed Wallace says the 2004 Pistons would “beat the s**t out of” the 2017 Warriors regardless of what rules they play under.
“New rules, they can’t f**k with us either. We had more guys with a greater skill set.” pic.twitter.com/x9Lptr28Kk
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) May 31, 2024
Pacers fans, you will love today’s game break on League Pass: home videos of the Sabonis family from 1999
today we learn four-year-old Domantas’ favorite player was Rasheed Wallace. pic.twitter.com/OwxBinQjg8
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 24, 2021
I love that last pic of Sheed with the hoop lowered lol!