Penny hardaway right over Olajuwon for the win + interview 1997.03.12

1997.03.12 down by one the Magic escape with the victory on a decisive shot by penny Hardaway

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• penny
• hardaway
• olajuwon
• orlando
• magic
• nba
• game
• winner

[fabfive8]

the orlando magic organization sucks i hate how they treated the best player to ever wear that jersey. NUMBER ONE SHOULD BE IN THE RAFTERS (it dont belong to mcgrady or alston)

[PATROKLOSSSS]

Magic should have kept Aduebato. He knew how to utilise Penny

[JZ2001JC]

Asa Bulls fan it felt good to hear Penny say how they feared playing the Bulls in RD one and wanted to move up to play someone else.

[cburns1689]

@ButterMilkPancakes in this case i think it depends on the organazation but i would say if i were the magic i would. He gave them his best seasons and didnt have any good seasons after and they traded him haha

[ButterMilkPancakes]

@TheMadeMan89 they're all hall of famers who played for those teams for at least 8 years. Penny isn't a HoF and only played for the Magic for less than 6 years. You don't retire a player's jersey just because he's a superstar and played for your team. Shaq will tell you that.

[TheMadeMan89]

@sotosfrancy the sad thing about both players is what could've been. penny was electric before his knees gave out. a first ballot hall of famer. after the horrible left knee injury, i don't know if penny was ever really 100% again. but jordan was going to pass the torch to penny. he said in an interview once that he felt comfortable leaving the league in penny's hands

[TheMadeMan89]

@fabfive8 as good as t-mac and gilbert arenas are, and for all the playground respect rafer alston has, penny hardaway was a much more versatile and special player than any of the forementioned. he was my favorite player to watch in the 90's along with jordan, reggie miller and charles barkley. if they all have there numbers retired, why not penny?

[fcr1209]

I still would take the penny over the steak!!!!!!!!!!!!

[allprog]

:26 nick anderson hurts himself celebrating

[fabfive8]

Penny could score like T-mac but he was a PG and his job was to get the others to score. Penny played against defenders like MJ, Pippen, Rodman, Olajuwon and more defenders that are on Nba all defense team. Tmac didn't play when handchecks were legal. Tmac played in the era where they play All-star game defense year round.

[sotosfrancy]

@fabfive8 I agree that MJ didn't model his game only after Dr J that is why I said "after the stars of the past like Dr J". In my view T-Mac is a different player than Penny even though their game is similar...I don't know who was better...it depends on the way you look at it because Penny never scored the way T-Mac did but he was more creative...anyway there are so many parameters that you have to take under consideration before you decide who was better that this post would never be enough