Old School Pic of the Week 1.17

After 2011 ended with a premature playoff exit, the San Antonio Spurs had hoped to bounce back with a strong start to this season. When Manu Ginobili went down with a broken hand the prospects looked bleak for the Spurs, but instead they have rallied to a 6-2 record since the injury. And though times are good in San Antonio these days, never again will they be as sweet as the time Chuck Person bathed himself in a pile of lollipops.

"Tootsie Pops > Coach Pops"

Old School Pic of the Week 9.13

I'd be lying if I said I didn't look at Twitter's trending topics each time I log in, though more often than not they are meaningless and arbitrary (a current top 10 trend in the U.S. is #AnnoyingThingsPeopleSay.) But early on Sunday, Twitter gave me the greatest meaningless and arbitrary gift I could have ever asked for, the trending topic of #randomNBAplayers. Needless to say, I wasted the next few hours tweeting every random NBA player of all-time I could think of until I had real-life-type things to do. (The full transcript is available here.)

For this week's photo, I wanted to continue that theme with a lovely image of everyone's favorite mullet-clad, 7-foot-2, former Florida Gator, San Antonio Spur, and Mobile Reveler, Dwayne Schintzius!

With career averages of 2.7 points and 2.5 rebounds per game -- not to mention a 40.4% field goal percentage -- Schintzius could in fact be the league's most random player ever.