Naughty By Nature was a lot more than O.P.P. while that may have been their biggest hit, they had several other great songs. "Hip Hop Hooray" comes to mind, as well as the single from the "Juice" soundtrack "Uptown Anthem", which for me was Naughty by Natures' best song, OPP to me falls in with songs like "Baby Got Back", songs that are schticky and funny to hear now, but not actually good, "Uptown Anthem" was and still is a great song.
When people think about the great teams of the 90s people think about the Bulls obviously, the Rockets even the Magic and the Jazz make it in the discussion of great teams from the Era, one team that always gets forgotten is the Seattle Supersonics, that could be that for all their regular season greatness (which they finished several seasons with the best record in the Western Conference) they made it to only one NBA Final, and it was against arguably the best team in NBA History, the 1996 Bulls.
The Sonics were a flashy version of the Jazz, instead of the pick and role heavy Stockton and Malone, the Sonics had the fun and flashy Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp.
Maybe it was because of his later years in the league, but Shawn Kemp was at one time the most dominant Power Forward in the league. His back to the back game was powerful, he had a solid jumper, and was a great rebounder, but he and his point guard Payton were always at their best running a fast break. Hopefully future generations will forget about Kemp's later years where weight gain and injuries kept him from being dominate, and focus on the time when he surpassed Charles Barkley to become the most dominate Power Forward in the Game.
The Sonics were a flashy version of the Jazz, instead of the pick and role heavy Stockton and Malone, the Sonics had the fun and flashy Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp.
Maybe it was because of his later years in the league, but Shawn Kemp was at one time the most dominant Power Forward in the league. His back to the back game was powerful, he had a solid jumper, and was a great rebounder, but he and his point guard Payton were always at their best running a fast break. Hopefully future generations will forget about Kemp's later years where weight gain and injuries kept him from being dominate, and focus on the time when he surpassed Charles Barkley to become the most dominate Power Forward in the Game.
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