Comments on: Lakers I Miss: Sedale Threatt

By: blu

blu — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:37:43 +0000

The Lakers could use a Sedale Threatt-like player now on their current team. They are aching for some kind of point guard who also has a decent outside shot and plays effective defense.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 04:32:42 +0000

Listen all you Sedale Threatt fans, fair enough he was good is his hayday but he does not belong here in Australia. One of my friends has been going out with him for 2 years here in Melbourne and they have just had a baby together, and we have all just found out that he has had 2 affairs with other women since their child has been born, one of the women being 20 years younger than him. He lied to my friend saying that he had only 5 children in the states – turns out he has 13 children around the world to different women. He owes a hell of a lot of money in the U.S still which is why he is living here and is continuing to ruin not only my friends life but many other women as well. Stay away from this guy…he is not to be admired in the slightest – and if you ever do see him out clubbing or at bars (whilst his new born child is home with her now single mother) instead of shaking his hand – tell him to go back to where he came from.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:31:26 +0000

Hey all you Sedale Threatt fans. I live in Melbourne Australia and Sedale is living here working for basketball label AND1. Anything you want to know just ask me, I see him out all the time and even though he’s a real approachable guy, the guys is still crazy. He’s like 44 and partying like a 20year old man!! I hear he’s up to child number 7 to some girl here in Melbourne!!!! He’s still treated like a superstar over here in down under Oz. He runs elite camps & stuff here and there’s a whole group of them that hang out at the clubs drinking BIG TIME!!!!!!!!! Girls just hang off him!!!!!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:05:38 +0000

We still miss Sedale here in Seattle too!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:45:52 +0000

I like this.

How ’bout making it a recurring
topic as the mood strikes one?

With an org like the Lakers,
there are a lot of those kind of players
that made an impression and a contribution
but will never get to HOF level.

It’s nice to give them a little tip of the hat.

By: MyHappyRiot

MyHappyRiot — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:36:24 +0000

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Chick Hearn’s nickname for him– “The Thief”! It didn’t quite catch on nationally, but to Laker fans he was known as that. He wasn’t necessarily one of the league leaders in steals but he was so good at stripping the ball as the players were about to shoot. He also loved the push-right-go-left move. My memory’s a little hazy but I think he pasted 40 on the Knicks one night at Madison Square.

By the way Sedale and Horace Grant have the same mannerisms when they talked.

By: vinnie

vinnie — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:14:08 +0000

tks for bringing threatt name up.one of my favorite lakers.mcadoo and connie hawkins r a few others

By: Kevin Pelton

Kevin Pelton — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:33:46 +0000

Of course, when I say “starter,” I mean “backup.”

By: Kevin Pelton

Kevin Pelton — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:32:36 +0000

I dunno about the real timeline, but it appears Threatt was traded to the Lakers on Oct. 3 and Magic announced his HIV on Nov. 8. So he prepares for the season thinking he’s a starter, and then all of a sudden he’s asked to replace Magic? Yikes.

I always liked Threatt in Seattle, but unfortunately there just wasn’t room for him in a backcourt that included GP, Mr. Sonic, Ricky Pierce and Dana Barros.

That ’93 playoff series was tremendously disappointing for me, seeing as the Sonics would have had home-court through the Western playoffs if the Lakers could have knocked off the Suns. I remember watching overtime of Game 5 on a portable TV at a restaurant . How tragic.

By: Ron Hitley

Ron Hitley — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:13:29 +0000

I’ll always remember Threatt from some mid-90s Playoff game. Forgive me here, but some of this is hazy. I’m pretty sure it was when Magic came back and he ended up playing terrible in the game the Lakers got eliminated in. It may have been the Rockets they were playing. I remember vividly Threatt single-handedly carrying the Lakers in the 4th quarter of said elimination game, pulling all kinds of impossible moves. Whoever was doing commentary for the game just summed it up perfectly when he announced “Sedale Threatt has it stuck on automatic!” It gives me goosebumps just writing it, and I’m not even a Lakers fan.