You might not be able to tell the scale from this photo, but the packaging encasing this Shawn Bradley figurine is actually 3 feet tall. You also might not notice from this photo, but you can see Bradley’s Magic Mormon Underwear beneath his shorts.
Go BYU!
The pink packaging, Vanilla Ice inspired pose and dramatically mismatched arms just scream “special edition extended series”.
What does extended series mean? I can only imagine at the end of a long hard day of sports figurine making the SLU folks wind up with some “left over” material. Rather than throw out that misprinted pink packaging they simply frankensteined a few less popular players out of some spare body parts. this explains how KVH wound up with one John Stockton Arm and another from Mark Eaton. In support of this theory is the lack of knee socks. KVH without knee socks is like Kurt Rambis without ugly, never happened.
One only needs to peek at his Wikipedia page to understand how complex of an individual Eric Monstross was…
Montross is married with two children and a wife, Laura, and currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Not only is he married with two kids, he also has a wife. Let’s just hope that whoever he married knows about her. That would be awkward.
My favorite Rik Smits’ story is the one about the reporter who asked Rik why he had no ‘c’ in his name. At the time Rik was a spry young Netherlandian boy and not so wise to the American ways. After thinking a moment he looked at the reporter and said “I’m Reggie Miller, Rik is the tall white guy over there”.
What a great story.
The story of Dino Radja aka the “Croatian Sensation” is not unlike my own. Except the part where he fled to Croatia in 97 upon hearing he had been traded to the Sixers for Clarence Weatherspoon, I never did that. One of my many favorite things about this figure is the remarkably ambiguous pose. Is he shooting? Rebounding? Playing Defense (hahaha, oh man…I’m kidding, Dino didn’t play defense)? My guess is he’s imitating the patented Sherman Douglas “sky finger-roll”.
Dino isn’t the only Croatian Sensation to the grace the plastic confinement of SLUdom, Toni Kukoc also has the honor and someday he’ll stand along side Dino in my antique SLU china cabinet.
