#22: Tim Hardaway Mix

In case you missed the introduction, for the month of September HMB is counting down the Top 30 Bay Area sports YouTube clips. It's pretty simple: one per day for the entire month, excluding the Oakland A's and Raiders because, well, we don't like them and from their attendance figures, it doesn't seem that many people do either.

As we stated before, we love the montage. And today we present to you a montage of former Warrior great Tim Hardaway, the King of the Crossover. While his career in Golden State is remembered more as unfulfilled promise, he still provided the home crowds with a dizzying array of ankle-breaking crossovers, no-look dimes, and acrobatic finishes. Not only was he a fan favorite for his style, but he easily had one of the best names in the NBA at the time; any kid sporting a Hardaway jersey was one of the cooler kids on the block. My one major gripe with this montage is that it contains too much footage of Timmy on the Heat, but I guess we don't live in a perfect world. If I had created this clip, it would contain more of the Run TMC variety: no look dimes to Mullin, Richmond, Billy Owens, Chris Gatling, and the immortal Sarunas Marcilunis. Of course, there would be look-away shots of current Warrior coach Don Nelson yukking it up on the bench.