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December 05, 2004
Throwing That Dynasty Sign
With 4 for 7 shooting from 3-point range and 28 points overall, UNC baller Rashad McCants had plenty of reasons to keep throwing the Roc-A-Fella sign during the Heels' big win over Kentucky yesterday. But as far as I know, yesterday might be the first time that someone from the press has explicitly asked McCants about the significance of his triumphant hand gesture. From this morning's edition of The News & Observer:
"It's for my family,'' McCants explained. "It's La Familia, which means The Roc."
Judging from the caption ("Rashad McCants makes a sign for his family after a score on Saturday.") that The N&O put beside the Chuck Liddy photo above, McCants sorta lost them at "The Roc". Though surely someone could've Googled one or more of those capitalized phrases and stumbled upon an album cover that would've cleared everything up:
Maybe the sports page guys need to start consulting with in-house music critic David Menconi, who reviewed last month's Jay-Z show in Raleigh that DeanDome usher Cy Rawls and I were fortunate enough to attend. UNC actually had a Mt. Olive exhibition game in Chapel Hill that very same night. Ushers can ask for time off but players clearly can't....perhaps the bad timing was one reason why McCants made his infamous "prison" comments back in October.
On a related note, thanks to Todd for telling me about the Rashad McCants/Jay-Z story that I missed in last month's Sports Illustrated cover story.
Posted by Tim at December 5, 2004 01:50 PM
Comments
I noticed Rashad threw up that sign during the Indiana game, too.
Posted by: J to the izz-O H to the izz-N at December 5, 2004 03:20 PM
damn, I didn't see that sign. I think I was too busy looking up The Kentucky Giant's height and weight (7'3", 271). What a Tyrannasour!
Posted by: Claire at December 6, 2004 02:47 PM
Flash forward a couple of weeks to me at home for Christmas trying to explain all this to my parents: "It's not a gang sign, it's the symbol for this rap record label, and there's this guy Jay-Z and...well...(stymied by their clueless look).. OK mom, you're right, It's a gang sign."
Posted by: Stuart at December 6, 2004 03:59 PM
Oh yeah, there's this too- Dame educating Monica about the Roc (I almost didn't recognize Dame without his vodka or magazine in his hand):
http://www.urbanhonking.com/brokenlanguage/
Posted by: Stuart at December 7, 2004 12:22 PM
dang! and i was watching the game and missed it.
on a side note, if any of ya'll have basketball tickets you want to offload, im your girl.
Posted by: cia at December 7, 2004 07:03 PM