That reminds me of a funny story. I listen to a sports talk show out of Charlotte which used to have Billy Packer's son as the host. Cornbread Maxwell, who played for UNCC, was a frequent guest.Well, Cornbread was on there one day and a caller said that he had gone to the Cedric Maxwell basketball camp several years ago and had dunked on him. This guy was almost certainly making it up just to bust Cedric's chops (the show was pretty goofy) but Maxwell's response was, and I quote "Nobody has EVER dunked on me!". The caller hangs up and they go to break. When they come back, they have several e-mails of James Worthy, who is from the Charlotte area, throwing down this filthy dunk on Cornbread.
http://www.yougotdunkedon.com/2009/05/throwback-dunk-of-week-james-worthy.html Note that Worthy gets up so high his crotch is in Maxwell's face. So Cornbread never heard the end of that.
I saw Worthy dunk on Buzz Peterson high school. Gastonia Ashbrook (Worthy's team) was playing at Asheville High (Buzz's team) in a game played at the Asheville Civic Center. Worthy wasn't even the biggest guy on his high school team. They had a 7 footer who played D1 basketball (seems like he played at Wofford if memory serves) and a guard named Begley who played at Austin Peay. Both teams were ranked top 5 in North Carolina when they met in that game. Buzz, who probably weighed all of 135 pounds at the time (seems like it was his sophomore year) had a great game, scoring about 40 points. That wasn't enough, however, as Worthy - who already had a full beard and looked to be about 23 years old - scored over 50 and led his team to the win.
Fun times, and great memories.
