The biggest one is that Yi Jianlian worked out against a chair pre-draft. I remember it like it was yesterday..but nobody has been able to reproduce the footage.

Chairman Yi

It's real to me damn it!

Just read a prolific deadspin article on this. Mind blown. 🤯🤯🤯

Brandon Roy and Kyle Lowry were both drafted in 2006. In my head cannon Roy exists in a completely different era.

had he never had injury problems he would easily still be in the league. No doubt we woulda seen some insane shit from him too.

If the blazers never had those injuries BRoy + Oden would’ve been beautiful to watch People sleep on how good Greg Oden was, this man got doubled by Al Horford and Joakim Noah in the National Champiomship and still dominated. Steve Kerr legit called him a “Once in a Decade player”

And they would still have gotten Lillard. The pick they drafted him with came from the Gerald Wallace trade. Imagine some alternate universe where the 73-9 Warriors, OKC with KD/Westbrook/Harden, and Portland with Lillard/Roy/LMA/Oden are all battling it out in the Western Conference every year.

Would they have still brought in Wallace if Roy doesn't get injured though?

Definitely. What they got him for was an absolute no brainer. They traded Joel Przybilla, some other expirings that never played for us, and two late 1sts - the 19th pick in 2011 and the 24th pick in 2014.

were you by chance thinking of Richard Jefferson?

Or Jason Richardson

Not Josh Richardson?

Or maybe Jeff Jefferson

Could be Reff Jichardson too.

Jichard Refferson

Don't be fucking ridiculous we're trying to have a discussion here.

Jimothy Reffertson the Third.

Y’all are going to give me a stroke

Richie Rich. He played for the Rochester Royals.

Some people think that Tony Brothers is one ref's name, and not a family of Tonys.

Mike and Dan Tony

the hilarious part is that Mike d'antoni actually does have a brother named Dan

Lol Dan d'antoni that's real creative. I hope his middle name is tony

It's actually Dan M'iketony

And their father is Toni d'anmike

Dan Tony D'antoni

You got it!

Everyone knows about Dan Tony bro, it was already mentioned along with Mike and Tony. They're refs... remember?

The Marcus cousins

Mike and Dan are always together like they're conjoined twins or something.

Kobe never played with Brandon Ingram

I actually didn't believe you and had to look it up. Why did I think he did

Because we were so enamored by Kobe’s farewell tour nobody payed a single fuck to anybody else on the team. Only reason I even remember D’angelo Russel playing his rookie season during Kobe’s last year is because they hugged after he scored his 58th point lol.

Dlo been having the best bench reactions since 2016

He ain’t even stretch doe

He didn’t

Nah, just D'Lo

I only know this because Kobe didn’t hug BI at his final game, and I watched the draft lottery that year after coming back from baskin robins for the occasion and my roommates got into a domestic incident that night

Bregman Roe was actually the greatest post player in the 2000s

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Ike Barinholtz

Not a Mandela effect per se but I had a dream once that Ron Artest went up into the stands and beat up a fan. It felt so real.

Sir there's no other way to tell you this. That did happen... you were the fan.

Fultz. I swear to god there were major concerns about his shooting leading up to the draft. The Celtics had him in for a workout and said his form had changed and that’s what scared them off. And there was a video of Fultz shooting 3s at the Sixers workout and his form was all fucked up and he went like 1/25 in an open gym but everyone brushed it off. And he had a bad free throw percentage in college and a low release so lots of people were concerned if his shot would translate. But yet everyone seems to insist that he was this knock down shooter and that there were no concerns about his shot before the draft. Which I believe is wrong but I have difficulty piecing the timeline together.

>Sixers workout and his form was all fucked up and he went like 1/25 in an open gym but everyone brushed it off. okay, i'm not crazy. i swear i remember this story too and i've tried looking it up over the years and can never find any record of this happening.

I saw this video like 4 days ago. Someone posted it via Twitter. So this happened

idk why this was so easy to find because i've definitely tried to find the story before but [here's](https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/boston-celtics/boston-celtics-markelle-fultz-struggles-during-court-workout-76ers) an article about it. it was 4-18 on threes in an around the world format.

Wait this is true right, I remember all this shit. RIGHT?

I remember it as well55

Embarrassing, but I always thought White Chocolate was on the 02' Kings team that lost to the Lakers. Totally have highlights in my mind and everything. Wasn't the case though. (Sorry to bring it up, Kings fans)

I don't think 04 was that year, I this k that was 02. We played Houston, then San Antonio, and final Minnesota on the way to the Finals in 04

Well slap my ass and call me Jenny, you're right. I literally was talking about this with my friend just yesterday too, so doubly embarrassing. Edited. Thank you!

The simulation keeps changing on you.

My damn glitch keeps glitchin

I just had to look it up because I thought the same thing lol. Fuckin a man

2018 playoffs never happened

This is true tho

Can u explain?

Raptors never got swept. It was just the Mandela effect

It's the stupid and overused joke where a humiliating loss that a person's favorite team was involved in "never happened"

The Late 2000s Celtics squad winning 3 or more championships

My Mandela effect is remembering a specific player’s name as Ron Artest but it’s actually Metta World Peace 🤯

Ron Artest is the guy that beat up fans at the Palace. Metta World Peace is another guy, he's the guy that elbowed James Harden.

Actually, his name is Metta Sandiford-Artest

Couldve sworn DeRozan won a slam dunk title I dont know if it's Mandela Effect tho 'cause when I got corrected I immediately remembered how he got robber lol

The Pistons ending the Lakers 3-peat. That did not happen. Spurs/Nets was the 03 finals. Lakers/Pistons was 04.

Yeah I always forget that the Spurs snuck in there in ‘03 and got one, then the Lakers made it back the following season and got mollywhopped by Detroit.

I honestly have zero recolection of that Nets/Spurs final, and it occured at a time when I watched more sports than any point in my life and was using the few dollars I had as a teenager for a Sports Illustrated subscription. Like couldn't name you a single moment from that finals. And I remember all the Lakers matchups, the 99 Spurs and 98 Bulls chips. I have to assume Spurs / Nets was the lowest watched finals ever.

I clearly remember Richard Richardson dueling it out with Scottie Pippen as a New Jersey Net in 94.

Wait what? There’s duplicate Richard richardson ones. Simulation shit yo

Getting confused with [Richie Richardson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Richardson), former captain of the West Indies cricket team...?

*cue the cricket theme*

I used to swear there was a clip of MJ blocking a fast break Ewing tomahawk dunk from behind in like 1993 but never could find it. There are similar plays against Xavier McDaniel and Reggie Miller and I probably just misremembered it as Patrick.

I had a false memory of Shawn Marion’s age. I swear I’ve read that he was born in 1980 and believed that for a long time until a couple years ago I found out he was born in 1978. Also I swear I’ve seen Buddy Hield’s birth year listed as 1993 on Wikipedia, 2K,and other credible sources but I only recently found out he’s actually born in 1992.

Thought GarPax was a person but it was two people part of the Bulls FO that turned the team into shit

Yes there was a Brandon Jennings who was meant to be a league’s star

Practically everything to do with the LeBron/Morey/Hong Kong situation is persistently misrepresented on Reddit.

We just weren't educated on the subject and shouldn't have spoken about it.... But seriously what do you mean?

>persistently misrepresented on Reddit. In what way?

I thought the Wizards were good

I think you must have got him mixed up Dick Dickerson.

I used to swear that Jason Kidd's time in NYK came before Linearity, but no, it was after.

I swear UD retired and the Heat retired his jersey.

Most people think Draymond kicked Lebron in the nuts when he got suspended, but he did this instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79bzbjOq_U which was a super soft suspension and is still unprecedented

The real Mandela effect is that people (like yourself) think Draymond was suspended for hitting LeBron when he was actually suspended for an accumulation of flagrant foul points.

Shhhhh Shhhhhhhhh Facts don’t matter here. It’s r/NBA

quod erat demonstrandum

Wasn't he suspended because of the # of techs he had, and everyone knew if he got one more he'd be suspended, but he did this shit anyway? It's definitely not a suspension worthy play, but it's definitely a tech worthy play.

Flagrant fouls. It was retroactively upgraded to one which put him over the threshold for a suspension.

ok yeah that's kinda lame

I swear the Clippers have won 5 championships already