NBA Inside Stuff Review - Skywalker!

We're back, baby! Vince Carter, Tarzan straws, and golf! Wait, what?

NBA Inside Stuff is, once again, an NBA Entertainment publication! They brought back the original cover design (thank you!) and did a lot of sprucing up throughout the magazine. I love it so much.

As usual, click the link to get the full experience.

To the inside stuff!

News & Notes 

• This page is an incredible relic of the early(ish) days of the internet. The highlight for me is my man Nate Hayes keeping it real using WebTV. Who remembers WebTV????

• We are all sleeping on the 1956 Olympic Basketball Team.

• Six Degrees of Alan Henderson is an all-timer.

• An all-time player wearing an all-time jersey.

• Presented in its entirety, here are the Super Stylin’ signature styles of your favorite NBA and WBA stars.

• Oh hi, Summer!

• Time to work on your defense with The Glove.

• For the love of everything, please bring back the Houston Comets.

• Here are your favorite NBA player’s favorite tunes!

• Rewind got a revamp. I’m not sure what to make of it yet.

• Check out the vacation spots of your favorite NBA players! 1-2-3 Cancun!

Say whaaaaat? 

• Remember when you had to write a letter to a magazine to find out basic player records?

• Tyrese telling us how it is.

Best Ads

• The Vin Baker signature shoe. 

• Anyone have a Tarzan sound straw from McDonalds?

• This is a very apt ad for the 1999 NBA Draft, considering Manu Ginobili was selected 57th overall, behind ELEVEN players who never even appeared in an NBA game.

• Wearing a Kurt Thomas jersey is a sure-fire way to impress any date.

• This is the second-ever golf ad in this magazine's history. It’s this kind of ad that makes me wonder who the target audience is for this magazine. Does a 12-year-old care about an extra 10 yards off the tee with exceptional spin? Do they care about a tungsten core? Maybe a specific kind of 12-year-old might, but I doubt the return on this ad outweighed the cost.

• Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs?? Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates??? I will make it my mission to find this movie, as a quick search didn’t bring up much more than the trailer. 

• Remember in the last newsletter when I suggested they start adding recipes to ‘The Feed’? Well, I must be psychic because they included Penny’s mom’s meatloaf recipe in this issue.

The JAM

Jam Session is now two pages and, like, really in-your-face!

In the next newsletter

More AI (Allen Iverson), Adam Sandler, and Carson Daly. We’re on a collision course with Y2K.