This NBA Player Invented The “High Five”...Then He Passed Away
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2022
- This NBA player is named Derek Smith. He was widely credited as the person who invented the "high five", but his NBA journey was quite a tragic one. Hope you enjoy the video!
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That’s one hell of a title.
i swear 🤣
You know how Andy gets.
Clickbait at its finest
3:18
I swear I thought he would say something like "this dude popularized high fives after converting a free throw" or something, but nah
You should also mention how his son, Nolan Smith, went on to become a basketball player for Duke, then part of Coach K’s coaching staff, and is now an assistant coach at his Dad’s Alma Mater UofL
That's his son? Damn.
I never knew that.
It’s even more tragic than Michael Redd’s story who was still able to make one all star team but by the end of the 00’s knee injuries plagued him badly. Derek Smith will always be a great what if R.I.P.
Michael Redd was super hot for the season I picked him up on my fantasy team. Then he pretty much disappeared.
@@Vladraac He was always the perfect example of a broken card in 2k. You can shoot anywhere on the court with him and 99% of the time it goes in.
Thank you for making this video. Never heard of this story before. Now Derek’s story can live on & reach a new generation
There’s always more to learn in the history of the game. RIP to Smith 🙏🏼
Never heard of Derek Smith but absolutely that’s insane, more videos of NBA stories and players we’ve never heard
He son played for Duke won national Championship Nolan smith if you know that name?
Well honestly I have never heard of Derek Smith but he does have an interesting story. RIP. That's all I can say.
His life could easily be a film. This was shocking. Rest in peace Smith🙏
You never fail to bring a unique topic to the surface bro. I aspire to continue to try an be as creative as you.
I felt bad for Derek, just wanted to become a great basketball player, humble man, damn tragedy is bad tho
This is why I've been a subscriber. You always come up with content that hasn't been rehashed over and over again.
Tragic story but a very good video telling it. Keep it coming!
Kobe died 4 yrs after he retired 😢 I would’ve loved to see what he would have become life after the nba still the saddest day in sports history
Love it man!! Always entertaining us with these new stories we have never heard of!!
Andy you sounds sick! Get well soon
Another great video! I’ve never heard of this story. Sad to hear about him..
I never heard of the guy… gone way too soon and too early fr fr💔
Thank you for this! ❤️ you captured who dad was perfectly.
I love when you guys do stories on unsung athletes ✊
Wow, what a tombstone for Derek Smith. R.I.P. D.S. Will always remember him on the 1980 Louisville Cardinal championship team.
I was a huge Nolan Smith fan as a teen, playing ball myself. This was a great video. Thanks Andy.
This is really a crazy story great video
I remember him R.I.P. He was overshadowed by doctor dunkenstein darryl griffith but was much tougher and versatile. Great video.
Did not know this story before this. Thanks for sharing it. Rip
Never heard of him but R.I.P.
Great video
This is Nolan Smith's dad.
Bro Len Bias' frame was crazy 😭0:14 The fact that he was less than 22 yo in this pic is insane to me
As someone who knew nothing besides jordan playing in chicago, the teams names and a few other things before the restart of the league in orlando i must thank you because most of my nba knowledge comes from you
You're a real basketball historian andy
Why does Andy's voice sounds like slowed 0.25x
His son had a great career at Duke. I remember him playing with the 6ers I also remember when he blew his knee with the clippers
He was on the Sixers during the 89-90 season and he received high praise from Charles Barkley...
That is still tragic to this guy . Just unbelievable
Get well soon Andy
Very very nice content
It's such a weird coincidence that Smith and the first two you mentioned at the start of the video all played for the Celtics. It's like playing for or being drafted by them was a bad omen back then.
We're just a month away ladies and gentlemen!! Not that long of an off season and we'll be seeing the guys on TNT and ESPN!!!
okay daniel
Indeed a sad story. Never heard of it. Rip Derek Smith.
While Bias was a great 'might have been' story, I put Hank Gathers ahead of him.
I heard the high five was invented during a baseball game in the late 70’s
@@sactownchad haven’t watched the video yet , just saw the title and replied
You sound sick here bruh. Take a rest
People forget that before Mr Larry Bird smacked his head on the floor with a busted back in game 5 vs the Pacers in 91 and then proceeded to return from the locker room to score 32 and beat the Pacers - that the game was turning into the "Derek Smith" game. He had around 10-12 points and was having a great game before Bird did his thing
You forgot to include Petrovic as example
Malik Sealy too. Killed at 30 years old by a drunk driver after leaving Kevin Garnett’s birthday party. The drunk driver who hit him was driving the wrong way down the freeway and got a whole 4 years in prison for it.
Never heard of Derek Smith before. That’s a crazy story. From rags to riches in the NBA in a way. Sad ending to his story.
80's and 90's what if stories series would cool. its all history to us for the most part
had to have been so sad for the friends and family on the cruise :( especially his wife n kids
I’m so glad ekgs exist now to many stars were lost before then
You should make a video about Brandon Jennings. He was one of my favorite players to watch. That era of the NBA was the best
R.I.P.
Derek smiths son Nolan could hoop in high school. Oak hill academy he was a monster. Went on to play at Duke and in the nba as well. Coaches for Duke now. I remember hearing about his dad when Nolan played in a high school game vs OJ Mayo I believe. RIP to Derek Smith.
Hi Andy,
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Bias biggest " What IF " NBA history 🔥💪💪
This is shockingly sad
😭😭😭😭
I never heard of this Dude, I think I might do more searching on him
You forgot to mention his son Nolan Smith, who was a 2007 McDonald's All American, All ACC Player At Duke and a National Champion on the their 2010 Championship Team, former NBA Player, and now one of the top Young Assistant Coaches in College Basketball, as he just left Duke to become the Top Assistant at Louisville.
Wow that’s sad
I heard of him I remember his son playing in league
Imagine going for a high-fiving to you teammate but you end up high-fiving Kobe
Sounds like a ChubbyEmu title lol
That dunk on Jordan @ 5:28 was NASTY….you don’t see MJ on the recieving end of many of those
People talk about having Dinner with Jay-Z. I wanna eat a meal with Andy Hoops and talk about Kendall Gill and Shawn Kemp. Then after dinner we can discuss Darius Miles for desert!
Now we need the stories of the guys who invented the fist bump, the butt slap, and the most ancient form: the clap
Sad story
Wow this interesting...
Actually, Derek Smith played small forward for the Louisville Cardinals because the star shooting guard on that college was "Dr. Dunkenstein" Darrell Griffith. Anyways, I heard his name on his obituary in an old sports Alamac, but I never knew that he invented the "High Five".
I didn't know those facts about Derek Lewis I never heard of him
You ought make a video about dru joyce III
Jaylen Brown next video Andy Hoops 🙏🙏🙏
Mud love from israel
Thanks for sharing another unknown nba story
Another video adding to the "shadiness" of the cruise ships :)
RIP
At first I thought this wax clickbait, but I didn't realize there might be two orgin stories about the high five. Usually when I think about who invented the high five, I think Glenn Burke.
Derek Smith was not the best NBA player ever.
But he is one of the few players I've seen play who I associate with the word fierce.
Rip I didn't know that was my boy Nolan dad
I use to do so many school projects on Len Bias he was such a special player I honestly believe 100% he was better than Jordan
Off topic but you sound kinda off. I hope you’re doing ok Andy!!
Damn. Same age as me. Gonna get the heart checked out.
That Nolan Smith from duke father I knew about him
u ok? you sound sick
damn i never heard of someone living in a former slave cabin
A good man lost. Nothing more to be said. The man loved his wife and kids and fought hard not to be a victim of his circumstances. I think many of us would have been had we grown up as he did. He deserved better than he got but at least he was able to put his kids in a position to succeed. If he’s looking down on us now he should be happy his son is coaching for the U of Louisville. Sleep well Derek. You deserved better than you got.
I never heard of him I wonder what if he was still alive
I have derek smith in my starting 5
Wow what a story. My only dispute would be the high five. RIP Glenn Burke, LA Dodgers.
Hey, I was thinking the same thing with Glenn Burke doing the “High five” with Dusty Baker at home plate in a World Series game in the early mid 70’s!
Louisville fan here and I’ve never heard a bad word about Derek Smith thank you for making this !
Klaus from American dad invented the high five
Wow
At first I confuse Derek with Ben Wilson
You sound a little different, you okay?
playing for the clippers be like:
He didn't invent the high five, but cool story
Tf.... This dude didn't come up with the high five 🤣🤣 that was Soulja boy who did that... Y'all owe him like 5%
Not as tragic as Len Bias or Reggie Lewis. If Len Bias makes the league, Jordan doesn't win 6 chips.
Dusty Baker and a gay guy invented the High Five. No kidding.
he look like bron
Wait Michael Redd died?
There's something to be said about black basketball players in the NBA, that pass away, from preexisting heart conditions. I find it highly dubious, that no white NBA player has died, from heart or any other issues, while playing in the NBA.
So as long as the NBA has been in existence, not one white NBA players has had a heart condition? I'm sure there has been a white basketball player with a heart condition but he was stopped in his tracks and was told, if you continue, you will die. This is why you never heard of a white basketball players that has died, while playing in the NBA.
Black people, let alone black NBA players, don't get the same treatment within medical institutions, as white people. It's been well documented, that black people face discriminations in many forms, when they go to hospitals for treatment.
So it makes sense, that it would be in a NBA franchises interest, to not bother to look deep into a black NBA player, that would cost the team, tens of millions if they were to point out a heart condition.
What I'm saying is that these team doctors, don't look no further than a black NBA players ability to run up and down the court. Their health is secondary....
Pistol Pete died at 40 while playing a pickup game. Its the only white player i know of.
@@imaginethat3026 Yep, you're right.
That's one way to look at it, I guess?
...Another way could be that these kinds of abnormalities might be more or less common in certain ethnic groups. Black people are less likely to have cystic fibrosis than white people. Different groups have different predispositions and it's not always that simple.
I personally don't think it's helpful to cast aspersions like this. NBA teams have it in their best interest to conduct as thorough of a medical evaluation as they can. There is literally no downside to them. They can get insurance to pay for career ending medical issues.
Things are probably better now in this regard than they were in the 80's.
Well, the answer is quite simple.
These type of tragic incidents happened during the 70s-90s. Black people were facing racism and discrimination regularly. The ghetto was still a thing and a lot of black NBA players were coming from poor neighborhoods where medical treatment was the last priority they needed, sadly.
So when young black athletes suddenly made money overnight and became rich, their childhood's problems like not eating properly, not getting any medical checks/treatments etc appeared.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but for me it was a social problem.
@@kushberry6679 It’s not race, it’s class!” is an argument that says that what seems to be caused by race or racism is in fact mainly being caused by class, by being rich, poor or middle-class.
This argument appeals to:
Left-wing White Americans - also known as white liberals. They experience classism way more than racism and think being colour-blind is a good thing. So they like this argument. It also allows them to avoid facing up to their own racism and unjust position in society.
Marxists - who like to blame class.
Europeans - who live in countries that are almost completely white, where the effects of class are far easier to see than those of race.
It does not appeal to:
Right-wing White Americans - who generally oppose raising taxes and changing society. If the ills of blacks and Latinos can be blamed on race, on something inborn (or even cultural), there is no need to raise taxes or change society. Better yet, if the ills of society, like poverty, drugs, crime and unemployment, can be blamed on blacks and Latinos, there is no reason to do anything serious about them either!
rich whites - who use race to divide the working class in America, getting poor whites and even middle-class ones to vote against their class interests.
poor whites - who have largely been persuaded by rich whites to blame blacks and Latinos, not rich whites, for the ills of society.
skinheads and white nationalists - who like to blame race.
middle-class blacks - who see that while education and money make life easier, they do not make white racism go away.
poor blacks - who tend to blame white racism for their ills, but, like rich and middle-class whites, are not well-positioned to tell the difference between the effects of race and class.
Notice that while some whites blame race (how black people are born), blacks blame white racism (what white people do). Big difference.
The black middle-class and poor whites are, arguably, in the best position to tell the difference between race and class and how they affect people. For everyone else race and class line up in the same direction so it is hard to tell.
In America class does matter but race generally matters more. For example, poor whites live longer and read better than middle-class blacks. When I lived in Queens in New York City during the crack epidemic, blacks made better money than whites on average yet their neighborhoods were on the whole far more violent. None of this you would expect from the white liberal view of America.
White American thinking about the nature of society and power has its roots in Europe, so it is easier for them to think in terms of class. But they do not live in an ordinary European class-based society. They live in a race-based one with roots in colonialism. On top of that, most of what they think they know about race are self-serving lies.
No/he/didn't.
Dusty/Baker...
I thought the high five was invented way longer ago that’s crazy
Dusty Baker
Does anyone thing the coke in len bias system may have benefited his basket ball game in college just asking i am really tired of people bigging up a cokehead.