23 Years Ago Today Randolph Childress Had The Most Disrespectful Move We've Ever Seen On A Basketball Court

Take your dunks, take your no look passes, take your recent James Harden move. Nothing compares to this.

March 12, 1995 is a day that I’ll never forget. Seven year old Reags sitting in his family room locked in to the ACC Tournament, watching his Wake Forest Demon Deacons against the hated UNC Tar Heels. Something magical happened that day, folks. Something called the Randolph Childress come hither:

That is the most disrespectful move we’ll ever see on a basketball court. Randolph Childress making Jeff McInnis look like Darren Rovell and flopping around like a fish out of water. You had Dean Smith notoriously screaming for a technical. All of this as Childress not only embarrassed McInnis but the buried the shot in front of the UNC bench. I mean to have the balls to give the get up and defend this is just unreal. Throw in that that happened in the goddamn ACC Championship game too and really set the tone as this happened with about 6 minutes to go in the first half.

Everyone talks about the Gerry McNamara and Kemba Walker tournament runs, nothing will top what Childress did in 1995. He scored 37 points in that championship game, including the game-winner which was a runner in the middle of the lane with less than 5 seconds to go. He scored 107 points for the tournament, which broke a record set in 1957. Quite frankly, I still can’t believe that Wake team didn’t make a Final Four. They lost in the Sweet 16 to Oklahoma State and Big Country. But, Wake had Childress, Tim Duncan, Tony Rutland, Rusty LaRue and Travis Banks.

As someone who decided to wear 22 my entire life strictly because of this play, I hereby declare March 12 a national holiday. Now, if you excuse me I have some 1995 videos to watch.