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Who came up with the term....to "posterize" someone?
We've been hearing it in the NBA for a while now and I was just wondering if anyone remembers who said it first or said it enough for it to start to catch on.
Oh, btw it's when someone gets dunked on while trying to block the dunk
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm not absolutely sure which sportscaster actually first said it, but it began in the late 80's or early 90's when there were all these Michael Jordan posters coming out with him dunking and opposing players just gaping or being dunked on.
So a lot of NBA defenders were saying that they have to guard Jordan tight and stop him from dunking on them, or else appear on one of his next posters.
Then I think NBC or TNT came up with that wonderful word "posterize." May have been a former player turned-announcer, Quinn Buckner, who started saying it a lot. At least I remember him saying it.
By the mid or late 90's, it was common basketball parlance.
- prekkoyLv 41 decade ago
Many people have been saying "poster", but I believe Stuart Scott of ESPN fame popularized the phrase. Baron Davis posterized Andrei Kirilenko in Game Three!
