Comments on: Hey! Whatever Happened To Penny Hardaway?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:25:39 +0000

Penny was my favorite player but is it true he is gay? I think theyre false rumors.

By: Archie Orao

Archie Orao — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:39:11 +0000

I grew up idolizing Jordan, Penny and Reggie Miller. It’s so sad his would have been Hall of Fame career was ruined by injuries. In my mind he’s a Hall of Famer. I can name so many Hall of Fame inductees who cannot light up a candle to Penny Hardaway at his prime. He’s the most talented guard since Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.

By: jan michael olaivar

jan michael olaivar — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:48:06 +0000

i agree with one of the comments above saying that he hates penny when jordan was around becuase the bulls were eliminated in the 1995 playoffs bcoz od penny. He was the closest rival of jordan at that time. im a big jordan fan and i hated penny that time but still silently admires his talent. I really hated him before becoz he destroyed michal jordans’ return. But when shaq left and then kobe, iverson and the rest of the 1996 draft came, i realized how i missed pennys’ game. That was the time that new stars rose to fame and penny started to decline. I hate to say this but for me, its not the injury that lowered his stats, it’s when SHAQ left the team. Penny also left his own talent, I believe he lost hope

By: Jay Reddy

Jay Reddy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:53:18 +0000

WE should reunite penny and shaq for one more season and let them two finally have a ring to enjoy together even if penny would only come off the bench for 15-18 mins. a game even with the injuries he’s suffered he still knows his basketball.

By: Moylan

Moylan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:58:12 +0000

WELL KATHLEEN… You obviously didnt see that Nick Anderson your so called “Glue” must have had glue on his shoes before penny & Co got there bc no magic team made the playoffs until Penny was drafted. As for me not seeing every game, yes I live in NY so i dint watch all of the games but this is a forum on PENNY so I am giving him the props he deserves, so relax yourself. PS- Good luck with your next Nick Anderson vs. Penny Hardaway argument, because this one sucked! PENNY!!!!!

By: Ol'Penny1

Ol'Penny1 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:32:34 +0000

Dudes everytime I go to a player who was sick as hell like Hardaway, Jordan comes up everytime, Dudes i got stats that i could put up stats how Jordan and Pippen couldnt hang with Hardaway, he was too quick for both.. If it werent for injuries, geez you would be singing different tunes, I truly believe we never got see the best of Hardaway

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:59:46 +0000

Penny was my idol growing up. I had Penny Hardaway everything. I mean even up to the 6’7″ lifesize stand up of him. I hate that the David Robinson had to accidently fall on his knee in the playoffs, and then because of all the pressuring Penny had been through saying he wasnt the leader everyone said he would be, he kept playing on it and further damaged it then tried to come back to quick the next year after surgries. It really sucks because now you see players recovering from that type of surgery because the technology and procedures have advanced. Just think if it had happened a decade later he would have had a much better shot at coming back. Can you think of any of era in basketball that had 2 more promising players have their career’s taken away like that era did with Hill and Hardaway getting hurt like that back to back. When you think about it that single created the gap between the Jordan and Lebron era and if Bryant hadnt come along so early it would have been even worse.

P.S. One thing about this article is when you did the little talking about his game you forgot to mention what a good defensive player he was before his injury. One of the league leaders in steals….

By: Kathleen Donnelly

Kathleen Donnelly — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:41:19 +0000

The last comment was made by someone who never watched every game
of the Orlando Magic,obviously. Penny was sent in time after time to save the game and he just could not pull it off. Brian Hill, the coach
at that time was 100% behind Penny and so were his fans.It was Shaq
with his power and the man that glued that team together, and what a
great team they were, Nick Anderson, who always saved the game.Yes, he
fell apart during the play offs with those missed free throws, but if
you ask anyone on the team or anyone who was a devoted fan it was Nick
who held that team together and the mix of Shaq,Penny,Horace Grant,Brian Shaw,and the rest of the best of those great players who can never be
replaced in my mind.What a wonderful time to love B-Ball.I feel so
grateful to have been there, saw it, felt a little bit a part of it.
MY greatest respect to one of basketball’s greatest, without a doubt,
NICK ANDERSON.I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OTHERS.THANKS kdjd22@hotmail.com

By: Moylan

Moylan — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:01:32 +0000

I have’nt been able to read all of the posts on this page, yet most of the ones that I do are down-right rediculous! Everyone knows that Penny was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players ever to play the game in the early stages of his career. When Shaq left due to his jealousy of being #2(which is later displayed in LA & MIA!), penny had an awful lot of slack to pick up and if I recall before his injury, he did just fine. Somebody please check the stats Vs. the Miami Heat in “97 where PENNY basically tppk on the Heat by himself…I can go on for days, but the only thing that I can say was his downfall was trying to help his team and coming back TOO SOON from multiple injuries, which ultimately cost him in the long run…ALso I do not approve of him playing in the “98 All-Star Game after playing in under 20 games dur to injury, tey I can only think that he did it for the fans, which was more unselfish than his Gazillion assists in his Prime! R_E_S_P_E_C_T P_E_N_N_Y!

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:43:46 +0000

Great article. I completely agree with you. If Orlando had won that first game against Houston in the finals, which should have been a blow-out game, history would’ve been very different; Penny might never have been injured,but , in losing that game, the world was fucked out of what would’ve been a beautiful basketball dynasty. Thinking about what could’ve been… actually should have been… makes me so mad… Penny was the future…

If anything, the Magic and Bulls would’ve been winning back and forth in the finals. Making the Bulls work for their titles.