Dunk History: The night Randy Brown saved Chicago (Ball Don’t Lie)

As the summer wears on, with training camps and preseason play still off in (what feels like) the distant future, we turn our attention to the past. Join us as we while away a few late-summer moments recalling some of the most scintillating slams of yesteryear, the most thunderous throwdowns ever to sear themselves into our memories. This is Dunk History . Today, Kelly Dwyer takes a look at Randy Brown's throwdown over the Los Angeles Lakers. There was a time, young cats and kittens, when you had to work for this. I understand this will come off as a "walk-two-miles-in-the-snow-to-go-to-school" story, but I'm actually of a generation that did leave me (in the vaunted winter of 1988) left to walk two miles to school just to learn how to write in cursive – so I'm allowed to write with this furrowed brow. I'm also of a generation that left me, in the days before DVRs and League Pass, to tape every NBA game you could come across. With actual tapes. Oxide be damned, "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" episodes be saved, Marc Maron appearances on actual television shows (instead of tiny podcast downloads) to be respected. On one night, I nearly missed it. It was my mom's night. My...