{"id":103728,"date":"2015-06-02T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=103728"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:20:02","slug":"a-big-mans-game-the-earl-boykins-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/a-big-mans-game-the-earl-boykins-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Man's Game: The Earl Boykins Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/84tgAe1mBW4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here's a teaser for an upcoming documentary about 5-5, 133-pound former NBA player Earl Boykins called&nbsp;<strong>A Big Man's Game: The Earl Boykins Story<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Boykins, a lights out scorer in college, played for 10 teams (twice for two teams) during his 12-year NBA career. His best seasons were in Denver, where he averaged over 10 points per game for three and a half seasons, including a career-best 15.2 in 2006. The best scoring month of his career came during December of that 2006 season when he scored 20+ points in nine of the first ten games and 30 and 36 later that month.<\/p>\n<p>Boykins is now a head coach at Castle Rock Douglas County High School...where every player is taller than him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ah9N0Yee0AE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here's my favorite play by Boykins...<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVtSQcJ_ow0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And here's my favorite image of Boykins. Yes, it's photoshopped, but it had gullible people on the internet really thinking a soon-to-be-fired NBATV worker put this on the screen while Boykins was going off on the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/02060141\/222202875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103729\" src=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/02060141\/222202875.jpg\" alt=\"222202875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/02060141\/222202875.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/02060141\/222202875-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a teaser for an upcoming documentary about 5-5, 133-pound former NBA player Earl Boykins called&nbsp;A Big Man's&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,3,74,23],"tags":[7574],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-103728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-nba","category-nba-videos","category-video","tag-earl-boykins"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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