Video: Ben Wallace Introduced for the Tri-C Basketball Team

Before Ben Wallace was the Ben Wallace we came to know and love on the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was a bushy-tailed Cuyahoga Community College student from Alabama who emerged as a beast with an appetite for blocks and rebounds. 

Here’s his epic introduction Freshman year from one very enthusiastic announcer: And the man, in the middle, at center … etc.

So good. Seventeen seconds of pure gold. 

This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2014.