NBA bids farewell to its favorite benchwarmer with highlight tribute

Benchwarmer Brian Scalabrine may have looked as if he won a contest to be in the NBA, but he didn't put together an 11-year career by being a total stiff. To prove it, the league's archivists pulled together a two-minute highlight reel to commemorate the retirement of the ginger sensation that fans made an All-Star in the Irony Department with the nickname "White Mamba." This is for those skeptics who thought his only move was pulling off his sweats to enter the game in garbage time. You'll be missed, Scal. Now we'll have one less reason to stay tuned to a Bulls blowout.

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