Tag: hilarious

Boban Marjanovic mercilessly blocked these kid’s shots at a Mavericks basketball camp and, honestly, it’s for the best

They needed to learn the hard way.

When you’re a kid, you think the world is your oyster. And that’s a good thing, you know? Confidence is important in life. You need that.

But sometimes? You need to be taught valuable lessons. Lessons that will lead you down the right paths in life and allow you to make the best decisions for yourself.

Sometimes the best way to teach those lessons is by blocking a kid’s shot halfway across a gym.

What lesson is that? Truthfully, I have no idea. But there’s no better teacher for this one than Boban Marjanovic.

Sure, he’s an adorable 7’3 center sometimes who does Soul Cycle classes and sends tweets to his best friends when he misses them. This was not one of those times, folks. This was closer to the John Wick Boban than anything else.

The Mavericks had Boban out there snatch blocking shots left and right. Absolutely zero effort involved. Just dashing these kids’ hopes one hand at a time.

This was absolutely incredible. And, you know what? Good for him. Anybody can get it when you step on that court — man, woman, child, dog, goldfish. It don’t matter. You getting locked up if you pick up that ball.

Maybe that’s the lesson there? Anybody can get it. Yeah, I like that. Let’s go with that. This way I don’t have to feel as bad when I’m dunking on 6-year-olds like LeBron James.

Oh, wait. Did I say that out loud? Whoops. Anyway, fans thought this was hilarious.

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Tobias Harris wants this grandma freed from her cage after the 76ers finally beat the Raptors

Free Grandma. Free her right now.

The Philadelphia 76ers managed to avoid embarrassment by a wide margin on Thursday when they blew the Raptors about 132-97 in Game 6 following. a massive 3rd quarter run.

The Raptors’ attempt to come back and win the series after being down 3-0 went totally up in flames, much to the delight of 76ers fans everywhere.

But I ain’t going to lie to y’all. The Sixers fans? They were worried. They were definitely worried. All the makings for disaster were there. Doc Rivers has blown series leads as a coach. James Harden has blown series leads as a player. Joel Embiid’s thumb needs surgery. Yeah, it was definitely time to worry for a second.

One Sixers fan may have taken their worry a smidgen too far, though. Just a bit. A fan under the Twitter handle Hat Trick Papaya held their grandma in a cage and promised not to free her until the Raptors were closed out.

Nah, man. This ain’t right. Free grandmama. She ain’t do nothing to deserve this, man.

The series is over now. Grandma needs to be freed. Tobias Harris, who played incredibly with 19 points and 11 rebounds in the Sixers’ closeout win, is demanding that she be shown to us free and unharmed.

Tobias is a real one, man. He did it for grandma. We still haven’t seen the proof, but it’s good to know Harris is on the case.

Sixers fans thought this was hilarious. Some even wanted to keep her in the cage for the Heat series so the team could keep winning. But that wasn’t the deal Hat Trick Papaya made.

Dawn Staley had the best response to A’Ja Wilson saying she was ready to transfer from South Carolina

A’ja wasn’t never leaving, y’all. We all know it.

Dawn Staley is one of the most demanding coaches in basketball right now. She wants the absolute best out of her players each and every game and, if you can’t give it, she won’t play you.

Even amid an incredible run last season when I asked Staley if she felt her South Carolina team could be special this season, she was hesitant to say yes because, well, sometimes they fouled too much. Or maybe they turned the ball over a bit more than she’d have liked.

That’s tough. But it’s also why she’s now a two-time champion head coach and also why she’s put so many great players in the WNBA. One of whom is A’ja Wilson.

Wilson is one of the greatest college basketball players to touch the hardwood and rewrote South Carolina’s record book a thousand times over while she was there.

But it wasn’t always smooth sailing in South Carolina with Staley. Wilson actually said on Twitter that she was ready to transfer after her Freshman year.

Wilson only played 20 minutes a game and only started once that season after being the National Player of The Year in 2014. Of course, she thought she could do more. She wasn’t getting that opportunity so she was ready to leave.

This is pretty hilarious to think about in hindsight. She had literally one of the greatest runs we’ve ever seen in college hoops and it all may not have happened.

Was Staley worried? Nope. Not at all. Why? Because, first of all, Momma Wilson was holding it down. Eva Wilson was not letting A’ja leave.

Second of all, she jokingly told A’ja she had her replacement ready.

The Tar Heels? Tuh. Ain’t no way, y’all. These two are the best. What a hilarious moment.

The Padres jokingly gave C.J. Abrams the traditional ‘silent treatment’ after he hit his first career home run

The whole team just trolled Abrams . Wow.

Can you imagine the feeling you get after hitting your first career home run in Major League Baseball?

I mean, I personally cannot imagine hitting a home run — period. But if I could? Boy, would I be over the moon. So I can only imagine how Padres prospect C.J. Abrams felt after knocking his first career homer in the big leagues against the Braves.

He went yard on Thursday night to give the Padres a 4-0 lead over Atlanta and his teammates thought it’d be the perfect time to play a joke on him.

Of course, after your teammate hits a homer for the first time you should absolutely be happy for him. And that’s what Abrams expected when he got back into the dugout.

Instead, he got the silent treatment. FROM THE WHOLE TEAM. It was hilarious.

This is actually a tradition in the Majors. Anytime someone gets their first career homer, the team has to give them the silent treatment. At least for a few seconds. It’s a tradition that has been around for years.

You just knew this wouldn’t hold up after a few seconds. You could literally see the smiles cracking on his teammate’s faces after Abrams turned around.

They celebrated it the right way eventually, but this was hilarious. What a perfect and well-organized troll.

Baseball fans loved this.

Nikola Jokic said has no idea where his MVP trophy is but it’s OK because he might get another one

That MVP trophy is going to be on eBay before you know it, folks.

Nikola Jokic is on the verge of potentially winning his second straight MVP award after putting up historic numbers all season long.

How much does he actually care about that? Probably not too much. At least if his treatment of his first MVP trophy is any indication of it, anyway. He has no idea where the trophy is.

No, seriously. Nikola Jokic doesn’t know where his MVP trophy is right now.

The Nuggets big man was asked about potentially winning another MVP trophy and the most scripted answer possible. “If it happens, yeah. Great.” Clearly, this is a man who is not moved by MVP trophies.

So if those are his thoughts about another potential trophy, what does he think about his first award? Where does he even keep it?

He has no idea where is it right now.

This dude. The Jokic family is apparently in the middle of moving and his wife is taking care of everything, which makes sense. But…it’s an MVP trophy! Shouldn’t this be handled with some sort of special care?

That trophy could be anywhere right now. I’m just waiting for it to pop up on eBay at some point. “Authentic Nikola Jokic MVP trophy — CONFIRMED.” Can you imagine how confused we’d all be? Just the pure chaos of it all.

Also, if anyone wanted to make a good argument for Joel Embiid or Giannis Antetokounmpo, though, here’s your ammo. Jokic doesn’t even care! Let someone who does get the trophy. I’m sure he won’t mind it.

This is actually pretty funny, honestly. Hopefully, if Jokic does win it, he’ll get a special case for this one. Then maybe he can work on tracking down the other.

 

 

Tyreek Hill completely left this Miami middle school flag football team in the dust and it was incredible

Who is faster? The Looney Tunes Roadrunner or Tyreek Hill? Serious question?

Your typical professional athlete is always going to look incredible when lined up against regular folks like you and me.

But, man. Tyreek Hill? This dude just has cartoonish speed. Like, how is this real, y’all?

He gave us a perfect example of what speed looks like against the Lady Warriors Flag Football team at Hebrew Academy Miami Beach Middle School.

There are literally dozens of teens just running at Hill here. Dozens! Does anyone get a hand on him? No. Absolutely not. Well, at least not until the end when he literally let one of them touch his flag.

It don’t make no sense how fast this dude is, y’all.

Hill just touched down in Miami a couple weeks ago and is already making entire football teams miss. You absolutely love to see it. Dolphins fans are hoping this is what they get out of him when it’s time for the real thing. Given his history? It probably will be.

Shoutout to the girl who managed to grab Hill’s flag. I don’t care if he just let her do it or not. She better frame that

It’s 2022 and people are still somehow hilariously not recognizing Tony Hawk when they see him

HOW DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW WHO TONY HAWK IS?!?

Tony Hawk might be the least famous famous person there is in the world.

Now, if you’re like me, you probably think that’s ridiculous. I mean, how many other people in the world have had actual video games named after them, right? Everyone from the 90s has played at least 3 Tony Hawk Pro Skater games.

Plus, this dude is an actual skateboarding legend. You don’t even have to know anything about skating to know who Tony Hawk is — which, again, is why he has video games named after him.

Tony Hawk is the face of an entire sport, still. Even at 53 years old well outside of his prime. This dude should be recognizable everywhere.

But, apparently, even people who see the man in elevators don’t know who he is.

This week, Hawk shared this story on Twitter about being told that he looked like Tony Hawk by a guy in an elevator.

HOW DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW WHO TONY HAWK IS??? This is just incredible to me. Tony Hawk is that dude, man. He deserves better than this.

The wild part is it’s not just these elevator folks. People legitimately just don’t know who he is. There are more stories out there like this and Hawk has shared them over the years.

Let’s take a quick look back.

Kevin Durant called Stephen A. Smith out for falling for a fake story about Kyrie Irving and James Harden

NOOOOOOOOO, NOT STEPHEN A!!!!!!!!

These virtual streets are dangerous out here, folks. You’ve got to have real discerning eyes and ears when it comes to where you get your information and who that information comes from. There’s lots of fake news out there.

That sounds kind of daunting, right? But, honestly, it’s pretty easy. You just have to pay attention to reputable sources like Adrian Wojnarowski and explicitly not sources like a place called Ballsack Sports.

I mean, come on. That’s easy enough, right? Apparently, not for some folks.

That includes Kendrick Perkins, who got “sacked” live on ESPN’s air when he shared a story about Kyrie Irving calling James Harden washed in a team practice when the latter was still on the Nets. They got Perk good. It was pretty funny.

They also now have Stephen A. Smith who, apparently, referred to the same story on First Take. Y’all. You cannot make this up.

“Especially when Kyrie looked him in the face, according to reports, and told him you washed up. He said that to him.”

Did he? Did he really, though, Stephen A? As much as we’d all love for this spicy story to be true, it just isn’t. It was just something typed on a nice looking title card that floated around the internet. But that’s all it takes for people to think something is real these days.

Never in a million years did I think I’d ever see Stephen A. Smith — the absolute legend, the god, the take monster — getting got like this. Again, these internet streets are cruel.

Folks did not show any mercy once they realized what tragedy just took place. That includes Kevin Durant, himself.

He called this man Steve.

Nah, man. You hate to see it. All of us have been “sacked” before, one time or another — that’s why they had Josh Smith trending. But, man! Stephen A?!? Never thought I’d see the day.

Fans really went in on him after this one. They kind of went crazy with the theories, too. Like … what if … Kevin Durant actually runs BS sports?!? Or — we’re going wild with this one — what if it’s one ofh is burners?!?

They might be on to something, y’all.

The Pelicans pulled off a perfect troll of ESPN and the Lakers after getting a win in LA

This is HILARIOUS.

The Lakers absolutely stink right now, man. They’ve lost five games in a row and are looking like they’ll miss the playoffs completely. Yes, that includes the play-in.

Yet, still, media outlets everywhere find ways to talk about them even in their losses. That doesn’t exclude us here, by the way. We all talk about the Lakers way too much. Everyone knows it.

But the Pelicans? They’ve had quite enough Lakers talk from everyone. But, more specifically, from ESPN.

So much so that, after they beat the Lakers with LeBron James and Anthony Davis playing, they changed their Twitter bio to this on Friday night.

EL. OH. EL. That’s actually pretty funny. What an awesome troll. But there’s absolutely no way ESPN would overlook the actual scoreboard and…wait…WAIT.

WOWWWW LOLOLOLOLOL.

Now, to be fair to ESPN, the Sportscenter account did actually tweet about the Pelicans after their win.

I can still totally understand where the team is coming from with this, though. Nobody wants to hear about LeBron’s numbers when the Lakers just lost their 5th straight game. Not even LeBron, probably.

Regardless, this was a pretty excellent troll from the Pelicans’ Twitter account. Just A1. Fans loved it.

The 6 best excuses to give your boss for missing work to watch March Madness instead

Let’s tell some lies today.

Every March I become a bit more grateful for my job here at For The Win for one specific reason.

It’s not because of my coworkers, though they are awesome. It’s not because I just get to write about sports either, though that is also definitely awesome. The reason is actually pretty ridiculous.

It’s because I no longer have to lie about sneaking off to watch March Madness. As a matter of fact, they encourage it. It’s awesome. I can watch the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Tournaments free of guilt.

Listen. Lying, for me, is wild stressful. Especially when it’s to my boss. Like, if I get found out here I’m probably fired. And if I’m fired, that means no paycheck. And without that paycheck, how am I going to buy my next pair of kicks?

I digress. My point is I don’t have to live that that no more. But y’all? A lot of y’all do. And I feel sorry for you. Truly. I hope that one day it doesn’t come to this for you.

But since it is today and you’re over there stressing about it, yerboi is going to help you out.

Here are the 6 best excuses you can use to get away from that desk and in front of your TV for this here basketball. You’re welcome.