Tag: Memes

NBA fans made an excellent meme from Michael Jordan jamming out to music

The gift that keeps on giving.

Over the past two months, we have missed so many potential sports moments due to the coronavirus pandemic — March Madness, NBA Playoffs, the Masters were all canceled or postponed. And if you’ve ever followed those events, you’d know how the internet can turn any given moment into a meme.

We’ll never know what we missed out on, but at least The Last Dance was here to sustain us.

ESPN’s 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan and the Bulls came to a close this weekend, but the show had given NBA fans more than enough memes to brighten up the internet. The final episode may have provided the best of them all.

In the opening moments of Episode 10, we were treated to Michael Jordan jamming to music on the team bus. So, of course, NBA fans added their own music to the video. And the results were spectacular.

There’s even an entire Twitter account dedicated to the meme, @JordanJamming.

Just what we needed.

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‘The Last Dance’ has given us the next great Michael Jordan meme

Nothing will ever beat Crying Jordan, but this is really good all the same.

Michael Jordan is not only one of the greatest to ever play the game of basketball, he’s also a first ballot Meme Hall of Famer, for his many online works, most notably Crying Jordan … perhaps the greatest sports meme of all time.

“The Last Dance,” ESPN’s new, fantastic documentary that looks at the final run of the great Jordan-era Bulls team, is giving us plenty of new Jordan material to work with, including a new reaction shot that’s proving to be a fantastic new, Jordan meme.

The screengrab shows Jordan looking bemusedly at a screen in which producers played video of Isaiah Thomas defending the late 80s Pistons. Jordan isn’t buying it, and makes a perfect face, and internet users are having a blast filling it in with whatever they want.

It’s not Crying Jordan, but nothing is Crying Jordan. This meme could have legs, however:

What’s also great: The director of the show, Jason Hehir, seemed to understand how meme-able the moment was before the show even aired. This was a self-called meme. Babe Ruthian.

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The reporter escaping a herd of bison in Yellowstone National Park is the meme we all need right now

LOL!

NBC Montana reporter Deion Broxton was just trying to do a shoot from Yellowstone National Park when he looked over and saw a herd of bison heading in his direction.

So he did what anyone would do in that situation: he uttered, “Oh no, I ain’t messing with you,” packed up and bolted. Smart man.

He then uploaded the footage to Twitter — by the way, he did end up with a shot of the bison in question! — and became a viral star, and of course that means he became a meme.

Here’s a sampling, including some sports takes on the video, starting with the original footage:

The GIF is the best:

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The Internet is roasting Skip Bayless for his bonkers microwave placement

Yep, we’re losing it over Skip Bayless’ microwave placement. What a way to close the decade.

Forgive the Mad Libs headline, but let’s get into it.

Skip Bayless is a Cowboys fan, and he’s been happy to talk about that ad infinitum for the last decade. The man has hours to fill on television, and the Cowboys let him fill those hours, and some people out there apparently like to listen to him do that.

One recurring bit he’s had over the past year is to throw Ezekiel Elliott’s jersey in the trash can, then fish it back out when the Cowboys play well. It’s a bit. Elliott’s mom has gotten upset about it in the past, which I’d argue is pretty silly, as Bayless is an actor playing a role.

Anyway, Bayless did it again this week after this latest embarrassing Cowboys loss. I’m not here to talk about that. I’m here to talk about Bayless’ microwave, which appears to be below hip level, and directly above his trash can.

This is an insane place to put a microwave. I’m flabbergasted. Even if the trash was put there for the sake of the bit, I cannot understand how it would be comfortable or convenient to have your microwave below hip level. (Also, he’s done this before, and the trash was in front of the microwave before, so this might just be how his kitchen is set up.)

With no counter underneath it either, any food that may spill when you’re taking food out of the microwave is just going to go right on the floor.

Perhaps this is a power statement, basically saying: We’re so rich we never have to re-heat leftovers, and thus can put our microwave in an absolutely bonkers place, because we’ll never use it.

But at that point, just get avant-garde with it. Put it on the ceiling.

Or maybe, and this is horrifying to think about, maybe Skip just eats all his meals directly out of the microwave, hunched over the trash can until he’s done and can just drop the remains. I’m not ruling this out.

I am not the only person to have noticed this.

It’s not just a tame way to close out the decade, it’s a beautiful way.

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The 10 best sports memes of the decade

Thanks for all of that, internet.

If there’s one aspect of sports that decidedly changed this past decade, it has to be how fans consumed, followed and reacted to sports. This was the first full decade with sports intersecting with mainstream social-media use, and with that, seemingly every major sports moment produced a fresh batch of memes and jokes, adding an extra level of entertainment for us to enjoy.

While a decade is an eternity in internet years, a handful of memes have managed to persevere beyond the in-the-moment joke on Twitter, Instagram and other platforms.

These are the 10 memes we’ll remember from the past decade.

The Curry 2 Low “Chef”

Under Armour has long struggled to produce a commercially successful sneaker for Steph Curry, but the 2016 release of the Curry 2 Low sneaker served as a low point for the brand’s basketball operations. There was no coming back from these memes.

Nick Young

Nick Young has spent much of his career as the league’s most confident middle-of-the-rotation player. And honestly, his NBA career will probably be remembered for the memes. All of them.

The Astros’ dugout when a changeup is coming

The Astros have been entangled in a cheating scandal this offseason after former Houston pitcher Mike Fiers blew the whistle on a sign-stealing operation. Those cheating tactics included someone banging on a trashcan to relay an off-speed pitch to the hitter. Well, MLB Twitter turned that entire story into an exceptional meme.

Tom Brady’s enormous coat

This meme makes a reappearance whenever Tom Brady dons a coat on the sideline.

Angry Michael Phelps face

Michael Phelps was getting his game face on ahead of his 200 meter butterfly semifinals at the 2016 Olympics. His game face, though, just happened to be terrifying.

McKayla Maroney, not impressed

Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast McKayla Maroney made the signature expression after earning a silver medal in the 2012 vault final. You know a meme is epic when this happens …

Lance Stephenson blowing air in LeBron’s ear

You have to go all the way back to 2014 for this meme, but Lance Stephenson’s NBA career can be defined by this singular moment.

The meme went on to have an impressive run that crossed into other sports.

LeBron yells at J.R. Smith

Back when the Golden State Warriors were good, the Cleveland Cavaliers had a shot at stealing Game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals on the road. George Hill missed a chance at the go-ahead free throw, and when J.R. Smith grabbed the rebound, he dribbled the ball to the perimeter rather than attempt a put-back layup. Smith forgot the score, and LeBron’s look of disbelief became a meme.

Kevin Durant: My Next Chapter

When Kevin Durant made his league-changing announcement that he was signing with the Golden State Warriors in 2016, he did so with an essay in The Players’ Tribune. That essay included a featured image of Durant wearing a plane white shirt. It was basically asking to become a meme, and it did! The meme followed Durant for his entire run with Golden State and almost certainly had something to do with his painfully boring Nets announcement this past offseason.

Crying Jordan

It wasn’t the funniest meme, but the Crying Jordan was undeniably the most prevalent sports meme of the decade. Though the photo was taken from Jordan’s Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2009, the meme started becoming a thing on the internet around 2014.

And it wouldn’t go away.

You have to respect that longevity.

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Pep Guardiola screaming “TWICE!’ to the heavens is soccer’s newest, best meme

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola screaming ‘twice’ to the heavens during loss to Liverpool is perfect reaction.

Manchester City lost to Liverpool 3-1 on Sunday. It was a statement win from Liverpool, who now sit eight points clear of second place and look to all like they’re actually going to go ahead and win the league this year.

City, on the other hand, are currently in fourth. They have just 17 points off 12 matches played, the fewest points City manager Pep Guardiola has had at this point in a season in his coaching career.

Guardiola isn’t handling this all super well. The loss to Liverpool began as a soccer match for Guardiola, and ended as a one-man Greek tragedy with him roving the sidelines, screaming to the gods to spare him any more indignities.

Actually, he screamed “twice.” The clip came from after what he perceived as a second missed handball call from the officials, so he ran over to the sideline official and screamed “twice!” while holding two fingers up. Then he screamed “twice” again.

Then, to make sure that the gods themselves heard him, he tilted his head to the sky and screamed “twice!” It was haunting. It was beautiful. It led to an outrageous amount of jokes on the internet.

Twice. TWICE. TWIIIIICE!!!!!!

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