So, obviously I was way off about the Mavericks; but on the plus side, I now have a new NBA basketball player to hate passionately! This august club was currently inhabited by only three other players from the 25 years I've been watching NBA basketball games, and the ten years I've actually understood it.
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Where is he posing for this, in a sauna? Who poses in a sauna? Oh that's right, douchebags. |
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I think this is Photoshop; I want it so badly to be photoshopped because I want to believe that Rick Fox is the type of guy who would Photoshop himself into a picture of the Hawaiian Pacific; also because if it's real, he makes Hawaii look really lame and I used to want to go there eventually/ |
The first was Rick G.D. Fox; not just because he looked like a douche, played like a douche, and was absolutely a douche, but because he once mugged Uncle Cliffie while the Lakers were getting clobbered by a relatively-no-talent Phoenix team. (I've tried to find a clip from this game; it's not on YouTube. Which is probably more disappointing to me than it is to you, because watching it again would remind me of just how much I should still despise Rick S.O.B. Fox).
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Look its 2-Pac! X-Pac? The 1-2-3 Kid? This picture alone should be reason enough to hate him. |
The second player to earn his illustrious spot in this mighty pantheon of hate was and will forever be Matt Barnes, for the 2007 Mavericks-Warriors series. I hated that series, and hate having to hear about it every year the playoffs roll around again (and of course they conveniently forget to mention that the 2011 Spurs, as the 1 Seed, lost to the 8th seeded Memphis Grizzlies in 5 games; because such a wonderful, superlative, and all around perfect organization as the Spurs could
never be guilty of such a massive cock-up). But the only player on the 2007 Warriors squad I ever truly hated, and still do this very day, was Matt F'ing Barnes. I love seeing him every season on a team that's not quite good enough to win a title as he keeps trying to chase a ring; and you can tell they aren't quite good enough to win a title because they were willing to employ Matt Barnes, and even to play him significant minutes in meaningful basketball games. If you're looking for a reason for why the Clippers as presently constituted will never win the chip, you need only to glance at their starting lineup to realize: "How the hell is Matt Barnes a
starter?" My little brother once said that he would happily pay the $10,000 and suffer the inevitable ban from the American Airlines Center just for the opportunity to sit court-side and start a new Malice at the Palace with Matt Barnes by throwing a full cup of "beverage" full into his stupid face. But you know what? This one wouldn't even get a catchy little nickname, because
everyone hates Matt Barnes. It would just be referred to as the day Matt Barnes got beer on his face.
The third player whom I hate with the burning passion of a thousand matchsticks is Lamar Odom.
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What's in the bag? Probably all of the money he stole from Mark Cuban; he keeps it in cash so that the banks can't track it and Chloe "the Fat" Kardashian can't get her meaty hands on it. |
That dude sucks; he can shampoo my crotch. I actually even used to like him, before he took five million dollars from the Mavericks to show up out of shape, be unwilling to play, and became an all-around waste of candy-eating space. I hate him so much I'm alternately glad that he's been drummed out of the league, but also pissed at not being able to laugh at watching him fail to play basketball on a semi-nightly basis. Screw that guy.
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True Rondo Stat: if you google Rajon Rondo right now and check out the image results, you'll have to go through exactly 81 images before you'll find one of him smiling. |
And my new favorite hate-crush, is of course: Rajon Mother-Freaking Rondo (that's exactly what I call him in 2K15, where of course the computer GM doesn't have the brains to jettison him after 3 seasons like the real Mavs did after only half of one; okay, its a PG-13 version of what I call him). He's basically the same as Lamar Odom in that he has taken people's money to purposely not give a single shi*t about the people paying him said money. I hope he never plays another significant minute of basketball in the rest of his putrid career, goes bankrupt after his second year of involuntary retirement - cause not even the worst teams in the league are dumb enough by then to waste the roster spot on him - and so he has to join onto Randy Whittman's staff as an assistant-to-an-assistant coach.
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At least he still has a career in the professional Connect Four League to which he can look forward. Wait, they don't have one of those? Whoops... |
So who do you hate for no good reason? And no, I will not accept me as an answer; that should just be a given by now.
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