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In what is clearly the best thing to happen to the Indiana Pacers franchise since they punched all those fans in in the face that one night, the team decided to grow mustaches for last night’s game against Houston.
Naturally, on the strength of those mustaches, they won.
Below are the highlights. (Inspired by Indy Cornrows)
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Now normally, I would never do this.
But given the gravity of the how great this might become, I’m gonna go ahead and name a pre-occurrence Great Moment for the following, which unfathomably has the possibility to displace the time someone convinced Rik Smits to shave his bulbous, albino dome as the best Pacers team-bonding idea since the franchise left the ABA. (via Dime)
Mike Dunleavy was able to convince most of his teammates to grow mustaches.
The players involved have until practice Thursday to have their mustaches or to have their beards shaved. [Ed note: that sentence is confusing, but the implication is "shave the rest of your beard by Thursday or we'll shave it for ya."] I’m not sure what the consequence is for those who don’t fulfill their end of the deal.
“I’ve never had just a mustache before,” said Troy Murphy, who’s one of the players that has to shave off the rest of his facial hair before Thursday. “I may use some Maybelline and color it in so that it can be nice and dark.”
Foster’s mustache has already grown in. All he needs to do is grow his hair out, put on a skin-tight t-shirt and some tight blue jeans to look like he’s back in the 70’s. Foster, too, said he’s never had a mustache before.
Regardless of whether or not the Indy roster is transformed into the cast of Super Troopers before their next game, Mike Dunleavy, Jr., you are a prince of Maine, a king of New England.
This calls for his theme song.
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It’s probably unfathomable to most people how good most NBA shooters are. We praise 40% three-point shooters, but guys that hit at that rate in games are just absolute marvels to watch shoot in an open gym.
Plenty of your favorite shooters will routinely hit 40+ out of 50 three pointers while shooting around and guys like Jason Kapono and Ray Allen probably drop like 47 or 48 out 50 at times without even really noticing. Basically, take the best shooter you’ve ever met in your life and realize that even a guy like Troy Murphy would make him or her look like Rajon Rondo.
With that in mind, how many free throws do you think Steve Nash, a guy whose name really needs to come up more often in the “best shooter of all-time discussion,” can make in a minute? (via TrueHoop)
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Newfound double-double maven Troy Murphy really enjoys being one of only two decent rebounders on the Pacers so as to pad his stats. And he really, really enjoys taking top-of-the-key threes while trailing in transition.
But contrary to popular belief, neither of those is his ultimate calling in life.
“I’m going to be an event planner — weddings, bar mitzvahs, everything like that,” [Troy] said. “That’s my passion. It is.”
Good luck, Murphy, and thanks to Indy Cornrows for the link.
Coincidentally, you can also read one of the few NBA-related things I did during my hiatus over there — presuming, ya know, you give a shit about a Pacers/Kings game from two days ago where K-Mart and Granger dropped 45 and 35, respectively.
Additionally, I answered some questions for Cuzoogle.
UPDATE: I also answered some questions for TalkHoops. God knows why people are asking me things.
And I swear I never saw Ball Don’t Lie’s exact same photoshop until just now. My bad, Skeets. I would just take it down since I was second to the party apparently but, c’mon, mine’s better.
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