NBA free agency is a lot like college recruiting these days, especially given the rules. So any advantage and outside help can’t hurt the cause. Fans showing love to a recruit on Twitter or Facebook, or creative ways of sending out mail to a recruit, are commonplace in college recruiting circles.
Obviously, things are different with the rules for NBA free agency. But that isn’t stopping D.C. area rapper Paperboy Prince from trying his hardest to lure hometown hero Kevin Durant back to the DMV and to the Washington Wizards.
In his estimation, that will cost about $20 million a year, and he is willing to do his part in penning a rap for his GoFundMe campaign to bring Durant back home.
WARNING: What you are about to listen to has set rap back for decades. (Although one could argue today’s commercial rap has already done that anyway.)
Perhaps the single greatest line from this masterpiece is this:
“Hey, Kevin Durant, you got to come to D.C., man, you already know this life. It’s home. C’mon, we’ve got some chicken for you. We’ve got your favorite food. I got some pizza for you, here in D.C.”
Huh? You can’t be serious, bro. That rap (if you can call it that) seriously won’t be on the positive side of the ledger if/when Durant looks at the Wizards in free agency this summer.
Alas, Paperboy Prince is indeed very serious. There’s just one problem: He seems to be the only fan who is serious about ponying up the cash in the first place. As of this writing, the GoFundMe campaign has raised a whole $72 of the stated $20 million goal.
That total has increased by all of $20 since Yahoo’s Ball Don’t Lie first reported on the subject just a few hours ago, folks.
Perhaps the crowdfunding effort is failing because most fans realize the Wizards are likely to be able to pony up that kind of cash as an organization on their own? Just sayin’.
