On-court giveaways are more prevalent at NBA games than I realized until I attended a game in person last year. I hadn’t been to a game before that in seven years, and I’d forgotten that it resembled minor league baseball, or even the D-League games I’d been to.
But there are all sorts of giveaways, games, and contests filling nearly every break in the action. This is one of those contests, and it actually comes frighteningly close to horrific:
Good heavens! No hotel stay is worth losing your life over! This really puts the time my friend and I were booed off the court at a Fort Wayne Mad Ants game into perspective. (If you must know, we missed an impossible question about a player’s favorite Christmas song.)
Since she was seemingly okay, here are a few notes:
-Is that a French door? Because it flopped like a Euro.
-Maybe this is why Heat fans are seemingly terrified to actually walk into the stadium for games.
-Points for that “WINNER!” graphic going up as she’s still on the ground, her glasses having been knocked off by either the fall or the ridiculously large door frame that just flew past her skull.
-Seriously, look how freaking huge that door and door frame rig is! Why in the world does it need to be that big? And why is it seemingly solid pine? Couldn’t you make that out of balsa? Isn’t the lock mechanism the most important part? It takes like 7 guys to pick it back up.
-She avoided it really well, though. Crazy quick.
-Something about being wary of a seemingly open door, because, like, even something that looks so welcoming can be harmful in the end? Does that make sense?
-That MC was wholly unprepared. Really everyone was. That woman was almost pancaked, and a bunch of bros just stood around for a few beats too long.
-If she’d been seriously injured, would someone have still done a Zaza meme with her lying there? I think probably, and I also think the Internet is an awful, terrible place full of degenerates.
The moral of the story is this: NBA giveaways are awful.
(Except for when people make half-court shots and the players celebrate with them. They should just do those.)
[Deadspin]
