Dear Basketball Studs: The Trick-Shots Are Getting Kinda Old

Shooting young basketball stars doing crazy trick-shots and putting the videos on the Internet has become the newest craze among people who hang around practice with cameras.  But, like with all crazes, this one will eventually run its course, and cease being amusing, and become merely annoying. We become jaded and bored very easily out here in the sportsblogreadingandyoutubewatchingosphere.  “Oh, LeBron James making one from 40 feet behind the basket.  Wake me when he tries a full-court shot while hanging upside-down from a trapeze.  That I might want to watch.”

Sorry, but as long as these trick-shots are confined to practice, they will continue losing their lustre, and finally become as entertaining as a Dane Cook show that doesn’t end with Dane being skinned alive and eaten.  If, however, LeBron and the guys were to start trying these same shots during actual games…that would revive my interest.  Not only would it be a kind of mad anarchic statement to start heaving balls underhand from mid-court during nationally televised NBA contests, but think of all the old, insufferable stuffed shirts we could get rid of via outrage-induced heart attack. 

“And here’s Dwight Howard chucking one behind his back from three-quarter-court while a midget rides on his back.  Of course he misses badly.  And the rebound…oh my goodness, can I get a medic here?  Ladies and gentlemen, Hubie Brown is frothing at the mouth and twitching like a beached sturgeon.  I think he may have gone into cardiac arrest.  And now here’s Rajon Rondo going the other way.  He’s taking out one of those t-shirt guns…”

That would rock.