Just a few weeks in the past, we took a have a look at Gregg Popovich’s funniest moments forward of his enshrinement into the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame. Nevertheless, as humorous as Pop can, he hasn’t been the one supply of snickers for Spurs followers through the years. From participant pranks, to sudden guests and gaffes on the ground, the Spurs have at all times been giving us issues to chuckle about.
With this month formally being the doldrums of the offseason and the one month out of the yr that there’s formally nothing Spurs-related on the schedule (groups who do not need a preseason recreation exterior of North America report back to coaching camp on October 2), I assumed it might be pretty much as good a time as any to have a look again at some extra humorous Spurs moments and luxuriate in a superb chuckle, starting with the one and solely Tim Duncan.
Like Pop, Timmy is extraordinarily dry, doesn’t present a lot emotion, and will be additionally humorous with out actually making an attempt. He embraced that repute with a Foot Locker Industrial from 2014 with fellow former humorless MVP, Derrick Rose.
In the event you do need to get Timmy to smile, one of the best ways is to troll him. Manu Ginobili was ready to do this by efficiently sliding a cup beneath him as he sat on the bench, one thing that had apparently been within the works for some time.
Then again, Timmy could be a troll himself, and when Dwight Howard stubborn him out within the 2013 gamers, all he did was was flip himself right into a hilarious GIF.
After all, then there’s the complicated however traditional Timmy moments, like no matter this was…
… and the time he drank a foul Gatorade.
Transferring on from Tim, there’s somebody who’s imagined to be humorous, and he by no means disappoints: the Spurs Coyote. There’s the traditional bits, however then there’s additionally the time he misplaced his eyes and made the a lot of the state of affairs.
And my private favourite, the time he caught a bat, which I at all times discovered funnier than Manu catching a bat as a result of it was rather more chaotic, plus Manu took it too critically.
Talking of Manu, his humor off the court docket typically translated onto the court docket regardless of his seriousness as a participant. There was the time he tee-ed up referee Leroy Richardson for throwing him the ball on the free throw line earlier than he was prepared, accidently hitting him within the face.
And one of many funnier Manu moments on the court docket will at all times be when he accidently hit a 3 on an supposed lob, the refs and Knicks missed it, and everybody went berserk. It was ultimately reviewed and rewarded, however even Pop admitted he didn’t know what was happening however simply went with the circulate.
One other memorable on-the-court second comes from everybody’s favourite one-and-done Spur, Boban Marjanovic. Because the NBA was simply being launched to the hulking Serbian, he entered towards former “powerful man” Tyler Hansbrough, and his scared response was priceless. Hansbrough was identified to begin fights again in his faculty days, however he wasn’t about to mess with Boban.
Lastly as a nod to right this moment’s Spurs who’re stuffed with humorous dudes and absolutely can have extra memorable moments for the long run, the funniest of all of them could be Jeremy Sochan, who isn’t above making issues somewhat chippy on the ground and is a grasp of on-line trolling.
There was additionally the time he made a guess with Jabari Smith that if he hit a half court docket shot within the Rising Stars Problem, Smith must dye his hair pink. Happily for Smith, he missed, however irrespective of the place he’s, Sochan is at all times the funniest man on the court docket.
What’s your funniest Spurs reminiscence? It’s the offseason, so be at liberty so as to add extra humorous Spurs moments the feedback under!
