You my have observed the identify “Hector Banana Bread” trending on social media during the last couple of days, however should you didn’t hassle to lookup why, you missed out on one of many funnier issues to occur to a Spurs participant in fairly some time. It began when Reddit consumer Rafe_Cameron_OBX posted they have been in search of an NBA jersey for his or her boyfriend however wasn’t positive who his favourite participant was.
Some clues got, reminiscent of them residing Dallas however the boyfriend additionally having lived in Georgia and Florida, he’s a Lakers fan, and the participant continues to be within the NBA. That’s a reasonably obscure set of hints that casts fairly a large web throughout all the US when it comes to potential groups, however the final trace took the cake.
“This one is fairly dumb however I vaguely keep in mind that the participant’s identify gave the impression of ‘Hector Banana-bread’. Nonetheless, if I put that identify into Google, I simply get banana bread recipes so the identify might be method off.”
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As foolish as that sounds, that was sufficient of a tip for somebody to contact the consumer and ask if the boyfriend is a Spurs fan, and his reply of, “Sure, my favourite participant is on that staff,” indicated that the reply was greater than doubtless Victor Wembanyama, and the nickname “Hector Banana Bread” was born.
We’ve seen people wrestle to pronounce “Wembanyama” earlier than, particularly Reggie Miller, who was nonetheless calling him “Wembanyana” to start out the season, however someway getting banana out of that could be a new one (though in equity, you’ll be able to see it in there should you ignore that it sounds nothing like that if you noticed “Wembanyama” aloud). That being mentioned, they weren’t too far off with Hector, so there’s that.
It was a reasonably hilarious episode on social media, particularly throughout an in any other case down time whereas the Spurs experience a irritating 3-game dropping streak and had Saturday’s recreation postponed because of the ongoing Los Angeles firefighters, though the league has introduced that Monday’s recreation towards the Lakers will happen. As a lot because it’s most likely a aid to the Spurs to be enjoying once more whereas making an attempt to maneuver on from the losses and sitting in Los Angeles for 4 days amidst a lot uncertainty, hopefully the sport itself may even carry a little bit of normalcy to the folks of Los Angeles regardless of the result.
