have to give the spurs credit, they knew the only way they could stop bron was to cut off the AC
too bad they can't do it again
Heat in 5
Let me tell you about some heat, bruh. I was at the all regional messianic championships sponsored by Morton Salt. The local squad had this kid The Filthyfish. He only shot midrange jumpers. 12-18 footers all day, raining down like the great flood. B-nyce's squad got a lottery bid to play in the Morton tournament, but had to play 3 play-in games on Palm Sunday. It was 129 degrees out (it was a dry heat, tho) and he had to take Momma to church. So, he didn't make it to the first play-in game until the fourth quarter, and his squad was down 31. He slipped out during the second Psalm pretending to take a bathroom break, and sprinted 3.8 miles in his church shoes, chinos, and short sleeve button down. He didn't miss a shot, but the pavement was so hot, the soles of his kicks melted. God strike me down if I'm lying, they were making chopped-cheese sammiches right there on the baseline, sizzling. So he wins the first play in game... and then takes off barefoot carrying what remains of church shoes that his dad left him (his dead went away on business for the weekend, man... easy with those stereotypes) ... he gets back just in time for the third reading, and Blaine (there are no nicknames before god) delivers a BEAUTIFUL story from the book of Job. Stand sit kneel stand sit, amen and he's outta there, sprinting back to the Morton Tourney.
He shows up in the second half of the next game, and team after team is struck down by the plague of b-nyce. He runs through them like wasps, bounds over them like frogs, and breaks the ankles of the first player on each team that guards him. Literrally breaks their ankles with a crossover so mean and so deceiful the locals started calling it The Judas.
Damn, he never saw it coming.
So Blaine's squad, Team L.I.N.T. (Loop is nicer, tho) makes it to the final and faces off against The Filthyfish. At this point it's 138 degrees out with 137% humidity (monsoon season), Loop's team is drained, as this is about to be their 8th game, which seemed a little O.D. for a 4 team tournament, but who am I but a messenger, ya dig? So team LINT is stretching out, snacking on some chopped cheeses, and trying to get ready when their opponents enter carrying Filthyfish on a chair. The team was known for their swarming defense, where they would basically link arms and circle around the ball handler... they had trap game like frank white. As the temp rose to a buck-40, people started passing out. They'd have to take timeouts to revive the refs, and fan the old ladies that had showed up to cheer on their nieces and nephews. By the fourth quarter B-nyce and Mordecai (filthyfish) each had 68, and neither had missed a shot... but B-nyce's last pair of 3's had hit some rim on the way through, so you could tell he was tired. With about ten second left, b-nyce is basically on the edge of delirium when The Filthfish calls a timeout to draw up the last play... 46 screens and then a 15 footer from just off the elbow, he called it The Bitter and the Sweet. B-nyce had scouted this team while teaching blind kids to cook at the local school, so he had it diagnosed... but he's seeing double, so when the play is ran , it looks like 128 screens (I see you trying to check my math... but you gotta remember, b-nyce had a lazy eye) Anyway, after coming off screen 60 from a guy that looked like Martin Gortat's bigger badder uncle he realizes he's not going to be able to keep up... so he kicks what's left of his foot down, and the penny shoots OUT OF HIS LOAFER, knocking the ball from Mordy's hands. Now, that was his good foot, and with no shoe on it, the pavement is COOKING the soles of his dogs, so he kicks off the left food, scoops up the ball and is heading up the right sideline, and since this was a hood tournament, and the bleachers were packed, you basically had people standing ON the court. One of the locals reaches out for the steal, trying slow Nyce, when he hits the illest cartwheel anybody had ever seen, and dunks his bare feet into two onlookers Styrofoam cups. Sweet relief! He keep his dribble, takes off from the freethrow line and bangs it home with one hand. He hangs on the rim for a second (to make sure nobody was underneath him, not to show off... we're talking about a gentleman here) and when lands, orange gatorade explodes out of his cup/shoes and the crows screams OOPPA! B-nyce helped three people jump-start their cars, and then rode off into the sunset.
But when the court cleared, hours later, there was still one fan sitting in the stands in disbelief. He'd flown in from the west coast hoping to sign this mythic legend to a deal. But he couldn't believe what he'd seen. He walked onto the court, desperate for something, ANYTHING that would prove this game had happened... looking for a way to somehow be able to carry the legacy of what went on (cameras back then didn't work above 139 degrees, science) ... and there, on the court, with trash, and melted sneakers, and Filthfish jersey-tees strewn about... was one of the cups that b-nyce had used as sneakers... he picked it up to inspect, it... no believing that it could survive such a thunderous dunk... and stuck to the bottom... was the penny from Blaine's loafer. And young phil had an idea....
...B-Nyce designed the original penny foams. :JFKBOSS: