Concerned rims oppose sending CP3, Blake, DeAndre to All-Star Game
In this era of elaborate “for your consideration” campaigns for award recognition, there’s something refreshing about just making a faux political campaign commercial with a decent goof at its heart. Sure, the Los Angeles Clippers had some help from Blake Griffin’s old connections at Funny or Die, but still: this call to action from the “National Association of Rims” is a pretty solid bit:
At last count, Griffin was in line for one of the three starting slots in the Western Conference frontcourt at February’s 2016 NBA All-Star Game in Toronto; he trailed leading vote-getter Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers by more than 500,000 votes and No. 2 finisher Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder by more than 150,000, but held slim leads over the San Antonio Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard and Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green. But with Griffin (182,107 votes) sidelined by a partially torn left quadriceps tendon while Leonard (164,521) and Green (160,350) continue to excel for their respective conference juggernauts, it might take a successful get-out-the-vote campaign to keep Blake in the West’s top three. I wonder how well-mobilized the NAR’s GOTV efforts are.
Paul, meanwhile, is likely drawing dead in his effort to earn one of the conference’s top two guard slots. Reigning MVP and league-leading scorer Stephen Curry of Golden State topped Western guards with 510,202 votes in the first round of results, with Thunder star Russell Westbrook taking second with 267,699, nearly twice Paul’s 146,355. Jordan, too, would need a miracle to get into hailing distance; he was 12th among Western frontcourt players in the first round of voting, with just under 50,000 votes.
No matter the likelihood of the campaign’s success, it is always worth celebrating the good and fun ephemera that help make the NBA our favorite league. Shouts to the Clippers, Funny or Die, and concerned rims everywhere for affording us the opportunity to do so.
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