I wish more people cared about the NBA Developmental League. To the NBA fan, the D-League is an afterthought. To Austin sports fans, our D-League team (the Austin Toros) are a thing you suddenly realize exists when you’re complaining about how we lost our soccer team to Orlando. Personally, I love the Toros. They play okay basketball! Their mascot is a hip-hop dancing camouflage bull!
Maybe what the D-League needs to help its image are more videos like this one, featuring highlights of the annual NBADL slam dunk contest. LD Williams, Chris Roberts, Zach Andrews and Courtney Eldenson put on a fun, awesome show that managed to obliterate the NBA’s Jumping Over Guys Repeatedly boredom contest and gave us the best Grandmama moment since she helped Eddie Winslow win a basketball game 20 years ago.
And yeah, this contest features someone getting jumped over, too (I kept hoping someone would try to dunk over a 1990 Toyota Corolla), but LD Williams’ dunk at the 0:50 mark single-handedly f**ks up the NBA’s Christmas. Let’s get behind these guys, nerds.
[h/t Cosby Sweaters]
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Ive actually wanted to see a Toros game since moving here. I’ve always enjoyed the few spurs games I’ve seen and even been to see the Texas Stars a time or too. I had no idea you were an Austinite, and now you may have just pushed me to buying a few tickets.
Awesome, you definitely should. They don’t sell a lot of tickets because most people in Austin seriously have no idea that they exist.
that’s cool and all but who the shit names a team “the armor”
that’s not even an oblique violent abstract noun like the “canton charge” or the raleigh rush or whatever, armor is a lifeless object that sits there and awaits an attack, do they even try to score or do they just play the ’95 new jersey devils neutral-zone trap
gradma is built like dwight howard lol…