I know that banner image isn’t a GIF, but I still haven’t taken the class on GIF editing through South New Hampshire State Tech’s amazing online program. Either way, it’s my effort to join in the fun of one of my latest favorite Tumblrs that friends have passed along to me. Today’s delightful meme is NBA Doppelgangers, which as the name suggests is a site dedicated to taking NBA players and finding celebrities that they look like. You know, like Dwight Howard and a cat. That Dwight, a big ol’ cat.

Among my favorite Doppelgangers that the site’s creator(s) has offered up are:

Russell Westbrook and Nicki Minaj
Anderson Varejao and Raggedy Ann
Chris Bosh and Godzilla
Chris Bosh and Jar Jar Binks
Jonas Valanciunas and C-Tates
Phil Jackson and Ned Flanders
Shaquille O’Neal and a Lego

And there are plenty more, some hilarious and one that is very familiar that I swear I’ve seen before, but my favorite part is the face-shifting GIFs.

Both amusing and frightening, these GIFs are pretty great, especially the Kyle Korver one because it’s true. In fact, it could be a picture of Korver morphing into another picture of Korver and I’d still say… well, you’ll see.

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16-year old U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney is a vault boss who was supposed to destroy everyone in the world at the thing she was born to do. Unfortunately for her, things didn’t work out like that.

“I can’t blame it on anything except I screwed up,” Maroney told Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports.

Though the vault champion could not hold back her tears, she sustained her professional posture.

“I’m happy to be the Olympic silver medalist,” Maroney said. “I really am.” (via Fashion And Style)

As happy as she claimed to be, the photo at the top of his post is now her legacy. Some have called her a “mean girl” for being the Most Pissed Off Person About Vaulting Ever, but some have taken a more constructive approach: cropping her out of that photo and pasting her onto images of exciting things. Enter: McKayla Is Not Impressed, my new favorite Tumblr until Burnsy updates the one about stuff coming out of Miley Cyrus’ vagina.

Here are a few of our favorites, with a generous hat tip to Jen Haley.

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Blake Griffin has a torn meniscus and a strong desire to be everyone’s favorite, post-Shaq “funny athlete”, so he’s got a lot of free time to show up on YouTube chat shows and joke about being home schooled. Today’s appearance is on ‘Metaphysical Milkshake’, the latest effort from SoulPancake and The Office star Dwight Schrute Rainn Wilson. It’s one part Between Two Ferns, two parts Jon Benjamin Has A Van and minus three parts Zach Galifianakis and H. Jon Benjamin.

Regardless, Griffin has always been a funny interview, so it’s as enjoyable as always to watch him ask for Steve Carrell’s phone number and reveal that he texts pictures of his junk to comedians. Oh, and he quit the Olympic team because he’s afraid of “most of the Chinese big men”. Good stuff.

Video is below. /Halpert face

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That’s all well and good, but let’s see him try that with a 5-foot-2 Frenchman in his way! (via Yardbarker)

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(TDUB WAS NURSING AN INJURY…AND WAS DUNKING FOR 8 HOURS)
http://www.twitter.com/teamflightbros

Maybe if he’d worked on his jump shot for 8 hours he’d be in the NBA! Just kidding. But seriously, there’s no way he dunked for 8 hours. Who dunks for 8 hours straight?

Anyway, by way of Team Flight Bros comes this 8-hour jam session featuring TDub, the 5-foot-9 “best dunker in the world”. I put that in quotes because I’m quoting his bio, I’m not calling it into question. During this video he pulls off two major dunks: the Blake Griffin “dunk over the hood of a car” contest-winner, and one where he drags his nuts across the top of Michelle Beadle’s head before dunking. Not sure which one I’d most like to be able to do. Probably the second one.

Should the NBA start letting a few clearly superior yet non-NBA guys into the dunk contest to make it interesting? And, more importantly, wub wub wub wub wub wub.

[h/t Outside The Boxscore]

Welcome to my day-late weekly predictions that will astound and amaze you, because they’re so incredibly tuned into to a psychic frequency that nobody else on this planet could come up with them. Since I started making predictions a few weeks ago, I’ve been right about everything. Even the stuff that might have been wrong was technically right, because I say it was. It’s not really hard being a psychic.

This week, we take a look into the crystal ball to see if David Stern really will stick to his guns and stop the L.A. Clippers from flopping, Matt Leinart can turn Carson Palmer into the perfect QB and if anyone would ever believe that Phil Jackson would even remotely entertain the idea of coaching a team as dysfunctional and broken as the Orlando Magic. SIM SIM SALABIM!

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