I don’t have a lot of reasons for this to exist, other than March Madness happening and everybody in the world doing a March Madness thing. Here, I’ll let them explain it:

Our officially unofficial video about a month-that-rhymes-with-starch insanity featuring building block men playing games of round hoops. #NoBollocks

That … didn’t help.

Anyway, this is exactly the way to spend a few minutes on a Friday afternoon. Not-especially-well animated Lego guys recreate classic basketball moments, but not really, because the team names and players are all wrong, like they ran the script through a translator and back again, so Christian Laettner becomes “Christina,” UNC becomes the Carolina Dirty Feet, and so on. The best part is either the scathing condemnation of Chris Webber’s life, which is still totally deserved, or the incredibly morose ending, which fits neither a Lego basketball video nor a beer commercial. So … congratulations on making this awesome thing, weirdos.

Keep your eye on the guy in the middle. He celebrates his cameo appearance on the NBA on TNT by going knuckle-deep in his own skull, then … well, I don’t want to spoil it for you. If you’re gonna pick your nose on television, pick it with all your heart, I guess. Kudos, nose picker. (h/t to Scotty Reynolds)

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Like most people I tuned in to watch the “Fab 5″ 30 For 30 special on ESPN last night and like most people I just sat there and wondered why Chris Webber was too cool for school. But lost in this celebration of a team most ESPN viewers are too young to remember was the above wonderful clip of the former Michigan players giving their thoughts on America’s least favorite team, the Duke Blue Devils. I really enjoyed this 30 For 30 edition, because we so rarely get to see Eric Montross highlights these days, but 1) I’m down for anything that makes fun of Christian Laettner and B) I could listen to people call Grant Hill a bitch for the rest of my life.

Call me a filthy Orlando Magic homer all you want, but Hill’s tenure in Orlando was grand theft, so anytime I listen to someone make fun of him my ears perk up a little. I’m like a dog getting my butt scratched every time I watch this clip.

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Just in case you forgot, here’s a list of some of the players the Detroit Pistons could have selected with the #2 overall pick in the 2003 draft: Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Chris Kaman, Michael Pietrus, Kirk Hinrich, T.J. Ford, David West, Kendrick Perkins, Leandro Barbosa, Josh Howard, and Boris Diaw. Six of those guys have made All-Star teams, while the others have become valuable role players in the league. But the Pistons (much like Adriana Lima) found the allure of a Serbian irresistible.

But Timberwolves GM David Kahn will be damned if all that Serbian talent goes to waste. He signed Darko this summer, and has given him a chance to compete for the starting job in Minnesota. Chris Webber seemed puzzled by the decision, puzzled enough to ask David just what he saw in Darko. Kahn, the same man who just traded Al Jefferson to Utah for Kosta Koufos and cap space, gave a horrible, horrible answer.

Kahn spent the first five minutes of the two-part 10 minute interview on the new culture of the Timberwolves. He was rambling but he didn’t sound like an idiot. He saved that for the second part of the interview when he compared Darko Milicic to Vlade Divac and Chris Webber. C-Webb politely told Kahn not to use his name in the same sentence as Darko. He should have told him to resign immediately. –You Been Blinded

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Um, this one is kinda tough for me to wrap my head around, so I'm just gonna quote from this FanHaus post titled Stephon Marbury's Life as a Telenovela. 

Chris Webber is engaged to a South African celebrity named Cleopatra Mariri. Cleopatra has a friend, Chichi Letswalo, who used to be a soap opera star in native South Africa. Her show got canceled, though, which led to her mansion being repossessed. Chichi came to America reportedly looking for "a rich man and a job." C-Webb, being a nice fellow, got his lady's best friend hooked up with a job in New York City… as Stephon Marbury's nanny. She is paid $140 a week (plus room and board).

Wow.  The porn industry could take all the childhood pets, street names, and middle names in all of America and never come up with a name as awesome as Chichi Letswalo.  Seriously: a South African nanny named Chichi Letswalo.  And she works for an employee of the sexual harassing-est company in all of New York.  You'd have to put Rohypnol in the Daytona water supply during spring break to set up a story with more groping.

First of all, let me just say that TNT's NBA coverage is the best there is. From the studio crew to the game announcers, no one does it as well as they do. And, aside from the war crime-like atrocities of his suits, I like everything about Craig Sager — especially his supposed penchant for binge drinking.

That said, this gaffe may be the most memorable event of TNT's coverage so far this season. You have to wait out the first minute and a half of exposition for it to unravel, but it's worth the wait.

Personally, I would have liked it if Sager had said, "It's not my fault. They all look the same to me."

(Via The Big Lead)