In direct emotional contrast to Lamar Odom watching Khloe Kardashian’s monster body collapse in a sex swing, here is an absolutely adorable video by way of The Basketball Jones of 3-year old Minnesota Timberwolves fan Chase explaining that his favorite player is Nikola Pekovic, he named his hamster Ricky Rubio and, in a total Chauncey Gardiner moment, says his favorite thing to do is watch.

I don’t blame him for loving Nikola Pekovic (his Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? Rockapella parody made him my favorite Timberwolf, too) or for the preciously affected way he named his pet. In retrospect I wish I’d named my hamster “Tim Hardaway” when I was younger instead of going for a dumb pun*.

And hey, with his aptitude at pronouncing “Nikola Pekovic” and signature sign-off, he’s ready for on-air duties about 35-years ahead of schedule. He’s probably already better at math than Martel Webster:

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For whatever reason, it was decided that Minnesota Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic would walk in place in front of a green screen so someone could play Rockapella’s “Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?” theme and make him look like he’s in the jungle.

I guess the best questions would be “what, why?”, but in a world where Bubba Watson has an all-golfer boy band and the UFC Middleweight Champion wants to f**k a BK Stacker, sometimes the best course of action is to take a step back, watch the video in stunned silence, and come up with a more esoteric, answerable question like, “why is he wearing a safari hat at the Great Wall Of China?”

Hopefully this leads to one of two things: a “Where In Time Is Nikola Pekovic?” follow-up where he waves and makes surprised faces at George Washington, or some sort of bonus round where Darko Miličić runs around on an Africa map trying to find Chad.